Rubi

Elder Bushman and I have had a pretty blessed week this week. I guess the hardest thing to adjust to here in Texas is using this freaking telephone. Every person we find, and every person we teach we have to put them into this system, and it's kinda a pain. We also have to contact our investigators daily by text or Facebook, which is weird. 

We had a baptism this week, and it was one of the sweetest baptisms I've ever had. Rubi Mireles had been investigating the church for a while. She used to go to the Spanish branch in Tyler, but it's about an hour drive away so she quit going. Since Elder Bushman got here, he invited her to come to church here and he would translate for her. I think I mentioned last week that we translate at church for Rubi, as well as another sister in the ward, and another investigator of ours. 

Anyway, ever since I got here she's been really excited to get baptized, and she was really happy to find that I can speak Spanish well, though Elder Bushman and her make fun of me when I use a Nicaraguan word. The baptism we were able to do in English and Spanish, always having translation. One of the talks was in English, and I stood beside translating into Spanish, and the other talk was done in Spanish and Elder Bushman helped out by translating into English sentence by sentence. One of the members commented that the baptism was one of the most spiritual they'd attended, and I felt the same way. She was really excited after her baptism, and I got the privilege of confirming her on Sunday.

Love,
Elder Stephen Watts

Rubi's Baptism