Hello Family!
I hope you have all had a wonderful week! First off Rita and Rafael were baptized!!!! YYEEEAAAHHHH!!!!
It was very very goood! I loved it! they are a great family on a start to being an eternal family in the gospel!
Conference: I have a new testimony of what exactly is conference! and what it means to havea prophet today. I loved it! here is what went down, the first session the english cables things were gone..... soo I wached it in port. I got a lot out of it! for example, did you know elder scott speaks perect port?? he translates his talks and so it was great to hear his voice in the talk just in a different language, but he speaks the same soft and spirit pearcing way. other than that everyone else was weird for me to see their faces but hear a different voice... so I called president and got permission to go on a hunt in vitoria for a building with it in english! found one! and it took over an hour to get there! but, the saturday afternoon in english rocked my socks off! for preistood the re broadcast in english was in the same building at 6 am.... sooo that means catching a bus 1.5 hours before and waking up even earlier to get ready... but, 100% worth it! I did the waking up early thing a lot this week to my comp and I think if I suggest one more morning before 6:30 he might kill me... haha but, we travled back to ours sunday morning session started here at 1 in the afternoon... weird huh! but, I harrassed people until we got the stake presidency to get into action and get this thing moving a long! every conference it is the same news here... everyone says the other knows how to do it! drove us missionaries crazy since we had a lot of investagators there waiting! but, we got it going and even got it in english in the stake sec. office! with AC!!!! what a treat! all was going welll until an elder started to have an allergic reaction to something he ate... it was super weird! he came up and said I dont feel good again! (he had been sick for like 3 days already) and started to turn red, then bumps started to appear and his feet and face swelled up like a little umpa lumpa... it was funny for all of us but crazy! we called president and got a ride for him to the hospitial. my comp stayed with him so I had the baptism in 15 min alone haha it was crazy but alll went great! loved the day! and the elder is great! he had a lot of stuff poked and stabbed but, he is good now!
Douglas. he is 17 and has been going to church for the last 5 weeks! he was never baptized ever and has been waiting for a church that he feels is right, he watched conference and after talked to me and said listen, this girl I am kind of daiting doesnt like your church and I will probably baptize in hers. I said just pray about it man and see what happens ok? call me later about your prayer. this was sunday. on monday night he called our phone and said, look I am to be baptized come talk to me. we were in a lesson at that moment so I made a lot of last minute calls found a division to come pick me up and someone to stay with my comp and away I went. douglas came to the house running and covered in sweat which was funny. but, he is super super shy and talks like a mumble so I dont understand much, in fact I learned no one really understands him. but I prayed hard and started the lesson. he siad look I want to be baptized thursday. can I? I said no. you need lessons first and an interview then if all goes well how do you feel about sunday, he said no saturday. I said cool lets work for it! sooo he only has had the first lesson about the restortation and book of mormon. the rest he didnt know about. I started right away, with 4 commandments. the law of chasity, word of wisdom, 10 commmandments, and sabbath day.... It was way to much for the poor guy, I did a mock interview with him and asked if he knew it was true... he said right now no... but I feel good so lets keep going.
well, moral of the story he was a little rollar coaster for us. we learned someone was pushing him to be baptized or he will go to hell. he was super scared and just wanted to be with us. we continued to help him every day, but in the end he had doubts about a couple things but wanted to go or it anyway. then this girl who he is absolutly crazy about said look! you cant get baptized in their church you need to read this pamphlet fomr my church. he is in love with her so he studied it alll night for her and the next day cut us. (asked not to go anymore to church) lesson learned, this is the true church, and sometimes people will do everything they can to stop someone from finding the truth. we will keep him in our prayers and hope after this girl with 14 years stops playing with his mind that he will come back to what he felt was true.
other than that our miracle family of 4 is progressing great! will go to churhc this next week and we will see what happens! I am hoping they will be baptized the last day I am here in this area october 30th :) love them!
