Dear família,
This week has been good but the work here has been getting
rough with Carnival coming up. Everybody is working and the iniquity is rising
so we aren't teaching very many people. But we are working with a lot of good
investigators. Right now we are working with a young man named Carlos. We will
be baptizing him tomorrow so we are pretty excited about that.
This week has just been pretty busy though. Lots of meeting
out in Maceió. We have to take a bus there every time and it is more or less a 45-minute
ride.
This week we had a pretty cool miracle. Last Tuesday we were
returning from Maceió and my companion left our phone on the bus and we prayed
and prayed because he needs the phone because he is district leader so he is
always having to call the missionaries and the zone leaders and stuff. But then
the next day we got a call from the sister missionaries because a woman found
our phone and kept it and then called one of the contacts which was the
sisters. The sisters then wrote the address of the woman and were we could find
her. So, Wednesday we took a bus out to the other part of our area called A
Alto da Barra. We then knocked on the woman’s door and she gave us our phone!
and then we talked to her a little bit about the gospel and she said she really
really wants to visit our church. So I think this week she will visit. This was
just a little testimony of the miracles that God does for us. It reminded me of
the story that you told me Dad, of the little red bike and how God gives us
little tender mercies over small things too. It was only a cheap cell phone but
God still helped us find a way to receive it.
This next week we will probably baptize Claudette. She had
problems with smoking and was very very addicted but our zone leader told us to
bring oranges. We brought oranges and told her that when she is feeling tempted
to smoke, to suck on an orange and it will take away the drive to smoke. We
talked to her the next day and she told us that it completely worked! We have
tried everything and we finally found what helped and it is oranges. Interesting,
right? I don’t know why oranges help but they do ha-ha.
Anyways everything is going well here after next week we
probably won’t have baptisms until after Carnival and we will probably stay in
Maceió with the Zone leaders.
Tell everyone that I said hi.
Sounds like everyone is doing good!
Miss you all
Love Elder Toma
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