Seven Brides For Seven Brethren!

This week we went to city hall twice to mark the weddings of two families that are preparing for baptism! We have a whopping total of Seven Families that will get married so that they can be baptized. In most of these families either the husband or wife is already a member, and the spouse is preparing for baptism. 

In the mission, we've been taught to really look for people that are ready for baptism, that are already married or that are single. But these investigators have been coming to church every week, so we've starting focusing on them more and more. We were able to mark a wedding this week for February 20th. The rest of the families have either asked their relatives to send them the documents necessary, or are waiting for the documents to arrive.

When we went to mark one of the weddings, we had planned to be the testimonies, (Elder Caetano and I). I thought it would all work out, because in Barra do Garças Elder Winkel was a testimony for Erica and Tiago to get married. Little did I know. Since then Brazil has changed it's laws. We called another investigator that lives nearby, and pulled a stranger from the street to sign the paper. Our investigators were happy that it all worked out in the end, and the stranger was happy to oblige.

We'll have the Group conference on February 1st. They've rented an activity room in a hotel to be able to fit everyone, also so we won't be sweating it out because we'll have air conditioning! 

This week we'll go after the rest of the records that we need and work hard to be able to have a bunch of people visiting the day president comes.

This week we also had a few miracles. Eduardo, A member of the church that was baptized in another state, found us while we were knocking on doors. He was going to deliver medicine to an address in that same street.

Love you all!

Elder Wallace