Hey guys!
This week the work
got rollin... rollin... rollin in the river... anyone else feeling jazzy today?
I’m starting to feel a strain on my English so sorry when my letters start to
not make sense.
This week I got to
read the letter mom sent with me when I left entitled ´´when your investigator
drops you´´ haha sad but fundamental moment in your mission. We were teaching Rafael,
a 17 yr old theology wannabe who I thought really had a desire to change his
life. Turns out he doesn’t believe in god. That complicated things. But we are determined
to meet the people waiting for us in this area!
To honor Valentines
Day back home in the states, I made heart shaped pancakes for everyone (which
is surprisingly harder than previously imagined). I also told people at church
it was ´´love day´´ so they started going up to everyone and saying I love you
and hugging them haha. That is what it’s all about people!!
This week we had an
interesting lesson with a grown woman with a bird on her head. I am not joking.
She went the entire lesson, a grown woman, sitting on the concrete floor with a
small green parrot nestling in her hair. I wish I could have taken a picture
without being sups obvious but to no avail. Brazilians sure do whatever the
heck they want haha.
I’ve also had a
funny cough stuffy nose for a few weeks, and I have learned that it is
basically the worst thing you could ever do in Brasil is go into a members
house and cough in front of the woman in the ward, because everyone and their
dog has a medicine that ´cures it all´. One day I came home with my bag full of
weird leaves from various plants, roots and pills to take. Let’s just say I
like to stick to the natural route from now on.
This week I’ve been
thinking a lot about humility, and how it’s the starting base for all of our
other decisions and our character. How if we´re humble, we understand and
recognize our limits, how we are so weak and fragile as mortals and need as
much help from the lord as possible. With this, we become teachable and we
listen to guidance and direction. At home sometimes I thought that having faith
meant just following blindly. But I’m learning a lot about how having real
faith means you trust enough in the lord to know he knows better than us, he
has a better plan for us, and we just need to take the first step because after
that he will lead and guide our path!
Also special
shoutout to P-DADDY for his bday today woohooo! I’ll be eating good tonight!!
Rice and beans-ask me if I’m surprised.... but happy birthday dad! I love dad
because he’s nice and inclusive to everyone around him, knows lots about the
scriptures and teaches us the importance of them.
I love you all. Hope
this week is great!!
Sister Walker
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