Sister Kassidy Walstad: HAPPY EASTER:)

First things first - Easter here is bigger than Christmas so it was a good time! I hope you were all able to feel the happy feeling of Easter, and remember how great our Savior is. He is literally everything. Brazil is such a cool place because so many people know that. We saw a cool show about Christ’s life this week called "Paixão de Cristo" (Passion of Christ) to celebrate Easter, and it was honestly amazing... I am so grateful for Him. This week was really, really good!!!!

This week we had Gabriel's baptism, which was so great! Looking back from the beginning, we can see God's hand every step of the way. From the beginning it was just an every day contact, knocking doors, talking to everyone and hoping someone would accept the message that we have. We met his brother, Maicon, who was so excited because he had just been feeling a new urge to find a church to join, and he accepted our invitation to come back another day. If we hadn't talked to that young man sitting outside of his house on his phone, there wouldn’t have been a start of this miracle.

Later we got to know these brothers better and found out about some legal difficulties they had with their mom, and also with smoking. But not a week later Maicon, the older brother, gained rights to be the "legal guardian" of his brother, Gabriel. This miracle made it so Maicon could sign his baptismal document (second miracle). We then challenged them to stop smoking and a few days later found out that Gabriel had completely stopped, and started going into his bedroom with his Book of Mormon while his friends were continuing to do the wrong things. He distanced himself from them.

Gabriel was marking the scriptures we left with him, writing down thoughts, and basically teaching his older brother when he wasn't able to be with us during the lessons. God put the timing of this contact and baptism into motion, and I don't doubt that for a second. Gabriel is now being prepared to receive the priesthood and his brother will be baptized here in a few weeks as well... hopefully by Gabriel. God is so good, guys... He is just simply so good to us.

That's basically it this week. I am so grateful to be a missionary, we got transfers and I am staying here for one more transfer, and a cute Brazilian is gonna come be my new comp:) I am super excited to keep working here!! Please keep praying for us<3 I thank you all for your love and support.

Blue popsicle: A member giving us the coolest Easter eggs I have ever seen.

"Love note": God is just so good I can't even think of only one... He is everything and I hope we never forget that.