A bunch of people here are getting covid, so we are having some restrictions coming back, like no member meals, and now we have to do more stuff online. So that's not fun. But it did open the way for a pretty awesome thing to happen.
We have been trying to get the little 11 year old girl we are teaching, Daphne, and her inactive mom, to come to church so she can be baptized. Because church was online this week, we showed up to her house and watched sacrament meeting with Daphne and her mom on their front porch. During one of the talks, Veronica (the mom) started crying. Afterwards, my companions and I administered the sacrament to them. We didn't have any bread, so we used tortillas.
Daphne had never been to church before. Before that day, she didn't know what the sacrament was. But if she continues on the bath to baptism and beyond, she will always remember that day! The day she took the sacrament for the first time on the front porch of her house, on a beautiful Sunday morning, with her mother and three missionaries. Veronica asked us if we wanted to come back next week to do the same thing! It was an awesome experience.
We woke up early to do laundry today before going to the zoo, and something cool happened there too. We walked in the laundry room to take our clothes out of the dryer, and there was a young black man in there. He asked us if we were military, and I told him no, we are missionaries. We got talking a little bit, and I eventually got his phone number and set up a lesson with with. He was rolling a blunt during the conversation but we could tell he knew it wasn't right. There's certain people you can just tell are ready to hear the gospel, and he seemed like one of them.
Just moments before this all happened, Elder Mason joked about how we don't need to wear our name tags on P-Day "because it's our day off". I told Elder Mason afterwards how that was a perfect example of how we are missionaries even on P-Day!
The zoo was really fun today. Overall, it was a good week. We got word of who our new mission president will be in May. It will be Elder and Sister Merritt taking the spot of President and Sister Giménez. It'll be sad when they leave, they're awesome!
Elder Pettit
