So this week was clearly awesome... We had 2 baptisms
that were just amazingly ready... First is Everton. He is 32 years old and
first talked with the missionary about a year ago. When we First talked to him
he had only been to church once, read the BoM a little but didn't want to be
baptized. To make things short and let you know how much work we put into
helping him get baptized we marked 5 baptismal dates with him. Was not until
this last Saturday that it actually happened.
So when things almost fell through you can understand why
we worked so hard to make it happen last..
The other is Weverson, we have been teaching his family
for a few weeks now. He lives in a home that has a list of problems like you
could never even imagine. When we first arrived there he told us straight up
that he didn't believe in God or Jesus Christ... So when get got baptized we
were super excited.. To ensure that these guys were baptized and that wouldn't
decide at the last min they didn't want to follow through. We planned the more
organized baptism ever. We invited the entire world, almost. We planned to have
a choir, my companion would play the violin and another Elder would play the
piano. We planned to have a cake and refreshments. We gave invites to our
baptisms to give to there family. We took the baptismal clothes to Everton and
Weverson on Tuesday and had them try on the clothes and we took pictures with
them to help them stay excited. We gave there numbers to every body we talked
to during the week (members and non
members) and asked them to call Weverson and Everton and
give them a para bems (congrats) for the baptismal date they had.
So Saturday Morning we teach an english. When we got
there the chapel was pretty dirty and i guess the people who were responsible
for cleaning it that week decided to take the week off... So my comp taught the
english class. A Brazilian missionary who is trying to learning English stayed
with him. While his comp and me cleaned all of the church.... about an hour
half later when we finished cleaning and the english ended we tried to fill up
the baptismal fount. But they have a ton of water problems so the church didnt
have any water. If you know anything about baptism, you cannot baptise with out
water and you kind of need a lot of it. We had non. So we made some call and in
the end they said would be impossible to fill the baptismal fount or even have
water in the church on Sunday. We called the bishop. We live in almost the same
house as him so he is like a best friend and we talk to him about everything.
We sat down with him and told him about the problem and how it was going to be
solved. His brother is the Branch President of the my last area. So we decided
to do it there.
Its not really a real church house there its a really bad
house that they rent. It has a swimming pool behind it so they always have
water.
The only problem is that you need to clean it before you
enter because it gets very dirty. So we called the Elder there both of whom i
love, one was actualy my first comp. So they were very winling to help. They
ended up spending a few hours cleaning the pool there for us. So that was a lot
of fun planning. The baptism was supposed to be at 6. At
5:30 both of baptism showed up at the church and informed
them what was going to happen. at 6ish Weversons Mom and sibling stil had not
arrived but everyone else had. THere was a ton of people there. The only
problem is that with all the planning we did for the baptism we were not able
to get people there with cars. Finally Weversons family showed up. We had 2
cars there to take everyone to the baptism. The only people that ended up going
was our baptism,there
family(investigators) and the Bishop. We had 12 people at
the baptism from our area. The mission of that chapel and one of there recent
converts. My comp still played the violin and me and another american sang a
hymn in english.. they loved it:) not because of our singing but because my
comp plays really well lol.. Every at the batpism loved it and they all at the
end decided that they would be baptized too. On sunday they all showed up to
church all onthere own. They will all be baptized on the 25 of october.
EXCITING. My comp will just stay in the water his last transfer!
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And they call me
Elder Anderson
For behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ
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