Gilberto's Miracle

I have a MIRACLE to share with you guys. 

One of the best moments of all of my mission. 

One of our investigators, Gilberto, has been progressing so much, and this last week we taught him about the blessings of fasting. 
On Friday we were able to fast with him for the baptismal date he had accepted (May 24), and the interview he needed to pass before being baptized. Saturday we went to a baptism service so he could see how it is, and he had his interview directly after. They were in there for about 2 hours, and when our district leader came out he said that Gilberto had told him he didn't feel ready to be baptized on the 24th and that he would rather wait till the 31st. Later, Gilberto told us that when he said that the elder looked sad, so he told him he would pray on Saturday night and tell us the answer on Sunday after the meetings. When our leader told us all of this I just kept thinking "It's ok. I just know he will be baptized in May. I know that everything will work out the way Heavenly Father wants it to." 

So then comes Sunday. In Sunday School the class was about Baptism (how perfect right?), and at the end of the class the teacher asked if anyone had any comments and Gilberto said "I do" and began to tell us that Saturday night after saying his prayer he dreamed that he was on an island, and someone came up to him and submerged him in water. He then told us that he knew the Spirit had baptized him in his dream. Then he told us "I have made the decision to be baptized May 24. I know that it is what I have to do." How amazing!!!! 
It was such a special experience. As missionaries we study and teach and worry ourselves about the progression of each one of the people that we meet, but when it comes down to it the most important answer they need to receive is the one that comes from above. God's plan is perfect. 
He loves his children and is so willing to answer our prayers. 

"The object of prayer is not to change the will of God, but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant, but that we must ask for in order to obtain." -The Guide to the Scriptures "Prayer"

PS This link doesn't relate to this particular blog, but Savannah wanted us to post it today.

http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/mormon-messages/lift-the-power-of-service

Con Amor,
Hermana Jones

Come and See

This coming Saturday and Sunday we will have the wonderful opportunity to listen to the words of living prophets and apostles and I just want to reach out to all with a simple invitation to "come and see" (John 1:39, The Holy Bible) if such a bold statement that GOD SPEAKS TODAY is true. I know that God is unchanging and that if it was said in the past "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7, The Holy Bible), 

then today He works the same way. 

"And again I speak unto you who deny the revelations of God, 

and say that they are done away, that there are no revelations, nor prophecies, nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking with tongues, and the interpretation of tongues;

 "For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, 

and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?
 "And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god 

who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, 

then have ye imagined up unto yourselves 

a god who is not a God of miracles.
 "And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do no miracles, I would ask of you, have all these 

things passed,of which I have spoken? Has the end come yet? 

Behold I say unto you, Nay; 

and God has not ceased to be a God of miracles." 

(Mormon 9:7, 9-10, 15 The Book of Mormon)

For ideas of how to prepare yourself to receive answers through revelation, visit:
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/prepare-for?cid=HP_MO_3-30-2015_dPTH_fGC_xLIDyL2-6_&lang=eng

For a schedule of conference sessions: 
https://www.lds.org/church/events/april-2015-general-conference?lang=eng

Enjoy this wonderful week!
Con amor, Hermana Jones