Jose Mateo did get baptized. It was a little rough for my second baptism. Zander was much easier to baptize. But once we sat him down in the chair it did get much easier to do. The good news is that he got all wet, I did too, but I didn't hurt my back in the process.  His memory and his retention are improving remarkably fast. Hopefully it continues that way.

Blanca is progressing to her baptismal date on the 5th of May. She is a little bit nervous and feels like she doesn't know everything yet.  But she is now closing her business on Sundays and she is done drinking Coffee.  She is getting there and we hope to lift her confidence in these days.

Florencio is getting there.  He is almost ready to accept a baptismal date.  Every time we talk to him he says (without our asking) that baptism is important and a commandment.  Someday he will get baptized.  So we are going to try to put a date with him for May 12th. He reads a lot, and remembers just about everything he reads.  He has some health problems with platelets and so he doesn't work and is almost always home.  We are seeing a lot of progress and soon I think that he will start to progress more. He has already gone to church 3 times!

We are still finding people with potential but nobody has gone to church yet and they have the tendency to hide the next time we go after putting a baptismal date and then we never see them again, unless it's watching them run into the house when we walk down the street.   Sometimes I feel like Alma and Amulek who went out of the prison and everybody went running like a sheep before lions.

We've been praying a lot, walking a lot, and doing a ton of splits with the zone. We are trying to help everybody to have a vision of what they want but sometimes we struggle a bit to communicate that.  It's hard to be a leader in the mission and it's even harder to do it as the Lord instructs us in D&C 121:36-45, but it's definitely a lifetime practice to be able to do that exactly how the Lord wants, but I've sure learned a lot in the mission.

This week was pretty good just not with a lot of super big experiences.  I'll send the baptismal picture when I get a computer that wants to work with me better.  This week we have stake conference too, that should be great Elder Roman from the 70 comes. They get a lot more visits from the 70 here in Mexico.

I love you and hope that you all have a great week.

Elder Allred