So I said "oh my gosh" on day and my new hispanic son decided that it was pretty much the greatest phrase ever. Elder pepper and I havent stopped saying it for about a week now. just about every thing new or wierd we say oh my gosh...
So we had a miracle baptism this week. one of the members had a grand daughter that was ready to be baptised. but her parents werent really for the idea. so we were able to talk with the grandma and the grand daughter and work out that she was able to be baptised. she was one of the smartest girls i´ve ever met. she blew just about all the other people i´ve taught on the mission out of the water. we taught her about Joseph Smith. apostosy, the plane of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the word of wisdom and by the end of one week she had everything memorized and could recite everything back to us from memory. it was quite incredible. and she was 8 years old (we had to teach her the lessons because her parents arent members.)
Also we´ve been finally having a lot of success. we had the baptism on saturday and we had 3 other people come to church yesterday. it was great! the other Elders living in our same house are doing well too. they are working on establishing a new branch and also working in our area too. I dont know who i´ve told you about but our investigators that are doing well are, alexandre, bruna, vão and barbara.
Alexadre went to church and told us that he wants to be baptized and even serve a mission. he´s just a little bit older then me. he turns 21 this month. and hes way awesome. he´s been really religious all his life but just separated himself from just about everything recently. one of the recent converts of the ward talked with him and passed him as a reference to us and now he will probably be baptized soon. i´m super excited for him
Bruna lives next door to one of the members too. she´s very curious about why our church is "different then the rest" she told us yesterday when the meetings were all over that she was very suprised how we were very quiet. we explain things very will in the classes. and just that the church is "different" then the rest that you find on the street. I was very happy to hear her say that she liked the church.
Anyway I loved the the christmas packages and yes all the candy is gone... already... I only have the gum left. which is really hard to eat because i cant chew it in public. i can only chew gum in the house. all is well here. I´m still happy. we are working hard and finding people to baptize. anyway! i´ll let you guys go! till next week! good luck in india! and thanks for the pictures jodi! few things make me happier quicker than a few pictures of the chuck! buh-bye now!!!
Elder Cornwall... Not Alexander... very ugly....
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