February 23, 2016

Well February is about over, this is all so crazy. We had an awesome week here in Prados. We had a miracle baptism with a kid that I had been working with his family since the time that I got here. His mom had wanted nothing to do with the church for the longest time, even though she was an inactive member. So we finally got to talk to her, she gave us the chance and in 15 minutes she was super excited to go to church and begin again. It was awesome how the spirit worked on her and changed her heart. She was then ready to let her kid be baptized and even go to church and begin again. We even got the whole family there it was awesome!! The kid who got baptized is named Fernando and his mom Yeni Ferres. His aunt and his uncle also went to church, the aunt had gone but this is the 1st time in 3 years that the uncle went, he spent much of his life in the states and speaks perfect english well he has better english than spanish as he says. 

We also had 10 investigators attending church and they are all super positive, maybe I've talked about them in past emails but this week we have 3 baptisms planned for Margarita Morales, Tito Galindo and Yeovani Salazar. We also have 2 other people that could be baptized we just need to go and seal the deal! We have seen a ton of progress in this ward and my favorite part of this work is seeing people change their lives. Yesterday we had a lesson with our convert Santiago that Elder Larsen and I baptized and I asked him if he wants to serve a mission and he said yes because he wants to help people the same way that we had helped him. This is what I love about the missionary work, it shouldn't just finish at baptism but extend on to keep blessing others. 

This week is going to be awesome, there is so much more I would love to say because I love all the people here and we are working with so many and seeing so many people's lives change that there is no time to tell you them all, but just know all is well and we will continue working hard in this part of the Lord's vineyard! Love, 

Elder Daybell