Farewell Carminha

This week was truly one to remember so I’m going to give y’all an email really detailed and good just like mom asked me to do. So on Tuesday, I did some splits with the zone leaders here in the beautiful city of Floriano.

I saw an iguana while doing my splits with Elder Manchego (Peru) and while we were teaching lessons, this Peruano just roasted everybody in sight. He just loves burning all the people to a pulp with his knowledge of the scriptures and desire to baptize people in the quickest amount of time or not at all. Because of this and her not keeping all of the commitments she made with us, Naiana (daughter of Carminha) lost the desire to be baptized and go to church. On Friday, I was having no success and I had the feeling to go to a recent convert ́s house to see how they are. We went inside and the wife said that we were sent by God. She then explained that they had planned to go traveling to sell some things in some nearby towns, but their car kept breaking down. They needed to leave and make some money or they won't have anything to eat or pay the bills. I shared Alma 37:16-17 and said that everything would be fine. I then had the feeling that I should go see the car. I looked at the oil and water levels and saw that they were low so I filled them up to make everything all set. We all said a prayer and the car started up just fine. They were super grateful that they wanted to go teach with us with the new found spirit we were all feeling. We went to Carminha ́s house thinking that we could help her daughters feel the spirit of our testimonies, but her dad said that she was at the hospital and that she'll be back tomorrow. We did end up going to the recent converts sisters house and taught her. We all felt the spirit amazingly strong and they began to cry. They kept saying that they feel unworthy to be in our presence and that they just want to improve in Christ. It was an amazing experience. The next morning, I received a phone call from Presidente Nascimento saying that Carminha (50) DIED early that morning! What?!! I still couldn't even believe what happened - even while I was at her funeral. What a miracle that she was baptized and followed Christ when she did instead of waiting another week to "think about things". On Sunday I went to her final resting place to pay my respects and leave flowers. RIP Carminha!