Olá todo mundo!
Goodness its great to be able to write to you all once again. I love having this time to send this big email to all of you and let you all know of the wonderful experiences I am having. I know that this is the work of God and I feel honored to be a part of such a work.
This past week was tough, but there was a pretty rewarding experience that I wanted to tell you all about. So my companion and I have been struggling to get people to keep commitments and come to church. During our planning session on Friday, we decided that we needed to have a special fast for the people we were teaching that they would develop the desire to come to church and have the spirit touch their hearts so they would want to be baptized. When we started the fast an amazing this happened. We went to go see an investigator who we had only seen once before and who we had struggled to see again. Her name is Rosemary. As we taught her the Restoration the spirit was so strong and the lesson was powerful. Towards the end, she said something I will never forget. Even in Portuguese, I could make out that she said that she knew this was the path that God had intended for her. She then told us that her life is a wreck right now, everything that could go wrong is for this woman, and she decided that she needed to pray for help. She said, in effect, God, please send me help. Not a moment later she said, we knocked on her door, and she said the whole time we were there she felt closer to God than ever and a feeling she wanted to have with her always. We then bore testimony of the truthfulness of our message, and challenged her to baptized, and she accepted. If all goes well, she will be baptized the first weekend of December.
There is also more to this story. Sunday came along, and as we were continuing to fast a miracle occurred. 4 investigators came to church with us! They came and stayed the whole time, and have all accepted to learn more. one even wants to be baptized as well. None of this would have happened without faith in the power of fasting. The powers of heaven are literally accessed when fasting occurs. Whenever we fast, acting in faith, and stud the words of the prophets in the scriptures and seek out the will of God, answers o prayer are received and divine help is given. IT is an act of humility to fast, but doing so with a willing heart and mind will bring blessings, this I know and bear testimony to.
As always, I know that this work true, because Christ stands at the head of it. Already I have seen lives begin to change because of this gospel, and it reinforces my testimony that it is true and that God lives and is literally our father.
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