Week #70: Bautismo de Maicol
Happy late Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed a giant turkey with some great football. Sadly the great day of Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Uruguay.. Pero es lo que hay. It's okay though because Maicol got baptized and that was a whole lot better!
I don't feel like Ive told you guys enough about Maicol. This guy is literally just like one those guys in high school that everyone loves because he's just so cool and friendly and is just a stud. Maicol was introduced to the gospel when his girlfriend started to send him simple texts with scriptures, quotes, and phrases about God. Before that, Maicol had zero belief in God. He simply didn't believe He existed. I still remember the first lesson we had with him...we shared Alma 32, that we must plant the seed of belief in our hearts and with time and a lot of work, it grows into a huge tree that can't be knocked down by outside forces.
He planted the seed about 2 months ago, and he is already getting his own tree. He has a testimony and understanding of the gospel better than most, and he knows that God exists and loves us. Maicol I honestly would say has taught me more than we ever taught him. He shared his testimony after being baptized, and I couldn't stop smiling for the whole night. He knows the church is true, because he did the work necessary to receive the answer from God!
This morning in a district meeting, our district leader shared with us Alma 31. The last verse really struck a chord with me because it said that Ammon and his brothers were so blessed by the Lord that "they had no affliction that wasn't consumed in the joy of Christ". They for sure had their afflictions, but they weren't felt because of the joy of the gospel. I shared a comment with our district that we have this same promise...as missionaries, we probably have a lot more afflictions on the mission, than we ever did before. But we're also a whole lot happier than we ever were before as well. I thought about how that was even possible. To any logical mind that doesn't make sense at all, that we would have more problems, but we would also be a lot happier. It is because as we have a focus on Christ in our lives, He takes those pains away from us and they are not so hard to bear. Our trials are consumed in Christs Joy as we center our lives around Him!
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| Maicol Baptism!! |
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| Brax and his companion Elder Johnson |
