Strength from the Lord.

The mission can be very tiring, but through it all, God gives me the strength I need to do his work. This week we worked in a neighborhood called Três Vendas. The reason why we worked there this week is because the week before a random guy on the street told us to go visit people in Três Vendas and we felt that was an answer to our prayers. The work went pretty well and we found lots of people who said that they wanted to be baptized, but by the end of the week we cut everyone except one family. It´s not fun to cut people from your list of investigators, but as a missionary in Brazil you have to do it a lot.

This week we´ve seen a miracle with an investigator that we just confirmed last Sunday with the gift of the Holy Ghost. He is from Haiti and only speaks French. All of the lessons were taught to him by using a member in our ward who´s also from Haiti and knows French and Portuguese. It´s been a cool experience this week to re teach the lessons to this investigator in portuguese while having the translator translate our portuguese into french for the investigator to be able to understand. This investigator has a very strong testimony that the church is true and it´s amazing to see him go to church and love it even though all of the classes are in Portuguese. This is because he likes to feel the spirit. Every time we go to his house to teach him, he just tells us that he feels good with us there and he feels good about our message. As we´ve gone to this investigator´s house to teach him we´ve started teaching some of the other people from Haiti that he lives with. They are very open to the message and have a desire to follow Jesus Christ. 2 of them said that they will be baptized. Another person who lives in this house is from Nigeria, Africa, and he speaks english as his native language. He doesn´t know portuguese very well so we actually taught him the first lesson in English. It´s a good thing my companion and I are american. It was really weird teaching in english. This guy from Nigeria is going to be baptized later this month.

The winter has stopped and the sun is very strong here. I´m glad that God gives us miracles and gives us the strength we need to help his children return to live with him after this life.