Baptizing until the airplane ride

Hey everyone, this week as been a very special week for me. Starting last pday... after finishing writing my weekly emails to you all. We left  (and I was super stoked to have a great week, thanks for the motivation emails) and we had a special family home evening with one of our investigators, Teresa Rodriguez, (who has been investigating with us for about 3 and 1/2 months) And a great new fam we have in the ward. In this family home evening the spirit guided the lesson (given from the 3 daughters of the family, 5,7, and 10 years of age) towards baptism, making decisions, being an active person. So while in this family home evening a week ago, Teresa said "ya know, I had been thinking a lot about baptism lately. I know the elders have challenged me before, but I was unsure... BUT NOW, I KNOW I NEED TO DO IT" So as you can imagine, I (internally) screamed like a little girl and challenged her to get baptized my VERY LAST day of my mission.. she replied "why not? Yeah, I will get baptized on the 30th of November!" Everyone in the house started to give her a hug and the family really made her feel special.

And the blessings didn't stop there... the next day (Tuesday) one of our other investigators (  Anderson, who is practically already a member) comes up to elder Levi and I and says "Ive been wanting to get baptized for awhile, and I want to do it before Elder Howard goes home"... okiedokie... So it looks like I will be living the dream of every missionary... "walking on the plane with wet pants on" or in other words... baptizing to the end. I feel incredible blessed to see so many tender mercies of the Lord in my life.

Remind me when I'm there to tell you about my "goodbye" in Church... ahaha So embarrassing!

Well, I am a lot more chill that I thought I was going to be.. up until now, even though I'm not sleeping. Knowing that my Dad´s challenge to me to baptize someone else before I come home is coming true(a huge motivation booster for me), a weight off my shoulder is taken off. I have a lot of saying goodbye BBQ`s for this week. haha I love my Chilean friends and it is so gratifying to see their love that they have for me! Elder Howard is the elder most blessed and least deserving! but I am sure grateful for it!

I love you all!