The Faith to Drop

There comes a point in every missionaries life where they have to drop an investigator (the person ¨investigating¨or learning about the gospel). This is necessary when they are no longer wanting to learn. They stop keeping commitments, start avoiding us, stuff like that. Or we just can´t find them.

One such person was Sergio. My companion found him when she was street contacting about a 2 months ago. He was incredibly sensitive to the spirit. In other words he was ¨Golden¨, this terminology is used when a person is just soaking in what the spirit has to teach, everything makes sense to them and they can´t wait to learn more. He could feel the truth of the Gospel. We taught him for about two weeks, and then.... he went on vacation. We have been trying to find him since.

Finally we had to drop him. This was so hard, because we knew that he was ready for the Gospel and the great blessing that it would be in his life. But we decided to trust that God would make sure Sergio had the opportunity to accept the Gospel in the future.

Two days later, we were going ¨Arriba¨ (the highest part of our area) and of all people, we crossed paths with Sergio! We were stoked! of course we began to teach once more. He decided that he wanted to be baptized on the 20th of August. But something made me and my companion feel that he needed to take that step sooner. During weekly planning we planned to teach Sergio the lessons as if he would be baptized that coming weekend

On Thursday we asked if he wanted to be baptized sooner. He asked if we thought he was ready. We told him to pray about it. And promised, as representatives of Jesus Christ that God would answer.

Hno. Sergio, Change his baptismal date! He was baptized on Saturday and he is so happy. his countenance is brilliant! He is a very punctual person, which doesn´t happen often in our experience. So of course he was the first person at the church, an it was still locked. He had the opportunity to run. But at his baptism he shared with us his experience, and said ¨I decided that I was ready at this time to follow the example of Christ, to take this first step towards eternal life!

The Gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives! I challenge you to let it change yours. I love you all! ¡Nos Vemos!

Sonrei - Hna Milmont