"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I know that if ye shall follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent, repenting of your sins, witnessing unto the Father that you are willing to take upon you the name of Christ, by baptism--yea, by following your Lord and your Savior down into the water, according to his word, behold, then shall ye receive the Holy Ghost; yea, then cometh the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost; and then can ye speak with the tongue of angels, and shout praises unto the Holy One of Israel." 2 Nephi 31:13

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Week 19: A Baptism

We did get baptisms yesterday!!!
Filipe and Luciano! I attached a photo of us. I baptized Filpe on the left and Elder Phillipy baptized Luciano who looks a lot like Will Smith when he was on the Fresh Prince of Belair (Belaire? (I dunno how to spell that word) It was a crazzzzzy Sunday!! They went from being firmes to calling and saying they couldn't come to church and haing their crazy uncle lie to us that they weren't home and their really old Evangelic Grandma screaming they lieing was bad and that they were there and all sorts of crazy stuff!! I don't have close to enough time to write it all so that will be a story you can ready from my journal here in 20ish months or so!

I miss all of you so much. Elder Phillipy also left this morning to go to Londrina cause he is done with his mission!! That seems so crazy and so far away for me and he thought the same thing and can't believe he is going home. I don't know who is coming here yet or if I'm going somewhere. I imagine I'll stay here because that's how it usually works so there is someboyd who already knows the area. I can't believe that I'm starting my third transfer already! I'm officially done training and going to be a junior companion probably. Though...people have trained on only their third transfer...it's not common though. I really hope I don't because my Portuguese isn't that good yet. I want a Brazilian companion next though. That will help my Portuguese a lot! Elder Phillipy and I almost always spoke English, we shouldn't have but he needed practice before he went home :)

I'm supposeldy suppose to get an email about my transfer and so i'm waiting for it right now..I hope I get it so I can tell you what's happening!

So..this past week was super fast! IT hsan't been raiing as much as it should and it's super hot. Hotter than it's been the whole time. I've gotten some gross looking sun spots on my hand even though I'm putting lots of sunscreen on. The tan line on my neck is awesome too. It goes from super tan to super white about midway up, it looks good.

My companion will be Elder Nubie. I'm not sure if it's spelled correctly or not because I was only told by the Zone leader and don't think I'll get an email. He's an American, so that's too bad. Oh well, we've got quite a few potential baptisms here so that'll be our focus here for the next transfer. I also want to try and teach a few of Luciano and Felipes friends cause it's a lot easier that way than finding people on the street.

Take care! Tchau,
Elder Haws

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