Letter #101 (last one!)
August 3, 2015
Area: Baytown
Companion: Hepworth
This last week of my mission has been full of blessings. We had
the opportunity to first meet Brian, the son of Hermana
Galvez, and he was there pushing her along in preparation for her
baptism. She had her interview on Thursday, which was going longer and
longer...she was in there for about an hour, but she passed and did just
fine. She was then baptized on Saturday, but we were extremely nervous
until she actually got in the font and got immersed. The water heater in
the Baytown building works quite a bit better than most of the other
chapels, so the water at first was blazing hot. we opened the accordion
doors and it was all fogged up. We had put in cold water starting at
around halfway, but it was still just way too hot. We ended up turning
on the cold water again, and Brian got in and unplugged the font to let
out some hot water and circulate the water, but it was still too hot for
his mom. We were doing that for about 10 minutes, then an idea came to
my head...ice. We ended up running into the kitchen while everyone else
was singing hymns and bearing testimony and grabbing the 3 bags of ice
that have been in the freezer for weeks. Even with the ice we had to
wait a little longer, then it was finally cool enough to get Vilma in
the water. Then everything proceeded as scheduled and was very
spiritual, but I could tell that Satan wasn't happy that Hermana Galvez
was finally getting baptized. The Hermana's and we had some
investigators there at the baptism, we had Andrea show up, and the
Hermana's had Modesto show up. Afterwards, everyone was having a great
time with the refreshments and each of the investigators were talking
with a lot of the members. Then the next day, Sunday was great, we had
the confirmation of Hermana Galvez by Brian and we were able to
participate. I just felt the love of the Lord so strongly after the
confirmation and felt really glad that the Lord blessed me with this
opportunity my last weekend.
Sunday, after church there was a child's baptism as well and
after attending that, we went to eat with the Galvez family, and then we
were blessed with 3 lessons and 2 new investigators starting from
6:30pm and on.
I'll see you all tomorrow (I hope)!
I love you guys,
Elder Stanley Scott Dye
