..Helicopters and Miracles....

Quickly:

Certainly it is different working here. I am learning that the word misson doesn't just mean 'take pictures, make friends, learn a language, etc. etc' Though these things are good,'mission' means 'growth, service, and Baptise.' All of these, minus baptisms, hurt. All of these as well are needed to become who we need to become! 

This week:

Police heliocopters were searching for people

I ate a huge ant - on purpose

We helped chase a goat back to someone's home

It rained A TON

We painted our apartment

We experienced a miracle.

We Baptized Elisangela!

The baptismal service was fantastic! I need to explain a miracle first.

Elder Napan and I have the same amount of time in the mission field here in Brasil, so he is learning the language too. My trainer and his trainer had to interview Elisangela for Baptism and so we had to find our way to an appointment. We had been there by bus, but not at night and not from the spot we were at. 

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Being a man, I thought I knew where we were going. We. Got. Lost. Elder Napan and I, being the only ones in the street, prayed. Hard. Asking for a miracle to lead us to our appointment. We asked God for sure direction that we could recognize, understand, and follow to get there.

We said Amen.

Elder Napan turned around and asked this 20ish year old guy how to get to the address we were looking for.I was thinking 'where did this guy come from??' He said that he was heading that way and that he'd show us.

No joke. Not even two seconds after we closed our prayer, God had lined up this 'angel without wings' to guide us to our appointment.

STRAIGHT MIRACLE

On the way he said that he had looked into many churches because each church must have a little bit of the truth. We asked him if he thought that the original church that Jesus established had all the truth. Of course it did. We told him that that church had been restored, got his address and telefone number, and other missionaries will be teaching him soon!

 

Water fight and Baptism...

CHURRASCO!!!!! Don't worry about me! Isabel, an investigator of the other missionaries was kind of a 'mom' to us as we had a barbeque, and Elder Díaz, the argentian, started a water fight with me =)

Also, we had a BAPTISM!!!

quickly, 4 siblings, 1 mom. Father passed away 3 years ago via a motorcycle accident.

This is a crucial time in their lives. Them, and especially their older brother (not in the photo) can choose now to be more like christ, or fall to what the world has to offer.

I am so thankful that we have gotten a chance to meet them, and we willl work super hard so that they can stay in the gospel!

gotta go!  Love ya!!!!!!

Fish and Faith.....

Quickly!

We had this for dinner last night!

I'm still learning how to work hard with my comp. He can speak the language! but doesnt want to get up and moving...and so, i'll use a little water tomorrow to help him out =)

I'll talk more about Angela in the next email.

MISSIONARIES: SHE FILLED OUT THE QUESTIONS TO ALL THE PAMPHLETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYONE: She is reading every part that we leave. She is praying as well! She didn't want to talk to us because she thought we were stuck up rich kids (because we wear ties), we baptise dead people, and we worship Joseph Smith. SO MANY DOUBTS! she had heard all kinds of wierd things about the church!

We saw her today and she said,

"Of course I'm getting baptised! How could I not? I'm never judging a book by it's cover again."

Friends and family. This is the true church. Every fight and struggle we have to defend it only strenghtens my faith.

I love you all!

Thank you for support and prayers!!!