Konnichiwa!
Mina genki desu ka? How's everyone doing back home? Thank you for the e-mails, I'm happy to see everyone is doing good, and that the Lord is blessing you so much.
This week was incredible. We had miracles pretty much everyday, and even Nakanishi-san came back to progressing status. We're pretty much done with this transfer now, and it just flew by: i don't even know what happened. I think my body is starting to feel the long days and non-stop work. I was talking to Elder Bishoff (one of the APs) and it went something like this:
"does your body hurt?"
"-well, yeah." "are you tired all the time?"
"-...yeah..." "how are your letters?"
"-well, I don't really get any..."
"well, it sounds like it's time for you to go senior."
Well, yeah, that's what's happening. I'll let you know what actually happens - if by some miracle, Heavenly Father sees fit that a 5 transfer missionary go senior over a 8 transfer missionary, I would be pretty happy. But, I don't think that Heavenly Father quite works like that.... ganbaru shika nai... (literally meaning: nothing more to do than work hard).
I worked with the other Brazilian elder on Tuesday and it was pretty good. Something happened that night that helps me testify to you that Angels still do minister to the children of men. It was a special spiritual experience and I won't go into details here, to preserve its sacreness. It was, however, incredible, and our good friend Fabio was able to have a spiritual experience he will never forget.
We met with him again on Thursday, for an incredible lesson. He will get baptized soon - he needs the Gospel and the changing power of the Atonement. He knows it's true, and he's excited to feel it and learn it. That same night we were able to have another miracle as Wakisaka-san called us to meet. It was really sudden, but it was God guiding him and us that night. We had an incredible lesson. He wants to learn more, and he posed the same questions as Joseph Smith; he's golden! He said that his wife might be a problem seeing she's a different religion, but we asked him to pray about it. He's great. And all that because we gave him our card and number as we were waiting at the train tracks. Amazing!!
Then yesterday we went with Nakanishi-san to my beloved Hatsukaichi (my first area). They had a baptism there, and it was incredible. He's almost kind a less active - seeing he attended Church for 3 years and read the BofM 3 times. He's doing great and progressing now, and he is just working on getting a confirmation. He'll be baptized in no time after that.
My beloved family members and friends, I testify to you that God lives. That He guides this Church. That Jesus is the Christ; the Redeemer and Savior of this world. He is the head of this Church, guiding it through living Prophets and Apostles. What a blessing it is to have the specific guidance we need for our days. I hope we may all continue to study the words of modern and ancient prophets, and that through living the true gospel of Jesus Christ, we may gain a greater understanding of the Atonement. In the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.
With much love,
Elder Victor M. S. Mourao
Japan Hiroshima Mission