MIRACLES ARE HAPPENING HERE!!!!
This week we have a lesson with one of invs... Liliana. Shes awesome. I just can't stop hugging her... shes like a little old preacher. hahaha shes not old really, looks like it but no... shes has 55 years.. she literally is so ready to be baptized, God has been preparing her for YEARS!! She listened to the Elders 25 years ago.. And its really like shes teaching us. She told us that she believes that everyone forgot about God and the life before when we were born, but some people can remember better than others who they are. Love it! The only thing thats stopping her from being baptized is that she smokes. Alot. like alot. But she really wants to stop, so if you could all pray for her! Shes down to smoking one cigarete every day... but still has a ways to go. And she is always talking about her kids that live with her... with the drugs, and the all the crap they're into. We just literally finished telling her that through her example, they'll come to know the truth, and in walked in her son Julio... He has like 24 or 25 years. Hes a drug addict and never wanted to listen to us. We invited again, because you can never lose hope in people, and he sat down to listen... he was more than a little bit timid but in the end we felt like inviting him to be baptized, which obviously is crazy...so of course we did it! He accepted!!!! WOOOHOO!! Hes scared that God wont forgive him and that he cant quit drugs but he really wants to!! Liliana ended up saying the prayer and it was full of the pleadings of a mom, and she was praying for him. and he was crying, and we all just wanted to cry.
and he said he would go to church. well we went to their house and he said he would go a little bit later... so we went with Liliana and 5 MINUTES LATER her son Julio walked in, really unsure but smiling and luckily a member had found him lost in the hallway and talked to him (another reason, why you should always take to people you dont know in the church building PLEASE!!!! it saves lives) and Julio walked in and Liliana started to cry... saying that she never thought he would come. She thought she would go to church and be baptized alone.. without her family. And well the church was really intense, and we lost the lights in the sacrament, and it was the farewell of kid leaving for his mission so everyone was crying, and the little old grandma dropped a hammer of a class about the law of chastity... so really church was intense, but they left smiling and happy and said theyd come back next week.
LOVE MIRACLES!!!
Love you all,
Hermana Bower
This is Julio and Liliana!! <3
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