The Adventures of Hermana Nelson: Prayer works

Hi fam!! How are you all!! I love you and miss you all!!

Jose got baptized on Saturday... but like always Satan tries to get in the way of each and every baptism that we have. But like I said before prayer works :)

SO here's the Whole story! So! The font had been filled since Wednesday for this baptism... you could say that we were a bit excited (or there was a different baptism on Wednesday and we believe in conserving water) so all was well... but LITTLE did we know that they were going to drain the font on Friday. Did we wish we would have known... yes :) BUT life moves on. So here in Honduras there has been CRAZY RAIN!! so at around four we were in a members house with one of our investigators and right before we were about to leave to go the the church this huge storm came and our lider de districto told us we couldn't leave the house. so here we are stranded in the house of a member about 3 hours before our baptism. No tranquillo. We got time. (But we had a blast... we had a lesson... sang... ate jello with all the young men and young women while we were stuck indoors :) SO then it was just raining hard so through all the rivers in the street we finally made it to the church at 5. Little did we realized... the power went out. Fun fact... when there's no power... there's no WATER! And here we are 2 hours before our baptism with a drained font. (We were getting really creative though... who said that he had to be baptized indoors and not in main street... there was PLENTY over there! heh heh) BUT rumor had it that there's a planta... or another source of power that the church had... OH!! So lets go find the keys! Funny thing that the only person with the keys is the Stake Presidente... where was he may you ask? In Tegucigalpa and hour away... SO Brainer. (our recently returned missionary lifesaver) went all over town and FOUND the keys (in the pouring rain!!) So by now its 6 raining perros and gatos and tehy finally get the planta out annnnnnndddd its not working. How many priesthood holders does it take to work a planta? A LOT! (back knowledge... when the power goes out here, It usually doesn't come back for at least a day. ESPECIALLY in a storm like this one.)

So we ran home to get the baptismal clothing. At this point we were helpless and didn't know where to go. But when you are helpless and have nowhere else to turn... get on your knees and pray. So that is exactly what we did. Humbly we asked, remembering the will of God we expressed "realmente if Jose is ready to be baptized we know that it will all work out. The baptism starts at 7 o clock. I dont know how or when. But we have the faith that it can happen." We got up and headed back over to the church. 6:50. Everything was pitch black and by now it seemed that the whole elders quorum was working on this planta when BOOM. THERE WAS LIGHT! so we ran inside but, having to be a little more humbled, the tank that was supposed to be full of water... wasn't full. so there was no water falling. Meaning still no baptism. But that's when the miracles start. 6:59.... annnnd 7. AND THERE WAS LIGHT. The whole city had light.... the font filled all the way as we started the service and I cant say that I've seen so much happiness here in this baptism as yet another one of this group of friends got baptized!

I testify with all of my heart that God hears and answers our prayers. He listens to us. He knows our every need. Sometimes He waits for us to be humbled and ALWAYS keep in mind the Will of God. But he is ALWAYS there. All you need to do is get on your knees and express to your Father in Heaven everything you have pressing in your heart and HE WILL LISTEN.

I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH!!! The church is true :) I challenge you if you still don't know that this is the true church, get on your knees and ask God. He is the only one that can answer and if you ask humbly with a sincere heart... You will know.

HERMANA [soaked to the bone) Nelson