27: Yo Os Mostraré Un Dios De Milagros

Our God is a God of miracles. Moroni knew it when he wrote that scripture in Mormon 9:11, and I can also testify of it this week in Girasoles.

We thought we might have a less-busy week away from Enfermera stuff, but no! We should have counted how many hours we spent on the phone with doctors, with leaders, in and out of the hospital. We even had some hermanas come from the South to get some tests done, so they stayed with us 3 nights.

But with all of that, it is truly unbelievable that we have investigators progressing, going to church, and preparing for baptism! This week we had 4 investigators in church!!!!!!! Wooooooo!!!!!

Cesar: Still the sweetest old man. We found out this week that he has troubles smoking, so we are trying to help him come over that. He is really motivated, and we hope he is baptized the 23rd. 

Alexis: An investigator that Hermana Wengert and Hermana Gomez visited a few times while he was smoking a lot, but dropped. We passed by his house the other day and he has almost completely stopped smoking! He is always talking about how he wants to go the the US to work, so we are almost using that as his motivation like "if you stop smoking and repent and keep the commandments God will bless you with work!!!" haha.

Eric: Ah I love Eric! He has truly changed. He read the whole Book of Mormon and is now preparing to be baptized the 16th! His trouble is that he always talks about devils distracting him...so we promised him that with this gospel and with this covenant that hes about to make he can overcome these worries. Were planning on giving him a bunch of pictures of Christ to hang up in his room so his focus is always on Him.

One thing I loved from this week is a lesson we had with Eric and a few members. Hermana Wengert and I are trying to do more dynamic lessons, so we made baleadas to represent the gospel of Jesus Christ! Faith = tortilla, beans = repentance, baptism = mantequilla, the gift of the holy ghost = queso seco, enduring to the end = continuing to eat baleadas, because we will continue to be hungry for the rest of our lives. It is PERFECT, because you CANT make a baleada without any of these ingredients - it wont be the same. Ands these baleadas are what we call "sencillas", or simple, and the gospel is simple!

And about the miracles. My favorite from this week - the other day we were searching through the area book and pulled out a few names, one of them being Karen. A few days later we were contacting a not-so-random house and taught someone named Karen as well. I thought I recognized her name, so I pulled out those papers out of my backpack and there was her name. On the back it said "find her and baptize her! She couldnt be baptized before because she had troubles with her work, but she is golden". She accepted a date for the 23rd in that lesson :)

These things happen every day for us. It makes me want to cry every time. The Lord understands our desires and our circumstances and not only blesses us but gives us miracles! We were in a trio that day with Hermana Fifita, and all three of us were just awed after the lesson. If you want to see a God of miracles, ask a missionary and they will show you.

Still no camera, still no pictures!

Hasta el Fin.