I´m so glad to hear about the
progress of your investigators. I´ve been praying for them. That´s so
awesome that you are all using your talents to do the Lord´s work. Mom,
the Lord always blesses you with those little things like the piñata.
You´re such an example of faith and gratitude :)
The
Lord has really been preparing these people and answering our prayers,
even if the fruits aren´t quite showing yet. I don´t think I´ve ever
heard so many people say they´ve received an answer to prayer that these
things are true in my whole mission than in the past two weeks! Just
one example was AC, who didn´t seem that interested but we
talked to her because her 11-year-old son is going to church (even
though he´s literally running away from us because he´s afraid of
baptism). She´s the sister of a recent convert who´s kids are super
active in the church and seminary and help us a lot. We left the
pamphlet of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for her to read. It turned out
she did read and prayed and that it helped her in a really hard moment
after she fought with her boyfriend. She wants to get baptized! It was
awesome and I know so many more people in that family will follow her,
including her son A.
José came to
church with us yesterday, and told us after sacrament meeting that he
prayed and got an answer that baptism is the right thing to do :) He
lives with his thirteen year old son and his mom and his niece, and
we´re gonna work with all of them. Pray for his baptism this Sunday!!
This all probably means I´ll get transferred next week :P
We
have another new rule in our mission that we have to introduce all of
the fifth lesson before baptism. The vision is to really focus on all
aspects of the work of salvation and help people go to the temple and do
work for their ancestors and missionary work. It seems like a lot of
information, but the people here really do seem to connect more to the
idea of baptisms for their relatives who´ve passed on than the idea of
apostasy and authority and prophets etc.. It´s really amazing.
P
who was baptized last week shared something incredible with us. We
reviewed the plan of salvation with her and talked about baptisms for
the dead. This woman doesn´t know how to read and doesn´t seem to
understand a lot about the restoration, but when we explained this to
her she told us about a dream she had 5 months ago. In the dream, her
son who died 8 years ago at the age of 16 was telling her get on a bus
with him. The bus took them to the most beautiful church she´d ever
seen that had a garden in front. Everyone there was dressed in white
and her son said to her, ´´Mom, this is where I live.´´
The
church is true. Families are forever. The work is hastening on both
sides of the veil and the Lord is preparing many people to hear who only
need to be invited. Open your mouth and invite them. Remember what it
is you are actually offering them.
I love
you all so much and I hope you continue to recognize all the miracles in
missionary work and feel God´s love for all His children. Have an
awesome week!
Com muito amor,
Sister Moore
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