It was. Really. I also figured out that my comp and I are actually not companions… we´re sisters. We joke like sisters, we bug each other like sisters, we get annoyed with each other like sisters, and we argue like sisters… it´s great. I actually love her so much, and now we´re being separated because transfers happened and I’m going to the big city São Paulo and I’ve never served in the actual city part and I’m kinda scared. I don´t know how to say the name of the area, but my zone is Alphaville/ Barueri. I also don´t know my companion but her name is sister de Paula and I think she´s newer. But idk.

 I’m nervous and really sad to be leaving Eden. This area has truly become my family. Converts that have become my brothers, members that are actually my aunts and uncles and mothers and friends and this really hurts. But I know the Lord has more things for me to learn, and so I gotta just trust in Him. 

But this week was a miracle. I forgot to write last week that we found this golden family. a mom, a 16 year old boy, a 13 year old boy, and a 7 year old boy. We worked with them all week, and they were baptized yesterday!!! I don´t think I’ve ever felt so happy in my life when I saw all of them come up out of the water. Wow. They had been studying for a realllllly long time with another religion, and we showed up and invited them to church. The 16 year old, João, read and prayed the first day and hehad his firm answer that he would follow and be baptized. The mom, Rosie, and the 13 year old, Mateus, had a few more doubts, but we helped them understand better, and they loved going to church. Rosie has passed through a lot of crap, and is still passing. But she is amazing and really understood why the church is different. She loved that there are programs for her kids and her, to help them grow and strengthen them. She also told us how she thought it was so cool how we have a little bit of everything. Every church she´s been to, she a saw a little bit of each all in ours. And I almost cried when she said that because that´s what I’ve been trying to tell people for the past whole year. And it was the most beautiful baptism.

But also, what we didn´t know, was that yesterday the whole city of Eden would be having a water shortage. When we got to church, our ward mission leader (who usually fills up the font for us) hadn´t filled it, and told us that it won´t work because there´s no water. And then we were like oh heck to the no and I remembered the story of when Jesus multiplied the bread and fish to feed the multitude and I thought, well, miracles still happen right, and if Christ can multiply bread and fish, he can for sure multiply water. And so me and my comp went to the font, said a prayer invoking the powers of heaven, and turned the knob. We went to participate in church and we went to check on it a couple times, and it filled perfectly, and also super quick. It was literally a miracle. And then we had 3 baptisms Linda’s maravilhosas. 

But I know that we have a heavenly Father who loves us and helps us more than we even notice. I know that this gospel is true, and that Christ leads this church. 

Love you all! Boa semana!!! 

Sister Evans