First of all, let me apologize for not writing yesterday but let me just say that it wasn´t my fault. President called the ZLs last week and said that he wanted to move our interviews to yesterday instead of this weekend. Hopefully there was no cussing, swearing, or smashing of computer screens yesterday.
This week was one of the greatest weeks of my mission. As i said last week, we had 4 people marked for baptism so you can imagine i was a little stressed. Two were marked for Sunday but one wasn´t looking to me like it was going to happen. Luis was fine with everything and was ready for baptism from the day we met him so we weren´t too worried about him. Silvia on the other hand had me worried. She´s had a doubt about there being a prophet in our day, and when we marked her, we promised her that she would recieve an answer before her baptism. Elder Thomas was sure she would, but i, being me, worried too much. I was worried she wouldn´t pass her interview to be baptized because one of the questions refers whether the person believes we have a prophet today. And, she also had to work the day we marked her for baptism. But, by some miracle, when we talked to her the day before her interview to go over the questions we discovered that she had already recieved an answer to her doubt and felt ready for baptism and early in the week she had called us to tell us she got work off to come to General Conference and be baptized! She said that something one of the members had said helped her alot. The member said that God will always call prophets because he is "the same yesterday, today, and forever". And that just happened to be the first phrase that she learned to read while growing up in Brazil. Then after we reviewed the rest of the questions with her we asked who she wanted to speak at her baptism and who she wanted to baptize her. We thought that the member who helped teach her the most and actually became like her brother would baptize her, but she chose him to speak at the baptism. Then she said she wanted one of the Elders to baptize her because we were the ones who taught her and never gave up on her. She didn´t decided between the two of us so Elder Thomas volunteered me to do it. And so on Sunday i had my first baptism, and it went great, without any problems. I cant believe that everything worked out just right. It really was a miracle and another testimony to me that God really hears and answers prayers! I had taught her for almost 4 months and i got to the point where i thought i would never see her baptism, but i have to say, it was worth the wait!
We also have two more people marked for baptism this week too. One is quiting smoking and the other still isnt sure about baptism so please keep praying for us. We just need a few more miralces.
We also had interviews yesterday, where i thought i might find out if i´m leaving Potimão or not. Unfortunatly, the only answer i got was a very vague group of sentences that didnt tell me anything. Other Elders in the mission got a "either or" answer but all i got was "i dont know" and "someday". I was a little bummed but getting my B-day package cheered me up. I already opened it to get to the syrup, but i also opened my watch because i felt that that was important. I also started playing the CDs in our house but other than that, i didnt open anything else(except Jenny´s pictures, I cracked...). Tell everyone thanks for all the stuff and that i should be good on stuff for the rest of my mission!
General Conference was awesome! The inly thing i didn´t like was that it passed too quickly! I got to watch almost everything in english except for the Saturday afternoon session and i also missed the first part of the last session on Sunday but it was still great!
Well, i think thats about it for this week. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers! You´re always in ours! Eu amo vocês!
Com Amor,
Élder Haws
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