Happy New Year!

This week was really good. We are having lots of sucesso here but we are really hungry for more. This sunday we were able to have two more baptisms. Marcio is a 29 year old man with Down Syndrom. He lives with his sister because both his parents have died. All of his nephews are baptised and when I asked him if he wanted to be baptised, he was really happy! Hes been going to church all by himself for the last few weeks and is always the first one there!! He is such a special person and it was such a pleasure to help him get baptised. My companion baptised him.

Yasmin is the daughter of some investigators that we have. Her brother is already baptised and she wanted to follow his example. We taught her the lessons and were surprised to find out how much she understood! Her parents arnt baptised because they are not married and he needs to get divorced to his first wife. But they go to church every week and want to get baptised!

These baptisms sunday were alot different from the usualy. My companion noted that both of these people getting baptised were cleaner than us! The ones baptising them. A boy with down sindrom and an 8 year old girl can be some of the most clean people in the world. With this in mind, baptism is still essential in order to help people return to the fold of god one day. I was honored to be part of it.

Today we will go to the wedding of our good friend Adriana. She will be baptised on Saturday. We are so excited because she has been waiting so long for this and has been working so hard! She cant wait to get baptised. Right from the start she stopped drinking, smoking, and coffee and she has never returned, she always goes to church. She already has a talk ready to give after she is baptised. She is a perfect member of the church! Im really happy that she will finally be baptised. She asked me to baptise her. Yesterday, we gave her a priesthood blessing so that she could feel better and not get so tempted the last week before her baptism. She doesnt have good friends and they try to always get her to break some commandments that brought her down, but she didnt give in. She will be great!

In the upcoming weeks we have a few people that we hope to baptise. It looks like the field is really white and that nothing can stop the Kingdom of God from growing and getting stronger.

Love you all,

Elder Horst