Odair's Baptism

This week we were able to baptize Odair! He is a great guy who we found knocking doors about a month ago. We had a little bit of a scare this week, cause we showed up there one night and he said that his son had been put in prison for robbery. He had second thoughts about the baptism just cause he feels his like will be much more complicated now. But we were able to relax him and show him the kind of example he can be to his son. He has made some great friendships in the ward and we are super happy for him. There was a talk given on Sunday about sons helping fathers and fathers helping sons and he went up after the meeting and asked the speaker for his notes he took on the talk. It was a special moment as he said he would put it in use with his son.

I wanted to tell a story this week that was told by a member in Odair's baptism that I thought was really cool. He told about a father and son who were out walking one day and they both saw an airplane. After the dad asked if the son thought the airplane was big, the son looked up and said "No, it looks really small to me." The next week, the father took his son to an airport and the son got to see the airplane close up. He then expressed to his dad how big the airplane really was. We could compare this to our relationship with God. When we are doing things that will distance us from God, his impact and essence in our life will not seem so big. But when we are doing the things that keep us close to the Lord and his Holy Spirit, the impact of God in our life will be much greater. 

This week on Sunday a bus driver told us to enter in the back of the bus and we didnt have to pay cause he admired the work we are doing. That was cool! Its little experiences like this that make me love the Brazilian people and my time here in Brazil. 

I love you all and hope you are having a great summer! 

Elder G

baptism pic (sorry my only one this week)