I can´t believe how quickly the weeks are passing. This week was wonderful with lots more rain. However, I want to share a big miracle that my companion and I saw this week in our area. Last Monday, we had a zone conference with President Garcia and his wife. It was soooooo great. 5 hours of talks, advice, and things that we needed to hear the better the work. Towards the end, President stood up and asked if every companionship would write on the whiteboard at least one name of an investigator that they were going to baptize this week. (Not having a name was not an option) We thought, and thought, and thought, and put the name of our investigator Sandra who is progressing the most..even though her baptismal date is a couple weeks out.. After everyone had their name(s) he said "We´re going to do something different this week. We´re going to have a baptismal service here in the stake center as a zone this Friday at 6pm, and all of you will be here with the person you wrote down and we´re gonna have one big baptismal service! This was Monday, well our lesson with Sandra on Tuesday night fell, as well as Wednesday night. We called her on Wednesday night and asked her about her decision to be baptized and she said she certainly isn´t ready and needs more time. We talked to her for a while, and she is really set on waiting and said if she were to be baptized this week it´d be from pure pressure and we certainly didn´t want that.. so there we had it, we weren´t going to have a baptism this week. We were pretty sad...but started thinking in what we could do..prayed quite a bit that day..
We had a lesson Wednesday night with an investigator Monica, her husband Norton, and their two kids. Their family is pure gold. A family that every missionary wants. Anyway, Norton and Monica are getting baptized soon, they´re just waiting on the divorce papers from Norton´s previous marriage so they can get married. Their son, Alexander, is 13 and is going to be baptized, but he is the typical 13 year old with a little bit of a rebellious attitude.. Sometimes during our lessons he´s on his phone or even falls asleep, but just in the past couple weeks we´ve seen a difference in him, and he´s been coming to church every week with his parents.He wants to wait for his parents to be baptized though..
Well we had our lesson with them on Wednesday night and invited them to come to the big baptismal service with us on Friday night..and then Alexander looked up and asked us, "Can I be baptized on Friday?"
WHAT? You should´ve seen my face, I thought I was going to fall out of my chair.. Long story short, he had his interview the next night, and was baptized on Friday.
The baptismal service was awesome. There were 35 baptisms, it took almost 3 hours and he was starting to get reallyyy impatient, but it was truly a great experience. The room where the baptismal font is, is kinda small..so they had a laptop in there and a big screen in the chapel with skype turned on so that everybody could watch the baptisms and stay in the chapel. Pretty cool. It may not seem like a huge deal, but to us it really was an answer to our prayer. My first baptism, and one that I will never forget!
When we have faith in the Lord, we will see miracles in our lives..that I can promise each one of you :)
I love you all and pray for you always!
Hermana Maki
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