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A Baptism for Christmas

Opening presents Christmas Day
Hola familia y amigos en casa! What an awesome coulpe of weeks we've had here in San Nicolas. The best experience was the baptism we had on the 29th and the events that lead to it. The person that was baptized is named Martha. She is 19 years old and has a little 1 year old girl named Kenya. The week before last she got married to her boyfriend that was living with her, Kevin, who is already a member of the church. Their family had just moved here from a different state because of rediculous problems that were happening and they had to leave their house and most of their posessions and basically start over. Martha was listening to the missionaries before after her family got baptized but did'nt show much interest in the church and she wasn't to excited about marrying Kevin. After having to drop eveything and move to a new state and start over she told us that she was humbled and knew that now was the time to change. The missionaries before were having a ton of opposition to try and get her married and baptized for a while but never could. When Martha and her family moved here it seemed like everything fell into place almost perfectly. Within 3 weeks of her mom finding us in front of our house and telling us to come and visit the family, we had Martha and Kevin married and Martha was able to be baptized.

it was the best thing that I could have gotten for christmas, seeing this family return to church and be united through the desire of a daughter to change. She ended a year and an old life and now with the start of a new year comes the start of a new life for her and her new family. Martha and Kevin have their sight set on the temple a year from now. 

I hope everyone had an amazing christmas! And hope that you will all have a very happy start to a new year! 

Elder Hoyt

Scripture game with presents

carne asada with a few Elders an Christmas day

BAPTISM of Martha



Wedding of Martha and Kevin


Marriage Witness



zone Christmas Devotional
Christmas Day Elder Joachin

San Nicolas Zone




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