Another real
question I received this week from the lovely and internationally aware, area
of interior Sergipe, Brasil.
Hey guys!
This week was kinda
crazy trying to get people ready for baptisms, trying to get them to understand
you don’t have to understand the whole Book of Mormon or go to church for
months to be qualified for baptism. Our efforts are not as effective this week
as others. Helenha and Elisiane say they don’t feel prepared enough to make the
covenant of baptism. We try and tell them ´´hey buster, all you need to be
baptized is 1. Have a desire and 2. Be living the commandments´´ and they
literally have both those things! We´ll see how it goes this week.
We had a really
great family night in the house of a family in the branch, Irma Kelly and Irmao
Joison, who are like my adoptive family here. I always tell Irma Kelly how much
she reminds me of mom because they are literally so similar, always taking care
of everyone and wanting to give you hugs and everything. Also their family has
5 kids, boys on the ends and 3 girls in the middle, so they’re basically the
Walkers in Brasil. But we took the familia of Felipe over there and we watched
the dvd of the restoration with them and played charades and had popcorn. I seriously love that dvd,
could someone maybe send the disc to me in a letter or something?? And meet the
Mormons!! Anyways, since we don’t have branch activities, we have to make our
own, so its usually family nights with members to integrate investigators. It
was so great to see that just after an hour that this whole family of
investigators was so comfortable and happy and ready to go to church. Except
the dad... but that’s another story. At church at least he dropped the mom and
her daughter Bruna off. He’s a tougher nut to crack.
We also had a big
broadcast for all the missionaries in the whole world this week! It was sweet
to watch. It was a big training session, but it was held in Utah and had
general authorities speaking, or giving tips on how to better our work, how to
teach repentance to get baptisms. It’s funny because when they were all
speaking, all of the missionaries are so focused, so intrigued by the pure
inspiration coming from their mouths, and then when we look back at our notes, everyone
was like ´´hey wait a sec, this is literally all in preach my gospel...´´ and
just cuhs a general authority said it, like Elder Bednar, it made it real haha.
It’s interesting to study about repentance on the mission. I never really
stopped to think about it, I always just thought repentance was confessing your
sins to god and then it’s all good (more or less). But repentance actually just
means a change of heart, and sincerely changing your actions to be in harmony with
the gospel. Yes its having a conversation with Heavenly Father, but its more
just stopping doing what’s wrong and start doing what’s right. How lucky are we
that we have a loving father in heaven who will forgive us the exact moment we
decide to change our ways and do what’s right!
This week I got
called a mermaid by a sad drunk woman in one of our lessons. But apparently a
mermaid isn’t exactly a compliment here... she got nervous that I was trying to
enchant her with my blue eyes and started to sing/chant a strange melody which I
readily joined in on. I keep the life in this trio. Word.
Well that’s all for
now folks, I’ll talk to you in February! Love you guys!!
Sister Walker
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