Monday, June 26th

This week was great. So, to start the week off and we had our last mission conference with President and Sister Gomes. They will be going back home to São Paulo on Saturday. It was great to have them as my mission presidents for 1 year. I am truly grateful for all they do. They were super emotional saying bye to us. Friday our new mission president, President Taylor will be getting here. He is from Wyoming. He will be the mission president for the next 3 years here. 

       Friday was a holiday named Saint John. To tell you the truth I have no idea why they celebrate it or the meaning. The people here all have fires in front of their houses and have a lot of foods made from corn. They dance Quadrillha which is the name of the dance. You should look it up. So, a member invited us to come and celebrate with his family. It had rained all day on the wood but in the end he and I got it started. Here a big thing is to roasted corn. It is a little weird but not too bad to eat. We had Calabresa and some other good foods. 

       Saturday was a great day. We had the baptisms of Valmir and Edivania (who are a husband and wife) and also Letissia. Letissa’s husband Overlan is coming back into the church. I was able to baptized Valmir and Edivania and my companion baptized letissia. It was such a great day to bring them into the gospel and change their lives. 

Love,
Elder Cameron Jensen



Cameron and his companion wrote in to there mission news telling them about their 3 baptism miracle and their letter was chosen as one to share:  

MIRACLE OF THE WEEK

COUPLE #1

Two months ago, it was a Saturday night we were contacting on the streets looking for new people because we had recently cut most of our researchers.  We passed a house and a man (husband and father) stood up and looked.  We had the feeling to make contact with them.  We left an invitation to pray, read, and go to church the next day.  The sacrament began and they did not appear, we looked out the window and saw them coming.  We continued to visit and teach them.  We left them an invitation for baptism and marriage.  They accepted without even stopping to think about it.  They never missed any Sundays at church.  They were able to get married last week and were baptized on Saturday.

COUPLE #2

It was our first week in the area and a member took her sister-in-law to church.  We visited her and her husband who was a member that had fallen away.  He wanted to come back but had problems with alcohol and did not know how he could come back.  She started coming to church every Sunday but he wouldn’t show up.  Pretty soon he came back and the members were pretty accepting.  She wanted to be baptized but they were not married.  He said that he cut off friendships and come back to church.  They agreed to marry and she would be baptized.  They were married the same day as our other couple and she was also baptized on the same day as the other couple. 

Here are two example why it is important to work member references and to knock on doors.  Both work but sometimes it is the Lord we need to look to for references. 

Elder Perez and Elder Jensen