30 de Janeiro

Janaina's Baptism

Hello family and friends.

Everything is going well over here in Braga. We have had a lot of good things happening lately, so that has been really good.

This week we were finally able to do things the right way! We were extremely blessed, and Janaína was baptized on Saturday. After many lessons, and an awesome family night at our stake president’s home, she gained enough courage and felt the Spirit so strongly that she accepted baptism. We had a really long lesson with her on Thursday, and she opened up to us a lot. We figured out that the baptism fell through due to some things that her brother had said to her. She felt really upset about it, and didn’t want to be baptized feeling the way she felt. The baptism went really well though, and the Spirit was really strong! She was super happy! We are working with her sister, Nanda, as well. She will be baptized in no time :) she will be a little bit harder though, because she works almost every Sunday. We need to find a solution to that problem. Janaína was confirmed yesterday! She is going to be an awesome member!

We had some crazy experiences throughout the week. We ended the week pretty exhausted! But we are ready to start a new week, and do even better did last week. I can’t believe we are already entering into a new month! Where did January go? Other than that, there isn’t really much to report around here. The weather is warming up a bit. It is still super cold at night and in the morning, but during the day it has warmed up a lot. We have a lot of people that we are teaching that really need help! Keep us in your prayers, as well as all the people we are teaching. Your prayers really do help us out here. Things have been going well. I am doing well. I’m loving this area, and the people in this area. Hopefully I will be able to finish my mission out here!

Baptism of Janaína. Elder Porter, Nanda, Janaína, Elder Silva, and Elder Lee

I wish everyone an amazing week! I love you all so much!

Elder Porter