Angels of the Lord

This past week we baptized our last 3 investigators! The great thing is that we had 3 baptisms, but on that same note, there goes all our work! But thats ok, we´ll find more!
It was a very spiritual experience (I´ll be sure to send in pictures next week, I don´t have time this week). So Marina, Sandra and Manuel were all baptized. They are family members of another member in our ward. They are from Colombia. Marina is about 80 years old and has had contact with missionaries for 13 years. Sandra is the sister of the member and daughter of Marina and Manuel is 19 and the son of Sandra.
Marina has some serious knee problems and was SCARED TO DEATH of going in the water, not so much getting in the water, but bending her knees and being under the water. She made that very clear to us almost every lesson, we just kinda brushed it too the side though.
Side note, we found them the first week I was here in Elche and its taken the past 12 weeks to get them ready, its been a long hard process going up and down, but of course it was worth it!
Manuel gave up friends and an old lifestyle, Sandra gave up an old lifestyle and Marina faced her fears of being baptized.
The baptismal service was very nice and one of the friends of Marina, who is also a member of the church, gave the talk. He said as he prepared the talk and thought about something he could say to give a little bit of comfort to marina this thought came to him. He said, something along the lines of this, "Marina, the lord knows your pain and all the issues with your knees but you need to be baptized and so he will send his angels to assist you in this thing." It was very powerful and we could all feel it. As marina went into the baptismal font she was trembling and as her son Carlos was getting ready to baptize her, she was shaking her head and whimpering "no Carlos, ahora no." He looked at her, smiled and she gave a weak smile back, then he said the prayer and she went under the water and she came back up! No problems! woohoo! Everyone at the baptism knew about her fear and it was all the audience could do from not bursting out in applause. I know thats how if was for me anyway!
When Manuel gave his testimony he preached the good word to everyone and invited everyone who wasn´t baptized to follow the example of Jesus Christ and do so! It was awesome! I was all smiles the whole time! He´s told us he wants to serve a mission.
But on the topic of missionary work and the story of marina, it really hit me that the lord is at the helm of this work and that he is sending down his angels to assist in any way. We didn´t see them, but I am 100 percent positive that angels of the lord came down and comforted Marina and made sure that all went well.
It was a wonderful experience and I am so grateful that I could have been a part of it.
Os quiro mucho!
Jason