Increible, q ya casi terminas, q felicidad oir de los exitos del Senor por medio de ti. Yo tuve un horrible accidente de carro q por poco me cuesta la vida, con dos vertebras fracturadas, pero esos son los desafios despues de la mision. Deseo termines con exito y recibas muchas bendiciones.
Abrazos,
Hna. Rodriguez
On May 13, 2014 11:14 PM, "Gladys Ibarra" <gladys.ibarra@myldsmail.net> wrote:
Family I loved seeing all your faces one last time- great to know the next will be up close and personal! This week was full of so many miracles and blessings!!! We had interviews with President Essig monday which is why our p-day got changed to tuesday) and it was my last interview with him since we´re getting a new mission president end of June. And yes, he gave me the whole marriage prep discussion...very informative...but trying to keep my mind focused on the mission still!!! I know everyone´s so pumped for me to come back (believe me I am too) and keep saying how I´m coming home soon, but I keep telling everyone 3 months is a loooong time and here´s why:This Thursday we have Ricardo´s wedding!!! We´ve been working with him since we got to Renca and he´s made great strives since we met him and has truly seen the blessings of the gospel in his life. He wanted to get sepperated from his partner who´s a less active member, but by helping them love eachother with the pure love of Christ they´ve learned to forgive their imperfections and together strengthen their relationship with God by praying and reading the Book of Mormon together. Sunday he will be getting baptized!Enso is another investigator who was participating a lot with the Adventists who worship the sabbath day on Sunday. When we taught the 10 commandments we got stuck on #4 and even though we explained that the sabbath day was on Sunday because it was when Christ resurrected he wanted biblical proof. So that week I prayed and meditated a lot and asked the Lord for guidance on how we could help Enso understand better the sabbath day. That´s when an idea popped into my haed to teach him the law of Moses. So I prepared a special lessno for him in which I made a T-chart, on one side the law of moses and on the other the law of Christ. I Explained with scriptures how Christ came to fulfill the law of moses and give us a greater law in things such as sacrafices, swearing, adultery, justice, etc. Then I got to the sabbath day and how he gae a new covenant-the sacrament and how the apostles would get together the 1st day of the week to partake of it. The spirit was so strong in the room and he felt it and knew that what we were saying was true and said that he finally understood now. It was incredible!We also taught an investigator named Mitchel and his less active girlfriend. I have contacted several times sice I got here and now with Hna.Fullmer we met his wife and were finally able to get an in! When we taught him the restoration he was so taken back...we taught with a lot of "asombro" like it says in Alma 18 and he wanted to have this same faith that we have that makes us want to give 18 months of our lives to preach the gospel in a foreign country and pay all our own expenses! jaja! It was so great! He prayed and read the Book of Mormon with his polola and is progressing and really opening up.Yesterday we taught Luisa who we found contacting near our house. She suffers from panic attacks and ever since began to question her catholic faith, she felt that we were an answer from God and she is reading the Book of Mormon and has a lot of interest. Yesterday we took a member, Hna.Janet and Luisa told us how yesterday she had a huge panic attack and was in tears. Janet testified to her the healing power of the atonement and how the gospel can guide us in bad times. By the end of her testimony both Janet and Luisa were in tears and the spirit in the room was so intense!We found 2 GOLDEN investigators! One is Eli who we found contacting, she was having a bad day, but said that when I said hi and spoke to her that a great peace came over her and that the only other time she had ever felt that was when a catholic priest would take her hand to greet her. She was dissapointed by her catholic religion (like so many) and felt that the restoration was true. We left her a Book of Mormon and upon our return appt 2 days later she had read 59 pages!!!! AMAZING!!!! Hna.Fullmer and I were blown away, not even the members can do that and understand so well like she did! She accepted a baptismal date for June.Our other golden investigator was Maria who we also found contacting. She had talked to missionaries before but didn´t have a lot of time cause she´d work a lot so they stopped coming over. But she still had her Book of Mormon and now has a lot more time cause she just takes care of her grandkids. When we extended the baptismal invitation she said that just that morning she was thinking how she would like to get baptized, "What do I have to do to prepare, what are the requirements?!" she asked. It was incredible!Truly the Lord is guiding us to amazing people who are eager and ready to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. So many souls to save, so little time! But I know that in these next 3 months the greatest miracles are going to occur, cause the prize only comes at the end of the race!Love you all!!!!xo,Hna.Ibarra
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