Some days just stink but vale a pena

And here we are again at the end of another week full of suprises and terrible spelling because I am forgeting how to english so please dont judge. hahaha but anyways this week was really really tough... we had a lot of people prepared for baptism and tons of things happened that just really stunk....first off we got one guy interviewed to get baptised and the night before the baptism he found out he had a test the next morning.... obviously at the exact same time as the baptism.... but obviously because almost no one here has a phone he didnt tell us so we prepared everything for him and he never showed up... also two more people we had planned we couldnt get the interview done with so all three will be baptized this week.

We did have two baptisms with Irmao Geramias and also Irmao Cremildo which was super awesome! The only funky part was we had to spend like 5 hours this week trying to clean the pool that we have that was filled with lost of funky looking green stuff and sapos so... that wasnt going to work... luckily we got everything under control and the baptism was super awesome.

The next day we had a lot of good things happen and a lot of bad things also. We started out this week again without water... which I am honestly just so used to by now that it didnt really change much but the problem was that we prepared a huge crockpot meal before church so that we could eat really fast when we got back but guess what.... apparently they decided to cut the energy for the whole city on Sunday so guess which group of missionaries prepared a huge crockpot full of our monthy alotment of dinhero for nothing... yeah we did... hahaha anyways that stunk but then we walked all the way out to Irmao cremildo to pick him up for church and when we got there we realized that we had forgotten the paperwork back at the house so we had to run back home and get to the church because I had an amazing opportunity to give the gift of the holy ghost to Irmao Geramias and Cremildo but when we got to church Cremildo wasnt there and he got there way late so he has to wait until next week.... So we only really ended up with 2 baptisms and 1 confermation this week which was a little bit dissapointing but next week we are looking like we might have 7 more so we still have a lot of work to do.

also in the sacrament meeting we had our new high of attendence at 121 which was crazy awesome! and we also had a member receive a mission call to..... Democratic Republic of Congo which was super awesome!! haha But right now we have 23 people on date for baptism and we are being blessed every day with more. The work is getting really crazy because we literally dont have enough time to walk in between lessons to prepare all the people for baptism so its just been super crazy but the lord is blessing them with respostas every time that they pray.

It is super cool to see the night and day difference between the people that pray and those that dont. I just want to briefly say that I know that God is really there. He speaks to us daily but in ways that at times we cant see. Its our challenge to keep on looking and the more we look the more we will be amazed at the way our lives have been touched by the Masters hand.

-Elder Thornton

Group of members with Irmao Geramias and Cremildo on their baptism day

Jonny with member called to the Democratic Republic of Congo

member, Irmão Geramias , Jonny and Irmao Cremildo