Zarahemla Week 32

Old Town Montreal with Erick and Alan

We had an awesome week! Alan got baptized on Saturday! It was amazing, one of the most spiritual baptisms I've ever been to. Alan bore pure testimony, and invited everyone to do missionary work. It was so cool! He's amazing! It was very ironic, we had a first lesson with him a little under a month before his baptism. We invited him to be baptized, but he just said, "how do you expect me to know that this is the true church in one month if I've been searching for 7 years!" And, fast forward (less than!) one month, and he gets baptized. It was such a miracle. We are going to play basketball with him and Erick today. It'll be fun! But here are some cool miracles we had this week!

Alan's baptism!

We taught Horacio a few times this week, and he is progressing well! We taught him the Restoration, and he understood the message very, very well. He's doing awesome! We gave him a baptismal date for the 20 of April, and he should be very ready by then. If we keep seeing him as frequently as we are right now, he will be great! He absolutely loves church, and was even inviting other people to come as well! It's so cool, he's such a cute old man. It's his birthday tomorrow, he's turning 81, and we found out the other day that he really likes chess. So, we bought a chess board for him and are going to go play some with him for his birthday tomorrow! He doesn't have any family or friends here, so he's pretty alone, so it'll be awesome to help him feel loved and have some fun celebrating his birthday together. It'll be awesome!

Ate Poutine in the Old Port with Alan and Erick

Leonardo is also doing amazing! He could totally be baptized this week, but we have Stake Conference then General Conference, which means we are going to have to do it the week after. He's doing amazing though, he loves the church. He's been making many sacrifices to be able to follow the gospel. He also came to Alan's baptism and really enjoyed it! He was asking lots of questions and is very excited for his own! The Lord really has been blessing us with lots of success, it's clear to see how much His hand guides the work. We do work hard, but all the results we see don't come from us at all! It's amazing!

We have been continually learning more about faith recently. It's so interesting and subtle, but when you feel your faith is at a high, you just see miracles all the time. It's so crazy! It's clear to see in finding, we work hard but then people just show up! Like Alan, we had a lot of faith we would find people who were ready to be baptized, and it wasn't any of the people that WE found, but he just showed up at church! It's very interesting, and exhilarating. We are excited to see the miracles the Lord has in store for us during the rest of the transfer!

Well things are going amazing! Things are starting to warm up now that it's spring, even though right now it's roughly -7 degrees. But we are hopeful that it will start warming up! I love you all so much, have an amazing week.