Having Faith and Staying Positive are One and the Same :)

 

Castro

When we taught Castro last Monday, he was really concerned about baptism

and he said that once he is baptized his life is going to be so much

harder and he will have to follow all the commandments. I explained to

him that his life will be sooooo much easier and so much happier. I

told him that commandments are a blessing from God and that they

protect us and God gives us commandments because he wants us to be

happy. I felt the spirit so strong. I felt the spirit testify to me as

I was saying this that it was true. Haha I love Castro he is so funny.

He is such a nice guy and he is always so funny and laughs at the most

random times.

 

He had a problem with drinking wine. He said that his doctor said that

its okay to have a tiny bit of wine each day. I then asked him Who

knows more your doctor or God? After the lesson he said that he would

quit the day before his baptism and have a huge drinking party before.

He bought 150 E worth of wine before we taught him about the word of

wisdom. But we finally convinced him not to drink it and to give it

away. He said that he would throw it away. The night after we taught

him he said that he saw a tv show by a doctor that said that if you

drink wine you will go crazy. He said he it is very hard to stop but that he

wants to.

 

But then we called him the next day and he didnt answer... Then we

waited for him at the church for our lesson and he didnt show up. I

called him probably 1,000 times. It was so anoying hahah. But if he

didnt come that meant that he couldnt be baptized this week. He didnt

come and he didnt answer his phone... :(. I WAS SOOOO SAD!!!! I was so

worried and had no idea what happened. So after that we went to our

others lessons and they all fell through. So that meant that for the

rest of the day we would just do street contacting and door knocking. No

one would talk to us. Then we called a reference we recieved and it was

to this crazy lady that talked to my companion for an hour. Then she

wouldn't stop calling.  This had been hard day and then it got worse.....Yup.. a bird

pooped on my hand... yup. I felt something wet on my hand and then I

looked down and was like what is that??!! Looked up... yup tons of

birds...! I almost started crying haha I thought can this day get any

worse... but then I decided to laugh... hahah :) me and my companion

were dying...:) Also right after I thought about how many

blessing I have and I was so much happier.. I have a body and I am

healthy, I have the gospel, I have a brain, I have a wonderful family

and I am a missionary and I have a great comp.. ect.. I am sooooooo

BLESSED!

 

 

 

 

Ilton

Ilton is great. We marked him for baptism. Its not this week but the

next. He reminds me kinda of Johnny. He is so smart!!!! He wants to be

an engineer. He doesnt let anything go by him and asks the hardest

questions!!  He is so good too, he has no problems with the word of

wisdom or the law of chastity and he is just a great guy :)! He has

doubts about our prophet and he said that he still doesnt feel like he

has recieved an answer. But we had a great lesson with him and Daneil

our ward mission leader and we watched a talk from President Monson

and it was great!!! Also I love reading General conference talks..

they are so good. You guys should read one everyday :) thats what I am

doing! :)

 

Also we are probably going to drop some of our investigators this week

because they are not progressing. They call it the DO IT OR DIE

lesson.

 

Also we have a girl that helps us so much. Her name is Tereza and she

is so cute and wants to serve a mission.

 

 

In the End Things Work Out

Sunday was GREAT!!!! CASTRO finally answered his phone and came to

church. He said that he didnt feel prepared to be baptized and but that he

wants to this week. He said he wants to be prepared because this will

change his life. He is great and I think its better that we will have

the baptism this week. Also Ilton came. Also this investigator named

Paulo walked all the way with us on his crutches, came :). Also Joa

came and then left because he didnt feel like he had nice enough

clothes on! But it is a miracle that he even came because he is so

busy.