Jay Family Missionaries

I think today was the all-time low in e-mails recieved, but I know that you are all busy preparing for Jesh's wedding and Thanksgiving and everything. This week we baptized a young-man named Vitor. He already has friends that are members and he goes to seminary everyday. We are also teaching his mom and his two younger siblings, they were almost baptized yesterday, but need a little more preperation.

Yesterday during sacrament meeting I was sitting next to a 28-year-old investigator named Paulo, I gave him a tie so we went to church with a white shirt and tie for the first time. During one of the hymns he asked if there was going to be a baptism, I told him there would. Then, he looked at me and said, "I'm going to be baptized too. Do you already have a baptism marked next week?"Before we started teaching him he was involved with drugs and alcohol. We met him a little more than two months ago when we started teaching his mom and uncle and they have been going to church every week. Ever since we started teaching him he has stopped using everything and he and his uncle haven´t been drinking. The only problem is that he has still been smoking a couple of cigarettes, but he won't smoke anymore. Last night we talked with him, his mom, and his uncle and he told us that he is feeling really good. That before he felt sad all the time and now he is happy, and whenever he is tempted to do something wrong he reads the Book of Mormon and the temptation passes. It is really gratifying to see people's lives change and know that you were an instrument in God's hands to bring about that change.

One of our recent-converts, Eliézio, is the seceretary of the Elders Quorom and will teach his first class next Sunday. He has already read the True to the Faith, Gospel Principles, and is finishing 2nd Nephi in the Book of Mormon. His wife still isn't baptized, but she is getting closer. They are a really good couple and always give us food whenever we visit them. I wouldn't be suprised if Eliézio is the bishop of a new ward here in a couple years.

see ya in 6 months,

Elder Tom Jay

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