What a great week we have had here in
Mumbai, India. Last night we set a family of four on a baptismal date for
next month, I am so excited for them and cannot wait to see the
pictures. On my mission I have had a good amount of baptisms, but I have
had more experiences where I found someone on the streets, referred
them to different Elders, and then they eventually got baptized. That
will happen again this Sunday as a young college kid named Satyanarayan
will be baptized here in Mumbai. I found him while eating dinner on the
streets one night. He was interested in learning English, but was
unavailable for our weekly class each Thursday night. I asked him when
he had a night off and he replied Sundays. Problem solved, you can learn
English by coming to church, listening to people who speak English and are reading the Book of Mormon in English. It took him less
than a week to feel something more important than learning English and
he's getting baptized into a branch that already loves him. The amount
of baptisms a missionary has isn't a measure of their success at all,
everyone should know and understand that, but it is what we are here to
do, and I love seeing people act on the gospel message of repentance.
I
have loved every minute of being a missionary and I will continue to
love it in my final week as a missionary. I have one more email to
write...and I will make it a good one. But I have to go to a zone activity now
and eat some more vada pavs...time is running short in India...and I'm
pretty sad about it.