And Dinis slides in home

Great week full of difficulties, but that's life, huh?

Highlight of the week: Baptism!!! Dinis got baptized and that was awesome, Quick story, hahaha, hope I didn't already tell this buuuut Dinis came to know the church through his friend, the recent convert Tomas. Dinis loved the church and was calling his brother that lives in Marromeu to tell him about it.... turns out that HIS BROTHER IS A MEMBER THERE hahaha how cool right? Anyways, we didn't know if the baptism would work out this week because he recently quit his job because it was making him work on the sabbath and he also moved houses so we didn't know where he lived AND he didn't have a phone.... so we didn't have any way to communicate. Luckily for us he decided to just show up at the church one morning and we were able to finish the lessons and plan the interview. Everything went well and he ended up being baptized.

This week I had a cool experience with Pregar meu Evangelho (Preach My Gospel). We worked our tails off this week. We worked long hours and did so many visits. We tried to include members and find new people and do everything exactly how we should, but the end result was definitely lacking. People didn't show up to church and we had some people tell us they had decided to stay with their own church. I was pretty devastated. I kept on thinking "man what a waste" we had worked and worked but it seemed like it did absolutely nothing. Anyways, I started reading the first chapter of pregar meu evangelho and it was talking about being a successful missionary and I just had this strong feeling that we aren't here just for results. I had thoughts come to my mind of stories I had heard of missionary efforts having effects years and years after. I guess after all this time being a missionary I'm still just figuring things out one day at a time. But I'm starting to learn that results aren't the only thing that counts. I love y'all and I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the Lords Kingdom on this earth in preparation for the Second Coming of our Lord.


-Elder Thornton