We had a cool experience
this week with being used as instruments in God's hands. We got a
message from some English elders about a lady who was having a really
hard time and wanted sisters to come and visit her. We were going to go
and then all of these things got in the way and delayed us from getting
there. But when we got to her door and raised our hand to knock, she
walked out!!! It was perfect timing. We walked over to the park and had a
long talk with her. She is suffering from depression and is having a
tough time right now, but she said because of how we got there just in
time, she just felt the love of God for her. It was awesome! We've gone
back a few times to help her clean and take care of things and share
some scriptures with her. It was just so cool to be there at exactly
right time.
We had Zone Conference
this week and it got me thinking a lot about being sanctified and being a
consecrated missionary. I'm working on giving everything. It's really
hard sometimes, but it's just a little bit at a time. I'm focusing on
listening to and acting on each and every prompting I receive from the
Spirit. Sister Chavarri also made a contract with the Lord of what we
are going to do to qualify for all of the blessings and miracles that he
has in store for us. I'm half-way through and I just want to make sure
that I give this all that I can! No regrets :) Just serving the Lord
with all my heart, might, mind and strength.
Saturday was a special
day :) and it is where the title of this e-mail comes from. Saturday
night was Ramon Garcia's baptism and it was beautiful. He has wanted to
be baptized since Sister Chavarri and I were together before, but he has
some sort of handicap and it took such a long time to figure out what
we had to do to have him be baptized. But everything was figured out and
he was baptized! And he was so happy! The bishop baptized him. The
first two times didn't count because his jumpsuit kept puffing up and
then the third time they started kneeling and that still didn't work and
then the fourth time they finally got it all figured out and he was
completely immersed. I was praying so hard! I gave the talk on baptism
and it went well! So my Spanish is well enough to do that :)
I don't really have
time, but know that all is well and that I love my mission so, so much
and that I know that I was called to this mission because this is where
the Lord needed and wanted me to be. I can't imagine being anywhere
else. Even when its almost 90 degrees dusty and hot and still only
February :) Can't get much better than that! I love you so much and I
hope that you have a great week!
Con amor
Hermana Baria
