Lucas and Fabiula were baptized Saturday! It was quite a crazy week. We set up interviews with Lucas and Fabiula Thursday but just Lucas was home so only he was interviewed. Then Friday the Elders returned to do Fabiula's interview but she wasn't home again. So we marked for Saturday morning. Saturday morning we called and they were at another church and said they wouldn't be baptized! I was bummed but Elder Henrique and I made mango juice, talked about what we would do, and did it. We walked over to their house, and waited for them to come home from the other church. We talked to Fabiula first and she said she would be baptized after all! Then when Lucas arrived he said he wouldn't be baptized. We talked to him and he changed his mind too! Both of them were baptized Saturday night along with another man from the other Ward that attends the same chapel. It was a cool lesson about persistence. It would have been easy to just say "nuts it won't work out" but with a little more effort, everything went well and they were baptized Saturday night.
Rafael is doing well and will be baptized this next Saturday. Our ward is doing this awesome activity this Saturday. Our Bishop is inviting an executive of a telephone company here in Brazil to give a free workshop about family finances. It is intended to just bring our community into the chapel and the next day is our ward conference. The goal is to have 150 at the conference the next morning, which would be a big jump from our usual attendence of 80. I am so pumped to listen to what this man has to say as well. I'm looking forward to it a ton.
Next week I will go to the Temple on Wednesday and that will be my p-day so don't be worried when I don't email on Monday. I will email Wed April 20. Also Elder Andersen is coming to our mission on the 30th of April. I'm so excited for that as well!
I love you. Love, Elder Calvert
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