Miracles!

A lot of great miracles happened, starting on Saturday with the V family from River 9th. So Elder Fletes is still serving there and managed to get back in contact with them, which was a miracle on its own. If you remember they were to be baptized Christmas Eve and had come to church consecutively for 2 weeks, they were super ready. All they needed was to get married that Friday so they could get baptized, but Friday morning during weekly planning the sister called us in tears saying they got in a huge fight and to call off the wedding. After that they didn't talk to anybody for like a month, and all the friends they had were members. However, this Friday they finally got over their conflict and got married. Then Saturday the whole family got baptized! It was a really great experience.  The brother at the end of the service told me Elder Fletes and I had helped his family a lot to make this step to come to church and finally get baptized. Hearing that I had actually influenced his life has really grown my desire to help other make the same jump. It's been like everything is so much clearer and I feel a greater love for strangers. 

The other crazy experience happened yesterday. We visited an investigator named Carlos. The way we found him was a little weird I guess but it works out in the end. So a few weeks ago Elder Craig and I noticed that we can download the app White pages. So we started using it to look for common Hispanic names and it gives us their address and Carlos was one we a really strong feeling we needed to visit. So that Sunday we knocked his door and he invited us in like immediately. At first we were thinking, ok he's totally a member, just going to the English Ward. We were looking for clues like pictures of Christ or the Temple but couldn't see anything. So we sit down and had a great lesson, he was really penitent during the whole thing so we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Nothing big came out of it although he felt the spirit really strong. He would accept really any invitation. So yesterday we went by to check up on him and we kinda expected he dropped us.  That was a little sad but before we left he told us not to think we didn't help him, that we saved his life. Apparently before we came someone had robbed his house. So this man is from El Salvador from the time of their crazy civil war. This man has seen some crazy stuff and done some crazy stuff and what he did was look up who robbed him on the internet and was planning on "taking it into his own hands". Not just for the man but his whole family and right before he went to go do it we had knocked on his door. It goes to show no effort is wasted. Carlos is a new man now, he doesn't care about material things and is closer to Christ and even though right now he isn't ready, he's much closer than he was before and I'm sure we will see him again soon in white.

We had a great successful week of finding new investigators and putting them on date, we're working close with them and trying our best  so we can see them at church this Sunday. We've felt more hopeful and faithful during the week and I think it's been because of our increased focus on our purpose and baptism.

I read in the Bible Dictionary the other day a really pleasant sentence under Baptism. It says : "Its symbolism is beautiful, and its consequences ever so desirable." I think when we really understand how desirable the consequences of being baptized are it's easier to help others come to the same understanding and desire.

Transfer news came today! So I'm gonna be moving to Daybreak 5th! Still Spanish and finally biking again and my companion will be...I don't know yet! I got called to train! What were they thinking! I guess the Lord qualifies who he calls, I'm pretty nervous though. Elder Craig's going to River 9th #2 with Elder Smith so he gets to teach the V family and Elder Fletes is going to be coming here to Mtn View 4th as District Leader. Wow! There are 3 new Spanish missionaries coming in and so the other trainer will be my new District Leader, Elder Pineda.