Wonderful!

Hello! 

So I´m in a city called Cachoeirinha now. It´s close to Porto Alegre. I live in a new apartment and the chapel here is 3 stories tall, and is in the middle of a poor neighborhood. It´s pretty great here. Yesterday I was privileged to baptize 2 people. It was a miracle! We really can´t do this work alone. Only with God´s help are we able to do anything. 2 weeks ago we were knocking doors in a very poor area with dirt roads. They call the neighborhood antenas, because all the houses are underneath these big electric antenas.(You know those big electric structures to transport electricity from state to state) Anyway, we were knocking/ clapping doors there and we encountered an old man who lives alone in a wooden shack and he told us to come back another day because he didn´t have time. A few days later we went back to find him sitting outside his house with a dozen beer cans laying on the ground around him, and he had one beer can which he was drinking from. He told us that it would be better for us to come back another day because he was drunk, but I insisted that we share a message with him anyway. He let us in and really payed attention to our message. We invited him to go to church and he said he would go. We planned to go by his house the next morning to go to church together with him. Sunday morning we were on our way to his neighborhood and when we got close we saw him riding down the road on a bike and dressed in a suit. He smiled, waved, and yelled that we were late and that he was already on his way to go to church. Sure enough by the time we went to go pick up a few more people and go back to the church, he was already there waiting for us. Luckily there is a member in our ward who is old friends with this man. He loved the church. After the meetings I took him and his friend over to the baptismal font. We talked a little about how cool baptism is and I asked him, Will you prepare to be baptized next Sunday? He accepted! Every day during that week he road his bike to the chapel in the afternoon so we could teach him together with his old friend. Sunday when he got home from church he already threw away all of the beer he had in his house before we even taught him about the word of wisdom. Then after we taught him about the word of wisdom on the Wednesday, he already gave away all the cofee he had that same day. Yesterday he was baptized. It was a very special experience, but complicated at the same time. For a few days our city has been without water. Sooooo... We were able to fill up the baptismal font until just about knee level. Luckily there was actually water in the system but it came out really slow. During the priesthood class my companion and the ward mission leader had the idea to use the emergency fire hose. I had know idea that they did that. By the time the meetings were done they told me that they had solved the problem about the water. When I saw the water it was a bit taller, but green and freezing cold. Luckily both of our investigators had asked me to baptize them. Woohoo, Só vai! (Just go!) The lady who was baptized almost fainted from the fear of cold water. The man who was baptized said that he couldn´t even feel the coldness of the water. I am so grateful to be apart of the lord´s work. It really is the best work that exists. God´s elects are waiting in all parts of the world for our help. Many people want to and are willing to change they just don´t know how to change. They are simply waiting for our invite. You can be a tool in the Lord´s hand anyday you want and see the miracles happen. I´m so grateful to be here. P.S. Sorry about my english.