Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The power of the Priesthood is so true! Miracles happened this week! (11-23-15)

Well, once again, another week of miracles.... but I´ll get to that later! Everything is going great, and it was much cooler this week, thanks to the rain, one day it was actually cloudy all day! I also got to see another part of the city too, I was on a split with another zone leader in the area of Higienopolis, and they are in the city central. We were in a really wealthy neighborhood for little while but no one there ever accepts us, so went to another part of their area and had some more success. One lady was a Jehovah Witness though, and she didn´t like us to much, but she had a really cool house though! She´s a painter and had some really really nice paintings done by her. Also had this banana tart thing that was rather delicious. Did I tell you that they have like 5 different bananas that they sell at the store? big ones, little ones, ones that are like as long as your forearm. Ya, pretty crazy, and really good. They are also really cheep and so, I eat a lot of bananas, haha. This week was pretty good for investigators, though Cleuza ( the woman that I talked about last week) she was in the hospital. Kind of scary, but we are going back to visit her this week! Also this week is packed by the way!!! Today we have a Noite Familiar (FHE) with the LMA who´s inviting some less actives and we´re having Brazilian pizza (SO GOOD) and these like tapioca pancake things??? Then our lessons are stacked Tuesday already, Wednesday is a division and stacked with English Class that night. Then Thursday we have Interviews with President Brum and thanksgiving in Jussara (another area), Friday we have a ward activity, and then Saturday and Sunday is Stake Conference. Busy week! Also we had a couple investigators attend church finally, which was a really cool experience. They were actually saying, "look, I just don't think this church is for me." stuff like that, and so I pulled out good old Alma 32, with the experiment. Just solid, and I was like look, you can´t make your decision without actually trying it. It talks about faith not being a perfect knowledge, but you have to first exercise a particle of faith, and if it is good, it will grow. So I promised him if he went to church, he would fee the spirit and receive the answer he needed. And he also has some really big family problems, and I promise you that the talk given by Felippe, was totally inspired for this investigator, really it was just so amazing. Now, I want to testify that the power of the priesthood is so true. I had the most amazing experience this week. We have a fairly recent convert of about 1 year named Desiderio. He is 86 years old, and I say better late than never. But, I´m not sure if I told his story or not, so I´ll just summarize it real quick. He was down on his knees one day praying to know what church was true. He stood up and the missionaries literally knocked on his door in that instant. So basically this house is full of miracles, because I´m going to relate one that I took part in. We´ve been trying to get his wife to come to church with him, her name is Alice. But she is constantly sick and also has really bad anxiety about leaving the house. She always has the worst headaches and can´t leave her bed some days. We showed up there Thursday night and she was sick in bed and actually we were going to go pray with her, but Elder Barros felt like we should give her a blessing, so we asked her if she believed that Jesus Christ could heal her and make her feel better. She said she had faith. So I did the anointing and Elder Barros did the blessing and that´s when the miracle happened. She told us afterwards that the instant that Elder Barros laid his hands on her head it all went away, and she felt it pass from her head and then to her legs, and just give her strength. He also blessed her to be happy and smile, and there she was just smiling huge and brightly and so happy! You could literally hear the change in her voice. She got up out of bed and started to walk around! She had Desiderio fix her a plate of food and she said I can´t eat that much. She ate it all! It was truly a miracle to see her healed, in that very instant. The Power of the Priesthood is very real, and when you worthily use the Authority you have been given, anything is possible, so amazing. So happy and so blessed! Anyway, love you all! Elder Wyatt

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