One Baptisim

A few years ago, Elder Javier Misiego, from Madrid, Spain, was serving a full-time mission in Arizona.
At that time, his mission call to the United States appeared somewhat unusual, as most young men from Spain where being called to serve in their own country.

At the conclusion of a stake fireside, where he and his companion had been invited to participate, Elder Misiego was approached by a less-active member of the Church who had been brought by a friend.
It was the first time this man had been inside a chapel in years.
Elder Misiego was asked if he might know a Jose Misiego in Madrid.
When Elder Misiego responded that his father's name was Jose Misiego, the man excited asked a few more questions to confirm that this was the Jose Misiego.
When it was determined that they were speaking about the same man, this less-active member began to weep.
"Your father was the only person I baptized during my entire mission," he explained and described how his mission had been, in his mind, a failure.
He attributed his years of inactivity to some feelings of inadequacy and concern, believing that he had somehow let the Lord down.

Elder Misiego then described what this supposed failure of a missionary meant to his family.
He told him that his father, baptized as a young single adult, had married in the temple, that Elder Misiego was the fourth of six children, that all three boys and a sister had served full-time missions, that all were active in the Church, and that all who were married had been sealed in the temple.

The less-active returned missionary began to sob.
Through his efforts, he now learned, scores of lives had been blessed, and the Lord had sent an elder from Madrid, Spain, all the way to a fireside in Arizona to let him know that he had not been a failure.
The Lord knows where He wants each missionary to serve.

-W. Christopher Waddell -The Opportunity of a Lifetime -October 2011 General Conference

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi