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| Lopez Santos Family Baptism 2/23/19 |
This past week has been absolutely amazing!
So we were able to Baptize the Lopez Santos family this past week and that was such a wonderful experience! I was able to baptize the brother, Noè Lopez Santos and his daughter was baptized by my companion! It is such a wonderful experience to see the whole branch supporting and ministering to the new converts! They were so excited to be baptized and Noè just kept saying I feel so happy, I feel so blessed! His wife was baptized when she was young but didn't stay active until recently. It is in moments like these that help every difficulty and struggle to get to this point totally worth it because they were the family of my first lesson here in the mission field but we lost contact during the holiday season for 4 months but then afterward we found them, helped them make commitments and they are preparing to go do baptisms for the dead this Friday with the whole branch! The miracles of God are so real!
Spiritual thought of the week:
Murmuring - I have reflected a lot this past week about the very easy trap of murmuring. In my studies, I came across this talk from Elder Maxwell that helped open my eyes and I hope that we can see the importance of giving thanks to God for what we have been giving and acting with the best of our intentions to be forces of good rather than a stream of negativity.
Hope you enjoy this one!
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1989/10/murmur-not?lang=eng
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| Sister Lopez Santos made Tamales for the Baptism |
Other things that happened this week that were sweet!
We had a phenomenal lesson with Lizeth who is a young mother who wants to raise her children in a good way and live uprightly before God but isn`t sure how, and she accepted the restoration and the message of the gospel, but her husband ran into some anti-Mormon literature and this caused her to doubt, but thankfully she didn`t close the door on us but asked sincerely about some concerns she and her husband had and thus we were able to explain that they were the beliefs of another faith, and she is progressing super well and is such a miracle!
Sorry I ran out of time!
Next week I hope to share some more!
Love you all!
Keep strong and put your shoulder to the wheel!
Elder Raven
Look up Joshua 1:9 for a piece of daily inspiration
