Borda do Campo Week 4

So this week was a good week. We met our goals for the key indicators that we have so that was good. Also a lot of the problems with the branch are being resolved. The President got released (first councilor called), so it was a good week

We had a special division this week because there is an Elder in the district that passed in the area so he came on Tuesday with me, and showed a lot of addresses of people that he visited or contacted. It went well. Also with him we were able to find some new people to teach. After that Elder Curbelo and I marked 2 other baptismal dates, so now we have 3 people with dates for baptism in November. Ricardo who has a date for November 18th which will be a marriage as well. The problem is that he isn´t very firm on this date, he wants to put off the marriage until January, but we think that if he does that he will put it off again, and we want him to keep the commandments as soon as possible.

 We also have Eunisse, who is the mom of a recent convert. She wants to do everything right, and is already reading The Book of Mormon and is a decent way into 2 Nephi. Her problem is that she isn´t married with the person that she has been living with for 20 years, and based on what she has said, he isn´t too excited to get married, also he doesn´t want to talk with us. Date is for November 25th.

Also we have Douglas, who is the only one that came to church this week of the three. He is 14 years old, and almost all of his family are baptized. He is really cool, and he has a friend in the branch. The only problem is that his dad doesn´t like the church (basically religion in general) so pray that all goes well (he doesn´t know that Douglas is talking with us). He has a date for November 4th. I am praying that all goes well with these people.

I have learned a lot about faith this week with the story of Enoch. Enoch had a speech problem to the point that everyone hated him, but because of his faith the was able to convert a lot of people to the gospel to the point where his city was taken up to be with God until the second coming, and he had a one on one conversation with God where God basically explained everything that will happen. Now that is what I call faith. I made a goal to really have faith in God, and to trust in him completely. I love the story of Enoch now, and it just goes to show that with God everything is possible.

Thank you all for the support, and for everything that you do to live the gospel.

--Élder Pettingill

pics:
-Elder Andrade and I on the division with Pizza (tradition here)
-Elder Curbelo and I one day when he really wanted pizza
-the 12 Liters of yogurt, and 3 bags of cookies that a Irmã(sister-member) gave to us (Borda do Campo is awesome, also I am not going hungry her mom! :) )