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| Inviting - Inviting Help Invite to the Weekend Whenever and Wherever You Can Ulises & Rosy Ponce We are certain and sure that the Marriage Sacrament is wonderful!! I now can tell that God’s Love exists more that I could ever image. ¡Hi Dear readers and WWME members! Ulises: First of all, we thank you for allowing us to share with you what has been for us a great gift: experimenting a WWME weekend. We want to share how God our Lord has fulfill our lives with blessings and has allowed us to share our personal experience with others, thus being able to extend the invitation to live a weekend to all those couples God has granted us to meet and those that are around us. We are Ulises & Rosy Ponce, and live in Woodland, CA. We are of Mexican origin and if God allows us, we’ll celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary in February 2006. We have three beautiful children that God has put in our hands and make us responsible for, Ulysses (8), Abraham (4), and Leonardo (1). We lived our Weekend in August of 2003. Since then our relationship and our love have increased a lot. Our lives before our Weekend were one of unconsciousness which lead us to a weak dialog in our relationship. Now we have recuperated that dialog that was lacking in our lives. Since our Weekend, we have encountered many opportunities to invite other couples to the Weekend. I will share this anecdote with you. Since I work in the freight business, I have had the opportunity to meet lots of people, and places. In one of my trips, through our radio system, I once met a couple who were themselves truckers like me. In our conversation, I shared with them our Weekend experience and told them how that experience had led us to see our marriage, our love, and our relationship with new light. As I shared with them our experience, they became more and more interested on the Weekend. Two hours went by in our radio conversation, by then I was entering the California state, that meant to me that two hours more of driving and I would be arriving to my destination... Our home. At the end of our conversation, this couple left me some of their personal information and I promised to get them information about a WWME Weekend in their residential state, Arizona. When I was still talking to them something amazing happened, another trucker got into our radio conversation and told me, “Hey Ulises, look, I am sorry… but I have been listening to your conversation back in Oregon. I wasn’t planning to get into a radio conversation today, due to a headache that is bothering me, but I kept listening to your conversation anyway and you know, I also would like to live this experience along with my wife. Do you think, you could invite us and get also some information for us?” You could imagine the happiness I experienced to hear him. I just attained to say “Thanks Lord for allowing me to be an instrument of your love.” This man and his wife went already to live a Weekend. Through similar anecdotes, two other couples of truckers, have lived the Weekend experience and others are about to do it in California, Oregon and Washington. As much in the road as in any other place we constantly face people that assure us that we are walking the right path. In the road you may encounter billboards with messages like “Do you have Jesus?” or “Smile, Christ loves you!” Other times when a truck passes you, you may see in the rear fender, “Lift up your heart God Loves you!” Sometimes I experiment God in the little boy that asks me to honk the truck’s horn. We undoubtedly think that God makes use of anything to convey His message. Rosy: On my part, I support my husband Ulises’ words when he shares our encounters with Jesus through our family children and people. God has also allowed me along with my husband and children, to take the message to those in need of it. While saying this, I recall a couple in whom the Holy Trinity and Mary have done wonders since their Weekend. Let me tell you about this person that I met about eight years ago. We lived in the same apartments and one day she came along with her sister in law and asked me if I could put her some make up on her wedding date. In our conversation she told me that she had had a child that had died… God rest his soul. The wedding day arrived and she came to me to put her make up. She was radiant with her white nuptial dress, but she wasn’t smiling. After her wedding, I continued seeing her in different places and occasions and every time I saw her, I would notice, that she wasn’t smiling. One day a relative called Ulises and asked him if we could go to see a couple and maybe invite them to “something” or to “some place,” since they were passing through very difficult moments. My husband and I gladly accepted the invitation and went ahead to see this couple. Before we entered their home, we asked God to help us to be vehicles transmitting His grace, and that they could also experience a Weekend. When we arrived to their home, he welcomed us with uncertainty, and she seemed like she just wanted to get out of there. This was the same woman I have known eight years ago, she was still not smiling. This day was even worse since she wasn’t even speaking. I judged that whatever she was going through in her marriage, had robbed her from showing any sign of delight. We gave them the information and shared our testimony. I was going to approach her to let her know that God loves her and that she wasn’t alone, when something wonderful happened, they said, “Yes, we want to go to the Weekend.” I think somebody in heaven was praying very hard. They had a hard time before the Weekend. He had resolved not to go to the Weekend and said that in case he accepted, he would take his car along so he could return home if he wanted to. Finally, the Weekend date arrived. They attended the Weekend. We had faith and hope that they were going to have a good experience that would free them from their sad faces. When we saw them at the end of their Weekend they were happy. Her face was radiant and her smile was truly an expression of her happiness. We immediately thought that when you really let Him to guide you, He in turn will do many miracles, and indeed He knows how to do them!!! God raises rubbish from the earth to create new temples in us. In eight years of marriage this couple had destroyed the temple He had created with His sacrament, but through His grace he had been able to cleanse it, raise it, and restore it in less than three days. Their happiness was immense. When we saw them, we ran to embrace them. They were crying and giving thanks. We were also giving thanks to God for allowing us to take them His invitation. This couple has been an example to us. They have raised from the bottom to touch, along with their children, a piece of heaven. We are witnesses of this miracle. Congratulations!!! Jorge & Lupe Magaña, we love you. We are certain and sure that the Marriage Sacrament is wonderful!! I now can tell that God’s Love exists more that I could ever image. God bless you. With all our love, P.S. - God’s love and Matrimony are a miracle, and God doesn’t squander either.
We want to thank to Juan & Martha Guerrero, Section 17 Financial couple, for the translation of this article. Click here for a printable version (PDF, 86KB)
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