Well this Saturday we had our baptism.
The lady has two kids but one isn’t old enough to be baptized, so I baptized
the mom and my comp baptized the son. It was a really cool experience doing my
first baptism, also in Spanish. So about that, the whole day I was practicing
the baptismal phrase and I had it down perfect. However, when we were in the
water and I went to say it, I couldn’t remember the phrase because I was so
nervous so my comp had to whisper the beginning to me from the side. XD Anyway,
it was pretty cool. Other than that, the weather here has been normal Cusco
weather, which means it’s always off and on rain. And we have just been
preparing our other investigators for baptism.
Also on Saturday, I accidentally
flooded our house. So what happened is our house isn’t very big and we have 3
rooms -- a kitchen, a bedroom, and a bathroom. The bedroom is super small and
there isn’t enough space for our beds so we sleep in the kitchen. Anyway, so
there is a sink in there that we just never use. So on Saturday morning we didn’t
have water but the sink was dripping a bit and it was bothering me because it
was like 4 in the morning and it woke me up. Anyway, I was trying to turn it
off but accidentally turned it on not knowing because there wasn’t much water coming
out. Anyway, being tired and frustrated, I just slapped tape on it to stop the
dripping. Well, half way through the day the water turned back on while we were
proselyting and the sink was on full blast and the tape acted like a finger on
a hose and was spraying water everywhere so when we got back to the house there
was like an inch of water on the floor, my clothes were soaked, my shoes were
soaked, and my bed was soaked because I sleep next to the sink. Anyway, so for
the past few days I’ve just had everything hanging up to dry, luckily it didn’t
get our desks so all my books are fine. However, I had a very uncomfortable
sleep Saturday night because only a sliver of my bed was dry so I had to sleep
very skinnily.
Another story I got from this week
is the power company was protesting and so they turned all the power off in
Cusco for about 30 minutes so it was an interesting site seeing Cusco pitch
black.
Anyway, that’s all I got for this
week. Hope you are all doing well. And I love you all!
Elder Halverson
(I love that Chase wore his suspenders to perform the baptism! That's so Chase!)
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