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| Jaqueline and Viviana's Baptism |
Well here in Chile the miracles just keep coming. Let me share with you a few of my favorite from this week:
1. We have been teaching a woman by the name of Rosa, she came to church last week and loved it and has committed to continue to attend church in order to get the rest of the Principles of the Gospel classes. She is super cool and understands almost everything that we teach her.
Well with her this week two miracles occurred, first off she lives in front of her mother in law, who is 86 years old and who has not left the house in a LONG time except for various trips to the hospital in an ambulance, well this week that streak ended. After her request to join Rosa in her quest for truth we made a few calls (later Saturday night-that story contains a few miralces of its own) and we got a wheel-chair and brought, bright and early Sunday morning, this 86 year old woman Teresa to church.
The night that we met her (Saturday) she was doing very bad, she was bleeding a lot from the affects of her hip surgery and other illnesses that she had, but we gave her a blessing and promised her that if she made the effort to come to church the next day that God would heal her and help her to regain her strength. He did from the moment that we gave her that blessing until this moment she has not bled, she came to church, she was talking and eating (something that she has not done frequently) and God has poured his blessings out in great abundance.
Another story with Rosa, she told us about a month ago when we first began to teach her that she would never give up tea (she said that before we had even taught her the word of wisdom) well after building up her personal testimony of Joseph Smith and the idea of continuous revelation we taught the commandment, last night we taught it and she bore us her testimony of how it makes sense that we have personal and continuous revelation and that she is going to live this commandant because it is for her personal and eternal well being. Wow.
2. Macarena and Hilda a mother and daughter who we are teaching (the father was murdered about two years ago and this has been very hard on the daughter and the mother) But this Sunday afternoon they both made the decision to be baptized, together, this Thursday. After about a month of teaching them and helping them to gain their own personal testimonies of the changes that God desires to make in their lives they desire to make this covenant with God. There are so many miracles involved in their progression that I don't even know where to begin, Ill just let everyone read my journals when I get back (yes pops one page every day.)
3. One of the biggest miracles and blessings were the baptisms of Jaqueline and Vivana, they were found by the missionaries doing a service project (they were moving the stuff of Jaqueline into the house) and since the first Sunday that they came to church they have not stopped. Now they have the plans set to prepare their very own family history names and go to the temple with the ward in April. Miracles upon miralces.
I love you all
Elder Hutchins
