I think every family should be sealed because we should be
together forever.
A family is not a family if someone is missing.
I felt a void every Sunday.
Something was missing from our pew.
With Olavo, you notice the way he speaks and interacts with
his family, and that is the way he shows the light that's
inside him.
It's difficult when something unexpected happens, like when
his mother got sick.
I began to feel pain, and when they ran some tests, they
found a tumor.
I asked, "Why me?
If I am a part of the Church, doing everything right--why
me?"
Due to her health problems, she became angry.
After I got sick, I thought God had left me, but it was
really I who was leaving Him.
His mother became less active, but he stayed firm with the
rest of his family.
They kept going every Sunday, and he had the desire to bring
his mother back.
I became very sad because I thought, "My family is going
inactive little by little." I started to pray a lot, asking
the Lord that she would come back to church.
One day my son was going to speak in church, and I said,
"Oh, I'm not going to go.
I'm not well."
I said, "Mom, you can't go inactive.
You have to raise us there because it's the right place.
It won't make any difference if you say, 'You have to do
this, you have to read your scriptures,' and you're not
being an example for us."
And that day, I got ready and I went.
I began to feel the Spirit; it was so powerful.
I am very happy because although she was inactive, my
family and I were able to bring her back to church.
And there's nothing better than a
family reunited at church.
My testimony is that the Lord lives and that
one day He will return.
And I also believe that Jesus wants all
families to be united.