This Saturday we will have a baptism!! We also could possibly have 4 baptisms..... and ill explain to you why.
1.
Joaquin is for sure getting baptized this week. We talked to the mom
and she said that she has been seeing the miracles and the changes in
her son and in the house. She also gave us permission to baptize him
this saturday and so Elder Goates and I will have completed our goal to
baptize in August! We went to Joaquin´s house last night with Brother
Paolantonio, who was the bishop of the mom a while back, and he helped
us gain confidence with the mom and with the grandpa. Now they love us!
2. We could be baptizing Denise this Saturday. It
all depends if we have permission from President Salas. The reason why
we need permission is because she has only gone to church 2 times and
there is a rule here in South America, among all the missions, that you
have to have 3 assistances to be able to be baptized. And Denise also
had to stop smoking... So we were working with her throughout the week
to try to stop smoking and so we put a couple of goals with her. She
first started out smoking ten on monday.... Then we told her she has to
smoke 8 on Tuesday, then 6 on Wednesday, and 4 on Thursday, etc... we
went to her house on thursday to see how she was doing and she said that
she smoked 6 again.... :/. so we helped her out with some scriptures on
faith and told her that her faith would help her to be healed. So on
saturday, we sent her a bunch of text messages to help her remind
herself that she can´t smoke more than 4 but we never received a text
message back. So of course, us elders were a bit worried that she was
falling off the deep end. that night at 11:30ish, we received a text
from her that said that she didn´t have any signal all day and that she
didn´t smoke at all that day! What a miracle. She also said that she´d
see us in church on sunday. So yeah, we got up on Sunday, went to church
and she was already waiting for us in the class of the Relief Society.
She told us that she hadn´t smoked in two days! Afterwards, we asked the
bishop for permission to baptize her and he gave us the permission. Now
we have to ask president to see if he will give us permission.
3. Jeremias (8), is going to be baptized in the ward.
4.
Ruth (sister of Jeremias) has been going to church for about 3 months
now and hasn´t wanted to be baptized because of some stuff that she has
been doing. So one day when we were having a family home evening with
her family, she came up to me and asked me to write my testimony in her
book of mormon. So of course I accepted. I started writing what I felt
about her in her book of mormon, and then I had a strong impression to
start writing about the grace of Christ and the atonement that he made
for us, and overall, the Love of God. So I started writing about that,
quoting some scriptures along the way, and then gave her the book when I
finished. She started reading the tesimony, reading the scriptures i
left her with, and then sat there thinking for like 30 minutes without
saying anything. Meanwhile, I am just talking with the family and
enjoying my time. At the end of the FHE, i said bye to the family and
said that we´ll see them in church. At church, I said hi to Ruth to see
how she was doing. She told me that she had been thinking a lot about
what I wrote to her and that she wants to be baptized! We will be
baptizing her SOON!
Really I know and testify that there is power in
testimony. Testimony is something that we have lived and that we know of
a surety. I know that really if we pray to our Heavenly Father to gain a
testimony of something, he will give it to us. And the most special and
important part about a testimony from our Father in Heaven is that only
He can take it away from us.
I know that God lives. He loves us.
(DC 76:22)
Really, there were a lot of miracles taht happened this week and I know it is because of the Faith that we have shown to Him.
The Family Medina also came to church this week and had a great time.
Our hard work really does pay off.
I love you all and hope and pray that you are safe and well kept.
Con Amor,
Elder Gray
PS. When the pool gets done, do a cannonball for me. :D
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