Above: Carolina's mother, grandmother and Sister.
Below: Elders Pettitt & Jones at Carolina's Baptism!
From Elder Pettitt's Letter:
"This week was great! We had a baptism, her name is Carolina. Her family is all active in the church except
for her and I’m not sure why she wasn’t baptized when then rest of her family
was. They moved into
our ward here and we went to visit them the first day."
We talked with them and just
made small talk, after we were about to leave and were walking out and her
mother pulled me aside and said, "You’re welcome to try with Carolina but just
to let you know she has been though 10 other sets of missionaries”.
I said, “well then we wouldn’t
want to bother her and send her to another set so we will just have to baptize
her.”
She kinda giggled while I
kept my straight face it was funny. We
ended up laughing a little bit about it, but about 5 days later she had a date
for baptism and when we told her mom she said, “Who is getting baptized? My Carolina?”
It
was pretty cool to see the surprise on her face."
The service though was the
most spiritual service that I have been to. Her 16 year old sister was so excited to have her sister baptized. She's been a great example for her sister and really, I'm just glad that we could give her that extra little push she needed to make this step into the waters of baptism."
