Due to the fact that TWELVE of our investigators left for vacation this last week, it was necessary. I think it's just a Chile thing, in January, everyone just leaves. And they don't come back till, like, March. What is that all about?! It is WAY more important to listen to the missionaries and get baptized. Obviously. But hey, what can ya do?
KEEP PRESSING FORWARD! #2nephi3120
Due to lack of time, I will get right to the point and share an amazing experience that we had this last week with a couple that we found knocking doors- Dionel and Edilia. Our plans fell through, so we just started knocking in the street where we were, and there they were, just sitting on their front patio. So we started talking to them and found out that Edilia was baptized about 30 years ago with her daughter. She has many fond memories of the church, but when they moved here, they stopped going and quickly became inactive. Dionel was never baptized, but always supported his wife and daughter in their decision.
Upon talking with them a little bit more, we learned that Dionel had just left the hospital after months of tests and procedures. They had just gotten home about 20 minutes earlier,and were sitting on their porch because, after so much time in the hospital, they had missed the simple pleasure of just being at home. Edilia told us that it was a miracle that he had been released...the doctors were convinced that he would have to be in a home for the rest of his life due to the severity of his illness.
One thing led to another, and the next day, we returned to their home with the elders to give Dionel a priesthood blessing. It was one of those experiences that is hard to describe and impossible to forget, simply because the spirit was so strong. I have found over the course of my mission that it is very difficult to describe the spirit, because there just aren't words. There aren't words enough to describe the joy that our loving Heavenly Father knows Dionel. He knows his needs. And that he loves his children enough to give them what they need in the moment that they need it. Edilia expressed over and over that she knows that God sent us, that the timing was just too perfect to be a thing of luck or chance.
That is another thing that I have learned in my mission. Luck just doesn't exist. Because God lives and He loves us and He has a beautiful plan for us, and luck just doesn't do it. I know that Our Heavenly Father knows us all individually.
Sorry it was short, pero no se preocupe, I'll be home soon :) I'll make up for it :)
Hermana Harkins
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