Week Idk

These past two weeks have been really busy so sorry I didn't get an email out earlier. So kind of a crazy story but when I was at the church last Sunday my ZL needed my phone for a second and he left it on a table at the church. And before my companion and I were about to leave we went to go grab it but it wasn't there. So we started looking for it around the church but after like 20mins of searching it was no where to be found. Luckily this phone was the one the mission gave me and I had a phone my parents sent me at my apartment so we just had to set the other one up. The problem was I couldn't remember my church account password so I couldn't set up the new phone. So I called up the tech help desk in SLC and we got it all figured out by the end of Monday. So I didn't have time to write an email my bad. We ended up getting a call from a member later in the week whose kid took the phone thinking it was their parents but we got the phone back now. We have our first baptism this weekend as a companionship so that is really awesome, it's a Portuguese guy who's name is Vaumi and he was a MMA fighter and knows like a bunch of fighting styles like Mor ti and Ju Jistu and Boxing and is a black belt. I had the opportunity to baptize a members 8 year old daughter yesterday in Spanish so that was cool. Her name is long too its Alexa Guadalupe Veasenor Reinaga, don't know if I spelt that right but it's just a long name. Her mom wanted a missionary to do the baptism for her daughter and they got my picture taken a bunch with her and her family so a really awesome experience. It's been a really good week and I have met a lot of really nice people. Their was this one Ghana family and I invited them to church and they said that they have seen missionaries in Ghana and they were very nice to me and I talked to them about our church and stuff but they still said no. But they invited me to go and eat with their family at the restaurant they were going to but I had to say no. One of the grandma's of the family said that their were angels around me and idk they were just a super awesome family. Another really cool guy that I met when I was on exchanges was a guy named Keith. He was a older guy in his 50's and he said that he was super happy we invited him and he said that he has been to prison for 20yrs when he was young and he was surprised how young we were and how he respects us because he said kids your age around here need what you have. Then he described his experience growing up and how dumb he was he was shot 3 times, sold drugs, stole cars and a bunch of other stuff. And now all he cares about is making sure his kids and family are better than he was and that they can have have a good experience growing up. He was a very humble guy. We do service at kitchen called Kelemen's kitchen and serve food to people and its fun. And thats a picture of the church we go to. Spanish is coming but still is mas o menos so it will just take time. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts from everyone I really appreciate it! Love you all

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