Miracles

Hermana B. Silva from Brazil and I. She's from my zone and she's awesome.

Hola!
This week was pretty great. First things first, we had some investigadors come to church! Their churchs are Jose and Juanita. Juanita is about 77 and Jose is her son who is 51 who lives with her and helps her out. Jose has had problems with drugs and was clean for two years before he fell again. He knows a lot about the gospel and likes to talk to us. Juanita helps him out but suffers a lot because of his past addictions. But they finally came to church, and it was fast and testimony meeting. After the first two testimonies, Jose got up and went to the pulpit. He started out saying, "Hi, my name is Jose. I am Evangelico Protestante (Protestant) and I believe a lot in Jesus Christ." He then continued to tell about the problems he suffered from, but how he was grateful that the missionaries passed by his house and how we help him and talk to him about Christ. It was a really great testimony. When he sat down, his mom asked him why he bore his testimony and he told her the Spirit came over him. She was so happy and at the end she said it was a big and good step for them.
We also had another miracle. One of our recent converts recently received the Melchizedek Priesthood and is doing well. His whole family was baptized before I came to the area and the first Sunday I was here his dad blessed the sacrament. This past week we met with a member who was really sick so we called the elders to give her a blessing. Because there wasn't a man in the house they came with Matias, our recent convert. It was his first blessing and the Spirit was there so strong. The member felt it too, and was really grateful for us for passing by and helping her out.
Also, we had a great privilege this week to have a special devotional from an apostle, Elder Rasband. But not just him, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, Elder Craig. C. Christensen and his wife, and a Seventy, Elder Jose A Teixeira and his wife. Elder Rasband's wife didn't end up traveling with him this trip. Elder Christensen actually served in our mission, so he was really excited to tell us some of the history of what happened before we came. He's pretty awesome. But it was the best to be able to listen to an apostle speak to us, and only to our mission as well. He invited the missionaries from the MTC at the last minute, so they were there for the last bit of it.
He also shook hands with everybody there, which was a lot of missionaries (I have never seen the whole mission together before). He told us about the great calling we have to preach repentance by the Holy Ghost, and to baptize converts. He is a really inspired man and I know he is an apostle of the Lord. I feel so grateful for the chance that we had to meet with him and the other leaders that were with him. It just confirms to me that this is the Lord's church that is restored again on the earth. I know He lives and He guides this church through revelation.
I love this gospel and I love serving the Lord in the mission! I know it's true and I can literally see the changes the gospel has made in the lives of the converts here, and how it improves the lives of others.

Hna. Reed

An awesome sunset against the mountains.