.... undeniable witness..."

Within a few minutes, the storm subsided and the thunder moved on toward Nswaum. We shuffled a bit to once again become somewhat comfortable and Margrette looked at my eyes. She experienced wonderment as I asked her to share the dream she had seen about her baptismal day, dressed in white. Elders Boateng and Smith looked at me, but were quite and humbled with such a question. We continued to gaze into Margrette’s eyes. Her beautiful brown cheeks were wet with tears and she began to blot them with her hand towel. Not a word was spoken as the question I posed to this sweet women, touched her heart and ours too. With a soft voice she confirmed that she had seen a vision and she could not deny the witness of the Holy Ghost. It was silent for some time and I asked her what she was feeling. She raised straight in her chair and whispered to us she would be baptized on the 22^nd of December 2012 when all of her children would be home from schooling for the holidays. Elders Boateng and Elder Smith were touched also as she uttered those precious words of commitment to the Lord, and all of our eyes were filled with tears of joy.

Over the next eight weeks, Sister Dalton and I were constant visitors and friends with Sister Drah. We have learned to love the family deeply and especially President and Sister Drah’s loving relationship. We are eternal friends and will be present at their sealing in the temple. Over the months of preparation for her baptism, we did not speak of who she had seen in her dream was also dressed in white and baptizing her. Time came that a week before her baptism I asked her to look in her mind’s eye and tell me who it was she saw that baptized her. She thought for a moment and said rather directly “the District President, President Wellington.” I repeated the name and asked if she was sure. She hesitated and nodded. I took my mobile phone from my pocket and called him right away. Margrette bowed her eyes as I spoke to President Wellington. I then turned to her after my conversation and said, “Sister Drah, he was not the man you witnessed in the font with you on your baptism day and you knew that when you gave me the name didn’t you?” She looked up to Sister Dalton and me with tears filled eyes said, ”O Elder, you are the one I saw in my dream and I cannot deny what the Spirit has witnessed to me this day. I will love the Lord and the restoration of His truths to my life and will dedicate my life to our family and the temple covenants we will enter when I have prepared.”

December 22, 2012, I had the privilege to accompany Sister Margrette Drah into the waters of baptism and with the binding authority of the priesthood, unlocked the eternities for her and her ancestors. Sweet is the gospel plan that burns within all of our hearts.   

Below are the pictures of the Drah family at the baptism