Marlinda!

Marlinda's baptism

This week was a good one. Marlinda was baptized and she was so happy! She passed the interview without any problems! Then, when we went to the church for the baptism. We showed her to the bathroom so she could change, and we went to another part of the church to get ready. When we came back, she was talking to another elder in the hall, but crying. My first thought was CRAP, but then we talked to her and they were only tears of joy! When she stood up to bear her testimony, she got about half way through and became so choked up she couldn't finish! She wanted it so bad, and to finally achieve it made her so happy! She also was able to have her mom and step father present. It was a good day! :)

The rest of the week was kind of slower. We have a really high turnover right now. We are finding a lot of people, and we start to teach them, but then they stop progressing... People have a really hard time seeing with spiritual eyes, and acting with faith. We did have a really good lesson though, with a woman named Ilene and her husband Edmilson. We had sat down after our last appointment of the day feeling like we were through, and she went walking by with a gas can. We offered to help, and walked back to her house. She then let us in and we talked a little bit. Then her husband came in from work. Normally, we go right into the first lesson, and invite them to baptism, but this time we started talking about faith in Christ and why he is important. I felt it was a great lesson! They were not able to make it to church this week, but I still thought it was great.

We want to really help the ward here be more involved in missionary work. This is one of the biggest problems we find here in Cape Verde. We have made a plan to have every leader of the church focus on and bring to church one person every week. We will see how that goes.

Love,

Elder Naylor