April 20, 2011

Hey Ma, I love you so much, thanks for everything and I am so glad that the family is doing so great, and that is awesome, Alex is going to Baptise Shawnee!!!!! He is o carra! haha

How is Blake doing? Iv been thinking about him with the whole Autism Spaeaks thing.

I don´t have much time today, but just so you know, you quessed exactly how life for me here is about 90 percent of the time, but 10 percent of the time I have amazing experiences. And I want to share one of them with you today,

So, last night the Elders from Antares told my companion that they were having difficulties with motivating this family to be baptised, the Mom had a great desire and she is ready, but her husband is not and she wants to have their baptism all be at the same time, so my companion felt strongly that all 4 of us go there together and he felt stronly that I shoul lead on this one.

When we went there I saw something that I have only dreamed of, one of Marta and Milton´s daughters Mareana is special needs and cannot speak, she has a sister named Janaena who helps watch her, I was amazed, I could not have imagined a more perfect scenario, so my companion entered, and after the opening prayer left me to speak. As I looked at this family I cannot describe the love that I felt for them, and so, after a moment of taking everything in I felt strongly to say That I know that my Heavenly Father will help me to say exactly what I need to say, Then I told them about Gregory and my life and how the knowledge that I chose him to be my brother in the pre-earth life made everything ok. And then, with all of the love and power that I could muster I told them all of my dreams for Gregory and me after this life and that I know that my family can be together forever, then I took out a picture of my family.

And I turned to the mother and I told her that sometimes life is hard but I told her that there have been times in my life when my mother has been a light for our family and then I testified to her about the spirit and I asked her if she would be baptised so that she could be a light for her family, the way my mother has been a light for mine. After I asked her this question she said with all of the strength she had "Vou!!!" Shortly after I had testified to the family as individuals and as a group, Marta told me something I also did not expect, Mareana had a little pink doll that she had been adoring while we were there. Marta said that she knew that she could trust what I said because Marta takes her love for others and puts it into that doll and when we entered she felt great love for the doll, then I realized, why Gregory likes cars.

She finished by telling me how greatful she was for the sacrifice of my family and that she feels like while my family was going through that her family was as well, and she told me that even though our families are a half a world apart we now have this connection, and she knows that while I was being prepared in my family, their family was being prepared for us.

I want to finish by testifying of that which she spoke, I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and that he loves that family, and before I entered that house there were pieces of me that were rough and broken because of the experiences of my life, but when I left that house I felt clean and purified. It amazes me that Heavenly Father chose someone with the imperfections and brokeness that I have to that family that together we were made whole. Even when I was going through some of my hardest times with Gregory and my family as a whole I now see that I was being prepared, the good and the bad sides of me to help that family, and when I helped them, they helped me. I want to testify that the work of the Lord truly is a marvelous work, and a wonder. And I say these thing in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

-Elder McOmber

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Para meus amigos brasilaidos nos estados Unidos:

Eu quero contar voces uma experiencia que eu tive ontem a noite, nos fomos para a casa de alguiem chama se Marta, ella tem uma familia com dois filhas e um esposo, um das filhas dela tem necessidades especiais, e eu contei ella que a familia dela pode ficar juntos, para sempre, depois desta vida tambem, e eu tetifique sobre meu irmao, Gregory e ella disse que a familia dela vai ser batisada com autoridade de Deus. E ella me contou que a filha que tem necessidades especiais tem uma buneca e quando nos entramos ella comecou a adorar esa buneca e Marta disse que eso e´ porque ella teve grande amor para nos mas ella coloqou amor della nesa buneca.

E´ muita maravilhosa porque eu pensei que eu ajudei esa familia, mas em verdade enquanto eu estava ensinando esa familia deas estave me ensinando, eu sei que esto fazendo a trabalho do Senhor!