Week 31: Adventures of truth or dare rainbow care bear

You guys Zach has turned into a care bear. If you don't know what a care bear is, please leave this blog, and go live in the 90's for a minute. You are way to young to be reading this blog. Just kidding, all ages are allowed here. Anyways Zach was told this week that he reminds his zone leader of a care bear, and that every time he gives a hug, rainbows shoot out of his body. This mental picture is actually kind of disturbing as I think longer about it...

This week, Francisco (the man who Zach and his companion met in the park to give him some marriage counseling) came to church this week, and not only him, his wife was there too! What an awesome change to see, that after his mistakes, he can come back and stay true to the covenants he made with his wife in the temple. I truly hope they keep it up, because eternal families are AWESOME!

Zach is supposedly becoming more and more daring. I wont believe it until he crosses that bridge by himself in Victoria. But really, he was challenged this week by another missionary to contact an entire bus! Heyo! Four elders on the bus all helped. Zach stood up and started singing "nearer my god to thee", another elder was introducing themselves, and the other two were handing out pictures of Christ. What a smarty pants idea! I hope that someone on that bus was touched, im sure that at least one person on that bus was in desperate need of that pick me up. Well Zach has said, he wants dares. So send him dares. (Related to his mission of course.)  Mine is: Zach I dare you, to contact more GRANDMAS! What happened to all these cranky grandma stories that made me laugh so hard that I peed my pants?" I was pregnant, so that was understandable. I DARE YOU!

Pipe went to EFY this week, Zach was a little worried because they were unable to contact him for a week during this time. When he came back, Zach and his companion went to visit with him to give him some awesome news. I am actually going to paste this from his letter because it was such a cool story!

"We passed by his house. He lives in an old beat up apartment behind the church in lagunillas. As we knocked the door not knowing what to think he opened the door. As he did I had a flash back to when I first contacted his house and saw a young confused 15 year old, but when he opened the door he was different. He opened the door and I saw the light shining from him. He told us to enter. He changed is clothes from wearing a basketball jersey which isn't a bad thing to wear but was wearing a nice read shirt. He shaved his mo hawk off of his head and I knew just from the light shining in his eyes that he was different.

We started with a prayer before we told him the news. The special news was this.... "pipe we are sad to tell you that you will not be baptized on the 28th.... when we told him that his head dropped down. But then following that we replied.... "but will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized this Saturday at 11 o'clock in the morning?" His head shot up and looked at my comp and connected with my comps eyes. He then said what? He turned and looked at me in the eyes and the spirit then permeated through the room and touched my heart so strong as he looked at my eyes I had a flash back of every moment that I had with him. Teaching, Helping, Changing, Inviting him to do things. He then started to cry and replied yes! It was a very touching experience.

This Saturday pipe will be baptized due to the prayers and fasts and amazing change and example that pipe has shown. The mission president was so impressed with pipe when he heard he went to efy that he gave us permission to extend the call to be clean of his past and start in the road to eternal life."

HASTA LUEGO!