Surprise

This was a full week with Zone Conference, new member lessons, training the Mission Office staff on printing of the Chapel Cards, completing a special report for the Mission President and a trip to Homestead and Key West on Saturday to start the apartment inspections. We introduced an initiative called CARE for the apartments with C-Clean, A-Arrange, R-Repair and E-Eliminate in an effort to get the missionaries to better CARE for their apartments and make them a place where the Spirit can be maintained. Elder and Sister Welch came with us to Homestead and Key West and then they will inspect the apartments in the north part of the mission and we will inspect them in the south this month and next month we will switch.

On Sunday Elder Black had a surprise. After Sunday School class, he went to congratulate a Haitian man who was going to be baptized after church. He told Elder Black, "I would like you to baptize me." Earlier he had told the missionaries that he wanted the Bishop to baptize him and they had gone to Bishop Graham and asked him, but he could not do it because of a meeting he needed to be in. Actually, the man thought that Elder Black was the Bishop. Elder Black had gotten to know him a week earlier when he picked him up twice to go to General Conference sessions at the church. Anyway, Elder Black drove home and got his white clothes and was privileged to baptize Gary Francois after church. It was a very special experience. There was another Haitian sister who was also baptized before Gary.