Baptism of Carla!

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Well to start off, our miracle worked out! (well honestly baptism alone is a miracle...). But Carla was baptized on Saturday and was super super happy with her decision. She has a great example in her dad to look up to and I know they will be strengthened together with her decision. 

Another awesome thing from this week was Micheal. Well the story of Micheal goes like this. A few weeks ago we did a contact with this girl in the street, but it turned out she lived pretty far away. As she was walking away, Micheal approached us, drunk, asking about who we were. He told us half jokingly that he needed to rearrange his life and make better decisions and then told us to bring that girl when we came to visit him.😑 But turns out we went to his house to teach him a few days later and he has a huge desire to make changes in his life. We taught him about the Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity and he made changes literally immediately in his life so he could follow these guidances we have in our days. He was so ready for baptism that we went ahead and did the interview in preparation for Sunday. But sadly, he worked over night on Saturday in São Paulo and didnt make it back for Sunday. But we will continue to work with him this week and prepare him hopefully for next Sunday (my last here.........i think). But, my point is...The GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST CHANGES LIVES. I'm so glad i can be a messenger of this amazing gospel and help people change their lives. 

This sunday also, Richardy (Pamela and Rafaels first son) will be baptized by Rafael. What a special moment that will be to see our recent convert baptize his son. The mission is soooo great!

Funniest/craziest story of maybe my whole mission: So this week in my District Meeting out of nowhere a man walked into the church and asked if he could participate. He started acting pretty weird and told us he was high. Then he said "in fact, i have weed with me right now!" and then pulled it out of his pocket. HAHA so we politely escourted him out of the chapel and told him he would be welcome any sunday at 9am when he was a little better. Man, the mission is full of...experiences (all types).

Love you all and hope all is well! 
Elder G

pics- nenê with his cerveja (orange soda) and me telling him i was gonna eat his yogurt in his hand
what people put on the board before i give a training
finally an ugly tag pic for my momma😊
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