This is as real as life gets people, it´s truly been a week of miracles.  

So remember that story I told last week of the woman whose son was murdered?  One week ago, she was telling me that she respected the Mormons for what they believed, but that she didn´t believe in Jesus Christ and she believed God was basically just the nature and some strange combination of metaphysics.  Yesterday she told me that she knew God was her father, that He loved her, that Jesus Christ was her Savior and had died for her, and that she knew Joseph Smith was a prophet who restored the gospel and that she wants to be baptized.  And that people is the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It can change someone in one week.  There´s only a tiny snag.  she is visiting her sister and she´s going to return home sometime this week and her home is on a remote archipelago five hours away from a church.  We told her we would talk to our mission president about sending missionaries.

We taught her every day this week, and every lesson was incredible.  She has been depressed and unable to work ever since her son was murdered three years ago, but she told us this has changed everything.  She feels peace and hope and faith that she will see her son again.  She told us that the day before we came, she prayed to God that He would send help because she was feeling incredible pain about her son, and she looked up and saw a light in the middle of her dark room that immediately went off.  The next day, as she was waiting for us and her sisters to arrive, she randomly opened her sister´s Bible and read a passage about the Lord sending angels to those in need.  And 20 minutes later we arrived and her nephew bore his testimony.  She calls us her angels and says that she´s going to take a picture together with us to hang in her home to remember.  This experience has truly humbled me because I know I am no angel and I know I can´t have this effect on people, but the gospel of Jesus Christ can.  I wish I could explain this experience better, but it´s been truly inexplicable.  She has completely changed in one week.  She says she no longer feels the same emotional pain that she did one week prior.  I know this gospel is true and I know there are those who might say this experience is a result of something else.  But I was there.  And I saw that change.  And I know nothing but the Savior of the world and His gospel can do that.

In other news, I´m playing piano for the youth choir that are preparing for christmas.  I think they´re banking on me staying I LOVE YOU ALL GOODBYE!!!