January 23, 2012

What a great week. Yesterday many people we´re teaching went to church. The Gospel Principles class was so packed that there wasn´t room for anyone else. Two experiences from this week stand out most in my mind. They occurred while we were teaching Lucia Molina. Two of her sisters are very active members and her 19 year old daughter is also member but just recently started to go to church again. I didn´t remember her by her name very well but when I saw her I remembered that I had taught her and her husband about a year ago when I was here before and I remember that she wasn´t very interested. But, wow, she is totally changed. The first time we taught her she openly expressed to us everything that she felt she lacked spiritually and during the whole lesson it was obvious that she was searching for something that would fill her and bless her family. The prayer she offered at the end of the lesson was one of the most beautiful, sincere prayers I have ever heard and by the end she was crying. Afterwards she earnestly thanked us for bring the Spirit into her home. Then the next time we visited her, she had read the assignment we gave her from the Book of Mormon and she told us that after reading and praying she felt desires to change her life, be more loving and kind to others, ask forgiveness to all those she may have offended, and keep the commandments. She even made the decision to prepare the food and do all the chores of the house saturday so that she could keep the sabbath day holy, without us even telling her. She really is amazing, and her daughter is more than pleased because of the decisions she´s making.

This saturday it´s likely that we will have a baptism. Miguel Angel Garcia is a retired soldier who has been attending church and listening to us for a few weeks. He is very intelligent and understands everything he reads in the Book of Mormon, but he is also very humble and quiet. Hopefully everything works out. His wife doesn´t seem to like it very much that we´re teaching him.

I love this work and know that it´s true.

Brett