YES - We had a baptism. We were teaching this kids mom
for a long time! His mom, Natalia, was a member but went inactive for a long
time but when she started coming to church again the church didn`t have her
records. So, we get to teach her everything again and she gets to be baptized
again! She`s not married to the man she`s living with and he doesn`t want
anything to do with the church but he has respect for what we do. Natalia and her
2 smallest kids, Clara and Nacho, have been coming to church every week for
about 3 months and the kids love it! Nacho turned 8 almost a month ago and said
¨Hermanas, I`m 8 now, when can I get baptized? ¨ ahhhh he`s so cute!!!!
The day of his baptism Hna Duran and I were at the church at 7am because it
takes FOREVER to fill up the baptismal font because it`s super slow. But it all
went downhill when the warm water wasn`t working. So, we had to fill up buckets
of hot water from the kitchen one by one and dump it into the font. Then there
wasn`t hot water at all and we resulted to boiling water and then dumping it in
hahaha it was really all in vain cause poor little Nacho was dying when he got
in the font and it was ice cold hahah I DON`T GET IT! Despite that he came out
of the font with a smile ear to ear and happy as can be and didn`t complain
once!!! His dad (the guy that doesn`t want anything to do with the church) came
to the baptism and then to the confirmation on Sunday and stayed for the
classes!!! And he said he liked it and was starting to schedule what day we
could come by when he`ll be there :) ahhhh Nacho is the cutest little boy but
the biggest example for his family!
Eliana, who was another one of our investigators
that had a date to get baptized and came to the Capilla Abierta and everything
dropped us this week. She`s been having complications with her boyfriend who is
living with her and he doesn`t like that she`s been talking with us. She said
for a little while while she sorts stuff out, she can`t listen anymore. ah
NOOOOOO!!! literally broke my heart!
With 2 other of our
investigators, Santiago and Mercedes (the 2 cute little kids) they were
supposed to have their baptism this upcoming Saturday but their mom said that
she doesn`t feel that their ready. :( noooooo and so we have to work with them
a little more!
SCRIPTURE
My scripture thought this week is a talk from Pres
Utchdorf from the women’s conference in October ¨Fourth Floor, Last Door¨ it`s
one amazing talk and I invite you all to go read it this week!!! Here`s some
quotes from the talk:
¨Sometimes it’s not easy to develop faith in spiritual
things while living in a physical world. But it is worth the effort because the
power of faith in our lives can be profound¨
Faith means that we trust not only in God`s wisdom
but that we trust also in His love. It means trusting that God loves us perfectly,
that everything He does - every blessing He gives and every blessing He, for a
time, withholds - is for our eternal happiness¨
¨Just because we can`t hear something doesn't mean
there is nothing to hear¨
¨Perhaps to increase faith, we need to listen differently¨
con mucho mucho amor
Hermana Smoot
The small Relief
Society of the Mendoza Ward
Nacho and Hermana Duran and I
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