Im sorry for the lack of an email last week, Everything was shut down on P-day because of Carnaval! It seems like every week here there is at least 1 Holiday....but oh well!
This last week was uterly exhausting! We had a normal Tuesday, and Wednesday the Elders from Quixeramobim stayed in our house to travel with us to Fortaleza for Zone conference. Also because of Carnaval, the assistants werent able to buy tickets for us to travel Wednesday afternoon like usual, the only seats available were on the 4 AM bus to Fortaleza on Thursday. So Quixeramobim came to stay with us, and at 10 PM on Wednesday, President Leite called to tell us that 2 Elders in my district were being emergency transferred and President was closing their area. They had to stay up all night packing to be ready to go at 4 AM....So basically it was a long night. Zone conference was pretty good, it was basically the same things that President tells us in Leadership Council, but still was a good oportunity to focas even more on the work! Which we need!
I was hoping when president transferred these two missionaries that he would send a new companhonship, but he didnt...so now Elder Medina and I are the only missionaries for the entire city of Quixada, and its exhausting, but rewarding! We were blessed with a baptism yesterday of a Young Single Adult, Vitoria.
Vitoria WAS an athiest unil her friend, Cecilia was baptised by the other Elders and she started to talke to the missionaries. Little by little Vitoria started to feel the spirit testify in her heart that our words were true, until the day she had the corage to ask for herself and she recognized Deus speaking to her. She is an awsome person and she was so happy after her baptism last night! This week we have another baptism on Saturday, and were hoping to have 4 more throughout the week, but we will need a miracle for sure! The Baptism on Saturday is the girlfriend of a Less active member who is reactivating now and recognizing the blessings of the gospel in his life. They are currently living together, but this Saturday is their wedding! They will get married and after the marriage his girlfiend, Suzi, will be baptised!
In other good news, we found out a few weeks ago that the process has already been started to buy the land here in Quixada to construct a church!!! That alone is an incredible blessing!
Just as with the lamanites in Alma 25, we are having the pleasure here of seeing God pour out his spirit among the people, and its incredible!
This coming Sunday is transfer Sunday so its possible I wont have a lot of time to write next Pday, but I want to bare my testimony to you all. Jesus Christ is the son of the living God, he lives and is waiting for all of us to get to know him personally!
I Love and Miss you all!
And last thing, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD #foreveryoung
Until Next Time,
Elder Ferrell
1) Baptism of Vitoria
2) I´m holding a Monkey!!
3) This is an endangered species for American Missionaries in Brasil (Thanks Fam!)
4) Baptism of Priscila and Imaculada 3 weeks ago
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