Hi All,
This week was the baptism of the daughter of the less active woman we have been teaching and she was finally able to be baptized!! She's been waiting for this for almost two months and finally this past Friday was able to be baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesús Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The look on her face when she came out of the wáter made everything and all the complications with thte baptism completely worth it. She was beaming and her smile was so bright that I just couldn't help but feel the love that God has for her. Unfortunately, I can't send you any photos because we had to go to a different cyber today it has erased them... yeah.This week we also had a super powerful lesson with Sheyla. We were sitting outside her house starting the lesson when a funeral procession passed by and she told us, understadably slightly distraught, that it was potentialy one of her relatives. The spirit prompted us very strongy to talk about wht happens after death and why there is hope for out loved ones and as we taught, and as we we were testifying abut the hope that we have through the plan of Salvation, we spoke breifly about what will happen judgement day, to which, being lead by the spirit, I touched on why baptism is so important. We will literally choose not to live in the Presence of God if we do not feel that we are worthy and clean and the first step to being worthy is repenting and being baptized and as the only church who has the Power of God to perform these ordinances, it is important to be baptized into the true church of Christ. The feeling of the Spirit just kept building and building and at the end of the lesson there was a feeling of peace. Sheyla told us before the lesson that she hadn't understood why it was imortant to pray to see if the churhc was true, but she sadi she understood and was going to do it that night. I am so glad that the Spirit always knows what to do or say becasue I certainly don't. I would not have answered this doubt that she has in the way it was answered if the Spirit was not guiding he entire lesson with her.Among a few other things that happened, we also had to say goodbye to Brenda. She is ready to be baptized but, to put it bluntly, her mother's boyfriend kicked her out of the house. She moved back to Nuevo Leon this morning, and it was a tearful goodbye last night. I know she'll be baptized there and I know she's going to a great person and a great missionary because I have been able to feel that in every single lesson with her. I look forward to recieving the hotos from her baptism and also an invitation to her misión farewell in a year.I am so grateful to be a part of this work and to be able to know and be a part of the livs of so many people. I am still amazed tha Heavenly Father trusts me to teach His Children, btut I am incredibly grateful that He does because I have been learning so much from my experiences here.Cn mi amor eterno,Hermana Rawlings
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