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Dearest Família,



We were greatly blessed this week.
Firstly, we´ve been teaching a member´s next door neighbor. As we´ve been teaching her, she has received a spiritual witness of the truth of the Book of Mormon, and Saturday she was baptized. We now are teaching her younger brother and we are helping her mom to quit smoking.
We finally came in contact with a less active sister. She had lost contact with the church shortly after she had gotten married to a nonmember, and had moved. She´s back in Uberaba now and she wants her husband and two sons to get baptized! We invited them to the baptism this weekend and they came! I think that one of the hardest areas of our work is finding men and families to teach and now we´re finding both.
Something that I have gained a testimony of this week is; that people usually won´t change unless you invite them to. The member, who is the neighbor of our baptism, has been a member for about a year, and has had a nose piercing this whole time. I asked her why she had it, and she said that she liked it. I read her 2 Nephi 13 and then she went to the back room. We continued teaching her neighbor and about a half hour later she came back without the piercing. She said that it had taken her awhile to pull it out and that she had to use a clippers to cut it.
We were walking to an appointment, but couldn´t find the house, so we decided to visit a less active family that lived nearby. The family consists of the mom and her two small children. Apparently, she´s been saying for years that she wants to come back to church, but no one has seen her promises come to fulfillment. The members had lost faith in her, but this Sunday as we were going to get our investigators, we were met with the beautiful site of this less active sister and her two children walking up the hill to church.
Yesterday morning I completed our zones challenge to read the Book of Mormon in five weeks, which is really hard when you only have one hour of personal study time. This book is true!!! If you haven´t read it, read it!
Today is the start of a new transfer and I´m really hoping that I stay in the Vallim de Melo ward.
Life is great. The gospel is true.
Love,
Elder David Short

My mission address is:

Elder David Short

Rua 18 No. 110 Sala 1105 a 91107

Ed. Business Center Setor Oeste

Goiânia - GO 74120-080