I Will Go and Do : Week 13: The Lord Prepares His Children

Faustina, James, and Emmanuel were baptized on Saturday!!! The joy and love that was felt this week was so unreal. I seriously love this family so much and I am so thankful that Elder Stewart/Elder Scoresby and I were able to help them make these sacred covenants with the Lord. Not only were they baptized, but on Sunday they all received the Holy Ghost and James and Emmanuel received the Aaronic Priesthood! (And it was Emmanuel's birthday). So Emmanuel was actually able to help ordain James, what a powerful spirit flooded the room when he laid his hands on James' head. I peeked my eyes open during the ordination and it was so powerful to see Emmanuel using his priesthood. That will definitely be one of my most precious memories from my mission. Also the Spanish Worcester missionaries had a baptism this week! Pretty great for the whole mission with 16 baptisms in all! #Get Dunked

Also this week, we met some pretty incredible people. One being Carline Lysonge, Carline was a Bible referral. So she ordered a free Bible and we had the opportunity to deliver that on Tuesday. The first thing she told us was that 2 days prior to meeting her, she had dedicated her life to God. We asked her what prompted the change. She told us how her family was in a very terrible car crash one week earlier and one of her daughters was even ejected from the vehicle....but not a single person was hurt. Not even her daughter that was ejected! She just had a scratch on her ear. So she new that there must be a God and so she ordered a Bible so she could learn more about Christ. We have met with her twice and she has had lots of promptings to read the Book of Mormon and we set a baptismal date for October 29th. We are hoping all works out well, she's great and it is so amazing to see that the Lord prepares people for the gospel even if it is putting them through a car crash!!!

All is going well here, correction things are going great!! Thank you for all the support and love I receive every day. Being a missionary is so great and I'm very excited for the fall here in Massachusetts. Everyone get ready for General Conference!!!!!

Love,
Elder Gutierrez