This week has been such a blessing. Hence the title "Blessings on top of Blessings". I have felt so grateful for everything that the Lord has blessed me with and for all the miracles and little tender mercies he gives everyday. One thing that I have really learned is that if we are exactly obedient and completely faithful the Lord can't help but give us blessings. So the ipinakamagandang blessing we witnessed this week, was the baptism of the Mesa Family. Maria Victoria, Ronillia, and Riveca Mesa were all baptized this week and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever witnessed.
We were fortunate enough to find them at the very end of November through talking to them on the street.. now a couple months later they made a covenant with the Lord and are now official members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It's that amazing. We have been through so much with the Mesa family. Many laughs, lessons, prayers, tears, spiritual confirmations, and so much more. This family means so much to me and they are so close to my heart. There is still a lot of work to do to get their whole family to accept the gospel and someday enter the waters of baptism, but this is a very great first step. I know the Lord is pleased.
We were fortunate enough to find them at the very end of November through talking to them on the street.. now a couple months later they made a covenant with the Lord and are now official members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It's that amazing. We have been through so much with the Mesa family. Many laughs, lessons, prayers, tears, spiritual confirmations, and so much more. This family means so much to me and they are so close to my heart. There is still a lot of work to do to get their whole family to accept the gospel and someday enter the waters of baptism, but this is a very great first step. I know the Lord is pleased.
I remember as I was watching them enter into the baptismal font their faces just being so excited and ready to be clean. After each of them were baptized you could see it on their faces and in their eyes that they were changed. They literally accepted the gospel and it changed their whole life. How grateful I feel for each one of them. I remember talking to Victoria (the Mother) after her baptism and she just said, "Sister Barton, i'm clean."
She has such a sweet spirit. It radiated before she was baptized, but oh how much more it radiates now. It's so wonderful to be apart of such a great work that brings people so much joy and salvation.
As we were attending MLC this last week I really felt such a great impression to always constantly seek for the Spirit. How it is so important to have the Spirit with us at all times. Not just in lessons, or when we want answers, or when we feel the need of the Spirit. We need to literally seek the Spirit to be in our lives every second of every day. We are in constant need of the Spirit and it's promptings and it's teachings to each of us every single day. It was a really nice impression. I know that sometimes I seek for the Spirit to be with me when i'm teaching or talking with an investigator, but I realized I need to seek the Spirit when i'm talking to anyone or doing the simple things so that I can feel the Spirit and seek that love every day and at every time of my life.
I know that because of the Spirit the Mesa family was baptized. I know that they were willing and prepared by the Lord to hear the message and act upon it. I feel grateful to be a missionary and a true disciple of Jesus Christ. I know that when we have the Spirit with us, anything is possible.
I'm truly grateful for this work. I'm grateful for inspiration and revelation received from the leaders of the church. I love being a missionary and working everyday to bring lost souls back home. I love my savior Jesus Christ, I love His teachings, and I especially love being His servant.
Mahal ko kayo,
Sister Barton
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