Elder Dalton Groen: They Got Married!!

Joel and Antonela are now married and antonela is scheduled to be baptised on Saturday!! the wedding was good! they asked me to be a witness for it and i was very happy to do that for them!!

Something sad happened tho... joel was a less active member who never got the priesthood. so we were so excited for him to receive it yesterday in church so that he could baptise antonela on Saturday! but antonela being pregnant and it being their first kid got sick and was throwing up... they got kind of scared and took her to the hospital! so they weren't able to come to church... so joel sadly wasnt able to get the priesthood. but we were able to talk to them and with out my comp knowing i asked her if she would be willing to let my comp to baptise her, being his first baptism and all! and they loved the idea so she asked him very sincerely if he would be willing to baptise her! i just wish you could have seen how my comps face lit up! we have been together for the last two transfers and i have been training him. our first transfer was very hard as we knocked doors for almost all of it with what looked in our eyes to be no success. at the begining of the second transfer we started to have success and we found joel and antonela. with alot of little miracles including the change of the marriage date we are going to have a baptism at the very end of his training! i have learned very many valuable lessons one of which being sacrifice. i would have loved to get in the water and baptise her my self. but i decided to let elder vance do it and just to see the look on his face when she asked was payback enough! i cannot wait for Saturday!! As we unselfishly serve our brothers and sisters in life we see that we will get back more then we could ever even give! i am so very grateful for these two years that i have to serve!! there is only one left and i am going to give it all to him!!

Love Elder Groen