Miracle on 34th Street

Hi family!!! I hope you are all doing well! This week was so crazy!! I know I say that a lot but this one wins!! So we started out the week thinking only David was going to be getting baptized, right? Well then the girl we were teaching who lives with a family in the ward told us she was going to be leaving to the coast until September and wanted to be baptized before then. So we talked to her parents and they gave her permission and then we called our district leader and told him the situation and he talked to the zone leader and they said yes!! Then we went to visit the Yépes family with the district leader because the President told him to verify a few things and they could get baptized! And we were also going to do the interview with his mom who said she also wanted to be baptized with them! So we got there and she said that a lady called her to work and that she wouldn´t be gone too long so the district leader talked with Jose and then we waited for Maria, his mom, to get back. Well 2 hours later she finally showed up! (They live in the middle of nowhere so we couldn´t leave and come back) And she said that she didn´t want to be baptized nor have the interview so we waited for nothing, but oh well! Anyway everything was good with Jose, so they also got permission to be baptized this weekend!! Well as we were trying to start the baptism, a boy named Jonathan, he is the Barrera family´s son - He started coming to church a few weeks ago, but he lives in another area with his mom now so we couldn´t go visit him and we could never get together in a members house.  Anyway he was there practicing soccer with the Young Men´s and he came up to me and was so upset and asked why he couldn´t get baptized too!  Well it just so happened, that the zone leaders and district leaders were at the church too - I´m not really sure why - so I told him to go talk to the zone leaders because I can´t do anything about it! Well they talked to him, had him call his mom and ask permission, and then he had an interview with the district leader!  So we had him change and ran back into the service just in time for the baptisms to be performed!  It was insane!!  One baptism turned into two, two into four and four into five!  I was in shock! They all just fell out of the sky!  As always, I feel like I had nothing to do with any of the baptisms we had, I was just there to watch!  This really is the Lord´s work and it will go forward with no help at all! I have seen so many miracles here and I love every single minute of the mission! I hope you all have a great week!! 

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Love forever and always,

Hermana Nelson

Genesis Paraga

Jonathan Barrera

Jose & Elizabeth Yepes

David Guanga