Howdy y´all!

What an incredibly fabulous week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are truly seeing miracles every day, so many, in fact, that I don´t know if I can choose which one to tell you. Ok, just two:

"A couple , Evelyn and Pabel, have been investigators forever, at least a year and love the church and want to get baptized, but are waiting for their papers to go through so that they can get married. They came to church out of the blue last week and we scheduled a visit. They only have time at 9pm on Friday nights. We invited their good friend who is a member to come and they told us that they finally got their papers and can get married in August and want to get baptized right after that!!! The Spirit was so strong in their house and they are prepared and ready to be members. It was a great lesson and we are so excited to see how excited they are for this day to finally come.

Also, we had some empty time slots this week and as I was trying to decide what to do, after we prayed, the name of an active member kept coming to my mind all week. I finally talked to my companion about it and we decided to call and set up a visit even though she is active and comes to everything and it wouldn´t count for "numbers." We told her we didn´t know why we needed to meet with her, but felt like we should. We found out that she was speaking in church AND teaching the Relief Society lesson the next day AND her grandmother is going through a lot of medical problems. She really needed the boost and told us she has been feeling like she needs to organize a family fast for her grandmother, but didn´t know how because they are all in Chile and non-members, but because of our visit, she is going to do it! She gave one of the most sweet, heart-felt prayers I have ever heard in any language. This was a miracle for me and a witness that we should follow all good impressions, even if we aren´t sure why. Heavenly Father knows and He will bless those who will follow the impressions they receive.

Marco is going to be baptized this Friday! He is excited and doesn´t understand everything, but has a lot of faith and is willing to act--Friday night at 7. Cinthya is also excited for her baptism next week and every visit gets more animated and comfortable with us--she is really shy! Dave is a CR (young adult) and the last lesson we had, we invited him to prepare to receive his patriarcal blessing.This week he told us that he talked to the Bishop and is moving forward with this goal! We are so excited for him and the example he is setting to his brother and other CR friends"

Ok, I have to tell you about Fátima. She is wife of a recently reactivated member. The missionaries didn´t even know she wasn´t a member because she always came to church! June 13th, we got a phone call from the husband, Jesús, asking us to come over and teach his wife about the purpose of life and what happens afterward--Plan of Salvation. I told him, "Yeah, we can do that!" :-) She knows like everything, but is terrified of committing to a date...2 weeks ago she chose one...Christmas.ahahahaha So this week we had a visit with her and I was feeling the Spirit really strong and just went with whatever came into my head and heart. She had answered a question in Sunday School that morning about what makes our church different and she said "temples." So I told her how that impressed me and asked what is stopping her from enjoying the blessings of the temple and having an eternal family. She still had the same doubts about wanting to know 100% and not being rushed. But she asked Jesús to leave and told us privately that she thinks she wants to be baptized, but doesn´t want Jesús to know until she is sure and yadda, yadda. I told her, rather forcefully :-), that he needs to know everything she is feeling and thinking more than anyone!!! So when we started testifying about the temple she asked him to come back in. I knew she had to be feeling the Spirit, but her doubts were in the way, so I asked her to think about what if she got baptized in August and how she´d really feel and we were just going to sit in silence for a minute and think--no talking. She still said the same doubts, but something was different. I could feel it. I was impressed to testify that baptism was just the stepping stone to the temple and her baptismal date really signifies the beginning of the year mark for when they can go to the temple as a family and be sealed together. I realized that I had never asked Jesús directly why he wanted Fátima to be baptized and to bear his testimony of the temple. It was so sweet. He told her he wants them to be on the same path and together forever. She knows how important the temple is to him and he is waiting until January when he gets his membership restored and can go to the temple again after 5-6 years of inactivity. She was crying as she told us about how important eternal families are to him and to her. Then ( I was crying by this time too) he promised her that he would wait for her and not go back to the temple in January, but wait until they can go together and be sealed in August 2013. It was the sweetest, most tender promise I have ever heard, in English OR Spanish. They chose 25th of August together for her baptism!!! There are just not words to go along with the feelings of that moment. Engraved in my memory forever. I couldn´t help but follow yet another impression and promise that I will do everything I can to come back in August 2013 to be there with them in the Madrid temple. It was incredible. It makes all the looooong days, too tired to think or walk, sweating all day long, wearing nothing but dresses, getting yelled at and taunted in the street, struggling with the language and all the personal sacrifices worth it. What else matters more than eternal families?! Nothing. And nothing ever will.

The miracles never cease here in Hospitalet.

I love you all and you are in my heart--carrying me through. What miracles have YOU seen today? Find them.

Love you,

Hna Clarissa Dalton