Well this week has been absolutely AMAZING!! To start it off, we ate dinner with the family Guzman on the 24th and on the 25th we had an activity with all the missionaries in the city and President and Sister Conde! It was so awesome. My companion and I rapped and everyone loved it. Haha. I also saw Brayson Wilcox. It was so dang awesome and I was so glad to see him!! He’s doing really good!
Well you know the best ever was when I Skyped my family on Tuesday and I got to see all of them and they surprised me with my bestest friend, Allie. Good heck, it was so dang good to see all of them and talk to them!! That was definitely the bestest Christmas gift I could’ve asked for!! Not to mention they all told me I talked like Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite - haha!
Well the good news doesn’t stop there! On Saturday, to finish the year out strong, the family Gonzalez Lopez were baptized. Goodness, I can’t even explain the joy and love I felt for them!! Anyways, I want to share the experience with you guys.
So we got there on Saturday to th baptismal service and we got all changed in our white clothes and took some pictures! The two sisters of the brother Gonzalez were there to support him and his family. They are not members. Anyways, as we started the devotional, I looked back at the two of them many times and I was so touched as I could see tears in their eyes because the spirit was so strong!! I was able to baptize the daughter, Concepcion, my companion baptized the mom, and the bishop baptized the dad and the son!! Goodness, we were filled with joy as we saw them enter into the waters and be baptized!! I definitely haven’t had such an amazing experience in my whole mission!!!!
Don’t worry, it doesn’t stop there! So as we finished up the baptism, we went to the house of the family Gonzalez Lopez and right as we got there the sister of a Brother Gonzalez that went to the baptismal service and has gone to church with us three times now, told us that her and her family are going to be baptized Saturday!!!!!!!!!!! My goodness, the miracles keep on coming!! She wanted to wait for her husband that is always working so they could be baptized together, but we’ve told her many times that the time is now. She still wanted to wait but hearing those words made me happier than you can imagine!! So it looks like we will be having three more baptisms on Saturday!! My eyes are filled with tears writing this letter because I know that God has blessed us so much as missionaries. I haven’t seen so many miracles in my whole mission and now they’re all coming at once!!
I know the God and Jesus Christ live and they love us, we are His children and He leads this church. I know without a shadow of a doubt that this church is true. I would give my life for it, if it was necessary. Miracles do exist, as it teaches us in the Book of Mormon, but ONLY if WE have FAITH!! Miracles cease to exist when we lose faith!! I was able to finish the Book of Mormon in Spanish as well this week and it was such a testimony builder for me! It is so dang true and I KNOW that as we apply what it teaches us to our lives, we will be happy and we will be blessed!!
I just want to give a special shout out to my mom - the GREATEST MOM EVER - and tell her happy birthday and how much I love her!! Also, thank you guys so dang much for the gifts my family, grandparents, aunts, and uncles and everyone, and also London and her amazing family, sent me. You guys are amazing! I love you all so much. Have an amazing week!!!!
ELDER BLAKE
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