Monday, June 23, 2014
Famlee!
Hey everybody! How are
you all doing!? I am great. This week was a good one, so I am going to get
going on some highlights.
This week was a white
one. We baptized José Luís, Luís, and Mariana. It was fantastic. We finished up
teaching them, they accepted everything so well, and understood perfectly. They
did great with the interviews, our zone leaders were impressed. Earlier in the
week Mariana was having some anxiety about baptism, because an anti-Mormon
neighbor had talked bad about the church to her. We invited her to do a prayer
with us to ask God what she should do. She did, and after, she said, ''I am
going to be baptized.'' It's amazing to see Heavenly Father respond to our
investigators prayers, even those from a 10 year old girl. It is one of the
greatest miracles of the mission.
We had to hire a taxi
yesterday to drive out to a beautiful little lake to do the baptisms. It was
either that or drive 2 hours to Vila Real... The lake was definitely way
better, although it did make me miss swimming a little. The water was nice and
warm, and it was a nice hot day too. All three of them were so excited! I love
seeing investigators excited to be baptized! It is the best. Everything ran
smoothly, and they all ended the day smiling. Tonight we have a family home
evening with them and a couple other families from the branch. It should be
good.
Our big focus now will
be Iury and Abidulai. Abidulai is struggling. He is pulling out a little bit.
Pray that he can receive and answer to his prayers. It is hard to contact
either one of them, because they are in the last stretch of their courses, and
time is hard to come by. We still haven't taught the commandments to them, and
we are running out of time. We need a miracle to happen with them this week so
they can get baptized soon, hopefully Sunday.
We only have 2 more
weeks left in the transfer, time is blowing by at speeds that I can't believe.
I should stay here for the next transfer, but our district will probably change
up at least a little. My good friend Elder Camper from my district in Cascais
who works in a town about an hour away from Bragança called Mirandela will
probably transferred. I am starting to get used to all the change I
think...
There has been a lot
of stress in our branch these last few weeks, and it is a lot to deal with. I
have been in close contact with the stake president, and we are in kind of a
rough spot with some things going on here. We only had 13 in church yesterday
counting our 5 investigators and us. That’s only 6 regular members. Pray for
our little branch.
Okay, I need to write
my mission president now, but I love you all. Thanks for all of the letters and
all of the prayers. Have a great week!!!
Love,
Elder Lee
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