Miracle - Oct 1

WOW!!! The Lord´s hand is truly commanding this missionary work that I am a part of, and as a result I witnessed more miracles these past seven days than I think I´ve witnessed in the past 19 years of my life. 
I don´t even know where to begin...this past week my faith and testimony were tried more than they ever have before in my life. As a result of truly working with all my heart, might mind and strength and trusting in the Lord, putting my faith in him and praying with real intent, we witnessed miracle after miracle this week. 
When September started, Elder Funk and I prayed to know how many people we could baptize during the moth of September. When we finished our prayer that first week of September, it became very clear that the Lord wanted us to set the goal to baptize 4 people during the month of September. The four people that had baptismal dates marked were: Andrea, a mother, in her 40´s, of 3 young men who are members, and the oldest son is serving a mission in northern Brasil; Jose, a father, in his 40´s, and husband of recent converts, his wife, Shirlei, being the third person I helped baptize 2 months ago in this area of Guarani; and Vera (a street contact that Elder Evans and I made three months ago), a single mother in her 50´s, and her 20 year old daughter, Tais.
However, as the first couple weeks of September passed, all four of the people we had plans to baptize were progressing very slowly and Vera told us in the middle of September that she didn´t want to be baptized anytime in the near future. At this point, in the second to last week of September, I began to start to feel helpless because we only had 3 people to baptize and we wouldn´t be able to meet our goal of 4 baptisms. However, after stying firm in the faith and contiunually praying to be able to encounter a 4th person, our prayers were answered of Tuesday, the 18th, at the end of our district meeting. We received a reference of a 18 year old young woman, named Anny, that the Elders in the neigboring area Samambaia gave to us and said that she was a golden investigator ready for baptism. Since, we receive so many references we put it to this side and told ourselves that we´d visit her in a couple weeks. The Lord, however, had other plans. That same afternoon we ran into a less active member and he said that his non member sister was planning on coming to church. At that moment, we asked who this sister was...he responded that her name was Anny. we then looked at the reference and low and behold it was the same Anny who we´d received as a reference that morning. This less active member, Erinaldo, told us he´d taker her to church on Sunday the 23rd and we could start teaching her a few days after. To our amazement, Erinaldo brought Anny to church and that is when we realized that we had one week to accomplish our goal of 4 baptisms. Without hesitation we marked an appointment with Anny for Wednesday the 26th. 
On Wednesday, I did a division with Elder Haycock, a new elder of 3 weeks in the field and we taught Anny a summary of all the lessons and reviewed the questions to be baptized. During this lesson, the next miracle occured, she was obeying all the commandments and had a firm testimony of the gospel and Book of Mormon. To make a long story short she decided to be baptized on Saturday night and on Sunday the other miracles occured, Jose, Tais and Andrea were all baptized. Our goal was met and miracle had occured.