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Joy in the Work

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 Bom dia!  I am so glad that I can take the chance this week to relate some pretty cool miracles.  We have been working hard with a lot of people in specific, to help them progress and learn a lot more about the joy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Normally in the work, there are people who are just READY and they can be presented with the lessons and immediately keep commitments and be baptized.  And then there are also people who need steps that are a lot smaller, but over time they gain a great testimony.  These are people who require a lot of planning, and a lot of patience to give them the space and the time they need.  So, me and Elder Reis have been exercising our faith and being very patient, and I would like to share the following miracles over the last two weeks.   Anna Clara:  Anna Clara has been studying with us, and we invited her to baptism this week.  She accepted originally, but realized that she was very nervous and ...

Bring a friend and be baptized!

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BOM DIA!!!  Elder Moss here speaking here from Copacabana, as we have oficially moved houses.  Now we live right in the middle of our area, and one block away from the famous Copacabana Beach!  It is nice, but everything is more expensive here, so it does have it's downsides.   But I would love to share my experiences from the last 2 weeks.  Firstly, I want to relate the wonderful experience that it was 2 Sundays ago at the baptism of Dilia and Fatima.  Dilia was a person that we found on the street and became completely enamored with the Book of Mormon, and then invited her friend, Fatima.  The two of them were so excited for their baptism and being full members of the restored church of Christ.  Me and Elder Reis both had the wonderful chance to be able to baptize them.  Dilia is 91, and we spent all of church trying to heat up water on the stove and put it in the baptismal font, because our chapel does not have a water hea...