So I´m short on time here because they guy whose lan house
we go to has to go to Fortaleza shortly, so this will be a quick one!
The majority of this week was spent moving or preparing to
move, which was a pain in the neck, but it’s all taken care of now!
I´m going to skip forward to the days where we really did
stuff.
Friday, we had lunch with Branco and Ancylia and headed up
to Putiu to visit some less actives. There was a lot of walking so that took up
a lot of time. We talked with a young man, about 17 years old who hasn´t gone
to church for about 2 months. It turns out he always went because his friends
went, but someone stopped going and then everyone just stopped completely. So
we talked with home about church and faith and the Book of Mormon. It turned
out that he hadn´t even opened the Book of Mormon. When he said that my
companion said ´´and that is why you never had a true testimony. This is the
proof!´´ and how true it is! After that we visited a family of Ronaldo, who had
just gotten back from a surgery in his leg. Good timing on our part, because we
were there visiting him as soon as he got home! Afterwards we passed in with
some of our investigators and that was our day.
Saturday was WAY busy. We taught 10 lessons that day! Most
were with investigators and we went by plenty of less actives too, but I´m just
going to skip to the highlight. So just about our last lesson, we went to
Marcos´ house. His wife died about a month ago and we visited him last Sunday
with the stake and branch presidents. This time his daughter, Raquel, was there
to listen to the message too. We left the message of the restoration with him
(specifically the restoration of priesthood power and the sealing power, yay
temples!) and it was a really strong and powerful lesson. I left with a
testimony of the gospel stronger than when I entered. So we left the message
and I was going to talk with Raquel about why she had stopped going to church,
but I felt that I should just leave with message we taught. So we headed on our
way.
Sunday we go to church to prepare things and then church
started. Marcos didn´t come for some reason, but Raquel was there. It was fast
and testimony meeting, so it’s always a good thing. The meeting is about to
finish and Raquel gets up and bears her testimony that she knows the church is
true. She finished by saying something like this. ´´Last night, I received a
visit from the Elders who talked with us as a family. The left a message so
strong and I felt something so powerful that I knew for a fact that the church
was true, and that I will never distance myself from the church again.´´ Wow...
talk about a humbling experience. I leaned over to my companion and whispered
to him ´´Just as good as a baptism to me.´´ The rest of the day was just a
normal Sunday, but a day that I will never forget the rest of my life.
Then today, we went up to the Nossa Senhora de Fatima again,
and headed up even further to the Jesuita Apostolic School. It was a really
neat old monetary and we took tons of way cool pictures. It’s the kind of thing
Mom and Dad would love! That was about 3 or 4 hours of our day well
spent.
So I´m really pressed for time now, but I love you all! The
church is true and be nice to the missionaries!
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