Colby's Missionary Journal 🇸🇻

Monday April 27, 2026 Subject: BAUTISMO DE CRISTIAN 🌊🥳... Exact Obedience Whats uppppp everybody como estamosss Another super sweet week here in Nahuizalco. This week we worked on getting our friend Cristian ready for his big day and yesterday he was able to get baptized!! It was super cool to see, his 2 sisters (Karen and Maryorie) that got baptized a few weeks ago motivated him to start coming to church and eventually join them as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They're getting ready to go to the temple soon and it's been a huge privilege to see their growth. My son Elder Raxá was able to help with his 1st baptism on the mission and I'm so glad he was able to have that experience. This week I was also able to help with 2 more baptismal interviews for the elders that live in the same house as us. Its always an awesome experience to get to see the faith that these people have. It was a mom and her daughter and the 2 of them were both able to g...

Monday April 20, 2026 Subject: Miracle 💳💼 Como estamosss everybody?? It was a super cool week, first wanted to start off with a huge miracle we saw. Exactly 2 weeks ago I lost my wallet. It had literally everything, my money, my credit card from the mission, my personal debit card, my passport, the card that gives me permission to live in El Salvador, my temple recommend, my drivers license, literally everything. It had me pretty stressed out, I had said quite a few prayers that we would be able to find it, I was working as hard as I could to stay focused on the mission work and forget about it, but every once in a while I would get reminded of it and it would be looming at the back of my head that I literally didnt have money and I also didnt have literally all of the stuff that allows me to live in this country and that will also allow me to get back home 😂 but then just a few days ago, some Elders that live in the same house as us got stopped my a man that told them that he had f...

Monday April 13, 2026 Subject: Nonstop  It was a really, really cool week, a ton happened it was so crazy. I still cant believe it was just a little over a week ago when I got hit by a motorcycle haha, but I'm completely fine now. The day after (Sunday) was awesome, had a bunch of friends come to watch conference with us. And then that night the Catholics were shooting off fireworks maybe for Easter or something and a part of one of the fireworks just came hurling down from the sky and landed a few feet from me. We thought that was pretty funny just considered my luck recently. The next day (monday) was very unexpected when President told me I would have a some assignments in leading the district and training a new elder, which I thought was a little bit much to take on at the time but its fine. Then that same night (last monday) I lost my freaking wallet with all of my cash and cards and a bunch of other important stuff 🤣.  My old comp Elder Villamar said goodbye to all the ...

Monday April 6, 2026 Subject: Miracle 🏍️ Bro this week was freaking nuts 🤣... To just start it off with a little highlight of the week, it was Saturday night about 7:30, pretty dark outside, we're on about a 20-30 minute walk to our next visit. We're walking off to the side of the road, I kind of hear a motorcycle or something coming from behind in the distance, I look back for half a second and I see it coming at full speed kind of going crazy starting to veer off to the side of the road, and by the time I had looked back it was too late. After that moment, the next 10 or so seconds are completely unknown to me. All I remember is looking back, seeing the motocycle coming crazy at full speed, and then my memory just jumps forward to me being stood up like nothing happened and seeing a motorcycle on the ground all messed up a few feet in front of me and the driver on the ground cut up and bleeding. Some people that saw the accident said that they saw me get hit and go flying a...

Monday March 30, 2026 Subject: This is March 🌊🌊 KAREN y MARYORIE Happy monday everybodyyyy It was a very blessed week that got capped off with our friends Karen and Maryorie making their first covenant with their Father in Heaven.  Karen and Maryorie are sisters, 14 and 13 years old, and had very different timelines in getting to their baptism. We've been working with Karen for the past 3 months. After about her first month and a half in teaching we felt like she wasnt going to progress with us because she hadnt come to church and it was really hard to find her during the week, so we decided to stop teaching her for the moment. But then the very first day of this transfer when me and Elder Villamar found out we were staying together for another month and a half, we said we were gonna do things differently, that we were gonna try to be lead by the Spirit more and talk about the power of baptism more often and more confidently.  That same day we decided to visit Karen's family...