A Fantastic Week

 

More Baptisms             

It has been another great week! We have a baptism this Sat. His name is

Castro!! Haha he is funny and just great. He was one of the guys that we taught when that really crazy drunk guy took off his shirt.

It is amazing to see the change in people. He already participates in church!  He had a problem with drinking, but he said he would quit.  He is really excited to be baptized.   We taught him the 3rd lesson and I felt the spirit so strong as we taught him.  It was such a cool experience.

We have a investigator who is getting baptized, the only problem is that he fell down the stairs and broke his finger and has a huge cast…..we need to figure out how we are going to baptize him. J  (this was in a different letter—I assume it is Castro she is talking about.)

The Progress of Other Investigators

Ilton is great! He is very smart. He will read everything we give him and comes back understanding all of it and then reads more than what we gave him. He wanted to know more about Joseph Smith and so we watched the Restoration Film with him. I felt the spirit strongly and my heart was pounding in my chest. I am so grateful for Joseph Smith. I hope that he felt the spirit in that lesson.  He does have doubts about modern day prophets. We are working with him on knowing this to be true.  He didn’t come to church this week! I was so sad! But he is going to come next week! We are teaching him today.

Also Neilson and Anna are not really progressing.  Neither of them came to church. It is very frustrating and disappointing. I am NOT going to give up on them yet though.

Also Aisha is off to France she has a house there and will not return until next week. She said that she is bringing us something from France…haha. She also said that if I ever wanted to visit that I could go stay with her. It is hard to leave her house because she likes our company so much

Also we have other investigators that we are working with that seem interested in the gospel.  Hah we also found a gypsy this week.

Awesome Companion

I love my companion! She is so nice. I like the way she teaches and we have only spoken in Portuguese. Last night was the first time that we spoke in English and one other time.  I was missing English and I wanted to get to know her better. She is really good at the language. She said that in this area she feels like she is in Africa, but  the people are a lot nicer.  

The Restaurant Game

This week in English class we taught how to order in a restaurant and families names. Then I had the idea to play restaurant… that we would be the student’s waitresses and we took all their orders. It was good practice for them and everyone had fun.

The needy

This week we have taught a lot of people how to pray. It is so crazy to me that I am helping these people pray for the first time in their lives. I am constantly reminded how blessed I am to have grown up with a knowledge of the gospel. I am so grateful, I love praying.

We meet many poor people.  We talked to a lady that only drank sugar and water for a month, because that is all she could afford to buy.