Keila had to go to the hospital in Porto Alegre Sunday night/Monday for the pains from anemia false form. She had to take morphine and have blood transfusions, stays in the hospital for like 15 days I think. Her brothers stay at a relatives house while the parents deal with stuff at the hospital and dad works, so we haven´t had physical contact with anyone except the Grandpa on Monday night who told us this, but we´ve called Cintia, and Keila is doing fine.
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| Irasema's Baptism |
Irasema has progressed very well. We visited her Monday and talked with
her about her baptism for Saturday but she said she wouldn't give a for certain
yes until Wednesday, that she needed to pray and ask if she needed to be
baptized now. We come back on Wednesday and she starts talking with us about
how she´s so worried for her daughter, like Tuesday or Wednesday she had a
dream about her dying and just has been thinking about her daughter nonstop.
Elder Favoretti pulls out Ether 12:27( through 29 I think, stopping where it
says something about The Lord´s will be done or something) and applies it to
her, that she prayed drawing near to God about whether she needs to be baptized
and God showed her weakness, her daughter, that she really does need to be baptized
this Saturday, set an example for her daughter. She´s crying and goes I will. I
will be baptized this Saturday. His will be done. We leave, I say something to
Elder Favoretti about like what on earth, how´d you connect that, have that
scripture ready. He said something like yeah, it just popped into my head when
she was talking about her daughter, I didn´t prepare it at all, all the work of
the Lord, but we are happy to be His instruments. The Relief Society President
visited her Friday because she knew she´d be working during the baptism.
Irasema was baptized and confirmed the next day.
Sunday we had a member of the stake presidency who talked about
how the ward needs to help more with missionary work, how every member is
a missionary, how while they don´t wear a name tag like us, people still know
they are members and thus they have to act in a certain way and can´t do
certain things, needing to be accepting politically because just because you received
personal revelation that a candidate is right for you doesn´t mean that is the
right candidate for someone else and stuff like that. Apparently, our ward has
had a hard time with politics and several people have stopped coming to church
for this reason.
We had two teaching miracles happen this week. One was we were
trying to find a contact and knocked a door to ask where the street was and we
happened to knock on the door of his brother.
He and his wife have seen us walking and wanted us to teach them. They
told us that they wouldn´t be able to make it church this Sunday but next Sunday
that they would. Then, one time when we were visiting Roberto, two boys, 12 and
11, friends who live by Roberto walked in and we taught them. Not sure why they
didn´t come to church, one of them even ran up to us as we were walking back to
our house after (and scared us) saying that he checked with his grandparents
and he would come to church. In answer to your question from the pictures from
last week - The pizza here from this place is so good, I get one half bacon,
the other half chocolate and strawberry. We are not allowed to play
soccer, so no. I haven´t played any sports out in the field.
Roseli said if I ever visit with my parents (or without) that we
can stay at their house to save money by not paying for a hotel. That really
touched me. Also, this Sunday for lunch, we had it at the Alves family who have
two sons on missionaries right now in Brazil and they made a special American
themed lunch for me, with French fries and hamburgers. It was so awesome! They're a fun group,
have a son a little younger than me and a daughter younger than him and a son
who's married. Also, if you or dad receive friend requests, it is from
Brazilians who are feeding us and have taken a picture most likely and would
like to send it to you. Anyways, have a
good, birthday packed adventure this week!
Love, Elder Trevor Mangum
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