Hello Family
friends!
Well this week was rather interesting. We
passed the whole week trying to avoid the Carnival parades that have been
passing this whole week and this coming week. Because of the parties that have
been taking place it's been really hard to find people at home. Almost everyone
travels to others cities or goes to visit family. But it gave us an opportunity
to meet new people. 
This week I really saw a lot of growth in my son Elder
Martins he is getting really comfortable talking to people and responding to the
problems that they have. He said that at the beginning of his mission he always
got sad when people rejected us or didn't take us seriously but now he just
feels sad, and wants to do even more to try and help them. He's doing really
good.
This week we
found a lot of people who accepted baptism but need to get married, BUT! They
have a desire to be married... It's interesting. They know that it's wrong but
just don't correct their mistakes. But we will help them out :) I love
weddings! haha sometimes I feel like a wedding counselor, haha.
One of our golden investigators had a doubt
this week and I found it really interesting what her doubt was. We have been
working with Sara for quite some time now and she has been loving everything
that we have been teaching her and she feels that everything is true and agrees
with it. But this week we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ and she had a
doubt. She believes that when a person is baptized they automatically receive
the Holy Ghost. And she has never seen the laying on of hands to receive the Holy
Ghost. We showed her some scriptures and she was stunned. She lived her whole
life believing something and then we show up and tell her that it's wrong...
She was really taken back. It was a great opportunity to bear testimony about
the fullness of the Gospel that was restored through Joseph Smith! She
said that she always felt that there was something missing inside her that she
needed. And it was the Gift of the Holy Ghost! I love this gospel it is SO true
and Full!
ELDER RALPH
