Hey everyone how's it going? I hope you're all enjoying spring and life etc. This last week was good, this transfer is going by way too fast. I hope I stay at least one more with Elder Peterson he's a stud. Well we had some interesting lessons this last week one of which was with the director of marangos com açicar (strawberries with sugar) which is a teenage drama show that is pretty much the equivalent to the O.C. or something in America. He's a way cool guy, his wife and daughter are members so they help a lot with reading the Book of Mormon and everything so that was fun.
Maria de Graça is doing well, but due to complications with her marriage we had to push the baptism date up to June 6th (she wanted to receive the holy ghost on the day of the Pentecost which just so happens to be the day after the baptism so that was a cool coincidence. I love doing service in her quintal, her backyard is like a jungle that's crawling with lizards and frogs and crazy stuff. She's kind of a packrat so we have to clean out these sheds filled with tons of stuff and right now we're weeding this big area with hoes and stuff, I'll have to take some pictures there one of these days it's really cool. And we invited her 11 year old daughter Ana to be baptized and confirmed on the same day as her mom and she accepted so we're excited about that.
Recently I've realized that my desire to share the truth of the restoration has really exploded. Never in my life did I imagine I'd be this determined; almost obsessed with sharing the gospel with people but that's all that's on my mind. It drives me crazy to see people going down the wrong path and it drives me even crazier to be rejected when I try and help them get on the right path, but that's how the saviors’ life was like right? He was despised and rejected of men. I've become pretty anxious to find every scripture I can to use when talking with people from other religions. Elder Peterson have had laid some smack down on some J-Dubs and Catholics lately, (without the spirit of contention) we just tell them the truth, which is that our church is the only true and living church on the face of the earth. And we have scriptures to back it up. Missions are awesome. Never before have I felt this ambition to talk about this stuff, I don't know maybe it's because I can communicate with the people better but I've just felt this great care and love for the people to show them the truth. I don't know it's hard to explain.
So today I'm doing a division in Mofra and we're going to go take some pictures and check out the huge convent here it's pretty awesome on the outside I'm excited to see what's on the inside. I'll send some pictures next week.
Oh I forgot to tell you about our new investigator we found this last week. He's from Russia but has lived in Spain, Switzerland and now Portugal. He speaks four or five languages and he's only 18. We made the first contact with him in a park after he pretty much just made a deal. He's a way smart kid and we told him that he's not doing the right thing and he's going to ruin his life and lose opportunities if he keeps doing these things. Initially he told us he doesn't believe in God but in our last visit with him he told us he's going to try saying a prayer and he wants to go to church on Sunday. It's amazing what the light of Christ does to people Não é?
Well have a good week I'll talk to you soon, (on Mother’s day!)
-Elder Lindquist
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