Cusi is 18 years old and she has been attending church with her mom since she was 5, but she couldn´t ever get baptized because her dad didn´t give her permission. But despite not being baptized she completed her personal progress and graduated from seminary. She´s inspirational. Rosa was baptized by her son Jean, who is about to leave for his mission. My companion Elder Membrillo baptized Xiomara, Camila and Alonzo were baptized by their grandpa, and Olinda was baptized by one of the elders that taught her while she was visiting her children who live in the other ward´s boundaries but aren´t members. It was really amazing and I felt really happy to be able to see so many people be able to enter into the waters of baptism. At the end everyone who was baptized went up and bore their testimony and their testimonies were so powerful. These people knew what they were doing when they got baptized. It was a really great night.
That same night a miracle occurred. Olinda, who got baptized, has been blind for about a year. She knows that the church is true, and she knows that it is the church led by Jesus Christ, who healed the sick and the blind. Olinda had been praying and fasting with the other Elders that first taught her that with her baptism she would be healed of her blindness. The other elders had also given her a priesthood blessing, I believe. And she had so much faith, I know few people with as much faith as Olinda. So she was baptized on Saturday and my companion and I accompanied her to her apartment. She lives alone and she doesn´t have light in her house, so we helped her into her apartment and we always have to use the flashlight from our phone because she doesn´t have light. My companion was using the flashlight to see around the apartment and all of a sudden Olinda told us that she could see a light. That it seemed to her like there was a light flashing on and off. At first we thought she was joking with us but every time that the light came near her she could tell. And that´s something that she couldn´t do before because we had taught her using the flashlight before, but now she can differentiate between light and darkness. I know that this is the church of Jesus Christ. That he lives, and that he blesses us with miracles according to our faith.
I hope you guys have a great week. I´ve been studying the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible along with the Bible, and it´s really interesting to me the small and simple truths that were taken away but that we now have access to because God has newly called prophets.
Love you guys!
Elder Jones
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