Elder Clay Giles

Opaaaaaa! Bom Dia! What a week! This week has gone by really quick and so has the transfer!  For the most exciting news, I was blessed to baptize Alexandre! He's really awesome, he has some pretty big family issues, (that's why he reached out to us through comeuntoChrist.org) but he found so much joy and comfort in the Gospel! The reason I haven't talked much about him is because we originally stopped teaching him, but he texted us a couple days after, saying that he realized he hadn't been to church and he realized that the lessons we had really helped, so he came to church without having us to go to pick him up! That was last week, so we've been teaching him all this week. This Sunday he'll receive the Holy Ghost and will be confirmed a member! Also, sorry for not sending an email this past 2 weeks, I've been really busy! (And very tired😂) but to let you know, the Portuguese is way better! I can truly testify of the Gift of Tongues, this past week I'v...

Opa! Como vocês está?   This week went by pretty quickly!  The Highlight of this week and the reason for the title was what happened on Wednesday! So we've been trying to get Célio and Gilmara married for a little while now, well we got all of their documents together and went to the government agency on Wednesday! It was going great until the lady that was helping us came back and showed us went wrong. On Célio's birth certificate (his full name is Josicélio) his name is spelled with 2 S's (Jossicélio). Turns out that his dad didn't like his name having 2 s's so célio has been told all his life his name had 1 s.🤦 All of his documents have one s except his birth certificate. Well, we then spent 3 hours running around to different government agencies, only to be told that the first place was the only place that could fix everything...🫠🫠 We later talked with members that work at similar agencies and they have a way of getting everything fixed within a week, the oth...