Week Thirty-One

"Loving life here in Resende!(spelt with an s, sounds like a z, he-zen-gee) tons of Progress this week. We have about 5 families who are ready and want to be baptised... what were the other elders doing?! there hasnt been a baptism here in months but theres so many golden investigators here. my blood boils when i think about all the blessings that these righteous future saints have been missing out on all this time, but at least we´re get to help them now! The Ward members are really trusting us now, With elder Moraes´s charisma and my goofiness we´re really winning back their hearts. we´ve actually done a ton of work with the members this week, especially in the branch we watch over. the few members in Itatiaia (ee-ta-chai-ya) are giants in faith. on couple brought 4 investigators to stake conference that Élder Moraes and i had little knowldge about(we´re still getting to used to the area). there´s tons of potential and tons of work to be done. Caution: Baptisms ahead!!

 

One miracle happened this week as we were making street contacts near the chapel. My companion and i spotted a young woman and the holy ghost said,´´eliete!`` but before we could stop her she stopped us! she quickly explained that much of her family is active in the church, in fact her brother is serving up in Fortaleza. shes just moved in to the area(in fact lives RIGHT behind the chapel), want to attend church but lacks the courage to go alone, so we set a date to visit her and her family. we returned and found out shes a wife and mother of two, and has always seen/felt that the church was different from all others. the spirit in the lesson we taught in that visit was so strong, the poor girl was waterworks the entire visit. she explained to us the only other time she felt this way was when her brother went off on his mission, we explained to her that is was the holy ghost and that he was testifiying of the validity of her brothers mission. Never felt the spirit stronger than in this moment! shes so ready to be baptised, shes just scared of what her husband might think(we havent met him yet). we´ve got some work ahead of us but i love encountering the elietes!!

 

ps to anyone interested google Itatiaia national park, i did some crazy jungle hiking there today! im out of time so maybe i´ll type more aout it next monday, craziest p day of my mission!

 

EU AMO ESSE TRABALHO!!!"