Hi Family!!! So, I´ve had a wonderful week with Sister Galletti!
It´s been a week full of hard work and miracles.
This week we had more opportunities to teach with members, and they truly
made the difference in our investigators lives. Joana accepted baptism!!!!!! A
member visited her with us (named Nalva), and bore her testimony of baptism, and
she humbly said that she was going to be baptized on the third of February. We just have to check with
President Thomas on her baptism because she is currently living with her
ex-husband, (but they sleep in separate rooms) after separating because their son passed away a few years ago, and it
was really difficult for the two of them. Anyway, we are going to confirm with President Thomas the details of her baptism this week in an interview with him,
and I´ll let you all know next week if it´s clear.
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Also, Carlos accepted baptism yesterday!!! It was a miracle!!
His neighbor Marcos, whose a member, came with us to visit him, and he bore his testimony on how we don´t have to be perfect before we are baptized, but we have to be willing to keep all of Heavenly Father´s commandments before and after baptism. He talked about the repentance process with Carlos because Carlos smokes a little bit, and drinks coffee, but he said that the gospel of Jesus Christ doesn´t change us from night to day, but gradually. The conversion process is a GRADUAL process and Heavenly Father expects us to be like Him grace by grace--a little bit better each and every day. Carlos, at the beginning of the lesson, didn´t even want to accept baptism, but after the member, Marcos, shared his conversion story, the Spirit touched his heart, and he said, ´´Pronto, vou ser batizado! Vamos ver o que este bixo vai dar´´. He completely surprised us because he didn´t want to be baptized just because he didn´t want to go to church with a dress shirt and tie, but he has been changing.
He went to church yesterday as well, and he said that he stopped drinking alcoholic beverages ever since he started going to church. He accepted the fourth of February as a baptismal date, but this week we are going to help him stop smoking and drinking coffee.
His neighbor Marcos, whose a member, came with us to visit him, and he bore his testimony on how we don´t have to be perfect before we are baptized, but we have to be willing to keep all of Heavenly Father´s commandments before and after baptism. He talked about the repentance process with Carlos because Carlos smokes a little bit, and drinks coffee, but he said that the gospel of Jesus Christ doesn´t change us from night to day, but gradually. The conversion process is a GRADUAL process and Heavenly Father expects us to be like Him grace by grace--a little bit better each and every day. Carlos, at the beginning of the lesson, didn´t even want to accept baptism, but after the member, Marcos, shared his conversion story, the Spirit touched his heart, and he said, ´´Pronto, vou ser batizado! Vamos ver o que este bixo vai dar´´. He completely surprised us because he didn´t want to be baptized just because he didn´t want to go to church with a dress shirt and tie, but he has been changing.
He went to church yesterday as well, and he said that he stopped drinking alcoholic beverages ever since he started going to church. He accepted the fourth of February as a baptismal date, but this week we are going to help him stop smoking and drinking coffee.
Yesterday, Joana, Carlos, and Ivan came to church. Ivan is so ready to be
baptized, and this Tuesday, we are praying that he will accept a date to be
baptized.
LOVE YOU ALL! HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!!!
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