Our p-days are a little boring here. We kind of just clean and prepare for the week, but I guess that´s why we have p-day, the day of preparation. Since we have started really focusing on preparing on p-day I have seen a change in the whole house. First off, the house is a whole lot cleaner and secondly we just feel better during the entire week. This p-day we were planning to climb up the serra, but that plan fell thought due to a new law in Brasil. Now every foreigner living in Brasil has to have a Brasilian I.D. I am now a proud owner of a Brasilian I.D. Their I.D.s are actually just paper that they tell you to cut out and laminate.
We also had a family home evening that went really well. The family that was hosting even invited some of their non member family and we were able to teach them the first lesson. We are now working with one of his nephews.
We work, but our work isn´t super effective on our own. When we work with the members we can be super affective. People are just so much more receptive to friends and family then to us. So, having a member with us gets the foot in the door. Also, it is by the mouth of two or three witnesses that every word shall be established... but three is better. we have actually been able to work rather well with the ward here and it is through them that we havee found many of our best investigators.
One of our best investigators is João Paulo. He has come to church three times already. You wouldn´t ever guess where we met him, at church. His ex-girfriend brought him (he is still friends of the family) and the family is accompanying him. We have taught every lesson to him so far in a members house and he is reading the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. Take it away and what is left. The Book of Mormon is the concrete evidence that God called Joseph Smith to be a prophet, because it is only to one called to be a prophet that God would reveal scripture. And, if Joseph Smith was a prophet he had the authority to call twelve apostles and reorganize the church like other prophets before him. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was called to reorganize the church of Jesus Christ on the earth. I know that he had the athourity to do that and that the authority is held today by a living prophet, Thomas S. Monson. Anyone who has the desire to know the same simply needs to read the Book of Mormon and pray to God with faith asking if it is true. Whoever does this will recive a response and the blessings that follow will be uncountable.
Elder Quain
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