Remember that miracle from last week? Well this week she gave us a reference. It was a friend who was also from Santa Rosa. We met her and started talking...turns out she was listening to the elders three years ago and wanted to be baptized but her mom wouldn't let her. Now, she is studying in Cuenca and wants to start talking to the missionaries again. Well the next day we planned to review lesson one with her and her friend. We tried to get started with the lesson, but they started talking about baptism. We were like bueno vamos entonces. We started trying to pick a date in December, but they were both really busy. The friend (that we already knew) had to leave to take a test. After she left, the reference told us that she felt the need to get baptized that night (in dos horas folks). She bore her testimony about the restored Gospel and the Book of Mormon. We knew she was ready. We told her that we would get everything taken care of and she just need to show up church and have her interview and after would be the baptism. Right after we left we called almost every single contact in our phone to get people to show up to this baptism and help fill up the font. The church is farish from our sector and there was tons of traffic so we ended getting there thirty minutes before the baptism was supposed to start. We were the first. ones. there. I ran to the font to get the water flowing. The font takes four+ hours to fill up people...we had thirty minutes. Finally some members started to show up to help. And we started filling up buckets with water the spigots outside and transferring that water to the font. The water was really cold...but it was either the font with coldish water or the river. Everyone was doubting us but in the end she was baptized...practically had to lay down in the font for the low water level, but it all turned out good. It was one of the most spiritual (and stressful jaja) nights of the mission. This girl is nineteen years old and has a powerful testimony of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. As missionaries, our purpose is to help people come unto Christ through sacred ordinances, one of them being baptism. When this girl told us that she felt the need to be baptized that night...it was super inconvenient and not very logical...but it didn't matter. We couldn´t let inconveniency impede in the desire of this young woman to draw closer to Jesus Christ.
Hermana Blazzard
