I ate Javalina

 So this week was a good one. We weren't able to talk to some of the people we were hoping we would be able to but we did get back in contact with a few people that we hadn't seen for a long time. One is the Navarro family the husband and one of the daughters are members but the mother is not. They called us out of nowhere and invited us over for dinner and it was awesome we were able to talk to them again and set up some lessons to reactivate them and help the wife understand the importance of baptism. We also found a couple of new people to start teaching which is exciting. We were also able to set a baptism date with Epifanio for the end of this month and he is excited because his parents baptized him as a baby but this is his choice to be baptized and he cant wait he said he was scared he wouldnt pass the interview but we went over it with him and he did just fine. 


On friday we were able to go over to a members house and he butchered a javalina right in front of us and made it into some  tacos and they were actually really good. 

Hope you guys had a good week!
Elder Holdstock 





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