Tio Vaca Baptism!!

Monday August 18, 2025

Subject: Tio Vaca Baptism!!

Cómo estamos everybody.....

Another great week a lot of stuff happened its hard to remember haha. Got my first baptism this past sunday (besides my lil bro JJ of course haha), it was a super cool experience. It was our friend Jonathan Amaya (everyone calls him Tio Vaca and I have no idea why haha). He's 18 and he's basically been an eternal investigator up until this point, he's had a ton of friends in the church for the past 10+ years but he finally decided to get baptized it was so cool to see the entire ward show up for his baptism and I'm so happy for my man. I also had to give a talk on sunday it actually went great and was a big confidence boost for my spanish.

We had intercambios (exchanges) 2 times this past week, on tuesday I went with Elder Reyes to Las Colinas and then thursday with Elder Buehner to Las Orquidias. It was cool to work in other areas for a day and learn from other elders, but it was a little annoying to get taken away from my area with the people I've been teaching. Tuesday night in Las Colinas there were 4 borrachos (drunk people) on the street talking to us, and I could tell they were cussing me out but I just smiled and told them I couldnt understand them, and that kind of pissed them off but its ok we survived haha.

We're still going up to the mountains everyday to teach, and this past week we found 2 really promising families that we're excited about. One of the families went to church with us sunday and we've got a good amount of people to work with for the next little while which is encouraging. Still been eating a bunch of pupusas, grinding my spanish, and I cant remember much else from the week.

Check this verse out its a good one: Matthew 19:29

Va pue!!
-Elder Trujillo







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