Have you ever been stung by a caterpillar?

Hola Amigos!

This week was pretty solid. We found a few great new people and have a lot of people that are preparing to be baptized, but a lot of them still struggle with coming to church.

This week while in divisions, my companion met Jazmin and her son Alex who were references from the family of the branch president. The missionaries who were here a while back wrote the information in the area book but never got in contact with them. They really have liked the church when they have visited it and are interested in learning more. 

Also we taught Griseidi about repentance this week. We bought a packet of fruit juice, and took a small amount of bleach in a bottle. When we told her about sins, we put the juice in the cup and told her that our sins make the water dark, but Jesus can clean it out like bleach. She was amazed by how the water changed colors so quickly with the bleach.

This week we also had to move the baptismal date of Daisy who is a family member of Juan Pablo. She wants to get baptized to help her family but has a hard time coming to church.

Maria, Juan Pablo's cousin, is planing on getting baptized next week, and said that she was a little worried about going to church because she didn't like going to Young Women's. She's rather shy, and doesn't like making new friends. We told her that as a young woman, she goes to that class to better serve the other young women in the ward. I think she understood that God needed her to go, not that it was just a church rule.

Luis passed his baptismal interview, so we have a baptism this weekend too. It's a little crazy how many we have lined up.

This week while teaching a lesson, I felt something crawling on my neck. It was a spiny caterpillar, so I quickly grabbed it and threw it off, but I think I should've just flicked it because it stung me and the rest of the week my fingers were swollen. Have you ever been stung by a caterpillar?

Well that's all for this week. We had changes, and we are both staying here. But a really great young man from this ward left today to go to Chile in his mission. Here's a photo when we said goodbye.

Elder Cloward

PS - Don't forget that you can email Elder Cloward directly at the following address:

joshua.cloward@missionary.org