Necessary Repetition

Are you being transferred or staying put?

Staying Put

How are things going with this family? (This is the family he talked about last week)

They are well. The kids were going to baptized this week, but their mom had a huge health issue this weekend, so they had to take her to the hospital. But last we heard, she is alright. They're really elect people.
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It's interesting how when you want someone to remember something, you end up repeating it to them a hundred times. I thought a little about that when we had stake conference this week, because it seemed that among the many speakers they had, only two topics seemed to be made clear: Missionary work, and family history. Probably something important to remember ;)

Anyway, with that said, this week was really good. We were able to help a lot of people, listened to a great many stories, and ate a lot of food. We even had a baptism at the last minute. This Saturday, we were preparing a family to be baptized, when we passed by a past investigator that was playing soccer with some members. When we saw him, we thought, "what the heck, why not" and we promptly invited him to be baptized Sunday with the others. To our surprise, he answered with a simple question, "Can I?" With a smile on our face, we let him know everything he needed to, and sent him off. When Sunday arrived, the family we were preparing for the baptism had a health problem and weren't able to do it, but this other young man simply said, "alright, I'll be baptized alone then. :)

This week, we also had the opportunity to teach a new family with a great interest in our message. The father is the cousin of a recent member here, and had been invited to attend the sessions of our stake conference. As he attended, he felt the spirit and mentioned something that is really true. He said, "I think the 'Mormon' church is something special I'd never seen before. The members value for every soul, and the desire to help everyone is greater than that of any other church I've gone to." As we taught the restoration afterward, he practically taught himself and promptly accepted everything we shared with him.  Best of all, him and his wife are very desirous to follow the commandments of God with all their heart.

The next few weeks should be really cool as we continue to help these wonderful families come into the gospel and find more investigators as we go. I thank God always for this great opportunity that He has given me to help him in his work and his glory. Truly this church is the church of Christ, for it does just as he did, dedicating its all to save as many souls as possible, and bring them to the light.

Thanks everyone for your prayers and support. Sorry I can't write as much as I'd like to, but I hope that what I've been able to write each week will suffice. So, until next time,

Elder Angus

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O Trabalho de Slavação (oh trah-bah-lyoh gee sal-vah-saoong) The Work of Salvation

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- Baptism of Dirceu