June 11, 2018

Hahaha i was thinking about the family reunion yesterday when all of our appointments fell through.... I hate it when that happens. !

. But i am doing a lot better and i am learning a lot about patience and faith! But this week was  awesome! I loved the theme you chose for the family reunion and it is so true! I love Elder França too, i agree completely, he has an innocence about him that is amazing and his desire to follow the lord makes me so happy, especially because he is all alone in his family and his world, but the lord is always with him and so am i even though we are a lot different! 

This week was cool because we started to teach Renan. He is so awesome and wants to learn more about the church! We taught him the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation already and he is reading the book of mormon. He came to church yesterday and loved it too! Even though we dont have a ton of people to teach, I am grateful that we have him. We are going to teach him tonight too! But he told us that he is liking the book of mormon and church so that is good! I was able to give him a blessing and dedicate his home because his aunt is a member and had asked us too! It was such a spiritual experience and it was cool to see how he has real interest in the true church of Jesus Christ. Please pray for Gian, Leslie, Jaine, Guillerme, Amanda, and Aldeir! Gian is doing good but we didnt get to talk to him this week which was super sad. And the others we didnt get to talk to that much too, but this week will be better and we are going to try our best to help them! Amanda is so close too she just needs to be taught by us some more and feel for herself. She is married to a member of the Church and yesterday we fasted for all of our Investigators. It was cool to be able to fast with Elder França and he is always so excited!!! I think the one thing i have learned so far with him is that patience is everything. We are a lot different and so that makes sense to have patience, but not just patience with him, but with the world and with the work. If we do our part the lord will do his part! I love the work and i know that it is true. It is super hard because there is a lot of rejection, but you can see the small and simple things that make the difference every day, just like my good old Friend Elder Mansfield said in his email! This week we have our zone conference and splits with the zone leaders and so i am worried about not being able to work that much in my area but i know that the lord will provide! This last week we also had splits with the assistents and it was  awesome! Elder Geddes and I had fun! He is on the far left! I love you all so much and i know that through our faith, ALL IS POSSIBLE!