Throughout the week we were busy working and getting everything ready for the Baptism and wedding of Jessica and MAtias. THEY DID IT!!!!!! MAn was it such an amazing feeling. The week was one of the hardest for them. Everything from having to go directly to the doctors house to get a signature that he forgot to sign in the hospital...to having everyone say a ton of terrible things about the church to put doubts into their heads. But they stayed strong.
Friday was the wedding and then saturday was the Baptism. Saturday night however was the craziest rain storm that we have had yet. The whole city flooded and nobody could leave their houses.....the bad part is that 1) we were in the church already filling up the baptismal font, and 2) no one was there to be baptized... So we kept our faith alive. Little by little, a few people started trickling in, but Jessica and Matias live in the part that flooded the worst. Taxi`s and busses werent even going close because they were afraid. So I called them and we said, "Don`t worry, the bishop is going to go get you guys." (The only problem is that the bishop didn`t know that he was going to go in his little car to pick them up...) But we knew that he would do it! So we asked him as he arrived at the church and he said,"well...we`ll see what happens" and we left into the flooded streets.
A we got going towards their house, the water got deeper and deeper. By the time we got there, water had come into the doors a little bit. But we were more than halfway, there was no turning back.
We showed up at their door and called them. IT was pouring rain and just from their door to the car (20 feet) got them soaked. We headed off towards the church again and we realized that it was even deeper then before. Morena (6 years old) was sitting in the middle back seat and said, "I feel rain". There was water spraying up from where the E-break was.Everyone started laughing and I loked at them and said, "Man your conversion story is so Awesome" We all laughed together and kept going. They said that they were excited to look back in a few years and not only see all the changes, but also how crazy it was!
We kept moving forward and then a bus passed and the wave actually pushed the car and we moved a little bit. I felt like I was river rafting again! IT was awesome! haha
Anyways, they were baptized and then they were confirmed the next day.
I know that got tested their faith to make them stronger and to help them have an even more spiritual experience because the opposition made it even clearer how much they have really changed.
I lvoe this gospel and this family! I hope everyone has their goal on the eternal family so that when the hail and rainstorms and floods that come into our lives have no power over us!
Con amor!
~Elder Hazlett
They still throw rice!
A beautiful little family :)
