Dear Family and Friends,
This week was a pretty uneventful week for me and my companion, although because of its uneventulness we were able to think of things that we were doing that we could improve to find new people to teach. It is amazing the things which God would have us learn.
It was been a strange lesson for us. We have not had too much success having people prepare themselves for baptism like we had in the past. Because of this we had some serious reflections about what we need to do to improve our standings.
We did however mark some baptismal dates this week of a few really good people. For instance we are teaching this man named Geraldo. He is a great guy and one of the very few Gaúchos who is educated to a good degree. He has been studying a lot about other religions and two in particular until we come along. The first is Hinduism or ari krishnaism, and the other is Spiritism which is a religion that is really popular here in Cruz Alta which is the religion that Alan Kardec made. I had never heard about it until I came to Brazil. Go figure. Find a religion from the States in another country. This religion believes in reincarnation by way of the Atonement of Christ, and not the resurrection which is somewhat strange because even the Bible in almost every version that I have read in any language says resurrection. Geraldo has decide to be baptized in our church because of the things which he felt during our lessons. It was a good feeling that I had when I invited him for baptism.
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
This week was a pretty uneventful week for me and my companion, although because of its uneventulness we were able to think of things that we were doing that we could improve to find new people to teach. It is amazing the things which God would have us learn.
It was been a strange lesson for us. We have not had too much success having people prepare themselves for baptism like we had in the past. Because of this we had some serious reflections about what we need to do to improve our standings.
We did however mark some baptismal dates this week of a few really good people. For instance we are teaching this man named Geraldo. He is a great guy and one of the very few Gaúchos who is educated to a good degree. He has been studying a lot about other religions and two in particular until we come along. The first is Hinduism or ari krishnaism, and the other is Spiritism which is a religion that is really popular here in Cruz Alta which is the religion that Alan Kardec made. I had never heard about it until I came to Brazil. Go figure. Find a religion from the States in another country. This religion believes in reincarnation by way of the Atonement of Christ, and not the resurrection which is somewhat strange because even the Bible in almost every version that I have read in any language says resurrection. Geraldo has decide to be baptized in our church because of the things which he felt during our lessons. It was a good feeling that I had when I invited him for baptism.
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
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