Mauro's Baptism

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Miracle weekend!!! yay! mauro agreed to be baptized! on thursday hermana hansen and i were planning and i was like lets have mauro´s baptism on saturday. he is ready. she said alright lets do it! so we went and taught him and just told he is ready and we know he knows it is true. he said ok, you´re right but give me til tomorrow to decide. I said no we are waiting here until you give us an answer. he said ok, well i will do it! it was really exciting. I am so proud of him. We then quickly went about to planning it. A man he knows in the church said he would baptize him but we went to get it all figured out none of the baptismal clthing fit him! I was kind of freaking out. miracle happened though and dario esquevel showed up for support and he was the perfect size for the baptismal clothing. he is only one year older than mauro so it was actually even better because of the age and that they can be good friends. I asked him, hi dario do you want to do something really special for mauro? haha he said yes. he was acutally just baptized in september so he was pretty nervous but it was a really great experience. Mauro´s mom came too celia- I LOVE HER. she still says she wont get baptized though. We are going to work on that though. Also we found these great women, well actually they were a reference from a member. and anyway we´ve been teaching them and they are programmed to get baptized the 30 and they are so great we invited them to chruch and they came by themselves! haha that is really a miracle. Like i know that they are ready now to be members of the true chruch. as always there are some obstacles but i really believe they can be baptized on the 30. I know they can if we show our faith and if it is god´s will. I know this is the true church. I know that we always have stress and problems and difficulites and temptations. But we just have to look at the big picture. We are children of God. He loves us. He is perfect. He is all powerful. He wants us to return to Him. And so, with His love, His plan, His Son, and His power- we can!! We can be happy now, and we can be happy forever. I know that the temple is the most important thing we can do in this life. Whoever reads this, I ask you to think about the last time you went, and then make plans to go again. As soon as possible. Or get a reccommend. Or work toward getting one. The way we can be happy is if we are on the path to the Temple, and then we never leave the path. And then we need to help everyone else get there too. I love you all. Thanks for your love and prayers.

Sister Dunford