Hernan got baptized on Saturday in the dead of winter in ice cold water. My companion and I tried to heat it up by throwing in boiling water (from the churches kitchen) but to no avail. The water was cold and Hernan was baptized. (Included will be photos of his baptism as well as that of Sofia from last week)
This week my companion got his toe operated on and so Monday and Tuesday had strict orders not to walk on his toe. Then the following day in district class we each made a commitment to talk to everyone, at least 10 people a day every missionary, adding up to at least 140 people in the week, for the first few days I was worried about this goal because we lost two days of work as well as a conference on Thursday so we have to go to Concepcion, but call me Thomas, I couldn't believe until I saw it my companion and I went contacting crazy and pulled the highest numbers for contacting this week!!! That's what I call being led by the spirit.
Also I think I had one of my favorite lessons ever on Sunday night. In our ward there is a young man, Juan Saurez who is preparing to serve a mission, his older brother, Jorge was preparing to do the same but began to study psycology and lost his faith and became inactive. Well we see him every week at our soccer games and we went to visit them last night and we began with one simple question "Who is Jesus Christ?" from that 'simple' question things got real and we had to open up the Book of Mormon to the book of Alma chapter 32 and explain that Faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of anything, but is rather a hope. That is all, eb¿ven a desire to believe. Jorge is committed to read the book of mormon and to pray (first time in over a year he will be doing either of those) and the desire and faith will come. As a seed grows into a tree so too will this desire grow into a knowledge.
Things are good, I am happy-
Love you all
Elder Hutchins
