25 November 2013 - Estancia, Brazil

I'm not sure what happened to last week's e-mail--I never got it. But here is this week's. Dad mentioned to Elder Frogley about how the office in Bountiful is coming along great, which is wonderful news. But let's read more about how the Lord is blessing his elect in Brazil!

Hey! I got the goals but not the pics and stuff! Could ya send them again? Sounds like the office is taking off! Im excited to see it when I get back! I hope Mom gets better! Sooooo, this week was busey (cant spell that word anymore) (probably never could on second thought). We had two baptisims and were working on more! The only problem is that Im probably leaving my area in less then 2 weeks :( so I wont see them be baptised. Lets start with the baptisim stories! 

The first baptisim is a boring story. Hes a young man we met at church. Yall remember him. We visited him several times to teach him and his Dad. His Dad wanted him to be baptised a LOT. So he was all aboard. He wants to go to church too but he has some serious problems to clear up as ill tell in a later story. But on Saturday the young Man named Erivaldo (10 year) showed up and church at 6:30 exactly without the help of his dad. Hes a champ and I got to baptise him. Normal easy baptisim without problems. But Carol who was suppose to be our solid baptisim got all hard on us. This is a good story.

So we got to church to get ready for the baptisim Saturday morning at 5 p.m. and Daiana came and talked to us. We had appointed her to take care of Carol for the day (Daiana is our recent convert from some months ago). She came and talked to us and said that Carol was feeling sick and wouldnt be coming. It made sence because se had been to the hospital just a little bit before. So we called her Mom thinking it was just a little stomach ache. On the 10th call her Mom finally answered us and said that Carol had been crying ALL day and she couldnt even talk. We freaked out, grabbed some concecrated oil and started a mile sprint to Carols house. When we got there her Mom took us to Carols room and we found her sitting on her bead. Her Mom said that the only thing Carol had said was mumbling about her boy friend. We were relieved because it turns out it was just a HUGE over reaction because her boyfriend told her something stupid or something. She sat and cried for like 10 min while we tried to comfort her then magically stopped crying, got her phone, called her boyfriend (at this time we assumed she wasnt going to be baptised this week), and invited him to her baptisim. Then she got up, changed, and we waited for her boyfriend. We all made it to the baptisim on time and she was happily baptised. Not a tear since. Girls are weird.

Now! About Erivaldos father. He always told us he use to have drug problems, and he lives in this TINY little ally way next to the church in a gheto house. But hes trying to be a good father, and hes an excelent man looking for the best for his son. But durring Erivaldos interview, I was talking to his Dad about his possible baptisim. And while I was talking this guy showed up at the house demanding money that Erivaldos Dad, Ill call him Valdo, owed him. When he saw me sitting in the front room, he chilled alot, because people here are really religious and God fearing, he thought I would condem him. He started talking about how hed give all the time Valdo would need and he wasnt the kind of guy who would shoot people in the face over money and stuff like that. He wasn talking to Valdo but looking right at me the entire time. It was kinda of funny. But we figure Valdo has some serious drug problems still. But anyway, more stories next time! Love yall!

Elder Frogley