ey all! As the title indicates, this week was a lot of nothing but with a huge freaking miracle. So I'll go ahead and skip over the whole lot of nothing and share the miracle!
So Tuesday morning I got a call from President Harris telling me that he'd be coming to accompany us to visit less actives Thursday evening after a training that we had. So we spent that day and Wednesday putting all the appointments that we could and then Thursday morning we went to a training for a new open chapel program that our mission is doing. After the training, President drove us to Pichidegua and we ate lunch together. After that we went to some of the less actives and President is just a rock star. It does help that people have a lot more respect for a man of age that has the word ''President'' on his chest, but he is also just amazing at showing love. Sadly enough, none of the less actives we visited ended up coming to church, but they said they would! So that's at least a start.
But the miracle happened with a man named Dagoberto Molina. All I knew about this man was that he was supposedly branch president a long time ago and went inactive and was eventually baptized into the evangelical church. He was famous for being one of the most hardened inactives in the city, and though we tried to find him to set up an interview with president (because he needs a disciplinary council for being baptized into another church) he would never come out of the house. We decided to go by with President, and his wife was outside the house, just leaving to go to work. I went to talk to the wife, asking if Dagoberto was at home to which she replied no. I asked her when he would be home when President got out of the car and went up and hugged her and asked her if it would be alright if he went to their house sometime to talk to them. She, very surprisingly, said that it would be alright, and that we came at a good time. President proceeded to tell her that God loved her, that she's a really good person, and that he loved her. She started to weep, and told us to go find Dagoberto at his job, gave us the address, and gave us his cell phone number. She repeated that we had come at the perfect time.
So we went to his job just a few streets down and we greeted him as he walked toward the car (his wife called and told him we'd be coming) and President asked him if it'd be alright if they got together to talk another day. He also said it'd be alright, and then President hugged him and told him the same thing he told his spouse, when Dagoberto also began to weep and replied, ''you don't know all the things I've done, President.'' President replied that it was okay, that everything was okay, that that's what the atonement was for. He said that if there's anyone that understands shame, it was him, and that we all need the Savior's grace in our lives. At that point we kind of all lost it and were all crying, when Dagoberto said that he felt the Spirit of God and President hugged him again, told him that God loved him and that he loved him, and that everything was going to be okay.
''Perfect love casteth out all fear.'' I feel extremely privileged to have President Harris as an example for me here.
So that was our story! We've recently found out Dagoberto's full story of why he went inactive and all that but that'll probably have to wait for next week for the lack of time. It was an incredible miracle though, and we were all extremely grateful to have witnessed it. Lives are changing, one at a time. The moments where we see God's hand so clearly truly are precious.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Love
Elder Fox
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