I Believe in Miracles!!

Family

I hope one day I can learn to manage 60 minutes of time, to write Pres Clegg, my 15 family members personally, read their emails as well, write this letter and upload pictures...Yep, we´ll write that down for a Mission Goal.

Anyways, first off, Lucia got baptized yesterday!! As of the last week, we didn´t even have a fecha (date). It was the coolest thing, Lucia is one of a few of what we call ëternigators¨or eternal investigators that we have, she´s been taking charlas (lessons) and working with missionaries and attending church every week for over a year, and within the last few weeks she´d finally been able to meet the requirements for baptism.. But then there was this gap of not having the faith to take that next step!! She was just waiting on the shores like the Brother of Jared and his family (See Ether 2, they wasted 4 years) anyways, we had this Noche de Hogar (family night) planned with her and this other family in our ward that are super close with her. And in our nightly planning, H Ross and I received the lesson from heaven, it´s not like it was spectacular, but it was exactly what she needed to hear, which was quite obvious, because we left their home witha  baptismal date for Lucia the following weekend. Lucia was baptized and confirmed  yesterday right before Conference. Now, I don´t know everything about Lucia, I haven´t been there every step of the way like the other missionaries, but I can tell you how precious it was to see her make this decision and follow through with it. It was one of the most powerful baptisms I have ever witnessed, when she came up out of the water, she just burst out in tears and embraced Neri for a good 10 or 15 seconds, it was like everything she´s been fighting and all of the pressure and weight of all of whatever just released and was gone in that moment. So tender.

I don´t really have any more time, because I´m awesome and took too long with other things, but I just wanted to kind of share that this week I´ve had a couple experiences, where I¨ve just been knocked off my socks with gratitude. I truly feel blessed, I have everything I could ever want or need in this life, I know my purpose here, I know my Heavenly Father lives, and that I can communicate with him through prayer, and I´ve got all of the tools to return to live with Him again with my family FOREVER!

I really loved Conference, I learned so much, and can´t wait to start applying some of the personal revelation I received to be a better missionary and representative of my Savior, Jesus Christ.

Love you all,

Hermana Nelson