Centeiro e Sara

We were on the airplane from Praia to Sao Filipe about 6 weeks ago.  During the 40 minute flight, I noticed a young father two seats in front of us and across the isle.  He was so kind with his young daughter.  I could see that he was sitting next to a woman who also had a baby and their countenances were calm and bright.  

I watched them as the bags were coming in from the plane.  We went over to the young man and began to talk to him about his wonderful family.  He told us that their new baby was just two weeks old.  We asked him if he had ever heard about A Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Ultimos Dias?  It is a church with a message very important for Families, we said.  He smiled, "We are taking lessons from the missionaries right now". 

The elders invited us to visit Centeiro and Sara in their home a week later.  Sara had a glow about her as she listened to her husband talk about the gospel.  She knows how important the gospel is. What a special experience for us!

We talked about the importance of marriage and family...about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and about the Priesthood keys on the earth again that has the power to seal families together forever.  You can imagine our joy last Friday when we went to the city building to witness the marriage of this couple.  Many of the people in the branch decorated and made cakes for such a wonderful rare thing:  A Marriage!

Centeiro chose to be baptized on Saturday.  Again, their smiles lit up the room.