Tudo Bmm 🇧🇷

Happy Monday and sorry for missing last week. Let's see if we can do a quick review. This last Monday, we were able to visit the Prado in Madrid. It is an incredible art museum with paintings from many different ages in time. I hadn't been to an art museum before and was impressed by the different representations of different historical events including those of the life of Christ. I was reminded of the scripture in Jacob 1 that reminds us to view the death of Christ:

"8 Wherefore, we would to God that we could persuade that all men would believe in Christ, and view his death, and suffer his cross and bear the shame of the world"

Even when uncomfortable, viewing the love of Christ through His sacrifice grants us greater understanding of such act. 

Last week on Saturday the other Elders in our ward had the baptism of Jhon, a friend from India. We enjoyed the service as members tried to accommodate speaking english.

Galilea is a friend of ours who has been progressing a lot lately. Just this last week we extended an invitation to be baptized on the 26 of July and she accepted! We met her in the street about a month ago and have been slowly progressing to this point.

This last Friday our friend had their baptism interview of our friend. She bravely shared that she had been dealing with an addiction to tobacco and that she needed help overcoming it before her baptism. We had a wonderful conversation about how we help her overcome this and be prepared for baptism! She is from Brazil and has a wonderful spirit about her. Even though she struggles with a lot, she is an incredible example of being joyful and faithfully enduring. By coincidence 2 Brazilian families just moved into the branch in the last week. They have been a great blessings and a good connection for this friend.

Happy 4th of July! 

Elder Dougall