Buenos Dias!
This was another awesome week here in el Milagro
with Elder Alcarraz. This week we have been continuing the drama with Diana
Loyaga. After being locked in her house for two days she was feeling like the
whole world was against her. Her family thinks she is crazy and her boyfriend
of 6 years left her. Well with nearly all those that she knows beginning to
pile up against her Diana decided to backtrack a little bit. She knew that if
she sacrificed her happiness and postpones her desire to be baptized that
everyone around her will be a little calmer and a little happier. She cares
more that everyone else is content and is willing to sacrifice herself for it.
Well she got back together with her abusive boyfriend who convinced her to go
visit with three different pastors this week. These pastors amongst other
things have been attempting to convince her that her answers that she has received
all come from the devil 👿 and that she is surrounding
by demons that have been playing with her weak spiritual mind (I think they
might be talking about us...😈👹👺💀👻).
Well despite the extreme opposition and no longer being welcomed in her home we
have been teaching her all week in a member's house. Although she has
backtracked she knows she cannot deny her testimony that these things are true.
We decided that it would be a good idea to teach her more about the Holy Ghost,
so we explained the nature of the Godhead and also what the fruits of the
spirit are. She knows that the things she felt and the answers she received
come from God and although she has gone backwards a little bit so that those
around her are happy, she still knows that these things are true. She cannot
deny her testimony nor the answers from the Holy Ghost. She refuses to turn in
her pamphlets nor her Book of Mormon to her pastors, and she even surprised us
by sneaking out of her house and coming to church. It was awesome. Hopefully
she will begin putting her own happiness in front of the happiness of her those
around her so that she will make the difficult decision to leave him and her
family and get baptized. Although she knows that her getting baptized will
cause a lot of problems in her family I think deep down she knows this is not
only the decision that will help her but also will help her family gain eternal
happiness in the long run. She just needs to make this decisions looking up to
her Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and not looking at everyone around her who
want to pull her back and cut her wings. Keep on praying for Diana because she
is going to overcome these obstacles soon. 😁
Well on another note, this past Saturday was our
lovely pensionista Lila's birthday. She has always talked about her childhood
dream to have a personal mariachi band for her birthday, so we put some things
together, pulled some strings, and set up a surprise party complete with a
mariachi band. To make it even better (or worse depending on how you look at
it) purposefully no one said happy birthday to her until her surprise party,
other than her family of course. She had thought everyone had forgotten about
it and was down in the dumps. When we jumped out and surprised her and the
mariachi began singing to her she literally could not hold back the tears and
was crying in joy for almost 30-45 minutes straight. It was awesome.
Well Milagro keeps on being awesome and I know we
are going to be seeing lots of miracles this transfer.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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