I hope you´re all doing great!! This last week was good, although we actually didn´t have much time to work (at least compared to normal). My companion had to renew her visa, which took all day on Tuesday and Wednesday to do....but at least she can stay in the country!!

We were really blessed to have another baptism yesterday. A couple weeks ago we contacted a man in a bus stop that was waiting with a little girl. We´ve been teaching him ever since, and about 10 days ago we invited him to be baptized. So yesterday was his baptism! He is really incredible. He is from Sáo Tomé, which is an island off of Africa, but I honestly don´t know where exactly it is! I´ve discovered there are a lot of countries in Africa that I never even knew existed, but that have great people. He can´t read, which made it harder to include and hit hard the Book of Mormon with him, but he has a lot of faith, and is also willing to act on that faith! He accepted everything that we have taught him, and really has a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. It has been such a blessing to find and teach him. He also has a little girl who is sooo adorable. She has learned how to pray and sing (well, she can´t read but she makes noise!) with us...it is so awesome to see the changes in everyone in a home when they accept the gospel.

Also yesterday Vitor (who was baptized last week) was confirmed, which is always special. He already seems so different from when we found him, and is already fitting into our ward. I love that there is a power to change lives in the gospel! To see those changes makes everything worth it.

I also learned even more that God really hears and answers prayers, and when we pray for specific things, we get specific responses. In district meeting on Thursday, we were talking with our Elders about missionary work (pois!). One of them talked about specific prayers, and how we can ask for ´´rediculous´´ things in our prayers. He had known an elder in Porto who had prayed with his companion to find a ´´King Lamoni´- someone that would open the way for many more to hear the gospel. Eventually they found a radio host, who talked a lot on his program about the gospel and through whom they received many references. We also talked about the scripture Alma 29:6- that the Lord grants unto us according to our desires, whether for good or bad! So my companion and I decided to pray specifically, and we wanted to find a ´´rei Lamoni´´.

Well, yesterday we went to a big park where we like to do procura, and we´ve already had success from people there. Right when we walked in I noticed a man sitting alone on a bench. I immediately moved to go in that direction, and my companion knew exactly what I was thinking at the same time. As we approached, he got up and greeted us! (não é normal!) we didn´t know if we knew him or not (I didn´t know him!), but he said he was going to get some water. So we said chão and kept walking. About 2 minutes later my companion said, we need to go back to him now, so we went back and found him. Turns out, he went to church a lot 10 years ago (but wasn´t baptized) but then with work and other things lost contact. But he still has a Book of Mormon and reads in it regularly. He knows that the Book and the church are true, and while we were talking to him, he said that he would bring ALL his friends and everyone he knew to the church. While we were talking with him, I had to keep myself from laughing in amazement, because here was our Rei Lamoni!!!!!! We´re going to teach him tonight and invite him to be baptized...so we´ll see what happens this week!! But really, Heavenly Father is amazing. I know that he knows each of us individually, and when we pray specifically, we are opening the door to specific blessings. All we have to do is ASK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I hope that you all have a great week! Remember I love you, and pray for miracles in your life, because God grants unto us according to our desires- if we desire and ask for miracles in faith, they WILL happen!!