Dear Friends and Family,
First off: shout out to my Wildcats for their excellent diss on Park City. My mother told me all about it.
Moving on: This week was amazing!
It all started last Friday (you will have to imagine it all because it is REALLY hard to get a computer where I can upload photos). I get a call from the zone leaders and they tell me they have a reference.....
Veronica used to live in the state of San Luis here in Mexico. She met the (sister) missionaries a year or so ago and had been taking the lessons for that entire time. She really liked the church and felt many incredible changes and miracles in her life during the time that she began to live according to the principles of the restored Gospel. She wanted to go to church and take her three children, but she couldn't. Her live in boyfriend was abusive and alcoholic and didn't let her come to church. The four times that she and her daughter Sandra were able to make it to church were miracles in progress. About a month or so ago, she made the decision to escape from her boyfriend and move here to Nuevo Leon (one state to the east). She settled down in a one room apartment in the area of our ZL's and lived there for a while waiting for the reference that the loving and diligent sister missionaries had sent to make its way through the system. There has been a slight problem as of late with the Church's map and reference system. Referrals don't get assigned to their areas because of some undefined problem in google maps. Therefore, we mission leaders get the wonderful task of sifting through hundreds of refferals and assigning them manually to the areas that are in our district or in an area that we used to work in. This Veronica was one of these refferals and it turns out that about two weeks ago, she moved to a (slightly) larger house just on the edge of our area. I could not contain my excitement when we recieved the referral. I had felt, after the baptism of Irma, that there were still baptisms that we could pull off. I was right the last time I had that impression, and I was even MORE right this time. On Saturday I had the opportunity to baptize Veronica and my companion baptized her two children Sandra and Sergio. On sunday I confirmed Sergio a member of the church and Elder Chan gave Veronica's 4 year old son Axel Tupac (I love his name a lot) his inscription blessing.
This change was extremely difficult and sometimes discouraging, but the Lord did his part in a way that I cannot even wrap my head around.
Now, my adventure continues in San Nicolas where I hope to find even MORE of the God's chosen children.
Se que este obra esta dirigida por el Señor y nadie mas. Se que Cristo nos ama y que nos bendice de acuerdo con nuestra fe. Se Dios es un Dios de milagros y que todos somos sus hijos.
Los amo,
Elder Lambert
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