Catch Up!!

Bad Mom award for me. I have not been doing so good on keeping up on the blog. I am going to do better!!

4/3/12
So my second week in the field has come and gone. Things are great, sometimes hard but Great! You asked about my companion Elder Lembranzi.. He has been out 1yr 8.5 months. He is from Rondonha, Porto Velho. It's a city near the Amazon jungle. He has a girlfriend at home and will get married shortly after he returns. I'm told this is typical for most of the native elders.

The ward in Cotia is a fairly large one we have 130 members, however most of the membership is woman and children which makes incomplete families in the church. We have a lot of work to do in bringing the fathers into the church.Our ward area cover an 5kl by 8kl area, with a ton of hills.  The people of the area are a little harder to teach. We get appointments and they let us teach them, but they don't put a lot of importance in what we are teaching them. We do find those Eleilos(elete) that truly are prepared by Our heavenly Father and are ready to hear our message.

A mission is an extraordinary experience. I have never felt so close to my Heavenly Father. He is always there for me as I lean on him with the very important task he has laid before me.

4/10/12
I Had my first baptism this week!It was a couple that just got married. They have been coming to church for 4 yrs. So we didn't do much. A baptism is a baptism. Ha Ha:) We have a goal to have 5  baptisms for the month osf April. Our investigators are Lusas, Jodma, Jessica, Sabustiana, and the Luan and Lucus families. We also have Sara, Zesinho and the "Jata"-Jose Family. We are working hard to help them gain a testimony of their own so they will realize the importance of being baptized and becoming a member of the Lords church.

I have sent pictures of the city of Cotia, my house and the couple we baptized.