October 11, 2011

Oi familia!!
Bah! Things sound pretty crazy over there in the US. This week was crazy and a little crazy. I have two stories of stuff that happened yesterday.
Our investigator who was the closet to baptism (Isabell) didn´t come to church. We were really bummed and we were talking about this to one of the ward members (an old bishop). We were saying how she didn´t go to church and he asked her name. We told him and he just kind of stopped. He looked at us with a little confusion and said," Elders.....she has already been baptized. She has been a member for about 20 years now." He said that and we didn´t really believe him. So we had the stake secretary check on the church computer for us. Lo and behold HE BROUGHT UP THE BAPTISMAL RECORD OF ISABELL! I could just see my mission president in the next interview. "Elder, you cannot baptize the members." haha I´m still in unbelief. We have been teaching her for about 2 months and she said she wasn´t baptized! The stuff we´ve been teaching her was completely new to her! So i´m still not exactly sure what we are going to do, but whatever happens will defiantly be interesting. haha
The other story is really crazy also. I think i saw john the beloved or one of the 3 nephites! haha We were just sitting there in sacrament meeting on night. and two young men walked in and sat down. (they were probably like 25 years old). About 15 minutes later they got up and left. I said to Elder Biaggio "Lets go talk to them!". We ran out the chapel and they seriously disappeared. We weren´t that far behind them but they were just gone! But than we noticed one man standing in front of the church with his dog. We thought well lets talk to this guy at least. We brought him in the church and we taught him a watered down version of the Restoration. It was great he was extremely interested and he said he always wanted to know something like this. We took his adress and gave him a book of mormon with a commitment to read it. Unfortunately, the address wasn´t in our area. We called the other elders in our district to pass the address to them that night. When we called them we just heard an loud voice of Elder A. Santos," A gente encontrou um elieto na rua!" (we found an elect in the road). After the man went home with his dog he found the other elders in front of his house just walking down the street! He invited them in and they taught him the Restoration more in depth. The man (Luiz) said , with his wife, that they were going to study and pray. (and be baptized:)
THE 3 NEPHITES EXIST!!! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS COINCIDENCES!
If we didn´t try to follow those two guys we never would have found him.


Com muito amor
Elder Rollins