Sister Kassidy Walstad: Hello, another email from Kass here:)

So this week I transferred over to Rio Claro and I immediately saw so many miracles from God. He is just so good to us over here. The house is kind of interesting to say the least, but we spend more time on the street than at home, and I love my area so it's all good.

Getting into a new area, time usually passes slowly… so.... this week took about 10 years to pass, but here we are again! I honestly don't have a ton to say but I do have a cool story:) I highly recommend ACTUALLY reading it.

So I got to Rio Claro and we were finishing up the baptismal preparation of an investigator. He had his interview, and everything was ready and perfect. So we called him Saturday morning to confirm the time and Gabriel (the investigator) said he didn't want to be baptized anymore. Long story short - he cancelled his baptism! My companion had no idea what was going on at this point until I said, "So you want to cancel your baptism today?" and she was like "WHAT?" We almost gave up just to respect his decision. BUUUUT the spirit told me to invite him to pray to know for sure if he was making the right decision. So I hung up the phone and my companion and I said a prayer, while he said he would also say a prayer on his own. A few minutes after saying “amen” the phone rang and it was Gabriel. He said (and I quote) "só alegria... eu sei que o pai quer que eu seja batizado" which means, more or less, "pure joy, I know that the Father wants me to be baptized," and a few hours later he was baptized! It was a huge miracle. The power of prayer is so real.

That's basically the sum of my week. We are also receiving many families from Venezuela, and I am going to be learning Spanish in this area for sure. I need to... that'll be fun:)