So the crazy and most exciting part about this week (aside from waking up almost everynight swatting cockroaches off of me and then not being able to go back to sleep) was that we baptized AGAIN! When this week started we had no dates set but we witnessed a pretty sweet miracle.
So on Tuesday we set out to find Lupita and figure what happened (the other girl who was supposed to be baptized with Magaly but disappeared) we went and talked to all her neighbors and the only thing we could figure out was that there was a family problem and her mom went one place, her dad another and all the kids to another, probably to their grandma´s house... but nobody knew what that was. So we sort of gave up and went to contact a reference that lived nearby but the parents weren´t home, just the kids and their cousins. We decided to ask the kids of this family if they had heard anything about Lupita and they said no BUT their teeny little 6 year old cousin piped up and said that they were with their grandma. I asked her how she knew and she was like ´oh she lives pretty close to my house´ then pretty much shouting I asked where the little girl lived, and she gave us absolutley terrible directions to her house which was way out in the middle of nowhere, where we had never been and where there are no missionaries. I tried drawing a map and asking her to show me where her hosue would be or how to get there but it was no use. All we ended up with was ´by a sign that says Yaqui there´s a white house on a corner in one of the 5 government housing projects built out past the rail road tracks´ (the invonabit government housing projects are these teeeeny little identical houses all pegged together in lines. Each project probably has about 300-500 houses and about everyother house is white)
So my comp was like yeaaah we´re never going to find her, which is really what it seemed like but I just had this really hopeful feeling that we could find her. SO I was just like Vamanos Elder, have some faith. And we headed off to the other side of the railroad tracks out into the desert and biked around not really knowing where to go for like an hour until we found this guy on the side of the road selling grapes and we asked him for directions and he was like ´Im not from here I just sell grapes but down this road you might find what your looking for´ a little confused we realized we had no better idea than him so we went down this road until we ended up at this old semi abandoned water park. We stopped there and talked for a little and my comp asked so how much longer do you want look for her, or where do we go now? And I didn´t really know how to answer him or where to go next but something kept telling me to keep looking. So we went back down the same road and as we were passing a little housing project all the stupid little directions the girl gave me started to make a lot of sense in my mind. Like what she said to us realy made no sense but all of the sudden I was like ´oh this is what she meant, turn here´so we turned and went down this road and then my companion was like ´NOO WAY, this sign (this tiny little street sign) says Yaqui´!!!! So we stopped amazed that we found this sign and looked around at proabably 100 identical white houses on this on street. We also didn´t even know her grandma´s name so we could ask around for her and were thinking about what to do when about 100 yards down the street a little kid ran out into the road and starting whistling at as. My companion was like ´Is that little Chito dude? NO way!¨ And then as we got closer the kid started yelling HERMANOS HERMANOS and then out of the same house came Lupita and her mom. And me and Elder Ranger just looked at eachother and started laughing.
Long story short after talking to Lupita and her mom and finally figuring out all of what went down, and then explaining to them how we found them, Lupita asked us when she could get baptized.
Saturday she was baptized and Sunday her and Magaly were confirmed members of the church. There´s actually a lot more cool parts to this story but I don´t have a lot more time to write.
I know that this is the Lord´s work. He Himself directs it. If we are worty and willing we can participate and He will guide us, in the bringing of souls unto Him. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Elder Mitchell
(Chito and Lupita)
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