The Beauty of the Gospel!

It was a blessed week, yet a hard week at the same time; I will be staying in this area of Vargas as we just had another transfer. I am positive that we will continue to see the area grow with many more hearing the Gospel message; supported by our testimonies. We hope many of those we will come in contact with and teach can be invited to the waters of baptism. It seems like yesterday that I was asked to reopen or as a missionary says, "whitewash" this area that was closed for sometime prior. We have seen some great things happen in this short time here!

This past week we were able to see some of our wonderful new investigators be baptized. That being the baptism of Ruan,  Isabelle and a friend of our recent convert, Ingrid! Sister Feres and I were super excited! Rian was not able to be baptized this past week because he will be going out of town, however we are working with him for this coming week. Benedito said to us, that prior to this coming Sunday he would decide what path or what church he would follow and then be baptized. We reminded him of what he knows to be true and to ask Heavenly Father in prayer what he should do. It was also a great time to bear my witness; my own testimony of the blessings of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. Also, we reminded him to ask Heavenly Father and that he would answer his faithful prayers. He was not able to be at church this past Sunday, yet hopefully he is doing what we asked him to do to find answers. We will be checking at his home often to see what his feelings are. We are praying a lot for him and each of our investigators! On a lighter note, Sandro, for his work, does parachuting classes - you know jumping from a plane with a  parachute, crazy huh. I told him that I would come back with my family to visit and go parachuting! He smiled and said okay!
We are enjoying the warm Summer here in Brazil!  God bless each of you!