The word we've all been waiting for! That's right, it was a miracle week and a baptism we didn't know would happen did and we saw all sorts of miracles!
Ricardo is the friend of Jenny who she invited to EFY and to talk with the missionaries, the one who basically memorized the first vision upon hearing it. He's such a good kid and was so ready for baptism but we've been having all sorts of problems with things like his address and where exactly does he live and thinking he was from the area of the zone leaders and them passing the reference back to us and us teaching him until we found out that he was in fact from their area, and now what were we supposed to do because he had a baptism date and all his friends and then his parents telling him not to rush into it and that he should wait a couple of months and then his grandma getting sick and other problems in his life that made it hard to find him and then the longest run-on sentence ever but that's what happened.
Anyway, last Sunday we fasted all day and went to find his parents to talk with them, but they never came home that day and we had to search again later in the week. But the Lord did hear our prayers because Tuesday we were able to talk with his mom and she went from saying that her son needed to calm down and make decisions more slowly to realizing she trusted him and that this was actually a good thing that he was doing. We were able to speak by the spirit and help her to change her heart and agree to support him. Miracle one, down! Then we had to talk with the zone leaders and president to see if we should actually baptize him in our ward or in the other, and President just straight up told us, "Baptize him." Miracle 2! And then there were other rules and details that I won't go into here but that all worked together and fell into place and it was such a blessing week.
We also finally baptized Marcos Fuentes, our next door neighbor (and the brother of Jenny) who has been 8 years old for almost 6 months now and has been begging everyone who would listen to be baptized and doing every possible thing in his power. Poor kid! He asked us and we told him to tell his mom to talk to the bishop. He asked the bishop and he told him to talk to us and his mom. And his mom just always forgot as she juggled all her jobs and single-mother duties. And so poor Marcitos was left to resort to announcing to the world that his baptism was on Saturday numerous times, hoping that it would actually happen and alarming his primary president who hadn't heard of it. So this week we marched over to his sweet mother and told her we were going to baptize Marcos on Saturday and she needed to talk to the bishop, and then we marched to bishop and announced the same and finally his little dream came true.
The baptism itself was extremely beautiful. All the youth were there since it was directly after our little choir practice, and a bunch of other members and investigators and some inactive youth as well. We all took pictures, laughed, baptized and left in a huge happy herd.
I got the package this week! Thank you so much! I LOVE the music and my hermana and I become beyond-happy when there are Werther´s in our mouths. Those are heaven. An elder and I baiscally have competitions each month to see who will get the most letters and everyone else sort of just resents a little. "Monson Wilson Wilson Monson Wilson Wilson Wilson Monson." I won. :) Little do they know this is more due to the longwindedness of my family and friends than popularity because each Dear Elder is like 3 or 4 pages long but I wanted to thank you for all the stories, updates and words of encouragement! Keep going, let's win every month! ;)
This week we watched the cartoon of Lehi´s dream and it really made me think. It's interesting to actually watch all the people as they leave the iron rod, get distracted, fall to temptation, etc. and realize that it's the same thing I'm seeing every day with falling investigators and inactive members. But what I LOVE is at the end, all those at the tree say that they have much to do and start going out to seek all the lost people and bring them back. I was also reading in 2 Nephi 9 this week and I love how it talks about how because of "the way" of deliverance, death and hell MUST deliver up their captives. We belong to God and we must return to Him, all of us. The road may be longer and harder for those who have strayed farther, but we have had an INFINITE atonement performed for us, which means it will always reach us and will always bring us and the ones we love back to safety. Well, that's all for this week but I love you all and hope all is beautiful wherever you are! Keep smiling and praying!
Hermana Wilson
Marcos and Jenny's family
Getting ready for the baptism.
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