Hello everyone! I was
able to talk to my family yesterday and that was nice. I haven’t missed
them as much as I thought I might, but it was nice to see them just the same and I
think they enjoyed it. This week was pretty slow but I have a great story to
tell so I will just do the story and not bother with the other stuff because not
much else happened anyway.
We got to baptize
somebody this week! And he must be more than usually important because there
were a lot of miracles along the way. His name is Bruno. The missionaries
first found him last summer (you guy’s summer that is). His brother was
baptized soon after but he wasn't because he said he didn't know that the
church was true so he didn't want to be baptized. He had stopped going to church
(his brother too) and wasn't really doing much so soon after we got here,
we decided to stop teaching him.
About a month later we
went to visit his brother Ralph who is a member since he wasn't coming to
church. Ralph wasn't there but Bruno was so we decided to at least share a short
message with him, basically so the visit wouldn't be completely wasted. We said an opening prayer and immediately
after that he said, "I prayed and received an answer that the Book of
Mormon is true." I have already taught a good number of people and
even baptized a few but to this day, I have never heard an investigator bear a
testimony of the Book of Mormon as he did with this simple sentence.
Unfortunately that was
almost three months ago and he was leaving to go to college in another city. We
were hoping that he would find the missionaries there but there wasn't much we
could do about it, or so we thought. About a month and a half later we
decided to go visit Ralph again, basically because it was a vacation day and
nobody was at home to visit. It turned out that Bruno had returned for
the vacation. So we talked to him again and he said that it was probable that
there would be a strike at his College (which is crazy common here in Brazil
About a month later (and
after more teaching because he wasn't just going to do something he didn't
understand) he was baptized. I am very grateful that I had the pleasure
to teach and baptize such an amazing person. His mother and sister do not
support his decision to be baptized but he did it anyway because he knew what
was right and what was true. He was
baptized Friday and confirmed Sunday.
It was a good week. I
hope you all have a good week as well. I love you all!
Elder Russell
The pictures: One is the baptism and the other is us with a bunch of
members.
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