Hello family,
Well, I had my first to baptisms last week. Their names are Carlos and Tyler, they are both around 10 years old, and super awesome. Tyler is from a member family but he hadn't been baptized yet, I'm not sure why, something to do with their parents getting divorced. Tyler's older brotherStevenn wanted to baptize his brother, so we just had him do both of the baptisms.
I'm learning very quickly, that it isn't us that does the baptizing or the converting, or really anything. All we did for Tyler and Carlos, was teach a few lessons and pray a lot. It was the Holy Ghost that converted them, God that led us to them, and it was they who excepted the message. God literally doesn't need us, because without Him, we couldn't do anything. But he always uses people to accomplish his work. Isn't that interesting?
We are here to learn. God sends out the weak and the inexperienced to do his work so that they can learn. It makes sense though: we are on this earth to learn and fulfill our divine potential. How could we do that without doing his work? If we were only here to baptize, the Spirit would always lead us to people who are completely ready, and just about to jump into the water. But sometimes the Spirit leads us to the most Catholic people imaginable, and it is all so we can learn.
It is interesting to me, how everything God asks us to do is so we can learn; and while we're at it, we can help further his work in bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
