Dennis, Maira, and Mauro Tercero were all baptized by their son/brother Dennis Jr. on Saturday! I am so happy. I have been waiting for this since September when Dennis told us he felt the impression to invite his family to church. He was baptized four years ago and his family had never been receptive to the church, they had been taught by almost all missionaries in those four years without much progression, but this time it worked! And I am so grateful I got ot be a part of it.
We werent completely sure if they were going to be able to get baptized because the last time we asked them about Joseph Smith and this being the only true church, they were unsure, but Thursday night when we visited them with the bishop they testified to us that they were ready. The difference had been the Book of Mormon, before they were reading it but not dilligently, every day. But two weeks ago we promised them that as they would read the book every day they would cultivate faith sufficient to believe in this gospel. And it worked! Maira still talks about how when we read with her a scripture in Alma 5:40 that talks about all good things coming from God. That was her answer, she knew what we were inviting her was an excellent thing, so she knew God was speaking to her.
Yesterday watching them get confirmed by their son Dennis it hit me hard what was happening for them eternally this weekend. They are going to have what I have! They are going to be together forever! That scripture is true, when we bring one soul unto God our joy is great, and even greater with three souls, and even GREATER when a year from now that whole family will enter into the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. This gospel is incredible!
Apart from that we are still working with a few other members of that family, there are a couple that we have as investigators and will likely be baptized soon as well.
Esteban and Veronica really have "sung the song of love that redeemeth". I still cant describe what joy we feel every time we talk with them. Veronica was telling us the other day that the first time we met with the both of them was January 1st, and she said she has been a new person from day one of 2018, leading into the rest of her life. Esteban practically teaches along with us, and every time someone amongst all of us ends up in tears because of the spirit we feel with them. Their situation is still complicated because they have to arrange a few things and get married, but I know for sure they will do it. And if they were already marrried, we would have had a double family baptism this past weekend.
I told Hermana Gonzalez yesterday that the Lord has blessed us immensly in the past few weeks, lots of little miracles and blessings every day. The Lord sees our efforts and blesses us in his own way.
Este evangelio dirige toda mi vida. Estoy tan agradecida por tenerlo desde niña y por tener mi familia para siempre. Yo soy testigo del poder de Dios, él ya tiene su voluntad puesta para cada uno de nosotros y solo depende en nuestro uso del albedrío. Lo quiero servir con todo mi corazón, alma, mente, y fuerza, con la mira puesta únicamente en su gloria. El nos ama y su hijo vive!
1. Hermana Dilcia
2. Rosangel
3. Mauro
4. Making no bake cookies for the baptism
5-8. The baptism
9. La Santa Margarita & La Modesto
10-11. After their confirmations
12. Las chicas superpoderosas
13. Late thanksgiving...we found mashed potato mix and gravy mix in the house
14-15. Dinner with the Baca family
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