Another interesting thing happened this week. So a block away from our house there is a bar. In front of this bar there was always a man, dressed as a women, making tortas(long sandwiches with meat on them.) We would walk by everynight and many times he would tell his friends, whom I'm sure were gangsters and drunkards, "I try to give them free coffee but they never accept." We just say hi and keep walking. Anyways the other night we were walking home and a road a block away from our house was closed off. There were a lot of people and police standing outside. We thought somebody had been shot or something but since that's not really out of the normal we just went home. We found out that the gay man had committed suicide. He apparently took his meat cutting knife and stabbed himself in the stomach a couple of times and seeing that he didn't die he slit his throat. He was icon from Nahuizalco. He will be missed. The people here are so hardened to these kind of things that it's really nothing out of the ordinary for them. It's becoming that way for us now. Anyways on a happier note we had some great experiences this week.
On Friday we had a baptism. We baptized a kid named Diego. His whole family are members but they went inactive so we have been reactiving them and we baptized Diego. It was a really good service. Elder Slack, Elder Solano, and I sang the song "When I am baptized" from the childrens hymn book with our ukuleles. The mom was crying and could feel the spirit. It was cool. On Saturday we had a special event as a zone. We had a "white afternoon." 9 people got baptized from the ward and the branch in our zone and there was over 100 people in attendence and about 50% were in white. President Spjut came. It is something that those converts will never forget.
Have a great week folks!
-Elder Rowberry
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