Queridíssima Família!
BATISMO!!
So for some reason I can´t post the picture but this week we baptized
G. We found him a few weeks ago and didn´t really think much of it
when he didn´t come to church and we couldn´t even find where he
lived. But the next week we talked to his daughter, R, who said
she wanted to come to church and she took us to his house, where he was
drinking but said that for sure he would come to church and bring his
daughter with him. They came to church the next week and when we talked
to them after a few days, G told us that he stopped drinking right
after church and used to drink every day. With just a few lessons he
just completely turned into the most elect person EVER, just ready to
change his life and obey the commandments. The plan was to baptize them
both together but the day of R was too scared so this week we´re
passing every day with members to help her feel more ready. But she
did go into the interview and knows everything is true! Pray for her!
So we aren´t exactly sure what happened with P´s family
and it´s really frustrating and sad. Sister Sciammarella wasn´t even
with me because she was doing divisions when we found them, so I just
feel like a crazy person. But I know this family really is elect, we
just have a challenge in front of us. Remember how I said that
J´s church has missionaries that come and take disciplinary
action for visiting other churches? Well I guess that happened because
we´ve gone to their house with just her at home and she won´t even open
the door, has hung up in my face, and is just being sooo weird.
Obviously someone told her to do this and it´s awful because she loved
church and was so excited to go and for her family to go. Pray for that
family too..
Basically, we had three families marked to be baptized on my
birthday and Saturday all three fell and it was kind of a sad day. One
family, I´s, I am not sure about because they might just want to
talk to Americans. N´s family is legit but she got really sick so
she just needs to get better. They are really cool and she called US on
the street last week.
So I do have a really cool story this week. We were walking
down the street one day, one we always use, and we both just stop and
look into this little alleyway leading to a little favela (there´s a lot
of those little roads). Without even saying anything we just turn into
that road and head straight for a door at the end of the road. There
we found D, and at first I thought this was just a typical favela
family, they were all smoking. But when we told her about the gospel and
baptism, she just started crying and told us she wants to be baptized,
but she has this addiction that´s killing her (throwing her cigarette on
the ground as she said this). This woman recognized us right away as
representatives of Christ and I have never felt like that in a lesson.
She just has this spirit about her that is so humble and just wants and
needs help. We came back to her house and she had gotten sick with a
fever and headache and told us the sickness made her lose her desire to
smoke, though she still smoked four cigarettes that day.
She didn´t come to church but we came back yesterday with Marcos.
We talked to her about faith and how her faith in Christ can heal her,
then Marcos gave her a blessing. The blessing ended and she had tears
in her eyes, then, unexpectedly, she ran outside and we could hear her
throwing up violently. My companion and I just looked at eachother at
first like, crap, we killed her. Then Marcos told us he´d seen that
before and that she´ll never smoke again, all of the bad was leaving her
body. She came back inside and she just said ``I will be baptized on
the 23rd´´
The church is true, guys. I´m already out of time. Tonight
we have a party at Valdemir´s, so I´m sure we´ll have pictures and
stories . We saw a dinosaur!! It was a monitor lizard with yellow
polka dots and was the coolest thing EVER. The choir isn´t working out
yet but it will... oh yeah I SPOKE IN CHURCH. haha I love this ward so
much. I could stay here the rest of my mission.
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