A family together.

Sorry, I am sending this a day late because my companion and I got back from a P-day activity too late to send the rest of our emails and so we are here this morning...

This week was awesome, we got 2 families married on thursday and we baptised them this friday. The missionaries have been working with this family for a long time, but we were able to help them get married and take these last steps before the baptism. I hope that one day you guys get to meet this family, they are amazing!!!

The man, Ródrigo, he was in prison when the missionaries started to teach his parents, but he didn´t know. In Prison he was humbled and one night he prayed to God that if God would get him out of Prison with his health he would follow him and change his life. When he got out of prison the missionaries before us started to teach him and his wife, Andréia. Elder Cason, when he found this family he worked a lot with Ródrigo´s sister, Rozana. But when Rozana was going to church, her mom Gedaria, always went, in fact before meeting me Gedaria already read the book of Mormon, but she needed to be married and her boyfriend didn´t want to. So she decided to fast, at the end of her fast her boyfriend called her and said that he wanted to get married.

Teaching them has been an amazing experience, and now I feel so apart of the family!! I was so honored when Ródrigo chose me to baptise him, it is amazing to see how Heavenly Father prepares these amazing people, Before I go home they will have already been sealed in the temple (and if I can help Andréias daughter´s get baptised) they can be sealed for time and all eternity with her daughters. This work is amazing!! I am so glad that I have had the oppurtunity to baptise another complete family, now I just need to find more families ;)

I love you all,

-Elder McOmber

house number 9

Sorry, 2 lame letters in a row, but I am really sick right now, please pray for me!!! I had a really cool experience this week I wanted to share with you guys, my companion and I were walking home from our last appointment and I had a very strong feeling to stop and knock this door in house number nine, the feeling was too strong to ignore, so I went over there and there was a woman outside, she said she lived in the next house over, my companion and I taught her and it was a good lesson, when we finished she asked me why I stopped on the street and looked over at the other house, I told her that I had felt very strongly to go to house number 9. She said "You are a servant of God, if you felt that you should go to that house it is because God wants you to teach that person" ( I was thinking, ouch, now I really need to go over there) So, we went to the house next door and we taught a woman named Diana, let me tell you, when she entered the room I knew it was for her that the spirit wanted me to go there. As we have been teaching her through this week she has been getting happier each day and it is so exciting for me and Elder Nicacio to see. She went to church yesterday with her husband, kids, and Maria (The neighbor I taught first) When she got there some of the women in the relief society went up to her and hugged her and talked to her, my heart was so touched by their love. Her husband didn´t enter, but luckily the members in Rio Largo are really clued in and some members went outside and talked to him before they left.

Diana is an amazing spirit, when we are teaching her I can feel god´s love for her, I am so grateful that Elder Nicacio and I were chosen to teach her. Please pray for Diana, I love you my family!!! Much love,

Elder McOmber