Holy sick again, but miracles continue.

One of the people that I was teaching back in Nova Italia got baptized this week. He was the one that when we knocked on his door he had just finished talking to his wife about how he wanted to change his life. I was super happy he got baptized.


Here in Botucatu the members are helping us a ton, and we are working a lot with them. We basically have members going out with us pretty much every day and its going super well. We should have Sergio and his two nephews getting baptized soon. He just has a problem with the smoking but we are working with him and he and them will be getting baptized soon.

I got sick in the first few days of this past week and lost almost 10 pounds lol. I woke up Tuesday feeling a little rough with stomach aches. We went to our first appointment at like 8am, I started throwing up at the appointment. She gave me Dramamine or something like that. When I got to the hospital they put in an IV and some more medicine and it knocked me out. I threw up another 4 or 5 times at the hospital. Then when we got home I threw up some more; so it was a fun couple of days, but I am all good. 

On Thursday we had interviews with president and we stayed in Sao Manuel to do some interviews for baptisms. We went to a dinner appointment with the Sisters and a bunch of the member friends showed up with beer and started drinking and singing.  That was an interesting time.


We went on divisions with the zone leaders on Saturday; which was pretty cool. They were having a really hard time finding good people to teach and all of the appointments were falling through. 

As it started to get dark, we decided since we only had a few hours left, we would go to a new area they never worked previously. When we were going there we were looking at the map and I said ok, we will choose right now what road will have the golden family and we will find them. So i looked at the map picked out a corner of a road that really stood out to us and said here is where we will find a family. 

When we arrived at the road we had a few minutes to spare so we started knocking on seriously the richest houses I have seen here in Brasil and everyone was knocking us down. When we finally arrived at the designated corner of the road we picked out beforehand; there were two houses left.  Both had their lights off, but all of a sudden one of the houses lights came on.  We immediately went to that house and were super hyped, we knocked and a few little girls came out and we asked them to get their mom. She stayed in the door and we were asking her to come out to the garage to talk to us She said she did not have any shoes on....we were like, go put some shoes on, lol.  

We taught her the restoration, invited her and family to come to church the next day and they did!  They absolutely loved it.  It is always awesome to see how involved the Lord is while we have faith and work.

Love you, Elder Rhodes
Location: Botucatu, State of São Paulo, Brazil

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