February 25, 2010

Hey hey hey!!

Transfers happened and after a long three week stay in Itapuã.... I’ve been transferred again. Unfortunately right when we started picking up some good solid investigators but its all good. We had a really cool experience with one man, Elso, who truly seemed to be taught by the spirit. One of those lessons where you feel that true comprehension has been reached. He began to finish sentences with us as we were explaining about the Priesthood being restored and as we invited him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon he told us that he didn’t want to read it alone but rather would read it with his wife and afterwards wanted to pray about it with her. Interesting how often people who come into contact with the truth and truly are touched by the Spirit have a great desire to share the gospel with those they know and love. Also had a girl who we invited to go to church on Saturday night who showed up alone to church on Sunday. When we had passed by her house Sunday morning to go to church her neighbor told us she had left a little while before we got there. A little disappointed as nobody else had decided to go to church on Sunday, we got to church only to find her in the hallway talking with a relative of her's, a member of the church. There was also a brother of a recently returned missionary who decided he wanted to be baptized and will be this coming Saturday. I was really liking the area but I am also excited to work here in Amaralina with Elder M. He is from Natal which is up on the northern end of things here in Brasil. Thus far we've done a pretty good clean-up of the smallish house here and after a bucket shower we came here to the LAN House to send some emails and pick up the weekly boletin. Other than that not much to report. I'm going to be studying Christ's life and teachings a good bit this transfer and am looking forward to gaining a stronger testimony thereof.

Jacob