I think it is finally
time to write about the Gutiérrez family.
We met Hermano Gutiérrez
one hot day about two months ago, standing outside his house. As we passed by,
our whiteness caught his attention and so he yelled out a few English words
(Honestly, I don’t remember what they were) and so we stopped to talk with him
for awhile. We explained to him that no, we are not tourists, but rather
missionaries here in MX for a year and a half. He had gotten to know quite a
few churches in his lifetime and so I asked him why he thought we have so many
religions. He didn’t have a straight answer for that, so we asked him if we
could come back to meet with him and his family later that week.
When we went
back we taught only him because his wife wasn't interested
and his three
daughters were busy, but as we went back to visit them, little by little his
family joined into the conversations.
About two short months
later, and many small changes that they have made,
this family of 5 is
preparing to make the sacred covenant with our Father in Heaven to be baptized.
I can’t say that the decisión was a quick one, or that their lives changed from
night to morning, but watching them accept this incredible message and choose
to follow the example of the Saviour has been one of the most beautiful
blessings I have had here on the misión.
For some people, the
desire to listen and act comes quickly. As though they already had a little
coal of belief sleeping in their hearts and suddenly the doctrine that we teach
ignites something bright and fierce inside them that urges them to make a
decisión right away. But for the majority of
the people that I have met, it just doesn’t seem to work like that. It begins
with a small little feeling that can’t really be explained.
I imagine it is
something like that feeling you have when you are almost awake, before the
alarm goes off. Like, you know something big and life changing
is about to
happen, but you are not quite conscious enough to fully notice it.
Actually, I think that’s might how we all are at some point in our lives.
We
are all here living, but not a hundred percent awake.
And if we could just
shake off the sleep a little bit more,
we would notice the grand plans that
Heavenly Father has for us.
Maybe that’s the whole
struggle in life: Waking up enough so that God can fully guide us to the
people we need to know and the places we need to be.
I know that it might not
always be easy, following what He is urging us to do,
but that if we will do it
then life will turn out 100% better.
What better person to put our trust
in, than in Him knows it all?
"O how great the
holiness of our God! For he knoweth all things, and there is not anything save
he knows it." (2 Nephi 9:20, The Book of Mormon)
So that’s my invitation
this week. WAKE UP! Choose not to push snooze.
Con mucho amor, Hermana
Jones
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