is it sad i cant remember how to
spell raisen in english? #portugueseprobs
But as you can tell from the title,
this week was all about visions, more or less like Raven Baxter.
Seriously it was like almost everyone we met this week considered themselves a
prophet, because they receive visions and revelations from god, or they talk to
spirits who have already passed on, or they see dead people, it was the weirdest
thing. just picture Teresa Caputo on Long Island Medium x4 . and then it is not
exactly the right time to teach them about Joseph Smith and the first vision...
so we got kinda stuck sometimes but we always somehow come out strong.
This week was so hurried, i
feel like as a missionary trio we´re casting our net really wide right now to
be able to find people that live close to the church and that are genuinely
prepared and interested. and now we gotta slim down our pickings a little.
this week was sad because we went to teach Ronaldo again to see what we could
do for him and he hid himself in his house... let me explain. everyones
doors are open here if they’re home, so you can see the people inside. we see
him walk past and then go to his room and he wont answer us as we´re calling
his name... his roommate told us he ´´left´´ too so that was awkward.
that happened to us a couple of times this week, we could literally see our investigator
inside their house but they were hiding from us!! i felt a deep guilt for that
one time the elders came to our old house and we all ducked down and pretended
not to be home... karma big time.
it also got up to
107 degrees here this week, and for the first time i wanted to die because it
was so hot. and that 107 degrees is not a dry heat my friend.
but besides all the craziness, i
realized how much i just love the people here. theyre so different in that
theyre so open and loving and generous. for example, i have friends all over
the city now because i had a conversation with them one time and now we´re
friends, or i slipped in some mud on the street and a woman sitting on her
porch invited me in to clean it off and then we taught her the #1 lesson,
or a guy we´d met a week before bought us all cheeseburgers (with fried
egg and everything here) one night when we were all starving and poor. why cant
everyone everywhere be braziian?!!
this week for thanksgiving i drew
a turkey for sister davis on a sticky note and put it on her desk. and
that was about it haha. but im trying to make things fun at least a little bit
for christmas. this week one day i made it a requirement for everyone to make 2
snowflakes out of paper before we left for the day. I’m working on a paper
fireplace too. its gonna be legit.
but this week we also had the
coolest experience ever. we´re teaching Daniel who’s a 21 yr old chem
student. hes really nice and is really eager to find out if the church is
true. for about 2 weeks he said he’d been praying and nothing was happening ,
he wasnt getting an answer about the church. i started to get a little
nervous. but then he asked why christ and god would appear to only people
in America, to Joseph Smith. i felt prompted to have him read 3 nefi 11
where christ visits the americas. i marked it for him and then the next day
called to remind him about church. he said that he read the chapter and that he
believed!!! he said he read it and now he knew that the church is true, that Joseph
Smith was a prophet and the book of mormon is true and wants to be
baptized as soon as possible!!! ahhh i cant even describe how happy i felt when
he told me that, it was a happiness that I’ve never felt, like i was just
floating on air and so so full of joy. all of our efforts and time and
dedication was worth it because he finally understood why we were so earnest
that he found out what we already knew!!
Ahhh, it was perfect.
we also got to help a lot of people
that were needing help in that moment, because we were directed by the spirit.
one day I felt like we should go to a certain road that i used to go to a lot
but all of our investigators there fell through, so i didnt know why. but we
went and we found a less active girl who went to church all during young womens
but married and her husband didnt like the church so she left it. and she was
just crying saying that she felt she needed to go back and she loved the church
so much and knows its all true. I'm grateful for the spirit that helps us know
where the people are that need help!
im so happy to be a
missionary!! really truly. its dang hard thats true, but im honored to get to
serve the people here. i love you guys lots!!
até mais,
sister
walker
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