Happy P-Day Tuesday

Welcome to yet another weekly, edition of Elder Allens email!!

We have had the craziest week and we had a meeting with all of the Zone Leaders yesterday in Porte Alegre, so I have time to just share one experience.

Miracles:

This week we had three baptisms lined up but really quickly on Tuesday they all fell through. We were about to go on a split to help another area but we knew that there was someone in our area that needed our help, so me and my companion knelt down and asked our Heavenly Father who in our area could be baptised that week. We had an impression that it was a woman named Simone who had already gone to church but was smoking. So we went to her house the next day and talked with her and had an amazingly spiritual lesson. Then, Elder Virginio promised her that she would not smoke anymore and that she would be baptised on that Saturday. After that I had the opportunity to give her a blessing of comfort and felt that I could bless her with the strength to keep going and stay strong in the church. And the miracle was that, on Saturday, she was baptised!!!! It was an amazing miracle. The Savior honestly showed us and provided a way that we could be able to help one of Gods children take the first step towards exaltation. One thing that really stood out to me was that in the confirmation, she was blessed to help all of her family eventually gain testimonies and be baptised too.

It was one of the biggest miracles that I have seen so far on my mission and I am so grateful for Heavenly Father and His infinite goodness and mercy. I know that He lives and that His Son sacrificed Himself so that we could live again. I love them both. In the name of Our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.

Love 

Elder Allen