May 20, 2013

Hello family

Would you look at that it is pday once again and I have this privilege to send you an email. This week was super cool when Saturday came I did an interview in Campo Comprido of one young lady there and she passed and at the end she was like Elder Gray I want you to baptize me and I said of course if you really want me to! Also on Saturday we decided that we would fast after having a super light lunch, fasted to find new people that are ready to hear are message and God answered! We went to church and there was a couple and we talked to them and it turns out that the brother is a member just less active and his girlfriend isn’t they live in Campo Comprido but because of some things they want to be in the ward caiua. I had the wonderful chance of talking to his girlfriend named Christina and she had a book of Mormon in her hand and I was like I am reading and I was oh wow that is awesome and she said I am in Heleman and I am liking the book a lot and I asked her did you pray about it and she said yes I have and.... she said well I have had a lot of dreams but I want a feeling and I was like alright how are you asking.... she said well I am asking for him to show me and then I said lets try it this way, lets ask him specifically and then lets listen to what we received and she was like that is a great idea and I was like oh ya I know! Then Sunday night we were making our contacts and I saw this lady in her gate and I felt very prompted to go and talk to her and so I did and introduced our selves and shared with her how we teach people how they can have more peace and happiness in this life and then she said well I am needing one of these messages and I was like great!!!! And then I asked what is happening in your life right now that you are needing to feel comfort in your life?? And she was like well its been 4 months since my five year old son died and I am really missing him and I want to know what he is doing (In that moment I just wanted to spill out the last part of the 2nd lesson but I let her finish before I said anything but it was super hard!) and then she went on to saying I hear so many things from other churches and I don’t know what to believe in and then I asked her so what do you believe is happening and she said I believe that he turned into a little angel and is happy! I was like great because right now he is very happy he is sitting in a place right now super happy and hoping that you guys are happy. And he is hoping one day you guys come and live with him again. Then I asked her Lucimar what are you willing to do here in this life to live with your son and your family forever and she told me and elder Stout that she was willing to do anything. I was so happy in that moment to look into her eyes and she this light of hope that I know can turn into a bright beam of light! We talked about the book of Mormon and it turns out she had one that she got from one of her friends that she use to live by and the interesting thing is that she actually was reading parts of the book of Mormon that day and it was so awesome we marked some other parts for her to read and then said to here when you know that these things are true will you follow the example of JESUS CHRIST by being baptized and she said yes I will. In that moment  I invited here, I felt the spirit so strong and I knew that she is going to receive answer and that she will be baptized and then we marked another visit with her for Wednesday! I was super happy what happened it really grew my testimony that Heavenly Father listens to our prayers and loves enough to send the answers for us when we are needing them! OH and yah this week was really interesting I have to resolve a lot of conflicts with elders in my district! Named Elder Hill and Elder Pantoja they just keep arguing and it so annoying so Saturday I had to go there after then interview and put them back on the tracks again to start going that was not that fun like I get super sad at this like elder Pantoja is 25 years old and Elder Hill is 21 or 22 and they are fighting as if they were little girls in elementary school! But in the end all went well and things are going better well things here in Brazil are going good just kickin it like usual and doing my work about the mission getting divided well that is a good question I don’t know what mission I will be in like for me I want to go to the south mission that is where the center of Curitiba is and I want to be able to go there at the end of my mission and buy a lot of things! But we will have to see how this works out but me and elder Stout are doing great. Yah it sounds like that all of you guys are doing great that things are going good for you guys well I love you guys take care!

Love, Elder Gray