This week I won’t use all those
adjectives and adverbs to describe our incredible week…whoops. I want to share
a couple of experiences that made it the “I” word.
For the more than a couple of months
we have been trying to help a young missionary get a permanent visa here in
Mexico. It is the only way that he can finish his mission. The problem is that
no one has experience with this kind of visa, not even the main office in
Mexico. This has led to a lot of miscues and mistakes that have dragged the
whole process out. This week was a make or break week. He has no more time left.
The week before I had made the long trip to immigration only to have the agent
at the counter point even more mistakes that had been made in the papers,
forcing me to come home empty handed. This week I was at the same counter with
a different person. She started to point out mistakes and I thought, “Oh no,
here we go again.” She said that she had to go get her supervisor because there
was a problem. While she was away I said a prayer asking to Heavenly Father to
please help us get this visa. The woman came back with her supervisor and I
could tell by the body language that things were bad. Then the supervisor saw
me and his countenance changed. He paused and then said, “No, that’s all right
let it go. Go ahead and process the papers.”
Experience two happened today. We are
teaching a really wonderful investigator named Roberto (has to be wonderful
with a name like that J).
Although he has attended our ward three times, he isn’t from our ward. So today
we took him in our car to visit the ward that he should be attending. The two
sister missionaries from that ward were waiting for us when we got there. I
told them that he had a provisional baptism date of December 5th,
but when they asked him about it, he said he wanted more time. After a tour of
the chapel, stopping at each painting to describe its meaning, we ended up in
front of the baptismal font. The sisters asked us to share our own memories of
baptism, and when we were done, they asked Roberto to say the closing prayer
and to specifically ask Heavenly Father if he wanted him to be baptized on
December 5th. Roberto said a prayer that touched us all. Then he
asked Heavenly Father if he wanted him to be baptized on December 5th.
A strong and unmistakable feeling touched my heart. When the prayer ended I looked
at Roberto and asked him, “Did you feel that?” He nodded and said, “I want to
be baptized on the December 5th.”
These are only two of the experiences we had this week. We had many others.
These are only two of the experiences we had this week. We had many others.
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