What an excellent week though. We witnessed some miracles, and definitely had my faith grown. The preisthood is the power of god. No doubt in my mind. Let me just tell you a quick few things that happened to us this week.
We were hoping to make workable progress with our fechas we put last week. 2 of them are in this; reading, praying, and asking for answers. But one of our investigators asked us on a whim if we would be able to help him in something concerning his family. Let me draw this out for you.
He tells us that he has a sister that had recently returned from living in coracau (Islands just off the coast of colombia), he told us she had been sick for a long time out there and even moreso upon coming back AND that she had sought help from a, what he paraprashed, an ''enemy''. We knew that mean a witch, or a witchdoctor I think is what you'd call it in english.
So we came over to her house real fast after eating some quick lunch. After stepping just one foot into her house, justa bout every red flag possible went off in my head. I felt just so.. empty. It smelled awful but we walked in through the mess of trash into her room. And there she was, hunched over next to her crouched-down son who had his head down to his mothers hands. And woah, this woman was not well. She could not, even if she wanted to, raise her head to tell us hello. So we expain to the people present what it was that we were about to do, and proceeded with the blessing. E. Graff did the annointing and I gave her the blessing. It was a power feeling of peace that entered the room and the blessing lasted no more than a minute or two. But I remember saying 3 times that if there were any unwelcomed host in her body that it should leave this instant. And in the name of Jesus Chrish I ended the blessing.
But what happened after what a-s-t-o-n-i-sh-i-n-g. She looked up, didn't say anything at first, but after we asked how she felt she said, ''mejor'' (better). And she was smiling. Her family thanked us and we went on our way.
So later on that night, her son (our investigator) calls us. I didn't see the call til that next moring. But he told us that she had passed away that same day later in the night. Wow. We're sure that whatever she had in her was the support keeping her alive. So once we said amen to that spirit, her body couldn't support itself and her spirit went back to where it was supposed to be.
A real miracle and I've gotta say, a test of faith for that family . Alfredo told us that he hadn't seen his sister every smile since she returned back, and that was over 4 weeks ago. He's doing okay, but is left with the 11,000 peso debt for the casket. This guy is really being given some trials of faith. He still believe in what we're teaching him but needs to find a way to come up with the money. It's really something we're been focused on lately. I would ask if you could keep him and his family in your prayers and all the people who we're visiting. They all have such neat stories and are in need of big miracles to get to baptism.
Thats about all theres time for today..
Have a great thanksgiving everyone!
Elder Tate
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