Week 76 (Week 30 Back in Brazil!)

 

Hey everybody! I don't have much time to write an email today, but I'll try to include the most important stuff!

This week we invited our wonderful friends Sarah and Marcela to be baptized, and so we were very excited for both of them! Sarah, in particular, is very excited, and very prepared to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. 

We also had a wonderful fast and testimony meeting, in which many of our members bore powerful testimonies! Even Elder Costa and I bore short, but firm, testimonies near the end of the meeting. Later that night we had dinner with the Bishop's mother's family and talked about all sorts of mission stories and such. 

We also were able to mark a few visits with some families in our ward and had some very spiritual lessons. Overall, the work is progressing super well here, in Morumbi, and we thank the Lord for helping us and the members to make such possible. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week, and I would just invite you all, if you haven't been doing so, or lacking in the area, to kneel and pray daily with sincerity. If there is anything I have gained a firm testimony of on the mission, it is that prayer is real, and that through the prayers of the righteous, God performs miracles. I promise in the name of Jesus Christ, that if you all begin to pray daily, with real intent to God, that he WILL answer, and will bless you and your families with more blessings than you could possibly count. 

~Elder Kasey Lightheart
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