Get Your Guay On: The Week Is Not Complete Without A Baptism-Francisco Segura Guayaquil Week Seventy Five

So this week we enjoyed a week filled with lots of lessons and to top it all off a baptism.

Marriages

I dont know if I have shared this but that are few people that are actually married here in this country. Most people just live together without ever getting married. That is a big problem for us missionaries. We are currently teaching two couples who are not married. If everyone goes well and they do what they say(which rarely happens) they will be getting married sometime soon. It isnt too hard but they are just lazy and dont do it. We will see what happens. Hopefully everything goes well and they get married so that they can get baptized. Be praying for them!

Elder Shanklin

Leadership Council

This past week was Leadership Council with President. It is always great to see all the other zone leaders from all over the mission and hear from them and President. This month we talked a lot about the Atonement of Jesus Crist and the process of repentance. It is always nice to learn more about those subjects because we can never fully comprehend the importance or significance of the atonement. It was incredible to hear Presidents testismony and it really strengthen mine. I heard that they already called a new President to take his spot in a couple months but as hard as that will be for me I guess I will have to accept it.

Elder Shanklin and the other leaders in the mission

Baptism

So this week we were able to end the week good with a baptism. It was a older senior that had been going to church for a well but still had his coffee addiction. We had been working with him so that we would stop drinking and this week he finally cut the last straw and was able to get baptized. It was a great feeling and although it was a short baptism service it was cool. His name is Manuel Llivisaca. Dont even try to pronunciate the last name because you will stay it wrong. He looks really upset and mad it the pictures but that is just how he is. He was actually pretty happy and cracked a couple of jokes in the baptism.