It's been a really great week as far as the work goes.
We had been in Winchester quite a bit recently (it's just a little town west of Hemet), and every time we would go, nobody we wanted to see would be home. It was worth it though when we got in with Francisco and his two sons, Michael and Carlos. They were former investigators, but now after teaching them again, they have a baptismal date for April 8th. The Lord will keep on putting us in the right places if we are patient enough! The greatest event this week was baptizing Raquel. I remember feeling the Spirit the strongest whenever we had just changed into our Baptismal whites and I saw Raquel all happy to be getting baptized in the next few minutes. Little did we know that the font probably needs repairs because it took close to 90 minutes to fill it up only 2.5 feet, so we waited a little bit longer to get into the water. But it was still really shallow by the time we had to start the service. Everyone had the biggest smiles after the service because we had just baptized an 87 year old woman! She had waited her whole life to enter through the gate of baptism and now she is one of the happiest people. We are all excited for her to be confirmed next week and the ward is really been a great support already. After the baptism, we were a little stressed out because of how the service didn't go as planned, but we had the chance to go out and teach. We had a potential to go by, but her son, Adolfo, answered the door. He was the only one there to teach, so we just taught him on his porch. After hearing our message, he wanted to change, so he accepted a baptismal date for April 22nd! It has just been so much fun finding new people and having them actually want to hear more and progress.
We also were able to go to the temple this last week in Redlands! It was a lot closer than I thought it would be...only about 30 minutes, but we can only every 6 months, since it's outside the Riverside mission boundary. It was a very peaceful session and it just reminded how much I wish we were able to go back more often! We'll be going back soon to go with Raquel for baptisms, so it won't quite be another 6 months! After the session, we ate lunch at Cafe Rio, which made the day even better.
Other highlights of the week... Candy (the investigator we had from Idylwild) is being taught by a Spanish sister missionary and her comp, who is English speaking. But they have been doing so well with Candy and her fam ever since we passed them off. Candy has a baptismal date in April, so hopefully Elder Royce and I will be going to Idyllwild soon for a Baptism!
We also had a multi-zone activity in Menifee yesterday. It was my first time playing trash ball, which is kind of like hand-ball, but the trash can is the goal. That was pretty tight. And then we played some basketball, and it's pretty much the NBA of mission ball, when we have elders from 4-5 different zones playing. Pretty intense.
Favorite scripture from this week is Alma 22:18. If we have the attitude of King Lamoni's father, then we can be converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and never fall away.
Hasta la proxima vez,
Elder Moon
3 generations in the mission (Elder Royce's trainer was at the baptism)
Redlands California Temple
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