Miracle baptism! Daniel

Hello once again from Maringá!  It's been another busy week, and a lot's happened since last I wrote.  Two new sisters arrived here last Tuesday!  ....and one new sister left again appr. two hours later.  haha.  :)  Sister Empey has some kind of problems with her back, so Pres. and Sis. Tavares decided that it probably wasn't a good idea for her to live here in Maringá, climbing up and down the many flights of stairs to our apartment every day.  So she went back to Londrina, and Sis. Lopez and I are working in a trio with the other new sister, Sis. Ramirez, for the time being.  We're supposedly going to have a new companion for her today or tomorrow, but again, nobody's heard any details about that yet, so we're not completely sure it's going to happen... we'll see.  :)  

Being in a trio is interesting... It's been kind of crazy, especially since we've had to work in BOTH of the areas here - the area of Sis. Ramirez as well as the area of Sister Lopez and I.  We've been going back and forth between the two, trying to take care of the investigators and recent converts in each area, but not really being able to give them the time they need.  We're really hoping that Sis. Ramirez WILL receive a companion soon so things can get back to normal here...   Sis. Ramirez is from Chile, and lots of fun.  She's hilarious and has a lot of crazy stories, so she's definitely kept us entertained this last week.  :)  It's really fun to be able to get to know some more of the sisters here in the Brazil Londrina Mission.

Yesterday we had another miracle baptism!  We started out this week not really sure what was going to happen - we didn't really have any investigators with a definite baptismal date, and weren't sure where we were going to find one.  But on Thursday we taught Daniel again (Silvia's dad), and he decided that he wanted to be baptized.  :)  He's a really great man - really humble and accepting of everything we teach.  He really has a sincere desire to do what's right, and it's been awesome to see him progress.  So even despite the disappointments with Silvia deciding to stop coming to church last week, we're still receiving blessings from the work we've been doing here.  And I'm sure that he will be a good example for the rest of his family, one that they'll hopefully decide to follow!  (Also, at our last zone meeting, they announced that the first companionship to baptize a man would get a pizza....so we're not complaining too much about that either.)  :)

 

Baptism of Daniel

 

Alright, well that's pretty much it for the week.  I love you guys!  I wish I could have been there for the family vacation this past week...sounds like it was an adventure.  :)  Good luck with school and band and Primary and work and EVERYTHING that's happening over there!  And write and tell me all about it!  :)

Love love love,

Sister Melissa Gee