Hey all!!!! So this week has been
another week of sickness; I got a stomach infection, it hurt so bad that for
two days I couldn’t walk. While I was in pain in my bed trying to get
comfortable I was just worrying about how our investigators were doing, so
Hermana Muñoz and I decided to call the District Leader and ask for his help.
And he said that they would go and visit some investigators for us on
Wednesday. Later that day they called us and told us that they had some news for
us. They came over and told us that they just were with Alexander and Elder
Wickel (DL) pulled out the baptismal sheet for Alexander’s baptism. He passed
the interview and told us that he is ready to get baptized. It was the most
wonderful surprise we have gotten! Later I was talking with my companion and we
were talking about how even though we missionaries pass through problems that
we can’t always control the work of The Lord still goes on. The Lord has been
so good and merciful to us. And on Thursday I still couldn’t move, so we
planned and then I was reading my scriptures in Doctrine and Covenants about when
Joseph Smith was translating the Book of Mormon and I came across D & C
10:4 and it says: Do not run faster or
labor more than you have strength...be diligent unto the end. For me this
was my answer. I am not the kind of person to give up when things get hard and
I will keep going, doesn’t matter if I am sick. But this scripture taught me
that I need to take care of myself too. Especially because I am not super girl
or anything. This gave me the patience to wait and have faith that I would be
okay.
Saturday Alexander was baptized!!!
It was a very beautiful baptism. Kind crazy because we were running from place
to place while my companion was sick. When things were all ready I could tell
my companion was felling really bad, so we rested so that she could make it
through the rest of the night. After Alexander was baptized he had the
opportunity to bear his testimony and it was very spiritual. I felt the Spirit
so strong. This has been a very hard change for him because (like I’ve said
before) he was studying to be Sacerdote (Priest) in the Catholic Church before
the first missionaries taught him and he didn’t want anything to do with them. But
when he met us (the Sister missionaries), he received an answer from the Lord
and made the decision to follow that answer, no matter how hard it was going to
be for him. I love the lesson that he taught all of us here in Tiloarque. He
taught us to be even more obedient... like Nephi... no matter how hard it is
for us.
I love everything that I have
learned here so far and now I have a goal to be more obedient to the things
that the Lord tells me through the scriptures and through the words of his
living prophets. Because I KNOW the Lord has prepared a way for us and it is
the best way that we will find here in this world. I love you all so much!!!!
Hermana Reed
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