Olá Nacho!
(´´how did you find
me? ´´we saw you from the road´´)
Wow another week
already come and gone! Its funny how this week our numbers for goals and stuff
were really good but im sad cuhs i dont feel like we did enough because our investigators
arent progressing as much as i want, but last week our numbers were sad but
i felt like we helped a lot. oh well. Its all good! All these things shall be
for our experience. I love Doctrine and Covenants. Did you guys know that? Seriously
love that book. oh and the book of mormon. and the new testament. pretty much
all scripture and we only have an hour each day to study which is defs not
enough time but oh well. its funny how i want to study the deep doctrine and
increase my knowledge about that but i know i need to be studying in portuguese
so instead i think the lord is trying to remind me about gaining a solid testimony
of the basics of the gospel first. (because it takes like 3 hours to read one chapter
in the BOM in portuguese so thats why). speaking of knowledge, its funny how
the people here are on such a different level here in spiritual knowledge. we cant
talk about foreordination because we´re just working on reverence and the kids not
throwing cheeseballs during sacrament mtg. (which they did not share) theres
one guy in the branch named irmao nelson whos been a member a while and hes
been to the temple so hes pretty much revered as the o wise one here. but i was
thinking, this guy has nothing on sister kersh, patriarch hall, uncle kim and
tim, people who have a really deep understanding of the gospel. but its okay!
because all they need right now is to know god loves them and they need to be baptized.
im grateful the gospel is line upon line and precept upon precept.
oh so the conference
was this wknd! holy cow it was good. we had 210 people literally packed like
sardines in that tiny little building. prez gomes and sister gomes were there
and they spoke but somehow i got ousted to the hallway to be the ringleader of
the rugrats during sacrament mtg so i didnt really hear anything that was said
but im sure it was good and uplifting. but they did come bearing gifts because
i got a PACKAGE filled with CANDY AND TREATS from the best people ever the
WHEELERS! ahhh i was so pumped. it said it got sent the 28th of august so
theres a time gauge for you mom. but ethan and riley and ashton (and sis
wheeler) wrote me the best notes and drew me pictures and im working on writing
them back! letters take about a month to get there so be a little patient.
but this week was cool
literally because it rained 3 or 4 days so i was in heaven because
rain=clouds=less sun blazing down on you. but the down side you smell like a
sad soggy dog the rest of the day. you win some you lose some.
this week i gained
some major street cred while we were doing service for some people outside
their house. i took a short break to play soccer with some little kids in the
street and just pulled out some christiano renaldo stuff on em. jk. but for real
they were impressed because apparently girls dont really play soccer here, its
only the boys... some kid took a video of me on his phone so look for that
video when it goes viral on youtube.
im still amazed at how
receptive the people are here. almost everyone loves to have us come visit them
and talk with them. the problem then is that they just want us as friends and
dont really want to read the scriptures or get baptized and i just wanna
throttle (momism) them sometimes and say ´´im trying to change your life here
and youre making it really difficult!!´´ but we´re trying really hard to get
the people to keep their commitments. theres one guy named irmao genaldo we’re
trying to teach who is an exact replica of the teacher from the incredibles
that dash puts a tack on his chair (julia you know who im talking about). and
he always says he wont be home for us to teach him and then is always sitting
on his front porch... haha awkward. and one day he was talking to us and told
us he belongs to a secret Mason group of people here and i was so stoked cuhs
we were like in National Treasure or something and he was all worried ´´i cant
tell you guys very much...´´ haha it was crazy!
anyways we taught a
lot this week about prayer. and i kept remembering how when i was little one
night mom came into me and julias room and i was on the bunkbed and she taught
us that we need to pray every night by ourselves and thank heavenly father for
all he helped us with that day. because ever since then thats what ive tried to
do every night before i go to sleep. and now im teaching that to the families
here! its crazy how many people dont know you can have a real and normal
conversation with god, instead of reciting a prayer. i know god hears and
answers our prayers! Hes helped me so much since i got here. but hes waiting
for us to show a little bit of faith and humility by asking for help first. and
that is my spiritual thought for the week. pray with real intent if you have a
question or need help! i promise you’ll receive it. i love you guys so much!
talk to you soon,
sister
walker
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