A Dream Come True

Today and tomorrow is District Conference (the equivalent of Stake Conference). Yesterday we picked up the visiting Area Authority who will be presiding - Elder Hugo Martinez of the Seventy. He is from Puerto Rico, speaks native Spanish,excellent English, and no French. He is mid-50's, a retired Family Physician, married to a pediatrician (also Puerto Rican). His wife also has a law degree and is a cofounder of a successful HMO in Puerto Rico. The HMO went public and they have retired as a result. They joined the Church while attending medical school at University of Mississippi. We had a nice conversation while driving him to his hotel. We asked him if we could do anything for him. He responded by sincerely asking if there was anything he could do for us. We told him we were on our way to visit the Lafolé family (baptized last week) to encourage them and to help the father prepare for his brief testimony he is invited to give at the Sunday session of District Conference. He counseled us to help the father prepare a brief testimony and to teach him the basics of what a testimony is.
On our way to visit the family, we got a phone call from the elders who have been teaching the family. They have been trying to visit the family all week, and each time their ride has fallen through (the family lives 1 hr. plus from the chapel). They were sorry to call us at the last minute, but thrilled that we were available since we were heading that way.
The night before his baptism, the father of the family had a dream. In his dream, he wanted to pray but did not know exactly how to pray. He wanted to know the basic steps of how to address his Heavenly Father. In the dream Linda came forward and told him she would teach him how to pray in English and that I would then translate it into French. In his dream that made him very happy.
When we arrived last night, we told him that we would do two things. First Linda would review for the family the basic manner of prayer and that I would translate for her into French. Secondly, she would review for the family the basic steps of how to share a testimony. Linda of course did very well. After she had finished, brother Lafolé said that as she was speaking, he could feel the truth of what she was saying in his heart before hearing the translation. It was the message coming from the messanger that touched him - rather than the translation. He felt that this was a fulfillment of the dream he had the week before.
There was a great spiritual feeling in the home. He worked with his wife and children to try to express his testimony for the talk on Sunday. We trust he will do well.