were discussing her needs and the things we could do to help her, we decided to do a special lesson and we spent some of our p-day preparing it. That was probably the coolest lesson I've taught on my mission, the Spirit was extremely strong. The lesson was titled "The love He has for you" it was all about the Savior and his love for us, we listened to a beautiful version of "come thou fount of every blessing" while we closed our eyes and thought about Christ. We also made a little book for her that had pictures of Christ and poems and scriptures about the Savior. It was awesome, especially because we didn't plan on doing that but we were talking and we were inspired and ideas started flowing and it turned out really well. Needless to say she received an answer. But it was to a different question than if she should be baptized, it was if she should go to Brazil for three months to do some medical treatments from an accident she had some years ago. But she said she had been feeling a great desire to be baptized. So this left her with another question, if she should be baptized before or after the trip to Brazil. This was a big question she has been fighting with this whole week, we continued teaching her and praying that she would receive an answer. Yesterday we had a nice sacrament meeting, the Spirit was very strong and at the end of the meeting right before I went up to say the closing prayer she tapped me on the shoulder from two chairs over and said Elder I will be baptized this Saturday. My jaw dropped and I almost had to change my pants. And the cool thing is the elder that found her a week or so before I got here (who ended his mission in this area) is visiting this weekend with his parents, I'm pretty sure he's going to baptize her. After all this time of trying to help her receive an answer I can see that things have to be done in the Lord's time and not when we want them to be done. We also marked an awesome investigator named Elias, (elijah) and he had a dream that I was baptizing him so he wanted me to baptize him. So this Saturday we'll have two baptisms, I'm not sure if it will be at the beach or in Santarém but I'm super excited. It is so sick to see the hand of the Lord in the work here there's no doubt that all of this is true. I've been feeling the spirit in abundance this week it has been an awesome week. Well glad to hear you all are doing well, you'll have to send me some pictures of the snowy mountains. It has actually started to get really cold here; winter is on its way. I don't know how to express my feelings right now, I feel extremely blessed for being here at this time. I know that I'm actually making a difference in people’s lives and I'm super grateful for the privilege I have to be here in Caldas serving with Elder Silva because I'm certain that things would not go the way they have gone if we were not here at this point in time. Oh I forgot to mention this last week we had zone conference and a 70 was there, Elder Kopischke. He's a member of the area presidency for Europe. I really enjoyed the conference but I was exhausted at the end of it because I had to translate the whole thing for Elder Silva, man that was rough. Well have a great week.Com muito amor, -Elder Lindquist
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