So the animals are getting pretty old now huh. I can hardly beleive that Max will be 18 this year. Hes an old little muncher. =) Thats pretty cool to hear about Lissy too. Peppers Portuguese is pretty dang good actually. He´s communicating with everyone really well. He´s by far the funnest companion i´ve had on the mission so far.
So I´ve been doing pretty well and we finally had a miracle happen this week. No it was not a baptism but it certainly no less of a miracle. I´m not sure how much i´ve told you about our friend sandro. but he was a baptism from the missionaries before us that went inactive really quick. BUT! we found him in the street and just started talking with us for a little while. and at the end of the conversation he told us that he knew a familiy that he would like us to talk to and hopefully bring into the church. he told us where to go and we told him that we had a meeting to go to really quick but that we would return after the meeting.
we went to the other person we had and sadly she wasnt in her home. so we returned to where sandro told us to go. when we entered we found a woman and 2 young men. we started talking with them and asking a little bit about their background. just finding out who they were. well, as we were talking, the rest of her family comes in. I thought it would be a good idea to start talking about how the family can be eternal if we are obediant to the laws and ordanainces of the gospel. We gave her a quick run down of the Gospel of jesus christ. Talking about Faith Repentance and baptism. We helped her close with a prayer and during her prayer she asked god that she would be prepared to be baptised and that everything would work out that She and her Family would be baptized.
Its certainly amazing how god works in simple ways. Elder Pepper and I have been praying that we could find someone who wanted to be baptized and we´ve finally recieved an answer to that prayer. we will be preparing them to be baptized for the 1st of march.
I also was giving the opportunity to talk yesterday in the ward again. last week I gave a talk to the group starting in Teotonio. and this week and gave a talk to the people in the home ward São Miguel. I decided to talk a little bit about how the Atonement is truely important and how we can apply it in our own lives. I was asked to talk for 15 minutes. the talk was something like this.
The atonment started when Jesus Christ suffered in the garden and ended in the ressurection. This sacrifice is our only hope of returning to live with our Heavenly Father. and we can accept the atonement by having faith repenting and being baptized by proper preisthood authority.
That is basically what I said using different examples and scriptures to illustrate my point. but It was certainly a fun experience. I´ve come to like speaking in the ward. even though I´m a little nervous everytime I step up to the pulpit.
And so I think this is all i´ve got for this week. I love you all and hope all continues being great! till next week!
Elder Gringo.
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