Aug. 20th, 2011 DANCE, Super Sabado!

Hey Family, I am so happy to hear about how awesome you guys are doing, I wish I could be there and see it all. Ma and Dad, for sure I will pray for you guys, Ma, that is a great idea, Bring your friend to church, that is the easiest way to get her in touch with the missionaries, and who knows, she might be ready to recieve it!! Tell me how it goes!! Dawn and Fanda, It is so nice to get your letters as part of the family Email!!! Tell Dawn I really digged his words of wisdom, you can believe, I´ll stay strong. Yea, the rumors are true, Brazilian girls are super aggressive, but no fear, that is why we have companions, we got eachother´s backs, no matter what.

I just wanted to share the recent events, this saturday was, "super sabado" We did the dance, it rocked, everyone thought it was the bomb. Geovanio is doing awesome, he was part of the dance and he helped out with super sabado, he is the man. The president of the branch told me the next day that he called Geovanio over to help him clean up and take things back to the church and as Geovanio was helping he was asking if there was any way to speed along the process of recieving the priesthood maior so that he can go on a mission sooner, President told me that he thinks Geovanio is going to ba an awesome missionary.

Yesterday we baptised a woman named Salande, she is awesome!! She is real old but she is full of spunk! She has loved the gospel so much that she has introduced us to all of her family, her 32 year old son Laelson and his daughter are preparing to be baptised this week. Yesterday we brought her Grandson Diogo to watch her recieve the gift of the spirit, in sacrament meeting there were 2 speakers, Pedro who was baptised 10 months ago and Keccio who was baptised 1 month ago, during my mission I have seen many sacrament meetings in my life, but rarely have I felt the spirit as strongly as I felt it there, and they said things that I knew were meant for our friends who are learning about the church. Afterwards I asked Diogo how he felt as the speakers were speaking, he told me that he felt something in his heart, I explained to him that that was the spirit and that when we feel that feeling we need to follow it, he then agreed to be baptised and together we made a goal to prepare him for the 3rd of september. Afterwards Pedro came up to me and told me that he didn´t plan to say half of the things he said but he felt like he should, I rejoiced when I heard that because I knew that the spirit had guided him to say the things he did, I explained to him that when we prepare and excercise faith the spirit can teach us what to say. Pedro told me that he prayed with a sincere heart that his talk in church would not be in vain and that good would come of it, I reassured him that good had come of it.

I am so grateful to have been put here in Penedo with the talents God has given me, I know that of myself I am nothing, but as I do what God asks of me and put my whole soul into helping others my Heavenly Father blesses me with amazing experiences. I want you all to know that I know that God exists, I know that we can talk to him, and he will answer us if we ask in faith. I love all of you and I can´t wait to talk to you all again!