Hello everyone! Sending you a big hug :) I hope you all have had a great week! Everything is good here in Ventura :) We are seeing so many miracles here in our area.
Okay, First of all, Salvador and Maria are planning to get married this Saturday and then after the wedding, Salvador is going to get baptized!! It has been a big change that has taken a long time for them to get to this point. It all started a long time before I got here but I am so grateful to be able to be here for these last steps :) Salvador has really progressed these last few weeks. Every time that we see him, he is more converted to the Savior and His gospel. Every time that we teach time, just like a sponge, he wants to know and remember everything. It is a really cool experience to be able to teach him. Next week I'll tell you about how the wedding and baptism go :D
I don't know if I told you about Ana Victoria, but if not, let me tell you! Last transfer when I was Camarillo with Hermana Brown, we went to do service at a place where they help prepare dinner for people that are living there. We helped Ana Victoria. She is the only one that works there in the kitchen and sometimes it has been really difficult for her to prepare so much food for so many people by herself. We would go there once or sometimes twice a week. One day she gave us her address and she told us that she lives in Ventura and that it was ok for us to send the missionaries to see her. Well, that was the week that I got transferred to Ventura! Since I have been here we have looked for her house, but the address she gave us isn't complete! So we were not able to find her! But after lots of prayers, and the help of the new missionaries in Camarillo, we got her address and this week we found her! It was sometime so special!! These last few weeks I have felt so strongly that we had to find her! I don't know why that thought came into my mind. When we finally found her, it was such a special moment to know that I did what our Heavenly Father needed me to do. Yesterday we went again and we taught her about the Restoration of the Gospel, and she loved it! The Spirit was so strong and I know that she felt it.
Joel and Karina are also doing great!! This week we taught them about Baptism and the Holy Ghost and when we invited them to be baptized, they said yes. Karina picked March 12th and Joel still wants to receive an answer about the Book of Mormon. But he said that when he gets his answer, he wants to be baptized. It was a really great discussion. The spirit was teaching and they were glowing with the light of Christ again :)
We have seen so many miracles and I am so thankful that the Lord is blessing us so much by being part of this great work and helps His children come unto Him.
I know that with the help of our Heavenly Father we can do anything. I know that we have to have faith in Him and in Christ. And by having faith, that means that we are willing to act. If we don't act, we are not exercising our faith. It's like if we are in front of a river. If we don't take that leap of faith to cross the river, we will never know the wonderful things that you can find on the other side of the river. So, this week have faith, and take a leap of faith :)
Alma 7:24 And see that ye have faith, hope, and charity, and then ye will always abound in good works.
- Hermana Cuevas Da Silva ♥
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