I never knew what endure to the end meant until I got to the
last two weeks of my mission..... but we are truckin along people don’t you
worry!!
So it was a wild wild week. I have never seen the adversary work
SO hard against someone a whole week long so she wouldn’t be baptized. But we
were with our investigator Eliane every step of the way this week and she was
baptized! It was a really special day for us here. But honestly I have never
seen so many afflictions happen in the same week-just to keep her from being
baptized. One day it was her mom and sisters and family that told her she wasn’t
ready, the next she lost her job, the next her long lost lover came back to ask
her to marry him and tried to buy her love, the next she didn’t feel prepared
enough and was doubting herself. My goodness I was up to my eardrums in
problems this week. But every day we got there and could calm her down and
remember how important this decision was and how she had been prepared by the Lord
for a lot of time before she met the church. How the Lord wants our heart and
our humility and our commitment instead of our knowledge.
After her baptism where everything went wrong, from no one
showing up, to the men in the ward forgetting to fill the font, to not having
plates for the cake, all my frustration was washed away when I went up to hug
her and she held me tight and said ´´thank you sister, thank you, thank you so
much, I am so happy´´. That really made it all worth it.
I also am kind of freaking out because I won’t take the
sacrament again until Christmas because this Sunday is a stake event and the
next I’ll be traveling... any ideas? Is there a branch that meets in the
afternoon at home?
How blessed and humbled I am to be able to be a small part in
the Saviors work here, that He trusts us enough with all of our errors and
flaws and weaknesses to carry His name. I will be very sad to take His name off
of my chest. I know how much He anxiously waits for each one of His brothers to
come back into the right path. This is His church and there’s not any other one
that can give us that surety! I know that.
Now just one more email, this is my last week of work in the
field because on the 14th I’ll travel to Maceio to be interviewed with
Presidente Gomes and hang out until my flight on Saturday. So I’ll talk to
you all soon! Love you so much!
ps the pics are of an elders bday party I did here, our baptism
with Eliane and her mom and son, and when I got to go on splits with Sister
Lauder in Itaporanga this week!
Sister Walker
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