This week was a tender mercy from Heavenly Father. Literally. It was peaceful, and happy, and hopeful and just wonderful. That elect family we found last week and brought to church was BAPTIZED!!! E______, G______, and C______!!
Let me just share a few little tid bits about them that really wowed me this week, and strengthened my testimony of "the elect of the Lord".
- Ever since we met E_____, I felt a familiar connection. I had seen her before... I had known her from someplace... One evening this week as we were teaching them, she opened up to us that she let us in that day to teach her because she knew us and recognized us from somewhere - from a dream or from something else, she didn't know, but she knew that we were truly sent from Heavenly Father to her at this time. My heart smiled when she told us that because I felt the Spirit whisper to me that she was one of the people I had promised in the Pre-existence that I would find and remind of the truths we learned together there. She was truly someone Heavenly Father prepared to receive us.
- Before we taught about the Word of Wisdom, she had already stopped drinking coffee. EVERYONE smokes or drinks coffee here in Brazil, and she had been drinking coffee for her whole life, and she told us that the day after she went to church for the first time with us, she went home, made coffee, went to drink it, and spat it out. She told us she didn't know why but she had lost all taste and desire to drink coffee. #elect
It has been such a wonderful experience getting to know this family, bringing the kids to seminary and mutual, and then baptizing them. E_____ just cried and cried and cried and was so happy and thankful for the experience. It was a touching baptismal service because E_____ and her family had a lot of ward support (this ward is AWESOME with integration, and it is pretty rare to find a golden little family!).
Holy moly... I know that literally Heavenly Father is aware of His children. He knows what each of us need, and when. I am so thankful for the gift of having been here to help these people and see how beautiful the Gospel of Jesus Christ is when it changes the lives and hearts of others.
The Church is true. God lives! He heals. He blesses. He loves. I am so thankful for the eternal blessings that await us if we live faithfully and endure to the end.
Love forever,
Jason
Jason
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