Gustavo and Natalia got baptized!!! And a little reunion in his first area!

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 What a week!  So many exchanges that Luke couldn't even keep track!  There are 10 zones in the mission and Luke and his companion have to go on exchanges with each set of zone leaders each transfer.   He said it is exhausting because there is such expectations when they do exchanges, the missionaries get excited to be with the AP's and expect to learn something, and Luke is just exhausted and wants to rest. :)  But he is loving it.  One perk is that he was able to go to his first area this week!  It was exciting to see how people were doing.  And of course Natalia, his second mom, was so excited to see him again!  

The real exciting news this week was that Gustavo and Natalia got baptized!!!!  So excited for them!  They worked so hard to get to this point and they finally got to enter the waters of baptism and make a covenant with Heavenly Father!  What a huge blessing!  Elder Backman told Luke it was so funny because after the baptism Gustavo and Natalia's son, who is autistic, jumped in the font!  He was in there splashing around and they couldn't get him out for an hour!  ha ha ha!  What a memorable day for many reasons :)


Luke had his first meeting with President Reber.  They are really trying to get things squared away for the new mission president.  He and his wife get here on June 27th.  The crazy thing is that after he gets there, he and President Reber have 4 hours together before President Reber and his wife board a plane to go home!  4 HOURS!!!!  That's crazy!  And in those 4 hours they aren't supposed to say one thing about any of the missionaries!  I guess they want the new president to form his own opinions and have his own inspiration!  Wow!

So a great and busy week!  Love that sweet elder of mine! :)

















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