Last Sunday was good as Emmanoel and Reuza and their family came to
church. Also Nabil came alone and early, his wife had an appointment
with work and their sons slept through, but it was awesome that he came
alone. I already said this but Nabil is from Lebanon and is Muslim. It
has been interesting teaching him about Christ. We also found and gave
him a Book of Mormon in Arabic, and he is reading consitently. It also
has been more than 3 weeks since he has smoked!!! He is truly awesome,
just struggles in accepting Christ as the Savior, but we are seeing him
changing. He is more happy and the other day it was so cool, we went to
their house and after the lesson we invited him to pray and he did and
closed in the name of Jesus Christ!!! That was such a big deal, he is
really progressing and we are really excited for him.
Haha but it was a good week, we started the week and kind of
realized that we and our other investigators were in a rut. They all
have pretty much been progressing, but only slightly, and that is
frustrating to a missionary because you can see how many blessings are
waiting for these people, but they have to act of their own accord. So
we have been praying so so much this week to help us to know how to help
our investigators progress towards baptism. Emmanoel and Reuza have
been a huge focus of my prayers because they need to get married before
they can progress more, well I truly hope they can have a change of
heart and decide to mark a date to get hitched. One of the main problems
is that Reuza´s mom lives in Northeastern Brasil and she really wants
her mom to be here for their wedding, but like most brasilians they cant
really afford to just fly her out on a whim, it would have to be a
pretty long process of planning for her to take the bus from Bahia to
SP. Haha well as 20 year old young men we dont really understand that
need or the need for a big wedding party or anything, haha and Emmanoel
also doesnt really see the need for it, but that is ok, we will continue
praying and inviting. We did invite their two sons to be baptized and
they said they want to, but were slightly hesitant, so they didnt accept
a date. Overall it was kind of a bummer because this is such a great
family and I just want so badly for them to be able to progress and
receive these blessings that Heavenly Father is just waiting to give
them.
Well we kept on doing our part and doing more contacts on the street and visiting our investigators.
Remember
Natalia and Thiago??? Well we have been super bummed because she
started working at this fast food restaraunt here in SP called Habib´s
and it is so horrible to work there, she only worked nights and would
get home on the weekends at like 5 AM. She started working there like a
month ago right when she was getting really close to be baptized. Well
she has also been a serious topic of prayer and we went to visit her on
Thursday since it was her day off and we found out she quit her job!!
Haha it actually was a huge blessing!! She said she didnt feel right
there and she needed to be at home to see her kids and husband since she
was basically never seeing them. Well we marked the next day
(yesterday) for an appointment since her husband would be there. So we
went and had a good lesson reviewing the Restoration. At the end we
invited her to be baptized the 10th of May and she was so surprised!!
She said to us that this was for sure a thing of God, because that same
day she had told her husband that she really knew this church was true
and she was going to ask us if she could be baptized. Haha so she
accepted and it was such a miracle, she was found by the sisters who
worked in our area last august, wasnt married, then got married finally,
but when I first got here she didnt accept baptism thinking it was way
too early. It was such a tender mercy, she really has had a change of
heart. So we are excited for her!!!! Other than that not much happened
this week, haha just the usual craziness!!
Oh!! So in regards to the skype call! This time will hopefully be a
little different! I will be able to skype here in the office! We asked
President and he said we could since there are so many of us here in the
ward, and so I will use it here. Let´s plan to use a google hangout,
starting at 6 PM SP time, which I think is 3 PM your time in Denver.
Woudl that be alright?? Also I already downloaded skype on this computer
in the case that hangout doesnt work out again. So you guys should make
a hangout and be on it at 6 PM my time and invite me to it. OK?? Love
you all! Have a great week!
Elder Carney
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