Elder Benjamin S. Smith

Kaick is the son of a woman who was baptized a few weeks ago. When we first met him, he had no desire to be baptized, but we noticed that he is a good kid and he always stayed within hearing distance of the lessons. Over time, the desire grew within him, until the day of his baptism he was super excited!! We found Ricardo when visiting a couple that we had been teaching. We invited him to participate in the lesson and he said that he couldn't but that we could visit him afterwards. When we visited him, we taught the about the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and he immediately decided to be baptized.  Luciana e Junior is a family that I had started teaching with Elder Pinho a couple of months ago. At the time, they were not able to be baptized, and we ended up losing contact with them. Then Junior found us on the street and invited us to visit their house. We brought them to church and afterwards we invited them to be baptized. Luciana said that she'd be baptized only ...

These last couple of weeks we had the baptisms of Cássio and Ana Cláudia! Ana Cláudia has been being taught for a long time but had a small thing keeping her from being baptized. Then one Sunday she sent us a message basically saying "I want to follow God and NOTHING will stop me from being baptized this week." Cássio is an awesome guy. He is a jin jitsu fighter that had been going to church just a few years ago but had stopped going. Then he decided that this is what he wants in his life. He came back to church and when we asked him if he'd like to be baptized he told us "this is what I was planning when I came back".  We also had a transfer and so Elder Lees is my new companion. He's super excited to be here and it's going to be a blast working together!!