We completed a family this weekend. That's a good
feeling.
We've been teaching Ernesto since I arrived here in Fuentes.
His family life was kind of crazy. His wife was a less active, his 9 year
old son had been baptized several weeks before, and they all still lived in his
mom's house who was the only other member, everyone else being completely
uninterested in listening about the gospel. So there was a lot of
hesitation on his part. But he wanted to do what was right for his son so he
listened to us and started to change some icky stuff in his life to follow the
commandments. It was still quite a slow process. We had to clean up
a lot of loose ends. He baptismal date was pushed back several times, his
mom left for the U.S. for a month, and his wife was talking about divorce.
Yikes.
But faith works. Faith, prayer, and fasting.
This past week was a week of miracles. Ernesto's less active wife,
Arecely, finally found a different job that would allow her to go to church on
Sundays, his mom returned back from her vacation in the States, and everything
started to fall into place for his baptism on Saturday.... But Thursday
came and he said that he didn't feel the desire to be baptized like he thought
he should feel. He knew it was a good thing to do, and necessary, but he
didn't feel a desire to do so..... so we fasted some more, having made a
deal with him that if he went through with the baptismal interview Friday, by
Saturday he would feel the desire he wanted.
Saturday morning we called Ernesto. AND HE GOT
BAPTIZED!!!!
