January 30, 2017
Hi Family!!!
He came to Stake Conference yesterday, and, without needing to, he rose his hand sustain each of the leaders of the church--the prophet and apostles, and other leaders who were receiving callings and being called to the office of Elder. He rose his hand confidently to sustain (apoiar) each one of them. He really enjoyed the Stake Conference, and one of the Seventy from Brasil spoke at the end of the meeting
He also has stopped drinking coffee. The day after we taught him about the
word of wisdom, he said that he had stopped, and that he was just drinking milk
instead. He is progressing towards baptism, and yesterday, he was a missionary!!
He took one of our investigators and a recent-convert of our Ward to church!! We weren´t able to find a ride for one of our investigators, so we asked him to pick him up, and he did so with joy.
The investigator´s name is Célcio, and he is super elect. I had talked to him about three times on the street (because I always forget who I´ve already talked to), and I had invited him to hear our messages every time. We were walking on the street one day, and it was raining, and he shouted out to us to stop. He told us that he wanted to change, and that he felt that God was trying to tell him what path to follow because we had already talked to him so many times in the past. He said that he hadn´t ever seen anyone on the street so persistent about religion, and was curious to know more about ours.
He took one of our investigators and a recent-convert of our Ward to church!! We weren´t able to find a ride for one of our investigators, so we asked him to pick him up, and he did so with joy.
The investigator´s name is Célcio, and he is super elect. I had talked to him about three times on the street (because I always forget who I´ve already talked to), and I had invited him to hear our messages every time. We were walking on the street one day, and it was raining, and he shouted out to us to stop. He told us that he wanted to change, and that he felt that God was trying to tell him what path to follow because we had already talked to him so many times in the past. He said that he hadn´t ever seen anyone on the street so persistent about religion, and was curious to know more about ours.
We then marked a day to visit him, and this past Saturday we visited him
with a young man, a recent-convert of the church, who is preparing to serve a
mission. We taught him the restoration, and he accepted baptism, but didn´t
accept a specific date yet. He also accepted a Book of Mormon, and understood
well the need of a restoration. He has had drinking problems in the past, but
has gone through a recovery program, and has been able to stop, and now he is
wanting to make things right in his life.
Joana also came to church yesterday with her grandchild. She is preparing
to be baptized this week as well, however, she has to be interviewed by the Bishop this Thursday to see if she can be baptized on Saturday afternoon. Please
pray that she will be able to be baptized this week if it is Heavenly Father´s
will. She really wants to, and is really excited about her baptism.
This past week we visited Carlos, and taught him about how the atonement of
Jesus Christ allows us to overcome any addiction. We shared with him a video
about addictions, and how Satan doesn´t love us, and wants us to think that
there is no way we can overcome them, but we can simply overcome them with
prayer.
We visited Carlos yesterday, and he told us that he had stopped drinking
coffee for three days straight--since the day we taught him about Heavenly
Father´s love, and he felt the Spirit. He has been changing incredibly fast, and
has stopped smoking for one day straight as well. Please pray that he will
continue to change and have more a desire to be baptized. This week we are going
to remark his baptism for next Saturday. Please pray he will accept baptism and
overcome his addictions of alcohol as well.
We had a wonderful Mission World Wide Training Meeting where we learned about a lot of new changes in the
day-to-day schedule of our mission that also affects missionaries all over the world.
We watched a broadcast from some of the Apostles and General Mission Presidency about how we can be better missionaries and preach repentance and baptize converts.
We watched a broadcast from some of the Apostles and General Mission Presidency about how we can be better missionaries and preach repentance and baptize converts.
Here are a few more pictures from our Conference
We also had a great training meeting for new missionaries
and trainers and I wanted to share a few pictures....
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Love you all so much!!! Have a wonderful week!!
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