This week was a week was really different than the others. So
another Elder, Elder Sonntag, and I did divisions and he came to my area with my
companion and I went to his area with his companion. Normally I love doing them,
but this time we started on Tuesday in the morning and he was going to have an
investigator, Patricia, get baptized this week, so we had to have an interview
on Wednesday. So usually we go to the investigator´s house everyday in the week
of the baptism to make sure that they´re all good and ready so I went with Elder
Gonzalez, he has 3 weeks in the mission, to go see how the investigator was. Our
plan with her was ask her all of the questions of the baptismal interview and
see if she was ready. We got there and she was outside with the rest of her
family and we decided that we would just talk briefly about the questions then
and we started and everything was good, she believes that God is the Eternal
Father and that Jesus Christ is the Son, Savior and Redeemer. We got to the
second question, if she believed that Joseph Smith restored the Church that
Jesus himself put on the earth, and she started having a lot of doubts. A LOT of
them. Then to make it worse, her family started talking about how in-credible he
is and how Juan Diego, the guy that saw God present Jesus and Virgin Mary has
the truth. So... This really made us really sad. So we pulled Patricia aside
and told her that we´d like to come back later in the night and help her clarify
her doubts a little more alone. She said that that would be better. We gave her
a homework to read about Jesus Christ established a church and then the
Apostasy, and then Joseph Smith and the she could pray to know if it´s true
before we got back. So we kept going in the day and when we came back she had
done the homework, but she didn´t feel an answer. She didn´t know it was true.
So we started trying to explain it so that she would understand but she couldn´t
get past Joseph Smith. So we just stopped and I told her that God has given a
promise to all of his children that if they read the Book of Mormon, meditate
about it and ask God in a prayer, they´ll receive their answer and I promised
her that if she did her homework, she´d get her answer that night. We gave her a
blessing that she´d be able to see her answer and we left. She read the Book of
Mormon, meditated, prayed and didn´t get her answer. So she went to sleep and
she woke up at 1:00 am to her mom crying. The mom of her mom just passed away,
and in this moment she got up and she was able to comfort her mom with what she
learned from the missionaries. In this moment she had the faith that what the
missionaries had taught her were true and she knew that this was her answer to
her prayers. She got baptized this Friday and it was an awesome experience to
see that God really does give an answer but not always in the way that we want.
Love you all! Have a great week!
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