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When you have to miss your own baptism...

Buenas tardes mis amiguitos!

This week was wild.  Long story short, me and the Hermanas we share a ward with both had baptisms one night, and a few hours before the baptism, we got a call from our Hermana Leaders that they were having emergency changes.  Which meant, 2 of the 4 of us had to accompany them to the bus terminal far away to drop off one of them and pick up the new comp of the other.  There were a lot of other things that went on too... to say the least, literally not one thing could have gone worse that day!  I was so irritated all day and couldn´t feel the spirit at all.

I had been teaching Raul for a couple months and Hna Kohls and I were the ones that found him, but I didn´t want to make my compa miss the first baptism that she helped with, so I missed it :(  Sad day.  Me and Hna Achocalla (she volunteered to leave because it was more her comp´s baptism than hers too) were sad all night and were praying DURÍSIMO that we could still make part of the baptism.  As soon as we could leave, we took a taxi back to our chapel and got to make it for the last couple minutes of the baptism!  The night wasn´t so bad after all.  As soon as I saw Raul with the biggest smile on his face, the annoyed feelings I had all went away, and I was so happy for the rest of the night!  There really is no better feeling than seeing others choose to accept Christ in their lives.

Love you all!
Hna Harris

Pics:
- Pic I took with Raul before I had to miss his baptism... crying in the club
- Had to document waiting in the terminal for Hna Canales ́ new compa whilst missing our baptisms (as you can tell I´m still not over it)
- Thanksgiving dinner, cinnamon apple waffles from our favorite restaurant in our sector!
- Alexandra´s new house. She´s making her cat wave to say hi to Hna Kohls, my old comp who she misses so much!
- My mom sent Alexandra this advent calendar and she was sooo excited to have something from the States!
Pic I took with Raul before I had to miss his baptism... crying in the club
Thanksgiving dinner, cinnamon apple waffles from our favorite restaurant in our sector!
 Had to document waiting in the terminal for Hna Canales ́ new compa whilst missing our baptisms (as you can tell I´m still not over it)
- My mom sent Alexandra this advent calendar and she was sooo excited to have something from the States!
 Alexandra´s new house. She´s making her cat wave to say hi to Hna Kohls, my old comp who she misses so much! 

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