Elder Andrew Flake in El Salvador: Feliz Navidad

(Andrew returns one month from today on January 22!)

Baptism of Adonay

and todays zone Apopa Christmas awesome Pday Lunch with mashed potatoes.

Gracias for helping me remember that I only have a month left, mom. That's very sweet of you. That's cool that you could act out the christmas nativity scene with the family.

I will call you Thursday diciembre 25 at 11 am El Salvador time. Please send me my username and password and stuff I need in case I need it before Thursday. We are permitted 30 minutes.

We have been gearing up for this week for Christmas. Last Wednesday we had a half mission wide Christmas with the President, Saturday we had a stake wide Christmas dinner, Sunday a Christmas sacrament meeting, Today we had a Christmas pday watching the movie Frozen. Tomorrow we have a ward Christmas dinner and Wednesday we have like 5 Christmas dinners planned,and Thursday I'm calling you guys! It's looking good.

We baptized Adonay. Here's his story we wrote to the mission president. Those interested in reading can put it in google translate or ask a spanish speaker.

Hace dos meses lo conocimos. El es amigo de un converso. Un día le preguntamos si el quería escuchar este mensaje juntos con el converso lo cual es su amigo. El dijo que si y enseñamos lección uno y le comprometimos a orar al respecto.

Una semana después estábamos enseñando al converso y Adonay vino de repente y dijo que el oro y recibió una respuesta de Dios. En el momento que el acepto a prepararse a su bautismo, el diablo empazo a trabajar. Su fecha cayo porque el tomo café. Luego, tres días antes de su bautismo, su papa nos dijo que no quería que lo bautizáramos. Lo ayudamos entender mas del bautismo y acepto. Dos días antes de su bautismo, Adonay se enfermo. Le dimos una bendición y el se recupero rápidamente. Aunque habían desafíos, trabajamos diligentemente para que el se bautizara y se bautizo. Buen joven.

Translated by Google:

We met Adonay two months ago. He is a friend of a convert. One day we asked him if he wanted to hear this message together with the convert which is your friend. He said that if and teach lesson one and we committed ourselves to pray about it.

A week later we were taught the convert and Adonay came suddenly and said gold and received an answer from God. At the time he accepted prepare for baptism, the devil empazo to work. Your date fell because I drink coffee. Then, three days before his baptism, his father said we did not want to baptize. We help you understand and accept baptism more. Two days before his baptism, Adonay is sick. We gave a blessing and recovered quickly. Although they had challenges, we work diligently to that being baptized and baptized. Young good.

He is a really cool young man and he's trying to motivate his family to get baptized also. The familia Martinez are doing good. They went to the stake dinner and the mom and daughter went to church. Please keep praying for them. We had 13 investigadores at the christmas dinner. We were super nervous because they had a bunch of huge speakers and lights set up in the sacrament room and we were afraid the the investigators would have doubt to that but it turned out to be really spiritual and they all enjoyed it.

Well I'll tell you more thursday. I'm super excited to talk to you.

Thanks for the pictures and words.

Love,

Elder Flake