Another week has flown by on the mission. Everything goes by so fast and we are racing to follow up with all of our investigators. This week we were able to visit a few friends of Brother Douglas and we met with 2 families. They didn't have much time so we just said a prayer with them and marked a return visit.
This week I don't know what happened but we were able to teach lots of families. Two of these families have had a child less than 30 days ago. One of them is Michele and Elison. They have two kids, one is 5 years and the other was only 25 days old, João Rafael and Angelina. We were able to teach about the plan of salvation and eternal families and they loved it. Elison is a Geologist and when we taught about the creation and Adam and Eve he said that what we explained answered his long question about the creation of the earth not really being 7 days but 7 creative periods. At the end we left a spoiler about what is the Book of Mormon and what is the power of God to bind things on earth bound in heaven. The other family is of Rafael and Samela. They also have 2 kids, one of which was born 18 days ago and they said that they are looking to be more religious and find a church so we taught a little about the restoration and they liked it a lot. We had made a contact with them and showed the church site mormon.org and they went there and learned a bit about the church. It was great.
Friday we did the baptismal interview of Lucimar that the sisters baptized this week and then Saturday we had a surprise baptism interview. We were 1 hour from their church and Giovana showed up to be baptized so we had to run there and do the interview. Luckily there was a member at the church at he went and picked us up by car. Nathália, that we are teaching, wasn't baptized this week but is for sure going to be baptized now. We announced her baptism in sacrament meeting and prepared baptismal invitations for her to deliver.
Sunday was really spiritual. Izabela, who was baptized a month ago, gave her first talk in church. She talked about faith and hope and cited a story of a family that only one was baptized but after 2 yeasr of hard work, prayer, and faith the rest of the family went. She compared it to her life and gave a powerful testimony. That night Elder Gale and I were asked to help out the Young Women's In Excellence and play the violin and ukulele and we went. It was great and there were even a few investigators there.
Today we are going to Ouro Branco to do another baptismal interview and then relax a little bit.
Questions:
Do you have and still use your music player?
Yes and i use it every day.
How was carnival there in Lafaiete?
It didn't change like anything here. There was just a huge 3 day party in the center of the city but it was a lot more mild than last year. We were able to teach a lot of people.
Any winter Olympic excitement there in Brazil? They are going on now in S. Korea.
I havent heard anything about the olympics here.
Until next week!
-Elder Smith
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