Osmar: He is an African youth that is about 17 years old. He is in high school right now and is very cool. We found him using the area book. The Elders found him about two years ago, he told us that he didn't want to be baptized then so he would run away from the missionaries and avoid the topic of baptism. Now the first thing he said to us is that he wants to be baptized. We are helping him with that. He has a good friend that already goes to church that is called Olivio( he is the biggest person that I have ever seen in my life. He is like a walking wall. He plays American football). The only problem with Osmar from being baptized is that he doesn't want to follow all the commandments and that as a young man who is 17 years old, some are a little annoying. But he wants to follow god and we are helping him read and understand the Book of Mormon.
Miracles: This past week was pretty discouraging because a lot of our investigators had a lot of problems to the point where some of them just disappeared. We finished church with not having one investigator show up, it was very sad. So we started our daily planning session and we thought of all the people we knew that we could help to make a goal to be baptized. We made plans to pass by the majority of them. We said we weren't going to try to find people in potential or new investigators but that we were going to try and find 3 people that we could help make a goal to be baptized. We then went to work as hard as we could. We went so crazy as to ask a guy in the stairwell if he wanted to be baptized, and he said yes! (the most effective contact that I have done in my life). We ended the day with 2 people on date. I know that the lord has a way prepared for those who have faith. We worked with faith last night and the lord blessed us in or works that we were able to bring to pass great and mighty works.
Elder Fogg
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