June 25th, 2012

Familia Linda,

This week was awesome!  First off, Melissa got baptized yesterday!!! It was an incredible baptism.  Her mom who is less active gave a talk on baptism and bore her testimony saying how proud she was of the decision Melissa made to be baptized and she knows she's on the right path and she thanked us for teaching her and was so grateful for us. SO POWERFUL.  Melissa was in tears...It was such a spiritual moment and right after Hermana Pare' sang/played the piano for her as a special musical number.  Annie Cardenas (her 9 year old church friend) gave a talk on baptism....she was so cute!  She did awesome.  Then the big moment....she entered the waters of baptism!  She was so nervous and she picked Elder Woods (an elder serving in our ward) because he looks like a vampire (she's 9 remember.. haha).  She glowed the whole time and the whole week I prayed that the Spirit would confirm to her that she made the right decision and I KNOW she definitely felt that. We had bearing of testimonies after and her NON-MEMBER dad went up and gave his!  Can this seriously get any better?!?  IT was such a powerful experience that I was physically exhausted after...feeling the spirit super powerfully can do that to you ya know!  Then after the baptism my two ex companions called me telling me that they're in Denver...they've been serving over the mountains for the past couple of months so I was able to see them again.  Then to make it better...they slept over so it was a huge sleepover.  I loved it! Transfers is tomorrow and they're going home so that's why they're here.  And yup...I'm still staying here in the Denver 1st ward....transfer #6.  Ok well I love you guys. Have a great week!