Oh, what a great week. We had another baptism, but Satan sure does work hard to prevent those from happening. This time it was that there was hardly any water in the Chapel. The cistern where the city deposits water (drop by drop i might add) had been emptied the day before for maintainance and repairs. In the morning, there was no water still in the cistern. We investigated, and it turns out that the valve had been shut as well, so the city couldn´t deposit water. We opened the valve and started filling the font on Sunday morning at about 9am. The baptism was scheduled for 12:30pm, but the font was only filled up about 1 foot deep. We rescheduled for 5pm and luckily there was barely enough water to perform the ordinance. We have two more baptisms scheduled for this weekend (one Saturday and one Sunday). It´s sure a great joy seeing our investigators progress and come unto Christ.
In other news, there was an earthquake here on Thursday morning of magnitude 6.7. Then on Monday, another one of 7. I didn´t feel either of them, however. Both were at about 8am. On Thursday we were on the bus traveling to a missionary meeting at that time. I don´t know what happened on Monday, but we didn´t feel it either. It makes me wonder, however, if the tectonic plates are just slipping and preparing for a big earthquake. Hopefully not, but it´s possible I think. A massive one occured in 1985 here and devasted the city. But they have put more preventative measures in place.
Speaking of the missionary meeting, it was to audition for the missionary choir that will be singing for the visit of Elder Oaks in the middle of May. Turns out that both my companion and I made it into the choir of 20 (it was open to the whole mission, about 130, but only about 55 or 60 showed up to audition). It´s truly a great opportunity. We will be singing I know that my redeemer lives.
We decided to change our Preparation day from yesterday to today so that we can go to the pyramids in Teotihuacan. It was really a great trip- we got permission to leave the mission and change the day and everything. It was a long ride (about 3 hours in buses, vans, and the metro one way). We spent about 2 hours there. Maybe I´ll send a few pictures later.
Transfers are in one week from today. I think I will get transferred (i´ve been here 3 months), but my companion isn´t too sure because sometimes they leave us in our first area for 6 months. We´ll see. I love it here, but I also wouldn´t mind going to a new area.
That´s about it for today/this week. I love and miss you all. Remember your covenants.
Elder Bunker
