Week 80

Hola Everyone.

I think I would have to use a little Spanglish to be a title to this email. I think I would call this week MILAGROS (Miracles) BABY!!

It's been such an awesome week. My companion and I have definitely seen a miracle! SO Jorge is a 15 year old kid and the missionaries have been teaching him for about a year and a half to two years. They have stopped teaching him many times in the process because his parents haven't given him permission to be baptized! His parents both believe in God, but one is Catholic and the other is just a believer in God. Anyways, my companion and I went to visit him last Monday and he told us that he had talked to his mom about being baptized and she told him no! Wow! We were pretty bummed about the whole situation. But later on in the week, on Thursday, we went to his house again and they were unloading a tuck of about one to two ton of papaya, which is a fruit here in Mexico. Anyways, we started helping them with that and as we finished up we felt like we should bare testimony to his parents about the gospel.

So my companion and I bore powerful testimony of the church and how we became members and how it has blessed us so much in our lives and for the reason we were teaching their son. They both looked at us and said, "Well then, if our son wants to be baptized, we don't have a single problem with that!!" WOW!! What an amazing and powerful experience that was with Jorge. It was such a blessing to be able to see him be baptized after so much time!!

I KNOW that Jesus Christ lives and that he loves us. This is HIS church and it was restored through the prophet, Joseph Smith. I now that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he was called by God and that he saw God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. I know that Russel M. Nelson is a prophet of God and that he speaks with Jesus Christ. I know the Book of Mormon is true!! Have an amazing week and know that I love you all so dang much!! MIRACLES DO EXIST!!!

Elder Blake