He has Risen

Well what a wonderful weekend we had! General Conference was absolutely wonderful!!!! I loved how much they talked about the importance of our families and marriage in the temple :) We had some of our investigators watch some of the sessions with us and it was really cool to explain everything to them and help them understand it all. They all seemed to really like it :) 

Well transfers were today and Sister De Paula got transferred. She is going to Palmas again! In the exact same ward as we were in, haha. But she will be in the part of the ward that I was in but she will work on my side of the area. So a little different but she will be with my companion from the CTM Sister Mercer!!! I am super excited for her!!! But my new companion is Sister Costancio!!! Who I lived with as well up in Palmas :) So I’m super happy to be working with her now!

We had our baptism this past Sunday of Dhiully and it was super cute! She was super excited! We had a bunch of people show up to support her! 

Well that’s about it. This week we just continued teaching and finding new people. This next transfer we've got to work on strengthening our relief society and continue to grow!

I hope you all had the chance to think about our Savior a little bit this weekend and all that he does for us.  It truly is comforting to me to know that he lives. He is Risen. Because of him, sooo many things are possible. I hope you all take the time to watch the new video of our Savior on the church website. If you haven’t, watch it. But I love you all and hope you are all doing well :)

Keep on reading the scriptures!!! 

Love,

Sister Steadman

My District

General Conference Fever

Well this week was pretty good! We are continuing to grow and progress here in Cristalina :)

This past Saturday was the baptism of Pedro, :) He seriously is the best!!! This past week we finished teaching him everything and it was so easy with him. He didn’t have any problems and he understood everything really well!! He was definitely prepared by the Lord and we found him in the perfect moment :) So he was baptized and Saturday and he was super excited! Even before he became a member he was out making visits with our other recent converts and participated in the family teachers this week. He was basically already a member, :) But I’ve loved being here in Cristalina! Pedro and our other recent convert, Gilton, have progressed so quickly and so well! They are helping our group so much and are going to make great leaders one day!! I love this church!!!!

Next, we have another investigator, Maciele who was in church the last Sunday. So we went to visit her this week and her daughter Dhiully (Julie), who is 10, came up to us and said she wanted to be baptized!!! We were like of course! So we visited her quite a bit this week to get her ready and she seriously is like the smartest little girl I have ever met! She understood everything so well and was reading the book of Mormon! And Maciele is all for her getting baptized! And Maciele one day will be baptized as well :) but we were so happy!!!! So Dhiully will be baptized this Saturday :)

And now, General Conference!!!! We are super excited!! I can’t wait to hear what our prophet has to say to us :) We are trying to invite as many people as we can and really get everyone excited about it :) Saturday we will be watching the sessions here in Cristalina in a members home but on Sunday, the church rented a bus for us so we will be traveling to watch conference in the church! Our recent converts are so excited! It will be so good for them :)

Well that’s about it for this week :) next week is transfers so we will see what happens :) But I hope you are all preparing for conference! Remember to pray and read the scriptures everyday :) Have a fabulous week! Love you all :)

Sister Steadman

McKell & Sister de Paula