Miracles in São Bento

Hey Y'all!

Elder Soares and Elder DP

Well transfers came around and Elder Paixão went off to Itapetininga (that's a mouthfull) and I'm sticking around. My new companion is Elder Soares! He's probably about 5'4 and we checked our weights and we weigh the same hahaha I saw our reflection in a window walking the streets the other day and it's a sight to see this tall, white American and a little, round Brazilian roaming the streets. He is seriously a great companion. First of all he already served here a little over a year ago so he already knows the members as well as I do and he has tons of less actives to visit that I never knew existed. He showed up and we automatically gained a ton of trust from the members that we didn't have last transfer. On top of that he's a great teacher and he makes food all the time. 

Transfer Pizza

So, this week was awesome. Last week I mentioned Andressa, a young woman we found the week before that came to church that Sunday. Well we visited her this week and she accepted the 22nd as  her baptismal date!! She seems really solid to be baptized on that day and we're super excited. Her Mom also accepted baptism but won't be baptized on that day because she hasn't made it to church yet. 

Another Miracle - Tuesday Night a young woman that left Thursday to serve a mission brought us to a friends house to introduce us. We taught him and his mom and went back and taught again Friday night. Both lessons went really well, he's reading the Book of Mormon, he had a great experience at church and last night he accepted the goal to prepare for baptism on the 29th!!!!!!! 

I'm loving the mission, watching miracles unfold. It's great. The language is coming along still. Another sweet thing about transfers is Elder Johnson (my MTC Companion) is part of my district now! 

Love you all!

~Elder Della-Piana