Dear Family,
This was one of those weeks that you just feel so lucky to be a missionary. It was so cool to see Patricia and her 2 daughters Jaqueline (15) and Stephanie (14), and Pedro and Doraci changing so much as they strived to live the gospel! Patricia was really struggling with cigarettes, at least 20/day but we made goals with her all week to get her ready for her baptism and we were so excited when her last day she went the whole day without smoking so she was ready for baptism Sunday! She said she was pretty much just praying all day long because we had a rule that every time she wanted to smoke she had to go say a prayer. They also are used to living off of coffee (like all brazilians) so it wa a sacrifice for them to stop buying coffee and just have herbal tea everyday. But man the house has just become a different place with them saying daily prayers, reading a scripture from the Book of Mormon everday. That light they talk about in peoples eyes. Yep its real. Anyway their baptism was beautiful and those 2 are already really great examples for the other Young Women.
Pedro and Doraci was a miracle too as they both worked to largar o cigarro this week as well. Doraci is on fire about the gospel. It was so cool because she´s started telling her friends about it too. She totally gets the restoration and she had some of her evangelical friends visiting this week and she showed them the picture of Christ in the Americas and told ém - this is Christ´s church that he set up here on the earth, and that same church is here again its called A Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos santos dos últimos dias. The rest of the churches today are churches that man created! Shes reading the book of mormon faster than i am and their 7 yr old, Alini, is in love with reading the Liahona and is already excited about her baptism. Speaking of, it´s so cute, our recent convert Terezinha (baptized 4 weeks ago) has a 6 yr old son, Nicholas, and every time we go over there he tries to convince me hes 8 because he wants to get baptized too. :)
Keep Anna and her daughters in your prayers. She wants to get baptized, but is having a hard time with smoking as well, and her husband is a bit hard, but I know it´s all going to work out right with faith!
It´s amazing how life really is so simple. Just do your best to follow what Jesus Christ taught and what Heavenly Father is telling us through His prophets, and your life will be so good and so happy and youll get to be with your family forever! So keep living the gospel! Keep being an example because that´s really what draws people to the gospel.
Love you all a lot!
Sister Lewis
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