His Work Continues!!!

                                                                                                              May 16, 2016

Hello Beautiful Family!

 

LUCAS WAS BAPTIZED YESTERDAY!! SURPRISE!!! 

During the week, we asked him how he was feeling about his baptism, and he said that he really wanted to be baptized soon. Due to his busy work schedule, we had set his baptism back a week, but my companion and I worked out a way to move things up. We decided to teach him a lot of commandments in one lesson in order to teach him almost everything he needed to know.

By the end of the week, he was ready and it was a great baptism!!                                                        

 

A lot of the instructors of the CTM sang, "I Feel My Savior´s Love, (in português) and he had the chance to pray at the end of his baptism. I just remember his thanking our Heavenly Father for so many blessings in his life, and I´m not sure if I heard him ask for anything. I realized that when we are close to our Savior Jesus Christ in our lives, we already have everything.

  

Lucas was beaming from head to toe at the end of the baptismal service. the gas wasn´t working to heat the water, so he was unfortunately baptized in ice cold water, but he endured to the end.

 

He is one of the investigators  we have taught who has had the strongest testimony of the Book of Mormon. That book really helped him gain a testimony of his Savior Jesus Christ. Before his baptism, he was really worried about having to work every Sunday, and not being able to keep the Sabbath day holy. He has been trying to get his ´´day off´´ every Sunday, but he hasn´t been able to trade with a coworker. We promised him that if he really asked for the Lord´s help in sincere prayer that eventually he would be able to rest from his labors on the Lord´s sacred day. It is amazing how pure he is, and how ready he is to serve a mission because of the little things in his life that he wants to mend to obey all of Heavenly Father´s commandments. 

This week we are going to have another baptismal service (Saturday night) of a 10-year-old boy named Matheus who is the son of a member named Quiteria. The last time he was baptized, he had a lot of fear of the water, and his brother had tried to baptize him, but he wasn´t able to be baptized because he wasn´t taught well enough how to bend his knees and such. I told him about Emily, now a member in Cotia who is 9 years old, who was baptized about 8 times in order to fully be baptized by immersion, and who she was super scared of the water as well, but how she told her mom, I want to be like Jesus, and because of this faith, and this just desire, she was baptized completely by immersion. He found a lot of hope after this first visit when we taught him, and now he will be baptized this Saturday.

LOVE YOU ALL!!!