Semana das Milagres!
This week was a week of
miracles. We had District Meeting on Tuesday
and created a goal for our district of 4 companionships to baptize 25 people
this month. Our goal for our zone of 8
companionships is 30. Our District
Leader was really pumped this week to meet this goal. He is crazy for baptisms. While we were
waiting outside with Elder C, his companion, during a baptismal interview with
one of our investigators this week,
Elder C told us that that morning, while he was saying his morning
prayers, which are usually fairly long, he could hear and feel [our district
leader] pacing the floor behind him.
When Elder C finally finished praying, [The district leader] said,
"Elder C, eu acordei a 6 horas da manha e nâo consigiu dormir mais. E eu estava pensado...Nos precisamos
batizar!" (translation:
"Elder C, I woke up a 6 o' clock this morning and couldn't sleep anymore. And I was thinking...We need to
baptize!" [Our district leader] was
pumped to baptize this week so we rewarded him with the stress of 12 baptismal
interviews, aka a lot of walking, a lot of sweating, a lot of stress, a lot of
hectic chaos.
In the end, Sister Adriane and
I helped one child of God enter the waters of baptism this week - the father of
a recent convert. At the beginning of
this week, we didn't know if he was ready or could be baptized because he is
old and a lot of the time doesn't understand everything we teach. But we also knew that he had a desire to be
baptized seeing that he told us he wanted to be baptized every time we asked
and that baptism was a covenant he needed to make regardless of whether or not
he understood everything perfectly. At
the end of the week we went through the baptismal interview questions with him
and, surprisingly, he understood. It was
amazing watching him being baptized by his own son this week. After the baptism we passed by his house
later that day and saw through the door his home teachers introducing
themselves to him. It was a wonderful
scene and miracle to behold.
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