Baptism=Courage

sorry mom but i still dont have an address..

 so you choked huh? haha never gonna eat alone again o stop mom everyone eats alone.

   hey so the big story this week is that we had this 14 year old young man that has been attending church but was afraid to  get baptized. me and elder denna were trying to get this young man out of his house a long time, for about a week but he knew the minute that he leaves with us were going to invite him  into  the baptismal font. reason that he didn’t want to be baptized is because he had an abusive uncle that was beating him for just going to church and so he was really scared to think what he’d do to him if he got baptized in the church.  Anyways the uncle hit the mom which is the young man’s grandma. So the grandma kicked him out of the house. yay the uncle doesn’t live there anymore! but the young man was super scared to get baptized because the uncle still passes by there and he said if he gets baptized and the uncle finds out then he’ll start drama with everyone there. Also the young man’s mom struggles, she suffers from depression because her first husband, the young man’s dad, got shot and died a long time ago. She married again, and the second husband was murdered in the street also so she is sad from all that and super depressed. Anyways we asked permission from the branch pres. and pres. Tavares if when we get the opportunity can we just baptize this young man at any moment with just us? We explained the situation and they allowed us to. so on Thursday elder Denna and I decided wed baptize him Friday,  then on the way to his house we was like, this uncle is crazy, why would we let the devil have one more day to work on him and ruin this baptism, lets baptize him today. We invited him to go to the church to play basketball with us. on the way there i called my home boys, other elders, and we all shot some hoops de boa with him and then we were like hey let’s do an interview right now to see if God thinks you’re ready to be baptized. He agreed, and when he got out of the interview and with all the missionaries there we were like, hey what about just getting baptized right now! That’s a great idea, he  was baptized 10 minutes after! i love my life! on the way home from his baptism we asked him, what will you do when you’re uncle finds out you got baptized, he said, and this touches my heart every time, " take care of your own life!" baptism changes lives!!! Baptism gives courage to people to be true disciples of Jesus Christ! Baptisms is what Jesus wants that’s why He changed the ages for missionaries, He wants Baptisms now! Who am i to deny Jesus?

    _Elder Bennett

 

thanks dad, im doing awesome, we baptized again and already have 1 for this sunday, we are being very blessed!

  dont have much time sorry cause were gonna go to londrina for the leaders conference thing, it steals my pday traveling but its an awesome conference! love you dad thanks for the support!

           - Elder Bennett