Oct 5, 2015

Oct 5, 2015

Alma is the blonde, Diana has long dark hair.

Man!  No time!  I could write a novel of the miracles I saw this week.  And another novel about what I learned from conference.  But for conference this is the biggest thing that I learned.  Read your patriachal blessing.  Then listen to conference, and you will know what the Lord wants you to do. 

The baptism of Melani and Diana.  They are super cute.  The daughters of Dilma (and she is going to get baptized this week, the baptism of her daugheters really motivated her to really stop smoking for good . . . . she started crying and hugging us when her daughters got baptized . . . she was so happy).  

But even cuter than this was the story of Alma and Diana.  Alma (12 . .  faithful  member of our ward) is the schoolmate of Diana (10 years old) and were always good friends, so when diana started sharing with us, she told alma and they were both super happy.  But then a month later during recess Diana told Alma that she was going to get baptized that Friday. Alma just started jumping up and down and crying, and Diana started crying too because they were just so happy.   Diana told her that at first her mom didnt really want to go to church.  She knew that she promised the missionaries that she and her mom and her sister were going to go top chruch, so on Sunday morning she woke up early, and woke up her mom.  Get ready, we need to go to church.  The missionaries are going to be coming to pick us up.  Ahhh, said her mom, i have a stomach ache, i dont think we are going to be able to make it today (and they both knew that it was an excuse, she was tired and wanted to sleep in).  Then Diana disapperaed, and came back 5 mintues later.  She had gone to the pharmacy store around the corner to buy a little medicine for the stomach.  ¨Take this mom, and then get up, get dressed.  We are going to go to church today¨.  Her mom still resisted a little so Diana got dressed, got all ready, and said ¨Mom, if you dont go with me, i am going to go by myself.  I am going to go to church today, and then left the house, started walking.¨  ¨Ok babe!  We are going to go to church today.  Wait a minute for me and your sister¨.  

We never knew this story untill Diana told Alma who told us, but this is how Dilma and her 2 daughters went to church the first day.  The sheer determination of a 10 year old, wanting to fulfill the commandments.  Man, the more I am here in the mission, the more I see that little kids, with their pure faith and their pure desires to be good, change the world.  Agyelen, with 3 years, prayed every night that her parents could get married.  And they did, and got baptized too.  Aonther ageylen, 8 years old, started crying when her dad said that he wanted to wait to get married, didnt see a reason to rush.  3 weeks later he is going to get baptized and married this week, and she is going to get baptized the same day.  But the best of these 3 stories is that their whole familes changed.  Their families now have this new light that I can see as they accept the gospel.  Dilma cried when Diana got baptized and said ¨I know this is the true church¨ And all because these little kids wanted to keep the commandments.  This really is a chosen generation, because the little kids, pecious souls are changing the lives of their fathers, and their families.   

Hermana Jarman