{"id":1305,"date":"2013-08-27T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:25:53","slug":"elliots-first-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/elliots-first-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliot&#8217;s First Baptism!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Saturday: THE BAPTISM! So it was pretty dang hectic. EVERYTHING is always behind schedule here in Peru. Also, it was the gloomiest, darkest, coldest day yet. So that was neat. (Elder Cardenas and I decided that Satan wasn\u00b4t happy with us.) But eventually, 40 minutes late, we started our little program in the chapel. I played the piano&#8211;it\u00b4s my job now. Then we went to the font (pila) for the baptism. It didn\u00b4t really seem to be below ground, which I thought was a thing, but oh well. I baptized Leydi Rocio Maquera Gutierrez, and E. Cardenas baptized her mom. I practiced saying her name and the prayer a lot, and it all went well. There was a great feeling of happiness and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: I confirmed Rocio as a member of the church and gave her the Holy Ghost. I was pretty focused on the prayer and the words during the confirmation, but afterwards I couldn\u00b4t stop smiling. I was just filled with happiness. It was awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000136-11.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1307\" title=\"Elliot's first baptism! Leydi Rocio Maquera Gutierrez (the daughter) Elder Cardenas baptized her mom, Rosa.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000136-11-1024x768.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000136-11.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000136-11.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000136-11.jpg?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000136-11.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000138-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1308\" title=\"The whole group.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000138-1-1024x768.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000138-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000138-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000138-1.jpg?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000138-1.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000121.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1309\" title=\"Lake Titicaca\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000121-1024x768.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000121.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000121.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000121.jpg?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1000121.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Saturday: THE BAPTISM! So it was pretty dang hectic. EVERYTHING is always behind schedule here in Peru. Also, it was the gloomiest, darkest, coldest day yet. So that was neat. (Elder Cardenas and I decided that Satan wasn\u00b4t happy with us.) But eventually, 40 minutes late, we started our little program in the chapel. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/elliots-first-baptism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elliot&#8217;s First Baptism!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elliot","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9LkuZ-l3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}