Blessings

So just wanted to start out by telling yall a story from yesterday. I received my first blessing while being here in Mozambique last night and boy was it..... interesting..... hahaha so we were sitting on their form of public transportation called a chapa and elder Flitton and I were smashed together and we had two extremely drunk ladies sitting in front of us and behind us and the whole hour that we were together they were talking about how the holy pastors (apparently us) needed to dispel all the demons that we there in the chapa. Anyways, we just sat there ignoring it and towards the end of our extremely valuable time together the woman in front of us put her hands on our foreheads and looked up to the sky and started screeching and making the weirdest noises..... hahaha it was super interesting and lets just say I did not feel the spirit one bit so its safe to say that I still 100% believe in the Priesthood power that exists in this Church.

 Anyways this week went super well. We were able to baptize Irmao Luiz and Irma Fatima and the baptisms were super cool. Luiz has 20 years and Fatima has 14. The both of them have been growing so much and it is so crazy to see how the Gospel has power to CHANGE. Come as you are but don't expect to stay that way, really is the message of the gospel. Anyone who has a real desire to feel the changing power of the Atonement is not only welcome but begged to come and experience the change of an eternity. I love this gospel with all my heart. It is interesting how every week I seem to find myself thinking the exact same thing....."Wow this gospel really does make sense" It really does and I testify that the people in Africa are feeling the same thing.

We have an investigator that was talking to us about churches and how she knows our church is true, she said, I went to a bunch of other churches and every time I went I never felt settled, the pastors would yell, teach, and dance and everything they said and taught would get confused in my mind, but when I came to your church, I felt a peace, I felt like I was at home and the things that were taught didn't just pass through my ears but found a place in my heart.

The Gospel is real, more than just real but in all truthfulness the Gospel is reality, At times we forget the importance of the things we believe. Work, school, activities are all good and important things but in the end the simple truths of the gospel will be the things by which we are judged in the end of this life.

Love you all and I hope everyone finds time to stuff their faces with turkey because we definitely won't be! ;)

-Love Elder Thornton

Gostaria de enviar algumas fotos mas a computador nao esta funcionando. Vou esperar ate a semana que vem  (I would like to send some photos but the computer is not working. I'll wait until next week.)