Why is it never easy.

Wow, with every baptism, there´s always something that happens!  So, we had the baptismal interview for Alejandro and Izidora yesterday.  So, our District leader (who, i´m sorry, but always gets under my skin)  gave the interview, finished, signed all the papers saying that Alejandro is ready to be baptized.  well, that night he calls us telling us he thought a bit more about it and that Alejandro (only 10yrs old!) isn´t ready to be baptized cuz he hasn´t read very much in the Book of Mormon.  So he´s telling us to put his baptismal date for next week.  well, normally i´d be ok with that, BUT, alejandro´s grandpa who is patriarch already bought his plane ticket and is coming out in 2 days only to baptize Alejandro and my companion finishes her mission this week.  So i explained the situation to the elder, telling him that its a bit complicated to change the date and that the last thing we want is for his family to be annoyed by this inconvenience and change the heart of his dad who also is investigating the church.  The only reason this elder had was that Alejandro hadn´t read much in the book of mormon, but yes has the desires, yes knows the lessons and everything.    Good grief, i didn´t read the book of mormon until i was 14!   So we talked on the phone for 1 hr, me giving all the reasons why he should be baptized this week and not next week.  (it honestly is the fear that his family would be offended and we´d lose a whole family in the church cuz his dad and 2 siblings are also investigating the church).     so anyway, we finish this long and unsuccessful conversation and milagrously right after we hung up the AP called us for something.  so we asked him and he told us that Alejandro is gonna be baptized this Saturday, that we can´t deny him the opportunity to be baptized only cuz he didn´t read more than 1 chapter.  THANK YOU APS!!!!    yeah, so that´s my rant for today. thanks for listening.  haha,  its just been a really stressful week if you didn´t notice during my rant.    

but all is good in zion!   Tomorrow we´re off to Puerto Montt! It should be good for me to take 2 days to recharge.

well, i love you all! Enjoy the holidays!

-Hna Hebdon