The Brazilian Adventure: Week 98 April 20th  -- April 27th

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

Last week I renewed my temple recommend. I´m so greatful that I can pass the temple interview and be worthy to enter the temple. I love living the gospel, so that I can go in there and do such a great work. 

We had a cool experince with a recent convert named Eliana on Tuesday. We had lunch with her this last Wednesday. She was going to work on Wednesday and so she was going to give us money. So Tuesday night she was going to leave her house and walk to our house to try to find us. While she was leaving she had fear that she wasn´t going to be able to find us at our house and she was going to do the whole trip for nothing and not be able to give us the money. And so she said a little prayer and asked God if she can find us on the way. When she said amen and a got a few more other things ready to go. She heard my voice calling her at the door, so that we can give her a message. She came to the door to happy and told us the story. Her prayer was answered so fast. She has a lot of faith. 

One of the young men that we baptised recently started seminary. He loved it. We also took his older sister Tatiana and her husband Gilmar to the temple saturday. It was so awesome. They are preparing for baptism. They just have to get married. But the papers are taking so long like always.  I truely belive that God was preparing him to meet us and to change his life with us. While we were going back to the house from the temple. Gilmar told me a lot about his life. He said that he started to use cocane when he was 15 years old and used it for 10 years. He stoped less then a year ago. Because he was loosing his family and just couldn´t handle it anymore. He said that during these years, he would sell a lot of drugs too. Then he told us that before the first day that we met him, he was drinking in the bar every day and he would come home drunk. But he said that ever since the fisrt day that we started passing by their house. He stopped drinking and hasn´t drank anything. They are so elect. They just have to get married. He always tells everyone that he can´t wait to be baptise so that he can enter the temple after a year. It is so amazing what God can do through you. You just have to be there and say a few words, and then the spirit and the Lord does the rest. 

I love you all so much. Have a great week. 

Be happy

Love the Elder Jones