Saturday, January 14, 2017

January 8, 2017 Three baptisms today

Dear Family,
  
This week has been sooo crazy and just so much has happened and is going on. We have been teaching lots of people and we were going to baptize 3 people yesterday but the pool that we were going to use was being used. The president said we can baptize in the Ocean but he really wants us to find a better place because he doesn’t think the Ocean is clean enough. So, we told him that we would baptize today instead in the pool. So today we have 3 baptisms.

One of the ladies that we will be baptizing is Kiteria she has a ton of faith, when we met her she was crying outside her house and we stop and asked her what was wrong and helped her by sharing a brief message and a prayer. We taught her the next day and shared the restoration, and asked her to pray to know if it was true and the next day she told us about her dream and how she saw a river and thorns but then the thorns went away and she felt peace. That night we taught her about the Book of Mormon and read Moroni 10:3-5 with her. After we had her pray to know that it was true and she started crying and after told us that she knows its true right off the bat. We also have been teaching her mom who is a serious member of the Assembly of God church, (a church that I think only exists in brazil lol) and we have been teaching all the lessons and she has been going to church with us but still lacked a little bit of a testimony. Finally, the very same day that the Zone leaders were interviewing her daughter Kiteria, she was telling us about a dream she had.  In her dream, she said she saw two bodies of water, one warm and one cold. She said that she went in the warm water and then saw two men dressed in white, she told the men that she loved them and then the men told her that they loved her and that was basically all that she said to us.

We also found some other people who will be baptized next week and 3 more the following, so we have lots of baptisms lined up.

This last week has had some laughs too, my companion was standing in the this street looking around and trying to get direction from the spirit, when this little boy was running up and down the street and about the third or fourth time the kid passed us, he tried to punch me in the soft spot, but luckily I caught it and then my companion next to me, still looking around trying to feel guidance from the spirit wasn’t paying attention and the kid nailed him square in family jewels and then ran off. My companion was in pain for like the whole next hour hahaha. Also, this week I saw a really buff guy in a dress wearing make-up and wearing high heels, the weirdest thing and creepiest thing I’ve ever seen haha. But over all a really good week, wish us luck on the baptisms that we will have today, I’ll send pictures next week.

miss you guys!
Love

Elder Toma

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