The Brazilian Adventure: Week 106  June 15th -- June 21st

My Dearest beloved Family and Friends:

The transfers was great. So do you guys remember how I go to a foot doctor place for many of my P-days. Well I´m still doing that, I´m going today. The person that attends us missionaries is a lady called Mari. She has been attending us missionaries for a little bit more than a year. We have developed a great relationship with her. We have taught her everything about the church, the 5 lessons. We have been talking about baptism with her also and the temple blessings. But she has always told us that she didn´t want to get baptized. Well on the transfers, our mission was blessed to be able to see her baptism. It was so awesome! She has such an incredible testimony. She said that she is so happy that she is finally a mormon. She had a hard time with coffee and with her family. Her baptism was so great. She said that she was especially super happy to be pure to take the sacrament yesterday, she said that she has always been curious to see how that bread and water taste like. She had a lot of opposition before her baptism. 

Opposition is something that is so real. I have seen it so many times. Right when we find someone, crazy things happen to that person so that they won´t get baptised. 

Our zone had a lot of new missionaries. They remind me of me at the begining. There is a sister from the US. and she doesn´t hardly understand anything that we are saying. And Elder perreira who gets super nervous to speak to people on the street. That is how I was. And now it is all good. 

It is so great to see wards grow with recent converts and reactivation. I have realized that ever since that we have helped out a lot with the retention and reactivation in our wards. A lot of the converts have been staying strong and they are growing so much. It is so awesome. 

Elder Paz had a great experience with a baptism interview with a lady from the area of Elder Rezabala. Her name is Luci. The day that she had the interview. She said that she wasn´t going to getbaptized  because she smoked a whole pack of cigerats that day and she was never going to be able to stop. That she has been smoking ever since she was 15 years old. But then elder Paz asked her if she really had a desire to stop, and she said yes. Then he asked her if she had faith that if we had the power to cure people like Christ did through the priesthood. And she said yes. Then Elder Paz and Eder Rezabala gave her a blessing. And ever since that moment and until today, she hasn´t smoked. And she was baptized yesterday. Awesome stuff.

Love you all.

Be happy

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