hola familia,
Well as you know, Presidente Obeso is going home this week. He
has cancer. Luckily they caught it early on. He is going back to Mexico and
then to San Diego to have an operation. After that, he´ll be in his house
disfrutando (enjoying) time with his grandchildren.
I love my mission president and his wife. They are people called
of God. He is such a great example of trusting in the Lord. He told us many
times that he has no fear. That we need not be sad because the new mission
president is better than he is. Presidente Obeso left us with the parting
advice of ¨rompe sus cielos¨ and ¨Hay que hacer
cosas¨ jaja
Oh something that I forgot to mention.... Alejandro wasn’t
baptized this week because Maria is separated from her husband not legally divorced.
The divorce was supposed to be finalized last week and then they would get
married and then that Saturday he would be baptized. The witnesses
didn’t show up to sign the divorce doc. so the divorce didn’t go through. Which
means that now we have a law of chastity violation. We talked with him, and I
really felt the power and authoridad of my calling when I told him that he
needed to separate and live alone until they got married. Alejandro told us,
with pain in his eyes, “Hermanas, I’ve stopped smoking, I’ve stopped drinking.
I’m sorry. I can’t do that. We’ve been living together for 4 years. I can’t.”
The day of his baptism passed and yesterday he went to talk to
the bishop to see if there was any way he could be baptized and still live with
Maria. It’s sad, but also really cool to see that not only does he have a
testimony, he is feeling the need to be baptized.
They have another date with the judge Oct. 15 and now
by law the witnesses have to come or they will be arrested. But it really
stinks because then they have to wait another 9 months until she can legally
get married to prove that Maria isn’t pregnant by her first husband (so she
doesn’t try and get child support saying that the dad walked out on her and
left her) There are a ton of Chilean laws that are super old and really dumb. This
just happens to be one of them....
BUT we found a super awesome girl who accepted baptism for the
24th of this month. She’s gone to church 2 times and is progressing sooo fast.
It’s a funny story how we found her. I’ll tell it another time because we don’t
have a lot of time... but yeah! Her name is Veronica. She prayed for the first
time out loud this past week and it was such a tender spiritual experience. There
is so much power in prayer.
love you all! Tenga una buena semana (Have a nice week)! Jake, Joey,
write me!
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| Last photo with Presidente and Hermana Obeso |
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