So to start off before i forget, I talked with the president and I am allowed to skype with you for Christmas.
That being said, let~s recap a rather wonderful week.
I apologize that I wont say everything because once again i forgot my ´planner. But Im going to tell you about some of the more eventful things that have occured.
Ribamar
Tuesday night me and Elder Adhans were going to an appointment and I felt like i should talk to a man that we were passing, and I ignored it. Luckly for me the lord wasnt going to let the opportunity to learn and grow pass, and the man talked to us. He said that his name was Ribamar and that he was a recent convert who had gone less active and that he had a desire to come back to church. After I listened to his story it was in some ways comparable to Job for me because he didnt see his daughter any more because she lived with her mom, and his work hadnt been paying him, leaving him without income. He expressed a sincere desire to come back and so we set an appointment for the next day. We passed by his house and he wasnt there so we passed by again thursday. He was excited to have us there and we talked for a while and read the scriptures with him. He told us that he didnt have any food and hadnt eaten since the day before and so we bought him some food at the store and dropped it off. When we passed by again later that night i noticed that he had been eating the food because all the apples were gone and the bread was opened and some slices missing. It was rather humbling for me to have this experience. He didnt make it to church this week and will next week.
Suzete and Tereza
Suzete is a young women who lives at the same house as the bishop and has been going to church for a while and has been reading the book of mormon for a while as well. She prayed to know whether it was true or not and then went to sleep. She had an angel appear to her in a dream and tell her to continue reading the book and that it would help her to learn and grow more. It was amazing, however i hadnt understood this when she said it and had become distracted, it was frustrating to know that i missed out on hearing this from her mouth because elder adhans explained it to me later, and it makes me want to have a stronger conviction to focus more in our lessons.
Tereza is a 60-70 year old woman who came and sat down on our first lesson with suzete and started listening. When we had our second lesson with suzete we talked about the plan of salvation and she had expressed that she was sad that her son had died in the past but she had a dream where an angel told her that he was in a better place.
Both have agreed to be baptized.
This week was interesting, it started out slow and i was frustrated because we had cut most of our investigators but by the end of it it started picking up and we are expecting several baptisms this next week. The lord really does bless us in our endeavors as we work for him.
Please continue to pray for me and send me letters, you have no idea the impact that they have on me. Im getting more out slowly but surely so dont worry its all coming. Im expecting 11 in tomorrow because my district leader has them and is giving them to me then.
I feel like there is more that i was going to say but honestly i forgot,
I love you all and pray for your well being,
Love,
Elder Eric Alan Olsen
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