#groupopeners

Baptisms of Rafaela's two younger brothers.......And our "group" as we opened in Sao Lourenço. 

What is up everyone!! 

Wow what a great week for us here in Sao Lourenço. We sure did see the miracles! Yesterday we had the first sacrament meeting in the history of Sao Lourenço! WOO WHOO! It was so awesome! We rented out a little garage looking thing that’s not super nice but the other place didn’t work out but it was still super awesome!! President Dalton came as well to participate in the first meeting which was super awesome! The best part of it all was that we had more than 50 people there! 55 to be exact! Nobody was expecting there to be that many people on the first meeting but there was! 10 minutes before the first meeting, the branch president was super worried because there were only like 5 people there. He started giving us the "oh it’s because its the first time” speech, trying to help us not get our hopes up, but then everyone showed up! We were super excited for sure! We had a lot of less actives there and a few investigators and everyone was way excited! President Dalton is already working on getting permission to make us a branch! So we will see how long it takes! But that was the best part of the week for sure! One of the inactives who was there said the opening prayer in sacrament meeting which was awesome! She and her 3 kids were all there which was super awesome! They made lunch for us last week as well! Things are looking up!

Rafaela and Ricardo were both there as well! We had to do more work with them to get their birth certificates updated but thankfully, we were able to get it done and NOW we can mark the wedding! They are both so great! This weekend we also baptized her two younger brothers who are 10! They are super funny! Pyerri and Pietro. They live with her and the grandma and were both baptized yesterday! 

This week we get to go to the temple! I’m for sure excited for that! I love going to the temple! It is for sure the best place in the world! That’s about all I’ve got for you this week! Sorry it’s a short one but hopefully it was a good one! 

Love you all hope you all have a great week! The church is true!

Elder Holmes