Miracles And Baptism!

Well hello everybody! Today i don´t even know where to start! this week has been a huge week, and a week that i will never forget! This week every single day we saw millions of miracles! but i would like to tell you all about the weekend that we had! all week we have been finding wonderful people to teach. and every single person has received an answer! its has been a really amazing week, because usually we have to help people understand or recognize an answer from God. but this week all the answers that were received were so strong that everybody recognized for himself or herself! so this saturday night as we were planning who we would bring we church, we became really confident that we would be bringing a bunch of people! so on sunday morning we went on our hunt to get everyone to church! we went to the first house and only one person was ready and his name is charly. he is simone´s boyfriend. (simone was baptized a few weeks ago). charly has 6 sisters that promised they would go, but they were all sleeping. so we went about visiting everybody else, but unfortunately charly was the only person that we got to church!!!! as i got to church, i went to the very back where no one could really see me, because i wasn’t too happy! as the sacrament was being passed around, i began to pray! i began to promise God that i would do everything that he would ask me to do, and i pleaded with him that he would help us know how to get people to church! because without people going to church nobody really progresses and nobody can get baptized. and then at the moment that i most needed, elder fujisawa leaned over to me and said with a surprising tone in his voice: "Nelson is here."! quickly looked up and to my surprise nelson was up on the front row. but it wasn’t just him, he was there with his whole family! his wife and three kids! we taught nelson and his family on saturday. just two days ago. and when we went to invite him to church he said that they would be traveling and not able to go to church! so we were not expecting them to be there! and just about at that same moment in walked three of charly`s sisters! after they walked in, a feeling of love filled my heart! i couldn’t not believe it! we had only gotten one person there but the Lord brought 8. after sacrament i went and talked to nelson and his family, and i asked them why they didn’t travel. and he said that they still were going to, they just wanted to come to get to know the church before! to this moment i am still just amazed at what happened in that hour! this week is going to be great! we are going to be super busy preparing all these people for baptism!

sometimes we don’t know why things happen or when things are going to happen, but what we do know is that we need to be doing all that we can in every moment so that the Lord can bless us! and what i am realizing is that it is hard! its hard to let go and trust in the Lord! but once we figure it out we will begin to understand life and we will start to see things the way that God sees them!

I am so grateful for my mission! i love this area that i am in! the Lord is blessing it a ton! this church is a church of miracles! and that is because God and our Savior, Jesus Christ are in charge! i testify that Christ lives and that the atonement is free! no matter what, we can always come unto Him and be made clean! and He will make miracles happen in our lives if we just exercise a particle of faith!

after church we had jiliciano’s baptism! he is cicera´s son! he his awesome! just like his mother! he has such a good attitude and wants to serve the Lord! he is always there to make you laugh and feel good about yourself! he is going be a great leader in the church! i am so grateful that i met that family. cicera, jiliciene, jiliciano, and simone, sirlania and silvania! they are awesome and are helping this work out a ton! because of their examples miracles are happening all around them. all their friends want to visit the church now, its awesome!

i love you guys so much! thank you for all that you do for me! i know that God loves us and that He will bless us if we let go and do our part. but we must be patient and endure to the end.

have a good week and be happy!!!!

Elder T. Larsen

P.S. i got a couple of letters this week. i got a letter from tanner! cory and cody, and i also got my birthday package! thank you so much! ha-ha everything was so awesome!