Another great week in San Nicolas.
We started teaching a man named Roy a few weeks ago, and this week we set a baptismal date with him. AND he came to church. Its been a while since we had people in church and i have been meditating a lot on it and i think it was just a lack of Bold invitations to repent and follow Gods commandments. Something that i have realized i have never done so well on in my mission. I am still striving more and more to know and have the spirit with us while we teach. Seeking after it so that what we say strikes that familiar chord for them. One person specifically is Anamilena. She is from Colombia and has a 19 year old son who is autistic. We have no idea what to do... She has loved us coming over and mentioned how much she just loves what she feels while we're there. the last contact we made in our finding time a few weeks ago. But her son is getting into an age where the doctors say is hardest for him. They don't really have the facilities here to work with him and so he sits locked up in their house all day. She can't make it out for church. We called her to ask if she could come and i could hear in the background that he was slamming the door over and over. She very flustered answered the phone and quickly hung up. We just really don't quite know what to do. She really wants to come to church because she says she knows she will have a greater peace in her life but she just cannot leave her son with her husband. He also loves what we share and has read a quarter of the Book of Mormon and reads it daily, and so its either one comes and the other stays or they just don't come and its too difficult these days to just have one stay.
I want so badly for them to find a way to come to church a way to better care for him because their interest level is so high. Its just very hard.
Other that that wonderful family we have many other people that we are finding and mainly trying to get them to church.
I am so grateful for all the experiences we have had as missionaries and members of the church. President Buckley is very nervous about Branch conference and it is pretty funny. =) President Martineau and the new president will both be down here and so President Buckley is trying hard to get as many people to come as possible. He says he's losing sleep over it.
Reading about Natalee, was hard. I can't believe she's made it so far. What a trooper. Again the reality of the plan of salvation gives me joy in moments of pain and sadness. Knowing that there is a plan. We taught Keith and Anamilena this week about the plan of salvation and as we got to the end teaching about the Kingdoms. She said. Wait wait wait. So fitzgerald (their son) tendra la misma carita que tiene ahora? y viviremos juntos tambien? as we answered her questions she looked at her husband and tears rolled down her face. It was a moment of complete hope for her. Something that she mentioned no other church had ever shared. She has accepted all in her house looking for answers and has never found them. She received more than she expected by letting us into her house that one rainy day. What a wonderful blessing the plan of salvation is.
There was a senior couple here in our mission that the Wife was having medical problems and while elder Bednar was here for a conference she asked him for a blessing. He asked her before he blessed her. "do you have the faith not to be healed?" somewhat perplexed by the question then after understanding what he meant she accepted.
I loved this last general conference message by Dallin H Oaks. "Our family's faith is in Jesus Christ and is not dependent on outcomes."
What a great statement.
I know Jesus Christ Lives!
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