Our miracle of the week was when we were on the metro and we
said to a lady,"Hi" and she said "Hi, I've spoken with
missionaries before. I want to learn more." We have a rendezvous with her
tonight.
We also had a baptism this week! He is a friend of a member
in our ward who is wonderful. We started teaching him about a month ago. He's
been coming to church since April but hasn't let the missionaries teach him.
Well for some reason he let me and Soeur Bicchierri teach him one afternoon,
after a baptism that he'd serendipitously showed up for. And we prayed together
that lesson on our knees and he cried for how strong he felt the Spirit and the
love of the Lord. And then from there we taught him all the time. At first he
said, "Yeah, I know the Church is true. I've already read the Book of
Mormon and there's no other way to get back to God except for baptism. There's
no other way. I'll get baptized because there's no other way. But not for two
or three years." Heh heh heh. The cool thing was that we decided then and
there to just teach with love and hope that the Spirit would push him to be
courageous enough to be baptized early. Because he's already living all the
commandments and he's already incredible and it's time. Well one thing led to
another and this Friday he was baptized! He's wonderful wonderful.
There are some chapters in Job I'd like to recommend
everyone reads: Job 38 until Job 40:10. Look for how the Lord chastises Job,
and then how immediately after Job realizes his nothingness, the Lord says
essentially, "Okay, now let's go do this thing! You're majestic and
glorious and holy! Onward!" I think that's one of the beautiful things
about repentance: it is a clean slate and it takes only as long as it takes for
us to say, "I will change." and mean it.
I love you all!
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