Hello,
Oh my goodness!! This weekend has been amazing!! Best weekend yet since I
have been here. So as you know it was Vivaldo's baptism!! He is seriously so
amazing and has changed so much since we started teaching him! The baptism was
so spiritual!! He got there late because he thought it was at two because that's
what the bishop told him and then we had to change it but it was still an
amazing day! We had a Portegues Elder named Elder Simplicio come to our area to
baptize him and give him the Holy Ghost because he has also been teaching
Vivaldo over the phone and helped him understand better! So that just made it
100 times better because it was that much more special for Vivaldo.
Sister Binnie and I got there early to fill the font and the ward members told us to
fill it to the third stair and that is what we did. So when they got into the
font the water was only knee deep! it was terrible but he was still baptized. It
was just really hard to do it haha. ah man he was so happy and was just
beaming!! After that we went into the chapel and heard a talk and we asked
Vivaldo if he would like to bear his testimony, so he went up and bore it in
Portegues and a sister that speaks that translated! He just said how much he
loves Jesus Christ and he knows now more than ever that this was the right
decision and that this is the true and only way back to God!! He thanked the
missionaries for teaching him and said how much he appreciated it! Then his
friend Olgario said the closing prayer, we are also teaching him, and he said
that he felt like he was going to be baptized as well. It was just so amazing
and then we all just hung out with Vivaldo and Olgario and their friends and then
the Elders!! It was so much fun. We just went out to eat and just spent the day
with them.
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| Sister Binnie' Elder Simplicio, Vivaldo and Sydney |
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| Elder Simons, Sister Simons, Vivaldo, Elder Simplicio, Olgario, Sister Binnie, Sister Pitcher |
The next day in church is when he got
confirmed which was just as amazing as the day before. So usually Vivaldo just
wears his regular clothes to church but yesterday he showed up in slacks and a
shirt and tie and he was just so excited and so happy you could just feel his
spirit!! He looked so nice. He had a beautiful blessing in Portuegues and it was
just the most spiritual weekend ever!! It's so great cause he is always talking
about becoming a missionary and teaching people and helping them learn more
about the gospel so that it can help them in their lives. He has been saying
stuff like that for the past few weeks and he always calls himself Elder Pedro!
So I really think that he will serve a mission. Man he has completely changed
and there is seriously no greater feeling that I have felt before just knowing
that I got to be apart of bringing someone into the gospel. I have never felt
this way in my life!! It is a beautiful thing. I wish that I could just video
everything so that you guys would be able to feel it to because this letter does
it no justice whatsoever! He just kept saying how good he felt and saying that
he couldn't even describe the feeling he was having!! ah my goodness! I love
it.
The pictures are of Olgario who is Vivaldos friend and then the older guy
is a recent convert named Alec that we see every week!!
love you so much and i miss you all like crazy!! stay amazing!
love syd
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| Sydney, Ryan (an investigator) and Sister Binnie |
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