October 15, 2013

There were some great moments this week! Veronica finally got baptized! And her husband came! And he felt the Spirit! And Veronica bore her testimony and it was amazing! The Spirit of the Lord was very strong during the program and baptism. Wow. I am just in awe. Hardly a dry eye. A recent convert came up to me afterwards (I had led the music) and said I looked so happy leading the music. Haha! That is one thing I always liked to do at home - smile ridiculously big while leading the music.

We got Veronica a Personal Progress book so that she can start working on that and strengthen her testimony! Roberto is letting us teach him, so we hope that he decides soon to join his wife in the waters of baptism! We are excited to keep teaching him. The hardest thing is learning how to teach in a short amount of time so that their 2 year old daughter, Maite, doesn't go nuts. Haha family. Gotta love it. We had family home evening yesterday and explained to them that it was completely normal that Maite was screaming and crying. Haha....

Another exciting thing that happened this week was that we put together an activity for the Spanish people in the ward and our investigators. We invited the mission president, President Eaton, to come do a question and answer session. We got in there, sang a song, said a prayer and then turned the time over to the President. We lined up a translator for him (Hermano Rivera, who is awesome. Convert of 12 years with a wife and 2 children, just offered to come to any lesson he can. Said he would even re-arrange his plans to help us out. Awesome. He is going to make a big difference, just moved in.). We all held our breath as President Eaton pulled up a chair for him and his wife and we all waited for a question. Silence. Silence. I racked my brain to think of a question to ask. Nothing. I asked another missionary. Nothing. I start praying that someone will ask a question. Perfect! Saul, an investigator, asked his question! How do we balance religion and normal life? What a great question! We talked about how as a Mormon, we don't balance normal life and religion. Normal life is religion! The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a way of life, we don't pick and choose when we decide to live like Christ.

All in all, it went well! President Eaton spoke Spanish well and he said quite a lot without the translator! We had three investigators go - Edwin, Lilia, and Silvio! I hope that they all can come along! Love you all!

Love,
Hermana Clark