A Bit of Basketball, More Baptisms, and Chimborazo

This was a good week in the work.

So today we went to a park and played basketball with the office missionaries from the north mission. It was super fun and a great opportunity to blow off some steam. I needed that because this was a stressful week in the offices. I just had a lot to do. 

But tonight and tomorrow are going to be really important. So I do not want to jinx anything but we have 4 people who should be getting baptized next week. It is a family of three from Columbia and a young man from Venezuela. I am super excited because this will be my first time baptizing a family in my mission. I love these people too. So the Colombians are Pedro, Sonia, and Jacob. They are so cool. We first met the Dad, Pedro, on the street because he was doing some construction on a house and we talked to him. He told us we could visit him and in the first visit they said they would come to church. But then they kinda disappeared on us and did not attend or received for like two weeks. So Elder Abilla and I figured they lost interest and we stopped trying to visit them. But by chance (even though we know that it does not work that way) we ran into the Dad again and he told us he wanted us to visit him. So we did and they explained that they did not want to go to church because they felt that they did not have the right type of clothes. We explained to them that it does not matter what clothes you wear and then they started coming to church. The best has been seeing how the ward has taken them in. So that was a pretty long story but hopefully it sounds better when I tell you in person. I am still working on my writing.

This week we went to Riobamba, which was the only part of the mission that I had not been to. Riobamba has this massive volcano called Chimborazo. It was super cool seeing it up close.

Well that was my week. I love being a missionary. Love the letters I get.

Elder Tucker