TESTIMONIO!!!

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This week has been excelente!! We continue to work with Estella Vega`s son, Emmanuel. He came to church yesterday and is planning to be baptized on the 25th of this month!! He has epilepsy, so he stays at home under his mom`s constant care. Even if he doesn`t get out much, he enjoys passing the summer days sitting in his chair and listening to us preach the restored gospel to him. He has a strong testimony of the Church, saying that his epeletic seizures have not been as violent since the missionaries have been passing by. Keep him in your prayers!!!

We are also teaching a neighbor of Estella Vega, Estella Carlomagno, who also has epilepsy. Every now and then Estella the neighbor has seizures, but teaching her provides a calm and peaceful environment for her to feel the truths we are teaching her. We watched the Joseph Smith- Prophet of the Restoration movie and she loved it! She said that without a doubt that he was a prophet. She is planning to be baptized the 25th as well, so please keep her in your prayers!

Also Kristina, who we have been teaching since October, has been progressing a lot recently. She says she has believed in the Book of Mormon and wants to come to church. She says she was invited to church many years ago, by the current Stake Patriarch and his wife, who attend our ward! What a crazy coincidence!!  A member joined us for a lesson with her and afterwards we gave her a blessing of comfort. She has been through a lot, losing her son, a bad divorce, many struggles. But the member gave an amazing and powerful blessing that was filled with the Spirit. This week we are going to focus on the blessings of following the Savior's example with baptism. 

This week we are starting  Come, Follow Me (Ven, Sìgueme en Castellano) for the Book of Mormon! It is SOOO GOOD!!! We started with the introduction pages and I learned a lot. The title page was written by the prophet Moroni, and that Joseph Smith said while he was translating the sacred record, it was on the last page of the golden plates...also that several of the 11 special witnesses went apostate and left the church, but NONE of them denied seeing and holding the golden plates that were translated as the Book of Mormon. That was a powerful lesson I learned while studying Ven, Sìgueme, that if we are converted from the heart then we can retain a perfect testimony of the restored gospel. Love you all!!! Read your scriptures, minister, and do Come, Follow Me!! Suerte con sus nuevas metas del año nuevo