Dear family,
This week was a week of miracles. So we all decided to fast
so that Mateus’s parents would sign the baptismal record and also another
investigator Gemison because also his mom didn’t want to sign his baptismal
record.
So we did our fast, Matheus, my companion and I. On Thursday
we went on splits, I went with one of the zl to interview our investigators. We
first went to Matheus’s house and we left a message with his mom who afterwards
refused to sign it and said that she would not sign it until Matheus was 18
years old! but then as we talked to her we discovered that she was afraid that Matheus’s
father would get upset that she signed it and that if he agreed to sign it then
she would support it.
I won’t lie when I left I was pretty upset and even tempted
to break my fast, but I knew that wasn’t the right thing to do so I continued
fasting. We then went to Gemison´s house, he is a 12-year-old boy and his
brothers are all baptized, and he has a ton of time in the church too, but his
mom never let him get baptized, so when went there and did his interview and he
passed with excellence and then we talked to his mom who surprisingly agreed to
signing his baptismal record and on Saturday we baptized him and his mom even
showed up to support. But then the next day on Saturday Matheus came up to us saying
that he talked to his dad and that his dad will sign the baptismal record to
let him be baptized!
Fasting really does bring miracles when we put our faith in
the Lord, Gemison could have been baptized any day for these past few years,
Matheus´s parents could have signed his record any time this year, but they didn’t,
All this happened in one week with a little fast to soften
the hearts of this boy´s parents. I know that God´s hands played a part in
this. Every baptism is a miracle and a testimony that God is real,
I know that conversion without the Holy Ghost isn’t a true
conversion, he plays a major role in the conversion process, Doctrina e Convenios
42 says that if ye don’t receive the spirit ye shall not teach.
I’m excited for this week because I know that we will experience
even more miracles, it’s a new miracle every day.
Hope everyone is doing well, I miss you all
Happy Halloween!
Love
Elder Toma
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