Sin Palabras

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 What is up everyone?! How's your week been? The last week of the transfer was a week full of miracles. Not one moment passed where we didn't see a huge blessing.


Last Sunday during our english class, I was looking through área book and had an inpression say, "hey, baptized 8 of your friends this week" I kinda thought it was crazy, but then in the night during weekly planning I told my companion, and we planned for that. How to get the 8 baptisms. We called it "All out week." We had already had 3 friends on date, so we just needed 5 more. Luckily, in our area, we have had so many people that love the church, just that it's sometimes hard for them to take the time to meet with us. 

Monday night we met with a friend, Emily, and we invited her to be baptized on Saturday and she said accepted! Then on Tuesday we met with another family of 4, and only 3 were there. The mom began to share stories of how her oldest son, Jhoel, is a slacker and is failing in the school and she's stressed and she doesn't care, and we started to share stories about how the gospel helped solve all of those problems in our life. We talked about the holy ghost and baptism and by the end, all 3 accepted a baptismal date for Saturday. 

Then we started to see a lot of adversary. We tried and tried and tried to meet with these guys during the next few days, but it was so hard. Emily then got sick pretty badly, and had to travel to Uyuni for the weekend so we started to lose a little hope. Then every time we passed by the other familiy's house, only the youngest son was home and that didn't help us. Then the mom had to travel to provincia for a job interview and we were running out of time. Despite all that, we still had faith. We still knew that we were going to see the miracle, we just didn't know how. 

On Saturday morning, we were able to participate in the baptisms of our friends Danitza, Nicol, y Ayelen. It all turned out pretty good, and from there we ran to the house of the other family, right as they all pulled up in their van. All 4 stepped out. They reminded us that today was the day of their baptisms, but then told us that they had some worries and didn't think that they were ready for that. They let us pass and the spirit took over, until the point where even the dad, who we hadn't met with nearly as much as with the family, was also walking out of his baptismal interview with a huge smile. 

Our 4 other friends Roger, Jimena, Jhoel, and Misael also stepped in to the baptismal waters. It was such a happy moment! The most stressful week of my mission probably, but with the biggest reward.

Miracles exist! Find them in your lives.
Elder Holdstock













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