We did intercambios/ exchanges with El Bolson this week so I got to be Hermana Sant´s companion again for a day!!! It was sooo awesome!! We went and visited Norma and invited her to get baptized this last Saturday. AND SHE DID!! Norma is now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!! She was super excited to get bauptised because that means she can enter into the celestial kingdom with her little boy that past away under a year ago!! She was so happy to find out that he is just waiting for her in paradise and is not damed or just sleeping but that he is actually rooting her one just waiting for her to be able to join him in the presence of our Father in Heaven. So she wasn't too sure if she wanted to get bauptised this week or wait tell next week when her friend gets back from vacation. I told her that both would turn out very nice and then I told her that the truth is that God has been waiting for her all this time. Even more when we started teaching her and she wanted to get baptized but couldn't because she was living with her boyfriend and they weren't married. (what happened was a few days before I got there to be with Hermana Sant for intercambios her boyfriend got mad and hit her... so she left him...) Last transfer we had taught her the law of chastity and we had been trying to help them either get married or move into separate houses and well live the law of chastity but her boyfriend wanted to wait a year to get married and she said she would wait for him so we all were going to have to wait a year until she could be bauptised. But when I got there she had moved out of her ex-boyfriend's house and had decided that she had had enough and wanted to get bauptized. She literally asked us, ¨So when can I get bauptized now?¨which was just AWESOME. Yes so back to the story, I was telling her that both this week and next week would be good and then i felt like i had to tell her something so I did. I said the truth is God has been waiting for you all this time and now your ready to get bauptized and He is still waiting with His arms stretched out. I then said, ¨I know that if you get baptised this week it would a step of faith.¨Then Hermana Sant told her how Evelyn (her best friend that's a member that was the one who shared the gospel with her in the first place) will see the change in her as soon as she sees her because Norma would be getting the gift of the Holy Ghost and Eve would defiantly be able to see the change in her and the glow that she would have.Then we told her that it would also be awesome for Evelyn to be there. I totally thought that Norma was going to choose to wait for Evelyn to get back from Cordoba but she turns to me and says, ¨I just feel like I should do it this Saturday¨ It was SO AMAZING I definitely started crying.. :) and then hugged her goodbye. She got bauptised on Saturday and she got the Holy Ghost Sunday in church!! WHOOHOOO I was so happy and we've still got two more weeks of this transfer to see even more miracles!!! That was the best part of my week, to see another one of God´s children enter into the waters of bauptism and to be able to know that She KNOWS that its all true. Every last bit <3 I love this work. I love the mission and I love my Savior Jesus Christ!! This Christmas share with everyone you meet a warm smile and a cheerful Merry Christmas and look for opportunities EVERY DAY to serve those around you. Even if it's just helping someone carry their groceries to their car or opening the door for a few people. Look and pray for the opportunities and you will feel the Joy that this season brings!! Love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week!!!
Hermana Jarivs
ps here is a pic of me and Hermana Farr-My newest companion
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