At 6 pm we went with sister graciele to an english class where we met her 3 friends that are studying english with her. One is a doctor, one is a lawyer, and another is the english professor. We practiced some english with them, then quickly got into a conversation about what we do as missionaries. We were short on time and they wanted to learn more so we marked to visit them on Wednesday night again.
Tuesday we visited some of our investigators. We are teaching Alefe and he should be getting baptized soon. Gerson is a recent convert and we are now teaching 2 of his daughters at his house. We take a bus to get to their house because they live so far away. We take a bus there then walk an hour and 20 minutes to get back home at night. They have both been to church multiple time and they accepted the baptismal invite. Their goal is for march 10th. but if their dad wants to baptize them, they will have to wait an extra week because he needs to recieve the priesthood.
Thursday, we taught lots of people. The highlights were following up with Alefe and remarking his baptismal date and teaching Gerson´s daughters (Estefani and Giovana) the gospel of Jesus Christ together with the Ten Comandments using the fingers to help them remember. From there we had to walk home because theres were no more buses at that hour of the night. Its a long walk and i found my feet hurting when we got home. hahaha.
Friday we made a list of references with a member and visited a recent convert. We´re going to follow up on those references this week.
Saturday we worked with another young women who will soon leave for her mission.
We invited many of our investigators to church and challenged them with goals for baptism.
Sunday, we had a cool Sacrament meeting. After church, we had a branch council meeting with all the leaders of the branch. We made lots of goals for our Branch and planned to coordinate with people sunday morning, to go and pick up people for church.
In the end, I had a great week despite all the challenges we face serving in a branch. I am still learning my way around this huge area. We have the WHOLE city to ourselves. It is going well and I feel like my companion and I are going to do great things here. I am excited for this week as we will have mission council meeting in Salvador on Wednesday and a special transmition from Elder David A. Bednar. He will be in Salvador on Friday and the missionaries there will get to personally participate, meanwhile the rest of us in other parts of Bahia will watch in by transmition. I am excited for this privelege. It is a great time to be a missionary! That is my week! That´s all folks!!
With love,
Elder Hilton
there is my companion Elder Lee and I.
pictures from last weeks email.
Alan´s Missionary Farewell Party
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