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| Hugo's Baptism |
Hugo was baptized
and confirmed a member of the church this past weekend! He really is amazing,
here is his story...
I had felt the
impression to contact his house with Sister Cerqueira, so we did. We marked a
date to come back and visit his brothers but it fell through twice. So we left
them for the time being. In the middle of last transfer with Sister Larsen I
had the thought to revisit that house, that same day the Mont Vermelho Sisters
called because they wanted to show us a reference's house. We met up with them
and it turns out it was their house! They had taught Hugo's brothers the first
lesson and then found out they lived in our area so they passed them on to us.
We again marked a date to return (with the Carnell's) but when we came back it
was Hugo who answered the door and sat with us.
The Sunday before
Hugo's baptism Sister Rasmussen and I were updating our area book and we
flipped to the former investigator section to add some names. There sitting on
top of the former investigator pile was a paper I had pulled out from that
section several months earlier because I had the distinct impression to revisit
that paper and recontact that person. I had forgotten about it with everything
else we did that weekly planning session, but when I reread the paper with
Sister Rasmussen, imagine my surprise when the name and description was our
Hugo. He had been taught by Sisters in 2014 but they had left him when we
stopped progressing, however the bottom of the paper said, "Visit him
again, he has great potential." And so the rest is history. Heavenly
Father had been preparing him and he was baptized less than a month later by
Elder Carnell, which was sweet for all of us.
This week we also had
12 investigators and 7 less actives at church! My best before that was 7
investigators at church, but what was even better was that was that it was our
less actives who brought our investigators! Hallelujah! Anyone who is a
returned missionary will understand what a miracle that is. Being with Sister
Rasmussen is such an exhausting blast.
Also, Daisy and
Valdo finally came to church this week, and last night (with lots and lots of
planning and practicing on our part) we were able to get those two lovebirds
engaged with the help of the story of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible and a
dollar fifty Vegas style ring we had bought in a Chinese store.
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| Daisy and Valdo get engaged |
Well! I love you
all. Have a great week!
Sister Hanzel
