This week was great, I think I said last week my companion had his birthday but anyway it happened. We went to Coité to spend the day with the sisters and to play games and stuff like this and it was really fun, we brought my nerf guns and my companion brought his (because he bought one) and we played with that, we played a game called "burned" and we topped the day off with water ballons. Only one of the sisters tweaked her ankle and now has a boot on one foot for the next month, so it was all great except for that 😋
All the prayers worked folks, A. was baptized this last saturday! She recieved the answer she was waiting for and it suprised her a little how real it was. We spent saturday morning cleaning the the baptism font to find the drain doesnt work, so we emptied the little that was in there out by hand/bucket. But then another problem came up, the church ran out of water. We called bishop, he didnt know what to do, called our zone leader, he didnt know what to do, we would have baptized her in the lake if we didnt find the solution (the lake was not a good thing). But we stayed there fixing it until 3pm missing lunch, and we did fix it. And we were hungry after but we had english class not long after and we were really hungry and I told my companion "lets go eat soon!" and he said there is always a way and you just need more faith to get food he said jokingly. So I actually prayed for food and not long after the ward had a little suprise party for my companions belated birthday with cake, soda, and like other salty treats. We looked to eachother and laughed at how literally my prayer worked and I said to him "Ha, I had faith!" It was funny, and a relief for my stomach. And after the little festa was the baptism that everything went all right, it was a fast service but it was special on its own, I got to share the message of the 1st vision during the program and it went well.
And... HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! The fathers day of brazil was yesterday Aug13, I don't know why its different here but it is. And we just need to take a minute to realize how important Dad's are in our world and how greatful I am to have mine! He always says how he wishes he was a better dad, a better example, but you can't have a good kid like me without an example to learn from everyday. I got my courage to try new things from my dad, did you know? I remember one time while riding motocycles in the dunes we came up to this big hill and I got scared that I wouldnt make it and/or fall over and he said "I'll go first and you follow" and in my mind it was still difficult but then I had the thought that has stuck with me since then that "If dad can do it, so can I" I have never forgotten that and it has helped me with many of my problems. But many long stories short: My Dad is awesome!
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Thats all the cool stuff that happened this week, Tchau! 😁
Love You Peoples!
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Elder Benjamin Barton
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