Week 31 - All Saints Day

Como estas hows life going on back in the states

Ang buhay ko dito sa Dagupan ay maganda at masaya talaga.

This week on November first was a special Holiday here called "All Saints Day" where the people here all visit the cemeteries to remembered their lost family members and OF COURSE us as missionaries saw this as an opportunity to teach the Plan of Salvation and find new investigators. I was a bit hesitant at first about offending people here or something, but when we showed up I saw something I wasn't expecting. Everyone was basically having a fiesta and there were stores all around selling candles and flowers and tons of horns and bells and kids running and jumping around the graves like it didn't matter at all. The cemetery was right by the beach and a GIANT mound of trash. I kind of just looked around and said let's just work. In just 3 hours we taught like 7 lessons and found 20 new investigators and the families we taught were in large groups just gathering around us because they were bored just sitting around and they wanted to listen to the two gwapo Mormons. So pretty successful.

Other than that we have been having success here with a baptism this last Saturday and another next week and than another interview for baptism next next week. So pretty astig.

Some pics peeps

The back of the cemetery

​If we get punted we teach the goats

Short story about Ralph.
He is a crazy kid who is really smart, but has a short attention span so sometimes it's pretty hard to teach him, but finally we taught him all the lessons and it was time for him to be baptized. It actually took him 3 tries to be baptized correctly. The first time he went to be baptized after the prayer he proceeded to throw himself backwards without plugging his nose and then he got right back up while spitting out water and almost throwing up. This didn't stop his desire to be baptized because we then told him to to crouch as he was being put under and so during the whole prayer he stayed crouching so low that the water was up to his chin and EVEN after that his hand was still sticking out of the water again. Luckily the 3rd time was correct and successful but that was awesome to witness. I still laugh about the to this day and I wish it was recorded for you all to see

​I saw a movie about this once

Thank you all Ingat