The Brazilian Adventure: Week 41 March 10-- March 16

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

   So this week. I fulfilled one of my dreams here on my mission. So Mario was able to be baptised this week. It was such an awesome baptism. Mario is 67 years old and he is a Japanese man who speaks Portuguese. Mario has been in about 3 car and 2 Motorcycle accidents in his life. So his body is not in the best shape. Half of his body is kinda paralyzed, but he can still walk pretty good and move around. We helped him get changed for baptism and enter the waters. It was so amazing to see him get baptised. Mario doesn´t talk very much. But when he does, most of the time he is cracking jokes. When we walked him back into the bathroom, I asked him how did it go. And he began to cry and just said that it touched the deepness of his heart. He is such a great guys. He is a very self dependent man. He doesn´t like very much help. He always uses the phrase of other people going to church´s feeling the bag of God. Or giving God all these problems to solve. We are teaching him that there is a balance to it all. That it is not a bad thing to ask Heavenly Father for help. We actually need his help in our lives to become the person that he wants us to become. We need to be humble and know that we can´t become this great person on our own. We shared with him Ether 12:27. But we need to make sure that we are not just sitting around and waiting for the Lord to do something. We need to be acting and going,  and then the Lord will help us on the way. Just like it talks about in James 2:17 faith with out works is dead.  He is so awesome. He jokes with us telling us that he feels like we are two old wise men teaching him. I love Mario.

   This week was great. The enemy is stepping up his game and he is attacking. But I´m trying to be strong and do the best I can. I love my mission. I´m so blessed. I love you all and I hope you all and doing great.

Be Happy.

Love The Elder Jones ( that´s me)