This week went well but super super busy.
So on Tuesday we taught Adriano and set everything for his
baptism on Saturday and then we walked like 5000 miles to this other investigator that we met a church, her name is
Nercia and she is 20 and super interested but she lives with and aunt and uncle
and the uncle is a pastor and the aunt a missionary of their church so that’s
kind of complicated. they respected us and even gave us some soda and cake but
afterwards Nercia said that she wants to go to church but maybe her uncle won’t
let her. On Wednesday we traveled to Maceió and we stayed there until Thursday
where we had our leadership meeting. It was a great meeting I learned a lot
there and how to help my district. It was fun to see my past companions and see
them as leaders too. I’ll make sure to send some pictures. On Friday we went to
Penedo another city to do some baptismal interviews and then finally we
returned to our home! on Saturday afternoon and we went to interview Adriano.
Adriano´s baptism fell through because he works for the 1st counselor of our
stake who isn’t paying him! so that kind of gave him a bad image and also when
he prayed he had a dream that he entered the church and a leader cut him and it
was a bad dream he said so he decided to not be baptized this week. We finally
were able to talk to him and explain that obviously his dream wasn’t an answer
from God and we will set his baptism for this week. Satan is also working on
the other side. I think I have had only one easy baptism, baptisms aren’t easy
but marking baptism are, isn’t that interesting? 
The moment that we mark the baptism is the moment that Satan
comes in trying to stop the baptism using whatever or whoever to stop it. Every
baptism is a miracle because it’s also proof that God is much more
powerful.
One of the miracle I saw this week was Matheus who was
baptized recently passed the sacrament for the first time. Since I’ve gotten here and I’m sure for the last year and a
half he always sits with the deacons on the bench which are his friends and watches
them pass the sacrament but never was able to participate because he wasn’t
baptized. This week it was a miracle to see him smiling and participating with
his friends in passing the sacrament, and it was all because of a prayer and a
fast that softened the hearts of his parents.
Its sounds like lots of people want to know what we eat here
ha-ha. So we eat rice, beans, noodles, chicken or meat and salad and depending
which area we drink soda or juice. The fruits here are super good. the fruits
are mangos, acerola, pineapple, star fruit, passion fruit, watermelon, banana,
apple, oranges, limes, papaya, graviola, and jack fruit guaraná and also açaí
and I think there is a lot more. Every desert that we eat half the time has
sweet and condensed milk ha-ha, but it’s always super good. I’ll make sure to
take a picture of lunch one day and I’ll send it to all ya.
I think some of the weirdest things that I have eaten that I
actually like is heart and lungs and also I’ve eaten like a bird, like a little
bird ha-ha it was actually pretty good. The worst thing was the insides of a
crab, it was so gross but I rarely don’t like something. Even my companion says
that I like everything ha-ha. He says that the food his is a lot different than
the food where he is from which is close to the capital of |Brazil.
Sounds like you guys all had a great week.
Miss, you all
Love
Elder Toma
It’s probably arriving here soon.
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