MOBAT Miracle

2 Nephi 2:25 "Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."

That is exactly what we had this week- JOY! I'm only going to highlight the BIG miracles, but there were a lot of more mini miracles all around us!

Jesus Fierro- He is one of our investigators that has been progressing pretty well! He has now come to church four times and really likes it. He had a baptismal date, but he just didn't feel like he had received an answer if the church was true. We had a miracle lesson where he really poured out his heart to us and told us that he is really searching to know if this is the true church. Such a great man.

Maria Juarez- She got married last week and is going to get baptized this Saturday! She is so amazing and deserves this so much. She has been coming for the past five months and has only missed one Sunday, and she is already reading in Alma in the Book of Mormon!

Jesus Franco- We took Franco to the Mormon Battalion on Saturday afternoon. He has been investigating the church for a little while, but hasn't come to church because he visits his brother who is 15 and lives with a host family in Tijuana on the weekends. He rents a room in the home of a member family who came with him. This last week he finally came and loved it! He wants to be baptized really bad too- he is amazing! After the tour we had a lesson about how to receive answers to questions and when we asked him if he had ever received an answer to a prayer before he said, "Yes. Actually when I walked into this building I felt like crying because it answered a prayer that I offered a year ago." He then went on t explain why, and it was a really spiritual experience for everyone.

Yadira Ortega- She is still doing great! I will send pictures of her baptism! Sorry I forgot last week. We are going over tonight to do some family history work so that she can go to the temple soon and do baptisms for her ancestors! :)

Blanca Toscano and Ruben Chantaka- This is the miracle that made me understand the Atonement of Jesus Christ a little bit better. I explained who they are a few emails again, but they have been super awesome ever since we first met them. We found out that they are not married, but after we told them they need to be married to be baptized they started trying to pick a date, but they haven't come to any real conclusion. On Saturday night we went to the Mormon Battalion and had one of the best tours I have ever been on because the sister that gave our tour, Hermana Trujillo from Honduras, was amazing. I had never met her before, but her tour was amazing and really touched Blanca and Rubens' hearts with her testimony that she bore throughout the tour. Elder Gunther and I were already super ecstatic at that point- but wait, the real miracle has just begun!

Ruben and Blanca were panning for gold together, and Hermana Trujillo was just talking with them (she had become fast friends with them and it was super fun to watch), and the topic of them not being married popped up. Hermana Trujillo bore a little testimony on how great it is going to be after they are married and baptized, but then she looked down at her hand, thought for a few seconds, took off the ring she had on her finger, and gave it to Ruben. She told them about how it was a CTR ring that her mother had given her at her baptism when she was eight, and how she wanted Ruben to have it so he could give it to Blanca and get married. I was floored. I wanted to cry. Typing about it right now makes me want to cry. It was so easy to tell that this ring meant a lot to Hermana Trujillo, and she had just given it to someone that she might never see again. Elder Gunther and I insisted she take it back, but it was easy to tell that she had been prompted by the Spirit to give Ruben her ring, and she followed that prompting immediately. I will never forget what she did. I have no idea how to explain how I felt then, and what I am feeling now as I remember that day, but I learned a huge lesson on what charity really is. 

God is a God of miracles. How does he work these miracles? It's through us. He gives us the privilege to be instruments in His hands and work HIS miracles here on the earth. I love being a missionary!

Elder Dahl

1. Us and the Gonzalez family! W have family home evening with them on
Mondays and they are the best! They bought us the Mexican version of
carameled apples!
2. This is us at the MOBAT with Jesus Franco and the Magadan family!
Franco is the one standing next to me.
3. Us again with Blanca and Ruben. I promise they had a good time even
though they aren't smiling.
4. We had interviews with President Schmitt this past week and he
wanted to take selfies with everyone! He is the best