2/14/2011



On Friday night we got stuck in the rain and got completly SOAKED!!!



And just as we were getting home it started hailing. I didnt know that hail hurt so bad!



Look at all the water that was in my shoe!!!

 Hey!


This was the most exhausting week of my mission so far. We walked sooo much, and slept so little, but it was all completely worth it!

So we have been praying and fasting for miracles and for baptisms. But these two areas where we are are kinda difficult... Cerrado hasn't baptized in 5 months, and Simus hasn't baptized in almost a year. So its kinda hard here. But we have been really optimistic and working really hard, and this week it paid off! We have a couple families that we are teaching, and the members are starting to give a ton of references! Like I said last week we had 12 investigators at church, and only one of them we brought with us. And so this week we decided that we needed to do at least the same or better. We planned for a different member to go and pick up each one of our investigators, and we were inviting the members to bring friends to church all week. So when Sunday morning arrived, the most wonderful thing happened. We showed up at the church, without having to run and pick up a single investigator. We waited there and watched all of our investigators show up with members! We had 12 investigators at church again!!! And there was a couple new people that the members had brought that we will start teaching this week! Its crazy how much the two wards are helping us out!

Ok so now to the huge miracle that happened on Saturday! Saturday was a very very hot day. And we were fasting. All of our appointments fell, and we felt like we were dying of tiredness and dehydration. At 7:00 we went to the house of one of the families that we are teaching that needs to get married before getting baptized. The parents names are Marcos and Margarette. Margarette is a member that was less active, and Marcos wants to be baptized, he just has to get married first. They have 3 kids, ages 18, 14, and 9. The 9 year old Sabrina isn't baptized yet. But we wanted to wait to baptize her at the same time as her dad seeing as how it was going to be soon. But when we got there they told us that there was a couple complications with some stuff and they were going to have to wait 3 months to be able to be married, but they don't want to wait that long to baptize Sabrina!!! So this Saturday (Feb 19th) Sabrina will be baptized!!! And Simus will have its first baptism in almost a year!!!! WHOOO!!! We are so excited, and so are the members! Its amazing how miracles happen when we fast!

I love serving a mission, and Its going by way to fast... I never thought that I would say this, but I wish that time would pass by slower.

Love
Elder Schoen