Filling the Font, Leaf-cutting Ants, and the end of the Cockroach

Highlight of the Week: Baptizing Mario! well, ok. Watching Hno. Ferre baptize Mario :)

 

Baptisms are great. Baptising someone who really really wants to be baptized and really understands the eternal significance of it is 10 times better :)

Mario is fantastic. Making his baptism happen Saturday night was totally worth filling up the baptismal font with buckets of water from the neighbors' house (the elder´s investigators) across the street :) (we didn´t have water in the chapel. . . gotta do what ya gotta do) And for this reason we have our exercise time every morning :)

Also, I´m perfecting my homemade brownies recipe. It´s coming along nicely. As well as my pie dough skills. But more on that next week.

I've been meaning to remember to write this for a while now, but one of the things I love most about Paraguay are the leaf-cutting ants. They are so cool. And I don´t think I´ll ever get tired of watching little lines of green and yellow crossing the sidewalks :)

 

Oh! I mentioned a cockroach last week, right? And how I was going to let it die a natural death. . . well, it didn´t quite end that way, poor thing. I had to sweep the floor. . . including the floor underneath said cockroach. So after an intense chase around the bathroom floor with a broom and dustpan I managed to scoop the little guy into the toilet (my choice method of disposing of large bugs that crunch when stepped on). Still not sure if that actually kills them or if they just go to live with the gutter roaches, but we haven't seen him since, and that´s good enough for me :)

Well, pictures of the baptism will come next week.
PS It isn´t really really hot any more! I'm actually sleeping with a blanket! (yay!)

 

PPS I love fresh laundry. One of the simple joys in life :) One I appreciate very very much. I have made it a goal to learn how to make my laundry smell fantastic after my mission. It´s going to happen.