September 6, 2010
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey family! How are you guys on this beautiful Labor Day morning? Dad told me a second ago that it was Labor Day. It seems like there's some obscure holiday every week here in Brazil, but apparently Labor Day isn't today in this half of the globe. I think it has to do with moon cycles.
Anyway.
My companion and I baptized someone on Friday!! Yay!! And she was confirmed yesterday!! Yay!!
We baptized that girl, Aline. I know I've mentioned her a couple times in past emails -- she's a young woman who we have been working with for the past few weeks. We had taught her everything, and she was a great investigator. She lives in an apartment that is about eight feet from an active member family's apartment. She has friends in the church. She understood what we taught her and kept the commitments we extended to her. She read, pondered, prayed, and received an answer about the Book of Mormon.
Her parents didn't want her to be baptized yet, even though she passed her baptismal interview with flying colors. But then Elder Gillespie and I (I feel like I can just say his name like that and you'll know who he is since he's been my companion for the last three months) went back to Aline's apartment last Monday. Our only intention was to see what her parents had decided concerning her getting baptized -- we were just going to see how their family conversation went. Well, they never had a family conversation like that. We went there and asked her mom what their decision was about baptism, and we just talked a little about it and ended up marking a date for last Friday so she could be confirmed on Sunday and the mom signed the baptismal form and we were set!
She was baptized on Friday night, and everything was pretty much perfect. There were a lot of members there to participate in the baptismal meeting and to show their support for her. Aline's nonmember parents were there. Manoel, perhaps our best investigator at the moment, was there. Everything was great! And then she was confirmed yesterday in sacrament meeting, and everything was great! I almost can't believe how little opposition we experienced with the whole thing. It all went so well.
I know that success as a missionary isn't just based on baptisms or things of that nature, but man, it feels good to see something through to the end for once. We finally reaped some fruit from all of our efforts here. We're going to spend the next while doing everything we can to work with the members better, so hopefully we can get some more good investigators that way.
My time is just about up already, so I guess that will have to do for this week. I love all of you guys so much it's stupid! The Church is true! I mean, really, it is.
luv
elder wiggins
ps happy late birthday shawn
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey family! How are you guys on this beautiful Labor Day morning? Dad told me a second ago that it was Labor Day. It seems like there's some obscure holiday every week here in Brazil, but apparently Labor Day isn't today in this half of the globe. I think it has to do with moon cycles.
Anyway.
My companion and I baptized someone on Friday!! Yay!! And she was confirmed yesterday!! Yay!!
We baptized that girl, Aline. I know I've mentioned her a couple times in past emails -- she's a young woman who we have been working with for the past few weeks. We had taught her everything, and she was a great investigator. She lives in an apartment that is about eight feet from an active member family's apartment. She has friends in the church. She understood what we taught her and kept the commitments we extended to her. She read, pondered, prayed, and received an answer about the Book of Mormon.
Her parents didn't want her to be baptized yet, even though she passed her baptismal interview with flying colors. But then Elder Gillespie and I (I feel like I can just say his name like that and you'll know who he is since he's been my companion for the last three months) went back to Aline's apartment last Monday. Our only intention was to see what her parents had decided concerning her getting baptized -- we were just going to see how their family conversation went. Well, they never had a family conversation like that. We went there and asked her mom what their decision was about baptism, and we just talked a little about it and ended up marking a date for last Friday so she could be confirmed on Sunday and the mom signed the baptismal form and we were set!
She was baptized on Friday night, and everything was pretty much perfect. There were a lot of members there to participate in the baptismal meeting and to show their support for her. Aline's nonmember parents were there. Manoel, perhaps our best investigator at the moment, was there. Everything was great! And then she was confirmed yesterday in sacrament meeting, and everything was great! I almost can't believe how little opposition we experienced with the whole thing. It all went so well.
I know that success as a missionary isn't just based on baptisms or things of that nature, but man, it feels good to see something through to the end for once. We finally reaped some fruit from all of our efforts here. We're going to spend the next while doing everything we can to work with the members better, so hopefully we can get some more good investigators that way.
My time is just about up already, so I guess that will have to do for this week. I love all of you guys so much it's stupid! The Church is true! I mean, really, it is.
luv
elder wiggins
ps happy late birthday shawn
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