Hey guys!!
So, summer's almost here in the south of Brazil, and you
know what that means... Bichos!! Or in english, bugs. Big ones. Everywhere.
I've gotten way too good at killing giant baratas (cockroaches) in the last few
weeks...
Anyway though, on to the important stuff! I LOVE IT HERE!
Ana, the investigator we started teaching last week, is going to get baptized
this Saturday, along with Neiane, the little 8-year-old daughter of a recently
reactivated member. :D I'm excited!!! Janice, our PERFECT investigator,
neighbor of our unofficial ward mission leader Geovani, is ready for baptism,
only she works in the hospital so it's hard for her to be able to go to church
because of her schedule. She has only been to church once, and we were hoping
she would be able to get baptized on Saturday too, but since she couldn't come
to church yesterday we'll have to wait a while, since the investigators need to
go to church at least twice before they get baptized. But don't worry, she's
still perfect. :) Just her job is the problem...
So Cristina and Robson, the couple that came to church last
week, couldn't come as well this week :( BUT we visited them last night and
ended up talking with Robson for like two hours about marriage (he's going to
look into getting the process to get legally married started this week, which
is a real pain here and takes up to 30 days), vices (he and Cristina are
working on quitting smoking and he has already gone down from two packs a day
to less than one, plus he agreed to replace the beer that he drinks on Sundays
with reading the Book of Mormon this week, just to see how it goes), baptism
(he wants to get baptized, obviously), the Spirit (he says he feels this
indescriptable feeling sometimes when he prays and he asked what it was), and
forgiveness. He has had a really rough life, but he had changed everything
around and now he's looking to feel forgiven of everything he's done. It was a
really powerful lesson. Seriously, I felt the spirit so strong when we were
teaching. It was amazing. :)
Unfortunately that's all I have time to write this week. Conferência de Natal (Christmas Conference) in Santa Maria tomorrow, woohoo! And family, I'll see you on Skype in 9 days!!!! Love you!
Unfortunately that's all I have time to write this week. Conferência de Natal (Christmas Conference) in Santa Maria tomorrow, woohoo! And family, I'll see you on Skype in 9 days!!!! Love you!
Beijinhos,
Sister Gold