Courtney and Sister Estella on the left
Hey Guys!
Yes once again that
subject is a real life quote from the mission field. I had the funniest/most
stereotypical mission experience this week as we went to contact a reference
from a member. We knocked on the door, and instead of answering, they just
yelled from the other side: ´´Who is it?!´´ And I said ´´The missionaries!´´ ´´The
who??´´ ´´The Mormons!´´ ´´There’s no one home right now´´ .... To which I
responded ´´That’s strange, then who am I talking to?´´ haha. Sometimes you
just gotta make the best of the funny reactions people have to you.
This week was
wonderful! Well not super easy but our work finally paid off with the baptism
of our friend Wendel!! woohooo! It was so great to see him so happy. He is
already doing lots of missionary work, bringing all his friends to church! Now
we´re preparing for the baptism of one of his friends, Marcos, this Saturday if
everything goes as planned. Wendel will be a great elder someday! He told his
friend on Sunday after he got the Holy Ghost ´´Man, I really felt something
special, there’s something different about me now. And you’re gonna feel it
too!´´ He’s a great kid.
Our work is really
starting to go well now. We have a good teaching group. I was wondering how it
had change so quickly and realized that all of our investigators have a friend that’s
a member! THAT is the secret to missionary work people. We are teaching really
great, actually interested people who know a little somethin somethin about the
church because the people that LIVE here actually know the people that are
ready!! Missionary work shouldn’t have to be knocking on doors or chasing
people down on the street that try to avoid talking to you!!
And we had
interviews with Presidente Gomes this week, which I was super nervous for but
turns out Presidente actually likes me and trusts me! Who knew? He told Sister
Estella I’m a great missionary with a special light that guides the other
missionaries #makinmomproud
One night we were
planning at the end of the day and then we hear someone clapping at the door (like
knocking on the door), and it was our ZLs... Turns out they were just hungry
and had stopped to beg for food because they knew we´d have some haha. But hey
missionaries gotta stick together!
My address here is
Av. Dom Joao Sexto 122 A, Bairro Capiata, Arapiraca Alagoas so dad can look me
up on google maps.
I just love being a
missionary. I don’t think there is anything else more worthwhile that you could
do with your life at this age than to learn how to painfully and slowly and
sometimes grudgingly mold your life to be more Christlike. And then you turn
around in the end and understand why the Lord wanted you to go through a trial,
because you turned out better in the end! There’s a great video on the church
website called ´´I’ll go where you want me to go´´ with a family who all does
service throughout their day, if you get a chance to watch it, it is wonderful!
All the families here love it. Well that’s all for now folks, I love you so
much! Have a great week!
Sister Walker
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