Some New Pics- :) First Apartment

This is Colton's first Apartment. His companion is Elder Lamb, and they share with another set of missionaries. It doesn't look too bad, I just hope that when the mission president comes that it passes the cleaning inspection. hahaha

First Tranfer- Still in West Palm Beach

this week has been filled with blessings and testimony building events. we have been striving to contribute to our mssion goal by doing our part we have a couple baptismal dates planned for the end of this month, I am so excited for them and their progression. we had two really cool experiences this week actually countless but the first one we got this member refferal and so the very next night we went and blessed their home, I could feel the spirit so strong we left them after making a return appt. and they were so excited to have us back we taught them the restoration on our next visit and they ate it up as if they were starving for the truth the husband alex was asking us during the lesson the same question that joseph smith as well as many have had, we excitedley taught them and introduced the book of mormon to them. the wife who had been pretty quite yet receptive opened up to us and told us about a dream she had a few nights ago. it was about her neighbor the one who reffered the family and she had offered her a bible but this one was different, she said she didn't recognize the book til we pulled it out and gave it to her, she quickly said thats the book!! another family we found while harvesting the same street was excited as we blessed their home, in our first lesson the wife told us the day we knocked on her door she had been praying to find a church and not just any church but the true church. I was so excited as we asked both of these families to be baptized and they readily accepted. Another cool event happened as well we were teaching the 17 year old son of our recent converts we watched the testaments to help them understand a little more about christ coming to the americas. Maria told us for the last 3 nights as she has knelt in prayer she saw the very same image as the one on the movie of christ coming down in a pillar of light. I just know that was a strong testimony and it was awesome for her son to hear her testimony. I know that through obedience we have found these wonderful families and i feel so blessed to be an intrument in helping them come unto christ and finding the truth!!

Transfers are tomorrow and the two elders we live with are being transferred and their are white washed they were execting maybe one of them to leave but not both!!!! me and elder lamb are both staying in our are which i was excited about as well expected to happen. we have some awesome families coming up and im just getting used to this awesome are and wonderful ward!!! our recent converts are doing great they come and are still active!! the couple we baptized we still visit several times a week teaching their 17 year old son ramon has only been in the states a couple months speaks no english works fulll time to help support the family and has zero education but is just a solid kid he reminds a lot of Bailey in some ways just a big kid with a kind heart, everytime we teach him we have to go wake him up haha!! Rodrigo the Venezuelan we baptized might cut our hair today and we see him every week at church, he even gave the prayer in priesthood!! so awesome!!!

First Baptism

The Baptism yesterday was awesome!!! but you know with me invloved it would have to get a little western!!! All week we werent' sure if maria would get baptized she was sick or her head hurt of she thought the baptism was at the beach and didnt want there to be a bunch of people or the ongoing fact that she was having issues with coffe, so we prayed at every opportunity for them and pulled out the big guns and brought bishop Montero with us to our lesson on like Wed and he did work he ended up dumping there coffe in the trash, he later was like i hope they dont scoop it out of the trash!!! it was pretty eventful and thats probably why maria's head kept hurting, Sunday they came to sacrament along with our golden inv Rodrigo i'll talk about him later, but maria was sicker than a dog and i had my doubts that she would be baptized. we gave her a blessing and sent her home to rest. later after church we called and they were still planning on getting baptized!! i was so happy!!!!! i was kinda nervous because i was memorizing the baptismal prayer in spanish! so we get to the church and they are a little late not bad we got Nicolas dressed and then maria comes out in her regular clothes and doesn't want anyone to see her in the jumpsuit haha so we just go with it and have her change right before hand. so Elder lamb says ok you can baptize nicolas and i'll baptize maria and i was like sweet becuase i didnt' want to be the one to screw up and make a bad experience for her. so im going into the font and nicolas comes in behind me and he's like is hot, its hot and i thought it was kinda cold so i dont know what his deal was. he gets in and i cant hardly talk to him so im just showing him where to hold and i cant understand him because he said his jaw was broke as a kid. so i raise my arm say the prayer and try to baptize him and i just can't get him to be flexible at all and we dont even get close, so i try to have him bend his knees and we try again same thing, he starts giggling so i turn all red and before long im giggling and trying to keep the spirit and we try again same thing i just can't dunk this guy the witness all have huge grins along with the sister missionaries in the front row. im just dying the bishop comes over and leans over the glass tells him what to do cuz i cant and then we try again and still nothing we start on one side of the font and end up over on the other. so elder lamb comes in and gives a couple wacks at it nicolas is still giggling every once and again. after like the third time i come up and help him and we almost tackle the poor man but we finally got the job done. he said afterwards he felt good i hope so we kept telling him he was too strong and needed to be baptized so many times, Luckily afterwards marias went smoothly. man they are a great family. its just cool how he was such a good sport about it and he knew he wanted it he just couldnt move that way!!