Hey Family,
This week was good, we have just been spending the week
planning for the baptisms and checking up on these investigators, this week we will be baptizing a girl that is 12 years old her
name is Sofia and she is very excited to be baptized, her family went inactive
but we went there to reactivate the family and discovered that she wasn’t
baptized so we are helping them return to the church and all.
The family is a very good family, they are supper nice and
this last Sunday, the grandma went up and bore her testimony so that was really
cool to hear. The other baptism is for the19th and it is a member’s husband
that never got baptized but he finally accepted baptism and he wants to be baptized
and enter the temple to be sealed, and finally we have Ceza who is really
really cool, he wants to be baptized but he is fighting the addiction of
smoking, we have been setting goals with him and he is doing well, so pray for
him.
This week has also been super good with my district, I did
exactly what my president told me to do, which was pray and ask how I can help
the sisters in my district and they are already doing so much better, they are
excited and even made 10 new investigators this week.
I don’t know if I already wrote about an interview that I
had with my president but it was really interesting and it helped me a lot.
He encouraged us to keep a journal of everything that we experience
which I have but he showed me more importance of it and what I could do with
it. He also asked me about my district and he told me that after my first interview
with him, that he already knew to call me to be dl. He also said that when he was planning with the
assistants and his wife that he had a list of names that was a list of
absolutes, he then told me ´´You were on that list, Elder´´ and then he
said ´´be careful, the Lord is watching you. But congratulations, the Lord is
watching you.´´ He then told me that he already knew about the sisters but that
sometimes being a leader is like being on an island, your alone sometimes and
you can only turn to the Lord, he then challenged me to figure it out for
myself through prayer and fast.
I won’t lie I felt like a had a lot of responsibility and I
felt at first that maybe I wouldn’t be able to resolve this problem, I knew that this problem was grave or anything but I just wasn’t
sure if I would be able to help. After prayer and asking the Lord I was impressed to give a
training in the district meeting about Alma chapter 36 verse 22 I think which talks about exercising faith, praying, doing good
works and being obedient, and that when we do that we will bring thousands of
souls to repentance and baptism. I did my best to just excite them, I think
they were feeling a little tired and needed a boost. Finally, after getting some of their trust also, they kind
of just told me everything and I did my best to help them but I think that
everything is going much better.
Today was also super fun, I’m learning a little bit of
soccer but I don’t even play nearly as well as the Brazilians here ha-ha. I played with my companion from the CTM and with the ZLs and
with some members and then we ate lunch.
My companion from the CTM is a dl in the same zone but he isn’t
my companion, I’m the dl in Arapiraca 1st ward and he is dl in Arapiraca Verdes
Campos which is the same stake, so we see each other often but he isn’t in my
district.
But I hope that everyone is doing well
I talked to Elder McGary, sounds like he is finishing the
mission here
Miss y’all
Love,
Elder Toma
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