Nov 26, 2018
I am going to find out later today at my foot appointment what will happen!! So I hope that they can resolve some things!! And Tell Grandpa and Grandma that I love them and to not worry about it!! Oh and our investigators are wanting to learn more!! We still are having a hard time with arthur and vitorias permission... so we are praying super hard that the lord will soften their moms heart!! But besides that things are good!!! It is raining a lot here hahaha.
This week was really interesting but it just seemed kind of slow with the work! But I was able to help out another elder that is in contagem and we had such a spiritual lessons with their investigator! I went on divisions on wednesday with Elder Almeida and we taught their investigator Paula. She is super cool and she is catholic!! We taught her about the importance of going to church and we read Moroni 6 with her. But aparently the spirit had a different idea because what she told us had nothing to do with what we wanted to get done. But it helped us discover why she hadnt gone to church. She told us that she doesnt beleive in Gods love..... and that she doesnt beleive that God is just with everyone of us. It was such a spiritual moment because the spirit touched her heart and she decided to tell us. I told her about the time when I had felt the same way and how I had felt that God didnt care about me, and then I testified to her with all of my heart that I found a way and that God loves me and loves her more than anything in the whole world. God will always be with her and love her every step of the way. We challenged her to read the Book of Mormon and to do everything she could to find out why God loves her. It was such a cool lesson. Then we were able to teach Samara, Nilda, and Tatiane about tithing and fasting! They all accepted to live those commandments and they came to church yesterday to see the Primary Program. Obviously one of my favorite days when we can see how God loves the little children! It was a cool week and we are trying to teach the other people we have found but it was slow with them too! Arthur and Vitoria are doing good and we gave him a shirt and tie! This week will be his Birthday so that should be exciting!! But I love God so much and I know that he loves us. He wants us to have everything good in this life and the next, all we need to do is live to keep the commandments!!!
But I love you so much!! I missed you all a lot on thanksgiving but it was fun preaching the gospel and helping other people feel gods love!! I hope you all had a great day and I hope you have a great week!!
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I am doing good and today I will find out more about my toes!!! I am glad to hear that you are doing well and that everything is ok!! I think the spirit is amazing and helps us to teach others and direct our own lives!! This week we were able to teach Samara Nilda and Tatiane about Tithing and fasting!! They accepted to keep those commandments and they came to church!! It seems like they are getting closer and closer to baptism and they are reading the Book of Mormon! Nilda is reading it on her phone so that is helping her! Sadly kenia is not reading and she is out of the house a lot. so it is harder to teach her. Arthur and Vitoria are doing good and are trying to show their mom that they are ready, but their mom is still a little hard hearted... We have been praying so much and we hope that the lord softens her heart! Vitoria is planning on moving to Portugal next year so we hope that they can get baptized soon and before she leaves so the church their can find her!!! But other than that the other investigators we have just ran from us. Raimundo doesnt want to accept our invitations to Pray to God about what we have taughten, he says he beleives that God could have inspired him but he mainly believes in another prophet that is a false prophet.... But who knows if one day the Lord will soften his heart as well! On a division that I told mom about the spirit really helped us discover an investigtors problem with going to church and she told us how she doesnt believe in Gods love.... So we told her that God really does love her and she can discover that through the Book of Mormon. But we are working super hard to help these people and we are praying that the Lord testifies to them that Baptism is the right thing to do!! I love the lord and I know for sure that this is his church and that Jospeh was a prophet of god. He really gave his life to the gospel and I want to do the same thing!!! I love you so much and Have a great week.
Nov. 19, 2018
Happy thanksgiving!!!! I love you so much and i think some of the best things in my life that i am most grateful for is definitely my family, my friends, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. How through the atonement we can all be saved and forgiven of our sins! I love thanksgiving and I am going to celebrate it on my own this week!! But we actually got new news and sadly i only have one hour to use the computer now... So it will be kind of tight hahaha
So this week was super cool!! We actually were able to teach Samara and her family two times and we were able to teach Arthur and Vitoria!! The lessons that we had with them were super spiritual and we were abl to teach some of Gods commandments this week!! We taught them about The word of wisdom and about the law of chasity. Wow were those two spiritual lessons and Samara and her mom Nilda accepted to live them both! Pray for Tatiane and Kenia because they are having a hard time right now and are a little depressed. So we are hoping to help them with that!! Arthur and Vitoria went to church in another city today but they said that they loved it and that they love church so much!! It was cool to see how our investigators are progressing and learning more! This week we are hoping to help Samara to be the first one baptized. Because she is the one who is closest and the others need to resolve some things before they can get baptized. We are hoping that the spirit testifies to all of them that Baptism is the right thing to do!!
We also found some great new people to teach!! Claudia, Tatiana, and her sister. I forgot her name right now but they are some great peolpe and have a lot of potential!! Also to our surprise, Raimundo and his wife came to church so it was definitely a spiritual experience!! I like what President shared with us on Friday. He said that we should raise our hearts and rejoice, for the time of our mission has come!!! I love the mission and I know that the lord will bless these people so much and i hope that they can use their agency to choose what is right! We also learned a lot about obedience and how exact obedience really does bring blessings!! I love the lord and I love his church!!!!
Yes that paragraph did make sense haha but i am going to print it off just to help me through out the month when the packages come! But thanks so much, you really didnt have to do that! I love you so much for helping me and others on my mission! I am so excited to serve others this week! And for this christmas season! We were able to clean the front of the church before sacrament meeting yesterday because it was super dirty and it was so awesome!! I absolutely loved the experience chris had. Fasting really provides miracles and I love those two for doing what god wants them to do!!!! I love the gospel and I love you! Share my love with the family and Have a great week!! LOVE YOU!! Oh and i can only respond one more time after you respond and dont worry too much about the music, if you can find it and put it on a drive i will be happy either way!!
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