Short Blog because of storm

Ok...freaking storm. I had been writing for a good 15 min when the power just went out. Oh poo. It's got to be short now.

BYU = Bye bye to the BCS.

This week my companion and I killed ourselves working trying to fill up our investigator list again. We worked way hard and found another 17 new investigators and marked another 5 baptism dates. It was really good. 2 of them are really firm for the end of this transfer. The other ones need to get married so will take a little bit...

We have another awesome investigator that we found named Jenaina. She is 22 and is from the "Assembly of God" which is a really popular church here in Brazil. Long story short she wasn't really wanting a whole lot but we taught her the Plan of Salvation and she LOVED it. Especially the whole 3 kingdoms of glory.

I told her that it would really make sense and God wouldn't be very just if there was only Heaven and Hell. Where's the line? There has to be a line that is drawn which 1 unrepented sin would mean the difference between eternal happiness or never-ending torment. She agreed completely and it was because of that she decided to miss her church on Sunday and come to ours.

I got really scared, as I am sure all you ex-missionaries can relate to, when I saw that the topic of the class was about temples and temple work. It's tough to explain to some people "why we baptize dead people" haha especially after 4 days of knowing that the church exists.

However, she loved it and now is wanting to do all of her genealogy work, something she has always thought was important but never had the courage to start. She is 22 and lives with a guy but isn't married and after learning about the sealing of the family in the temple she is wanting to separate herself from him because she could NEVER see herself together with him forever haha. She also has a little kid.

The baptism is going to take a long time I think but for sure it will happen...even if I am not here to see it. She said "I now see how ignorant I was; your church is way better than mine!"

Everything's fine here. It's been raining a lot which has been messing up the work a little but it's good. It's going to get REALLY hot really soon so it's OK if it stays a little chilly for a bit.

Farewell!

-Elder Parsons

Elder Bird (Logan) who played LAX at BYU last year - just arrived