Hermana Charly Flake : Somos los soldados que combaten error, que dicha es!

(Mother's Day Skype Call) I apologize for all the tech probs... yes I love technology, but not as much as you you see. But like I told y'all it was all for a reason and it means the Lord is taking care of us, cause after skyping with you guys Saturday night you'll never guess what happened to us!

We were super stressed with all the tech probs, my comp didn't even end up being able to skype her family that night and so we rode our bikes super fast to our appointment with Corina. We arrived 40 minutes late, knocked on her door and she answered us, crying and fear in her eyes. She rushed us in and locked the door behind us and started to explain how her boyfriend, Sebastian, had come over that night SUPER angry and was yelling at her, telling her that she better not be baptized in the church or else. Do you remember how he was so against it all from the beginning? Well this time he lost it. He told her that she had to choose between him and the church, and when she told his straight out " Well then, fine, I choose the church of Jesus Christ" he lost it even more and started to throw and break her dishes in her very own house! Turns out the tech probs were a blessing too because he was doing all of this at the time of our scheduled appointment, and he had just left 5 minutes before we arrived. It was so crazy too cause minutes after we were safe inside the house he came back and started banging on the door, shouting her name and holding down the doorbell. We were seriously scared haha. We all knelt down and said a prayer together. Sebastian continued banging for about 20 minutes and finally left. He knew we were there because our bikes were tied up outside. Well when we finally felt like it was safe to leave, we said another prayer and hopped on our bikes to ride home as fast as we could ONLY to find that he had SLASHED our bike tires! Haha they were completely flat! I wanted to pull a Nacho move SO BAD in that moment and throw a Mayonaised corn stick right at his face but he was no where in sight haha. So we walked home! With no other options, we were so freaked out cause we didn´t know what his intentions were with us. But I am here to testify that the adversary never wins.

That very next morning Corina, my companion and I woke up at 5:00 AM to get in the branch combi to bring us to the Stake Conference in Monte Grande, 3 hours away. Corina hadn´t been able to sleep a wink because Sebastian was banging on her door every couple hours. Poor girl! But I am so amazed at her courage and her steadfastness! The Conference was exactly what we all needed! Corina cried during the talk about the Baptisms for the dead, she wants to go to the temple so bad and on the way home she surprised us by telling us that she wants to serve a mission!!! I am so excited! She gets emotional when she talks about it, she is so converted and such an example to me.

Believe it or not we saw Sebastian later that Sunday when he was calmed down. He told us during the lesson with Corina a bunch of things that really aren´t worth repeating, basically telling Corina that she was stupid for believing in God and in all that we are teaching her. He asked her if she was really going to obey the law of Chastity and when she told him yes he got super angry again and said ¨"then it´s over between us, I would never want to marry you" Corina just looked at him straight in the eyes and told him "Great! Fine with me! " haha I just love her! Her baptism will be this Saturday. We didnt say anything about the bikes until the end when I shook his hand and said "Ah its a shame we dont have bikes anymore " with the biggest smile on my face hahaha and he just smirked and looked at the ground it was a moment of victory, knowing that we won the fight!!!