carolina's baptism in cold water

Heyyyy Family and Friends!

Well this week's emails were especially great, thank you everyone :) And first of all, because every dang week I forget to mention it: 

1. Thank you for all of the witty compliments you gave me after Christmas, you all know me too well and how that is one of the best compliments anyone could give me. 

2. Dad made a funny comment in his letter (p.s. I have gotten your letters, 2 went to La Laguna after I left but Elder Wilson was nice enough to send them back to me) that you all are worried I´m still growing and are worried my pants are all high waters haha. Well idk if I´m growing right now but all I do know is my pants still fit...length way and fat way. Whew. 

Ok I think thats it for the list. 

So! This week was really good--we had Carolina´s baptism! She is super super awesome, doing very well. But the baptism has a funny story. We don´t have a font here, so we have to do it in a neighboring place--Mostoles. So we called the elders there to remember to fill it up (called in the am) and we were making sure everything was fine. Well we were on the way to the baptism, walking to the train stop and we get a call from President Jackson saying he´s coming! Which made me a little nervous haha. We got to the train, were about to get on, 5 minutes after president's call, and we get a call from the other elders who are in Mostoles--there are 4--who said the font wasn't filling up...Are you kidding me?? 20 minutes before the baptism is supposed to start?! We got there are there and there were 3 inches of water. The elders had turned it on, the hot water, and then left without plugging the drain. So the hot water was gone and we had no water. And president was there. We got the water going as fast as we could, cold water unfortunately, to get it going. The water was SO cold. I´m not even joking that it was similar to that of the Windriver glacier lakes. Haha what a memory. Neither she nor I will forget that baptism. Reminded me of Porter's, when we all were shivering on the ice in our big coats watching Porter and Dad standing in the bone chilling water. Anyway, the baptism went great and she now has the Holy Ghost. Elder Mower and I were talking last night about the happiness and joy that we receive as missionaries just witnessing these people making these decisions. I love this work so much. I´m giving back 2 full years to my Heavenly father, with the intent to repay him for all of the amazing years of blessings that I´ve had, and yet he is blessing me even more. I am so happy and honored to be a missionary right now. I´ve grown so much and changed, all for the better. I can´t imagine what my life would be like without this time of being a missionary. 

Well thats it for now, thanks for the emails and help. I hope you all have a great week this week!

Love Elder Franson