Hello all!
What a crazy week here in
Hospitalet. So much stress!!! So I am sad to say that after the
incredible miracle story that I told you last week about Moises, he did
not get baptized. There was a lot that went into it and we still have
hope that he will get baptized and receive all the blessings awaiting
him, but as for right now, he is waiting.
This is where I want to take the
quick opportunity to give you all some advice. When you each of you are
doing your personal study of the scriptures, or attending church or
devotionals, or have any kind of spiritual experience that really
touches your heart...WRITE IT DOWN!!!
When Moises miraculously received
his answer after our fast, we told him very specifically, and several
times to make sure that he write the experience down and how he felt. We
told him that the next week was likely going to be very hard for him
and that he would need that to help him remember the answer he had
received. Well...that advice was not heeded and sure enough, the Sunday
after he received his answer, he started having really sad feelings. He
was feeling very alone and doubting everything and his mother´s health
declined in the midst of all of it. And while he could remember that he
had received an answer, he could not remember how he had felt, or even
the story of how he had received his answer.
We literally did everything we
possibly could this last week to help him remember those feelings and to
help him overcome his feelings of doubt. We were even able to get him
to fast with us. The fast helped him feel a little better. But in the
end...his smoking habit kept him from being able to take that step into
the water because he he needed it for a little while more before he got
baptized.
When it came down to it though,
he attended the service to see the baptism of the other person. And he
was sobbing during the baptism. When talking to him about it after, he
said that he felt that his time to be baptized had passed and he
couldn´t have another opportunity. He thought that his opportunity had
passed. No matter how we tried to explain that that was not the case,
he just didn´t believe us and was so down in the dumps. He really has a
hard time with his self-esteem and we are trying to figure out how else
we can help him.
I don´t know what the future
holds for him right now, because he might be moving back to Chile this
week, but I hope that he will someday have the faith again to take that
step into the waters of baptism and open that door to all the blessings
that God has waiting for him.
Well, I don´t have time for anything else right now...talk to you all next week.
Love,
Hermana Eyre
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