Augusto was baptized!!!

This week was really good. We had a baptism! 




 Augusto was baptized and now his mom is interested to learning more, It was super funny too because the water was very cold and when he got in his eyes lit up like what the heck, and we just laughed. It was cool to see our work get rewarded finally. The last baptism in this area was a year and a half ago and right now we have another one this week and 4 more on the 15th of December. The members of the ward love us because of the work we are doing.  The Lord has blessed us.

 Portuguese is good and I can speak pretty well, i think.

We did splits with one of our zone leaders this week for a baptismal interview with Augusto. I worked with Elder Estigarribia and I learned a lot from him. We actually invited some people to be baptized in our first contact with them. They accepted but we still have to teach them lessons before we can have them be baptized. It was super cool though. 

We also taught this lady who really seemed sad, but I think she felt better after we shared a quick message with her. Things like that happen just about every day.  

It really surprise me how many appointments you make and how many fall through. Its definitely over half lol.

Things are going well with Sheila, Socrates and Julio, Yasmin. They hopefully will get married this week so that their baptisms can happen this transfer.

Yesterday we spent the whole day at the house because we picked up some food poisoning. I would just like to say sorry to the bathroom, because it surely felt my wrath.

Also, we had a multi-zone meeting with President this week. It was really good.

I don't have a ton to write honestly. This week was good though. Alice will be baptized this Saturday and her mom is now one of our progressing investigators so maybe we will be able to mark another baptismal date this week. 

Meet Italo; our pet lizard...he lives with us.

An iguana that does not live with us.

Love, Elder Rhodes
Location: Piracicaba - State of São Paulo, Brazil

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