This week was AWESOME!!!
The first thing you need to know about is our miracle baptism: This last Monday we had a zone meeting in which an epistle from Pres. McArthur was read. It dealt with President Kimball's address to missionaries about making excuses for the failure to baptize. At the end of the meeting (which, frankly, went on way too long) our leaders told us that there was still always a chance to see some kind of miracle by the end of this last week of the transfer cycle. Immediately, both my companion and I felt that it would, indeed, be possible and that we should search for a way to squeeze one more baptism out of our time here. We started working with Emmanuel's sister Sandra but, long story short, it didn't work out. We thought we had lost all hope for helping someone start the road to eternal life when we get a phone call on Thursday.
Our ward missiona leader calls us in the middle of a street contact and my companion answers. It is starting to get dark and I am talking to some teenager in the street that obviously has not interest, but I keep going to make it seem less weird. That is when my companion comes up and says: "Elder, we have a miracle!" Our Ward mission leader had called to tell us that one of the investigators that we had been teaching for almost my entire time here in the area wanted to get baptized on Saturday.
David is the friend of one of the Bishopric's secretaries to whom he gave a Book of Mormon. The member invited us to a Family Home evening one week and we gladly went. That is where we met David. Ever since, we have been working with him to help him overcome his doubts AND his trouble with smoking. He is a very thoughtful and inteligent person and I am Happier than I can express to have been able to see him baptized.
The only lame thing about this week is that it is changes......and both of us are being changed. I will be serving this next week in Santa Catarina and my companion will be climbing Cerro de la Silla in Barrio San Angel. Two new missionaries will be coming to this area in order to teach and baptize our progressing investigators and visit my converts. I originally was bummed because I will have a tough time trusting the converts and investigators I have come to love so much in unknown hands, but then the spirit told me something that I already knew: They are not in the hands of two missionaries, they are in the hands of the Lord. It's a sappy thought, I know, but it helps me deal with the idea of leaving this area that I have loved so much.
Se que el Señor dirige este obra. Se que El nos ama y quiere que seamos fuertes. Se que las pruebas de este vida son importantes por nuestro progreso espiritual y que la Expiacion de Jesucristo nos puede fortalecer.
Los amo,
Elder Lambert
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