Christmas Miracle

Christmas as a missionary was a really special experience. What better way to remember the life of Christ than to serve as he would serve? I hope you guys also had wonderful Christmases with your families! Among the blessings I recieved Christmas day was eating Christmas dinner 3 times because the members here make it difficult to say no.

I also witnessed a Christmas miracle in my investigator Margarita. She had a desire to be baptized from the moment we first began teaching her, but she was living with her boyfriend. We explained the law of chastity and told her that she would have to marry him before she is baptized. She said that wouldn't be a problem, and we were workinig with the relief society president to plan a nice wedding for her on January 13th. On Friday, her boyfriend decided that he did not like that idea. He told her: "It's me, or religion." She said, "Fine, I choose Christ. Bye." 

She came to church on Sunday in a very similar situation that Jesus was in when he was born: rejected and homeless. When sacrament meeting was finished, she tracked down the bishop and asked him if she could be baptized if she was living single. He told her of course. It wasn't until that afternoon that we learned about the situation. I asked her if she had a place to spend Christmas eve, and she said no. So we arranged for her and her two children to spend the holiday with the relief society president and her family. She later found housing with one of her older daughters and her husband. Her faith through all of this has been absolutely incredible. We are very excited for her to be baptized shortly.

Love,
Elder Stephen Watts

Since we didn't receive any pictures this week, I'm adding one from our Christmas day Skype call.