Oh my gosh. I had 23 emails to read and was just fawning
over Jake's emails and pictures so I don't have much time to write. I can't believe my little baby brother is an
Elder right now! I almost cried when I
saw his photos.
Last P-Day our zone had a Just
Dance competition. Presidente Soares has
let us use Just Dance on P-Days. I
definitely got a work out. Almost all of
the songs were in English and I actually found out that some of the traditional
songs we were dancing to have really inappropriate lyrics or at least the implications are
inappropriate. Of course all of the Brasileiros couldn't
understand the lyrics so they just continued dancing really excitedly.
Our miracle investigator, R.,
had his baptismal interview this week.
We were so excited for him, but in the end [our district leader] told us
that R. couldn't be baptized this week.
R. is an amazing man and we
are going to help him stay strong. He
came to church yesterday ready to learn more about the Restored Gospel of Jesus
Christ after we told him two days ago his situation. He is an amazing example to me of strong
faith and patience.
This week Sister J. Silva and
I did some "Contatos de Fogo" - a contact in which we invite someone
to be baptized on the street. We marked
on baptism (set a baptism date target) using this method. It was amazing. Gabriel is the cousin of a pastor of the
church "Assembleia de Deus" but was touched when we explained to him
the correct way to be baptized (in the same manner that Christ was
baptized). We still haven't gone to
visit him yet and are a bit hesitant seeing that he lives with the pastor, but
hey, maybe we can convert the pastor as well and all of his congregation will
follow his example and be baptized.
Love ya’ll!
Sister Dyer
Q: I noticed you guys often do
this thumbs to the side hand gesture in photos. Can you give us an explanation?
A: That is the baptism
sign. We start with thumbs up and then
turn our thumbs to the side as if a person (our thumbs) was being baptized in
the water.
Mossoró zone missionaries
Sister Dyer and Sister Do
Carmo. Vai Brasil!
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