Miracles in Prados (Week 75)

Elder Call, Manuel, Elder Herman

Ok craziest week of my whole misión. It all started on Tuesday night. We were talking with President and we told him we were going to baptize a lot this week and end with 13 baptisms in the zone for this month. He told us the standard is 14 and a zone has never completed the standard. So he told us to try getting one more baptism. Well lucky enough we had some investigators that were going to get baptized next week. We decided to see if they could get baptized this week. There names are Maria (mom) and Manuel (son). So we went to see them on Wednesday and they said it was perfect and that they will get baptized on Saturday, wow! Then Thursday we were going to do their interviews. So we went to pass by for them and the mom wasn’t there….She had left and we didn’t know when she was going to get back. So we went with Manuel to the church to do his interview. Everything went well but then we heard that Maria had been robbed and they stole her phone. She sent someone to tell Manuel to go home. So we went with Manuel to his house and then his mom got there. She was so sad and down because of what had happened. He tried comforting her and asked if we could do the interview but she refused. She said she felt really bad and her head hurt. So she kept saying another day but we couldn’t another day! I offered to give her a blessing of comfort and she accepted. After the blessing she changed completely! She said her head didn’t hurt anymore and she felt a lot better and started smiling more like she normally does! So cool! Then we asked again if we could do the interview and she said yes. She told our district leader that after today she didn’t want to be baptized. Whatever we were going to tell her she was going to say another day but never do it. But now she was 100/100 sure that God wanted her to get baptized. Then Saturday. So we were amazed because we had seen so many miracles happen this week so that we could complete the standard. In almost every area something happened that scared us but it always ended well. But then Saturday at 2 Manuel calls us and says they are out of town….and they aren’t going to be home until tomorrow so they wont be baptized today.. what? We couldn’t believe it. We refused to believe it. Then they didn’t answer again cause there phone died. Great, what do we do? Well lets fill up the baptismal font! At this time I had never felt so discouraged, sad, and just like God had humbled me to the ground. In the church we said so many prayers and started a fast. We went and saw Yael who got baptized last week and they live in front of Manuel and Maria. We ended with Yael and Manuel and Maria were in there house!! So we ran over and talked to them! Maria was acting kinda weird and ended up saying “later” about her baptism. Great. And Manuel, she said that he could decide and he said that he wanted to be baptized today! VAMONOS! So we went to the church told everyone about the baptism and it was like 7:40 at night so we called our President cause we were going to get home late and he said “who cares baptize him!” haha So we went and the baptism turned out great. It was a very spiritual experience and this whole week has made my testimony grow so much. We just need to trust in God and everything will work out! We are now the only zone in our mission that has completed the standard of excellence! I know that as we put our faith in God and act he blesses us and we can witness miracles. We saw it this week everyday. I love you all and hope we can always put our trust in God and see the amazing miracles that He works!

Con Amor, Elder Herman