Nov. 7, 2016
Hi Family!!!
This past week, we marked a lot of Heavenly Father´s elect for baptism!!
Miracles truly happened, and we are going to have a lot of baptisms pretty
soon.
Ernesto came to church by HIMSELF this past Sunday, and he got there right
on time, and came in Sunday dress. We called him at about 7:30 in the morning to
wake him up because he asked us to, and he almost complained on the phone
because it was so early.
Later, he told us, that the Spirit told him on the phone to say that he was going to go to church. The Spirit had touched his heart when we called, and told him that he needed to go to church and wake up.
Later, he told us, that the Spirit told him on the phone to say that he was going to go to church. The Spirit had touched his heart when we called, and told him that he needed to go to church and wake up.
He has the biggest smile, and is super funny. We finally found out where he lives, and we taught him about the Book of Mormon and the Restoration (with a member who speaks Spanish that is from Peru), and we invited him to be baptized for the 27th of this month. He and Eder accepted baptism, but unfortunately, Eder couldn´t come to church yesterday because he had to work. They have such strong testimonies of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ because of their Haitian roots, and they are some of the happiest people I´ve ever met even though they have so little materially in life.
We ate a lot of cake because of her birthday, and we taught her and her family about the plan of salvation.
In some of the pictures, her sister, Sofia, is with me, and she is one of the sassiest little girls I´ve ever met. She´s super smart, and she loves spider man, and she loves sister missionaries haha.
Also, this past week we taught Neide, a woman who is 68 years old, and her
grandson, Mateus, about the plan of salvation on Monday night. Neide was a woman
that Sister Salles had talked to on the street who told us we could visit her,
and on Monday night we did. On Monday night, my allergies were acting up, so it
was kind of difficult to teach Neide and her grandson, and get to know them.
However, we ended up sharing with them a little bit of the plan of salvation,
and left with them the pamphlet about Heavenly Father´s plan. We didn´t think
much of the lesson, but we marked another day to visit them.
In the second
visit, we realized that Neide was really looking for the truth because she read
some parts of the pamphlet, and things about the Plan were beginning to make a
lot of sense to her. The Spirit was in our lesson, and we decided to invite her
and her grandson to be baptized on the 4th of December. They accepted!!
On Sunday, Neide came to church, and she was super ready for the sacrament meeting,
coming all dressed up in fancy church clothes--a nice blouse and nice black
pants. We were running a little late on Sunday to stop by her house to pick her
up before the meeting, and she had been waiting for us about 10 minutes outside,
ready to go to church. Unfortunately, she had to leave early because her husband
isn´t very well mentally and physically, and so she left after sacrament
meeting, however, after each testimony, she said these sweet words "Amen," or "Amen Jesus." Tonight we´ll find out how she liked the meeting when we visit
her and Mateus.
This past week, Daiane didn´t come to church, but we are going to visit her
with a member and invite her to come this next Sunday, and we are going to
remark her baptism for another day.
I am so grateful for contacts. They bring miracles in the mission. The mission president received inspiration from the prophet that if our mission did
21 contacts each day, and if we shared at least two principles of the gospel,
and did more effective, slow, contacts, we would be able to double the number of
baptisms in our mission.
A couple more pictures I want to share:
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| Beautiful flowers found here in Brasil. I love this color!! |
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| A silly picture of Sis. Salles and me out visiting. |
Love you!!
Sis. Harris
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