Dear Family,
This week was a great week,
Wednesday, I got to do a training with Elder Costa of the
70. He is so cool. He is from Argentina so he speaks a lot of Portuguese
mixed with Spanish but it was easy to understand everything that he said, all
the DL and ZL were invited to attend the training and then Thursday we met with
our zone and all of Sergipe and he spoke to all of us. It was a great zone
conference and I got to see all the people from the state of Sergipe where my
last area was Tobias Barreto, it was awesome to see my companion elder Ferreira
and everyone there.
Friday was super busy, we were running around doing baptismal
interviews and calling the ZLs over to do our baptismal interviews so it was
super busy but in the end we got it all done, Saturday I went to another area
to do one more baptismal interview and it was super complicated ha-ha, I was
filling out the baptismal record and he didn’t know anything about himself, he didn’t
know his own birthday or the birthdates of his parents, so it was super
complicated and at first he decided to back out of the baptism so I told him to
say a prayer and the spirit was super strong and he accepted the baptism and
sign the baptismal record and everything and then later that day the elders
from my district called and told me that he ran away from the baptism! so their
baptism ending up falling through unfortunately, so that made me kind of sad
but then when we returned we had our baptism which was such a great baptism! so
many people went and the spirit was so strong, we ended up baptizing a man
named Quemuel, he is married to a member but for years he didn’t want anything
to do with the church, we ended up just trying to gain his trust be being friendly
and talking with him without any commitments.
But in a week or two we started teaching him the lessons and
inviting him to pray and ask God if these things are true, he is super smart
and knows the bible really well and sometimes these types of people are really
hard to baptize but here we had another miracle,
Everyone at the baptism was congratulating us and telling us
that we are such good missionaries to have convinced him but I tried to stay humble
and say that it was all the Lord ha-ha. I’m really glad we got him baptized
because this type of person that is stubborn often are the type that have the
strongest testimonies and aren’t convinced easily about what the world says and
what media says about our church.
So we ended our month as the zone that baptized the most so
we got super happy and the president is letting us do a zone pday so I’m
excited for today, also Elder Lescano and I baptized the most in our zone so my
companion is super super happy about that, he said I’m his favorite companion
and that he never has baptized so many people in one month, he used to be
someone that didn’t follow all the rules but he is happier then ever that now
he is following all the rules with me and working hard, we had the call for
transfers yesterday and our ZL called saying that Elder Lescano will be transferred
and he was soooo sad but then he said he was joking and I have never seen my companion
so happy before ha-ha. I will continue here with him as district leader still
and I will receive two new sisters and two new elders so that will be
interesting ha-ha. But I’m very excited about this month,
Sounds like everyone is doing well at home and I’m happy for
Conner that he is playing football.
I miss you guys,
Até mais
Elder Toma
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