This last week was really busy!
Tuesday we had Mission Leadership Council that went really well! It was cool because Elder Passos, the first missionary I trained, is a Zone Leader now too so we got to catch up a little bit with each other.
After that, Wednesday and Thursday we did 2 splits with companionships in our zone that were having a bit of difficulty, and those went really well. Friday and Saturday were normal days, then Sunday morning we had 5 baptisms!!!! After the baptisms we ate lunch and then we went on a split with members so that I could acompany 2 of our recent converts, Rogerio and Elizaldo, to Pacajus to be interviewed by the Stake presidente to receive the Melkesideque priesthood. (yes, i dont know how to spell Melkesideque) and Elder Mortensen could still accompany our investigators to bring them to Stake conference that happened in Pacajus yesterday. Long story short everything worked out, and they are now ordained elders and we had a wonderful stake conference! One cool thing was that the Stake Presidente told us that the stake is going to be divided and they are going to create a new stake here with our ward and a couple of other wards close to Fortaleza!
The biggest story from the week though were our baptisms from yesterday. They were from 2 families. 3 were the step children of a less active member we found a few weeks ago. Yesterday we baptised everyone in that house that could be baptised right now and are excited to work with the parents here in the future to reactivate or baptise them! The other 2 were part of the lords Elect to be sure! It was a brother and sister who we met 3 weeks ago. The young man, Inacio, was soo excited about the gospel. He started to read the Book of Mormon every day, he loved church, he always is excited to know more, and is really set on serving a mission when he turns 18 now! He was soo excited to get baptised that he almost cannonballed into the baptismal font when it was his turn to be baptised! His sister, Ingride, is really shy and almost never says anything, so while we already knew that Inacio was really excited about the church, we had no idea what she would say to the invitation to be baptised, but when we asked, ´´Ingride do you want to be baptised too´´ the word YES flew out of her mouth before we had even finished talking! Their mom was soo happy for them to get baptised!
It truly was a week of miracles this last week!
Love you all have a good week up there!
Elder Ferrell
1) Baptism of Bruno (from last week, first time his dad, Rogerio, baptised)
2) Baptisms of Eduarda, Emily, Marcelo, Inacio, and Ingride
3) Elder Passos with all the tall Elders on the Mission
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