So this week was my last transfer week. i´m officially going into my last transfer. sadly President has decided that I need to end my mission in a ward that I know literally no one because he has decided to transfer me to a new area. I would have loved to have just ended my mission here but apearently there is something else i need to do in a different area. So i´ll be Emailing you guys next week to tell you what the details are. Where i am, whos my Companion Etc.
Well
this week we had a little bit of a miracle happen. A miracle that Truly
changed the life of a family. I´m not sure how much of mentioned them
but we´ve been teaching a family of 4, Alberto (dad) Andrea (mom)
Kaylanne (8 year old Daughter) and Junior (5 year old Son.) they have
been absolutly incredible to teach. they´ve been super responsive to
everything we teach. So after a while of teaching them we were able to
get the bishop in on one of our lessons. It turned out to be a great
lesson and everyone left smiling. After the lesson we went to go eat
lunch and about half way through the meal I recieve a call from Alberto.
He told me that a Decision has been made about the church.
That
night we were able to go back and visit him and the family. We started
talking with him and he ended up telling us what the decision was. He
Asked us, "Have you as missionaries ever had to give up on someone
becuase they never recieved an answer to their prayers" we didnt really
know how to respond. The moment we tried to explain anything he stopped
us by asking another question, "Well then i´m curious. When can i be
baptised."
That completly took us off guard.
We really had nothing to say and about the only thing that came out was a
loud "Woo hoo!!!" We were incredibly happy to hear about how he decided
to be baptised. Sadly his Wife and kids were not so ready to follow and
werent baptized this week. The Baptismal service was the best i´d ever
seen on the mission. we had about 4 cakes, soda, all types of weird
brazillian salty snacks. The talks were great! the baptism was only done
once! it was just a great experience for everyone. Everyone went home
feeling the spirit.
We also had a different
Girl be batized too!. Her name was alicya. She was living with a less
active member of the church, but she finally moved out and was able to
be baptized this week. She seemed really happy about.
One
of the worst things of a missionary is you rarely get to see your
recent converts become truly converted to the gospel. you always leave
when you really want to stay and help them become part of the church.
but its a sad reality. I´m still grateful for the chance that I got to
know the people of Boa Vista.
Well i´ll talk
to you guys next week. i´m pretty sure i´ll be trying to get my time in
on christmas day, about 3 in the afternoon. (11 AM
your time I think) let me know if there are any problems. president
will be sending the times we can talk next week. i´ll finalize it all
next week with you guys! oh! and hey I got my Christmas box!. I loved
the snow man card! Thank you Family!!! Till next week!
Elder Cornwall
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