Santiago: He is 13, and has been coming to church for a few months now. He is super excited to be baptized, this week he received his approval from the mission president to be baptized on the 27 of June so we are working hard with him to prepare him for that date.
Saturday he left with the deacons to see how they collected the fast offerings, then on Sunday the very next day he stood up in sacrament meeting and said in front of everyone that he had a wonderful experience and felt great for having been able to serve the Lord in his own way, and then he said that as the date of his baptism approached, he felt happy to be able to finally take that step. He is powerful and already has the goal to go to the temple in August and to read the entire book of Mormon before that. He also wants to receive the priesthood in order to pass the sacrament with the other deacons.
Saturday he left with the deacons to see how they collected the fast offerings, then on Sunday the very next day he stood up in sacrament meeting and said in front of everyone that he had a wonderful experience and felt great for having been able to serve the Lord in his own way, and then he said that as the date of his baptism approached, he felt happy to be able to finally take that step. He is powerful and already has the goal to go to the temple in August and to read the entire book of Mormon before that. He also wants to receive the priesthood in order to pass the sacrament with the other deacons.
Gerardo: He is married to Cristina Parra a super active member in the ward, but he is not a member, actually in the ten years which his wife has been active he only really began to meet or talk with the missionaries about three years ago and in that time he never picked up the book of Mormon and read, never came to church and never accepted a baptismal date or anything, well that is changing.
In the past two weeks he has had an amazing change of heart, It began about two weeks ago after we had left a reading with him and returned on a Saturday, he told us kind of jokingly that he had not read because he did not have time.... Well after that preach my gospel verification response we committed him to read and were back the very next day verifying it again, he read. And since that occurrence he has not failed to keep the commitments which he makes with us, and so he is reading chapter upon chapter of the book of Mormon, sincerely seeking to feel the truth of the message and the desire to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized in order to one day go to the temple and be sealed as a family with his wife and their son.
Well, yesterday after a super good lesson where the spirit was present ,we challenged him (yet again) to baptism and to a specific date, he accepted and said he still wants to feel it before he takes that step, but he agreed that he would pray and specifically asked God if he should be baptized on the fourth of July and explain to God what he desires to feel in his heart and promise God that if God allows him to feel the truth of this work in a way that he can understand that he will be baptized on that date. Well, I know that if he prays in that manner that God will respond to his prayer. "Ask and ye shall receive, Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." That promise is true.
In the past two weeks he has had an amazing change of heart, It began about two weeks ago after we had left a reading with him and returned on a Saturday, he told us kind of jokingly that he had not read because he did not have time.... Well after that preach my gospel verification response we committed him to read and were back the very next day verifying it again, he read. And since that occurrence he has not failed to keep the commitments which he makes with us, and so he is reading chapter upon chapter of the book of Mormon, sincerely seeking to feel the truth of the message and the desire to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized in order to one day go to the temple and be sealed as a family with his wife and their son.
Well, yesterday after a super good lesson where the spirit was present ,we challenged him (yet again) to baptism and to a specific date, he accepted and said he still wants to feel it before he takes that step, but he agreed that he would pray and specifically asked God if he should be baptized on the fourth of July and explain to God what he desires to feel in his heart and promise God that if God allows him to feel the truth of this work in a way that he can understand that he will be baptized on that date. Well, I know that if he prays in that manner that God will respond to his prayer. "Ask and ye shall receive, Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." That promise is true.
I Love all of you!!!
Elder Hutchins
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