Our family, Marciál and Saide, were almost baptized this week. They see so clearly the happiness and peace that animates their life when they go to church or keep commitments with God, and need to find the courage to make the decision and prepare for a specific day. We had hoped that day could be today. Monday we visited them and proposed the idea and got a mediocre response. So, the plans began. We got the Judge ready, informed all of the leaders in the ward, set plans in place for food, decoration, and the baptismal service. Friday evening they told us they weren´t ready…yet. They had decided, though, that they would in fact be baptized and get married. It seems like the effort and energy that it took to prepare for today was just another step in Heavenly Father’s plan to show them the way. Now we are excited to set an official date and prepare them rigorously for it. As an old, beloved companion of mine once told me: we are no longer solving baptismal doubts—we are now solving eternal family doubts.
Another 6 weeks have passed. In a week and 3 days, our beloved friend and assistant to the President, Elder Polatis along with several other great men of God, will board a plane and fly off into the unknown whisper of a memory that is home; that familiar happiness and love that we can almost feel through flickering computer screens and during brief, hour-long phone calls; the happiness that we preach, of which we testify, and in which we rejoice as we bring it to others—but that we don´t quite have ourselves, at least not in the same way.
Family, I love you and miss you, and I will see you again.
But not yet ;-)
Elder McCarty
Elder McCarty
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After the Paraguay classic. Turns out my new comp was a professional Uruguayan soccer player so now we dominate even more...lol.
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