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by the grace of God, she remained faithful. As time passed, Genoveva came to accept that her
daughter would not change her mind and began to reestablish their relationship. However, they
would have to stay off the subject of religion.

At the end of 2018, Genoveva, who had been living with her oldest daughter, returned to Morelia.

She seemed to be healthy for her age and was active and lively. However, Genoveva was very sick.

The doctors said she had only months to live. Lupita and Salomon talked to her about Christ and
she was much more open to listening. She came to church with them in September, where she
heard the Gospel plainly preached. In October, I went to see her and very thoroughly shared the
Gospel with her and prayed with her. She was not totally convinced at that moment, but she was
having doubts about her Catholic beliefs. On November 28, her Catholic priest came to visit and to
administer the sacrament of communion. To everyone’s surprise, she did not want it! She began to
ask her priest many questions, but she was not satisfied with his answers. She told him he should be
telling people the truth! The next morning she lay awake talking with Lupita. She told her daughter,
“I am not scared to die. I’m prepared!” Lupita asked her, “Do you accept Jesus Christ as your only
and sufficient Savior?” She replied, “Yes!” Lupita asked, “If you were to die at this instant, where
would you go?” She said, “I will go to heaven with my Lord Jesus Christ.” She then said, “The pastor
explained it to me very well.” She began to laugh and said, “The pastor is very patient.” As the
conversation was ending, Genoveva said to Lupita, “Keep on going to church.” Just six days after
that conversation, Genoveva entered into eternity. She is now in the presence of the Lord!
Elenita by Nick Sutmaier
We were just finishing a visit on Saturday afternoon when I got a call from a lady in our church
who was also making visits. “Come quick! Elenita fell off the steps!” My first question was “Where
are you?” When she told me where they were, my heart began to sink. My soul-winning partner
and I raced to get there. The crooked, broken, concrete stairs are very
steep down the side of a 200 foot embankment. Elenita, 81 years old, was
trying to come up those stairs and fell about 10 feet. When we got to her,
she had no vital signs and we began CPR immediately. We called 911 and
nobody answered.

Despite our efforts to revive Elenita, she went to be with the Lord two
years from the day her husband died of cancer. She passed away while
sharing the Gospel. We stayed with her body until the coroner came
five hours later. They did an autopsy and found the cause of death was
a stroke. It could have happened in her kitchen or in front of her house,
but it happened while she was serving the Lord! I later asked what in
the world they were doing there and her soul-winning partner said that she insisted on seeing the
family and nothing was going to stop her. Elenita went home to be with the Lord after making that
last visit only a few feet away from their house. Elenita was a soul winner. We have several families
in our church because of her.

We were all shaken by her sudden death. Her children told me that it was her wish to die while
serving the Lord. Elenita gave her all for our Lord up until the end. At her age, she could have
rightly had a good excuse for not going out and telling people about our wonderful Savior, but she
decided she only had one life to spend for Jesus.

20 BIMI WORLD
Number 2, 2019