Today I've been waiting to hear from my brother who is on a mission in Maceio, Brazil. Last week he said that he might have a surprise for me, so I was excited. I open up his email to see this:
"So, shall we start with the suprise for Andrea? Just look at thepictures and you´ll see you surprise. and no it´s not the hamick. It´s the Family that we baptized and taught how they can be together forever. So let me explain to those who don´t know about what my sister did for me. About a month and a half ago I received an email from Andrea saying that she was praying for me to find and baptize afamily. This of course pumped me up and we got to work searching for our family. Yesterday I was able to baptize that family that Andrea and I and others in the ward have been praying for. They´re awesome! Surprise Andrea and thanks for the prayers. They were answered. Their names are Emanoel, Aline, João Vitor, and Vitor. Vitor is a boy from a different family and we will baptize Emanoel´s other son this coming week during a General Conference break. I know this church is true and that prayers are answered. I am so happy to be an intrument in the hands of God to bring the world His turth. Families can be together forever."
What a great surprise! I'm so proud of my little brother and all the hard work he puts into finding people to teach. It really is one of the greatest blessings I have on this earth: to know that families can and will be together again after death if we choose to make and keep covenants in the temple. I think it is one of the greatest blessing we can give to other people! Way to go Elder Whitaker!!
That's an awesome surprise. Way to go Andrea and Elder Whitaker!
ReplyDeleteyay yay yay! sigh... I love mission miracles! Way to be a part of it :)
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