This week we were able to work super hard but because of the World Cup, our numbers came out short in the end. We talked with so many people and they all said they would come to church but only Renan came this week. It was super hard. But I know that the lord is going to bless us as we work hard and dedicate our lives to him.
I just want to say something that was a miracle that happened to me yesterday. We were walking on a street and there was a family and their car was broken down. It was night and the dad was outside the car while the mom and girls were in the car. We walked past them but I had the impression to go back. I asked them if they needed any help. He told me I don’t know what is going on with the car. I need to get home but I can’t. His friend was also there. The father’s name was Dennis. As we were talking I felt in my heart and heard in my mind that we needed to say a prayer. I know that it was the Spirit talking. I asked him if we could say a prayer and he said yes let’s say a prayer. He asked me to say it. I started to pray. I asked my Heavenly Father to please bless this car that it works right now so that they can get home safely with his family and that it works immediately. Then this is the best part by far, Dennis closed the hood and said now I know it will work. I know it will. Dennis got in the car and I turned to Elder Franca and asked if he had faith and he said yes, I said I had faith also. I know that this car will work. In that moment, he started the car and it worked. I have no doubt in my mind that it was the power of faith and power of God that caused that car to work, because it was not working. But I know in my heart, because the Spirit told us to return, we were able to be God’s instruments. Dennis was so happy. He got out of his car and asked us for our names and who we were, and what we were doing. We told him we were missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ and we go to people’s homes to teach them about Jesus Christ. We had a message for him, we asked if we could leave this message with him another day and he accepted saying for sure. I want to hear this message. I knew that we needed to return because he needs to hear that message. And the only way we could get him to listen to the message was through our faith and his. It was such a great example of faith. I told my companion, never have I seen a great example of faith between all the people of Nacional. We actually passed the reference to the Sisters because they are in their area. I know that through faith we can do all things, and the Lord allowed us to see this miracle yesterday. If we have faith we can know all things and know that this is the true gospel.
But it was an absolute miracle and i know that the lord provides miracles in our lives when we are faithful to him! Pray for our investigators because a lot of them appear like they are running from us but we wont give up! Renan is doing good and has received all of the lessons, he only needs to feel like he should be baptized now. Amanda we didnt get to talk to this week but this next week we will see! We met some awesome people this week too! Rodney is a guy who is the same age as me and he is awesome! We are helping him a lot because he is mixed up in the world of drugs. Aparecida is an older woman who is awesome and has already received the missionaries once before! She is super nice and we want to teach her too! Sandra didnt come to church yesterday so we are going to focus on that this week ha! Jaine and Guillerme we didnt even see this week.... its been hard to talk to them and we thought they were going to come to church with Maurilo our less active we are teaching and they didnt so that was sad. But we are going to work super hard to help them feel the love of god that you can only find in his church. I love the gospel so much and i want these people to see the importance of the gospel in their lives. All they need to do is listen and the spirit with tell them. I know that this gospel is true and the this gospel is what matters. I talked with Elder Lujan for a long time about conversion and how it is important to have a testimony for yourself firstly because so many return missionaries fall away from the truth and we cant do that!!! Especially because when you know and feel Christs love, you will never go back to those wordly things., Love you all so much!!
My companion is doing great hahaha i love him so much. He is so funny and so strong and so it has been awesome these past couple of weeks. I am aways looking to be more humble and so he helps me. I loved the ring you sent and i did see the engraving. It is so awesome and reminds me of Lord of the Rings. Our new mission president comes next friday!! And so that is when President Fernandes with leave the mission. Sad. Love you all!
