Hey!
Let me just start off by saying I got
to spend almost the whole week at home taking care of Sister Barbosa because
she got waaay sick, so there is not a whole lot to update you guys on... lol. Now
she’s getting better but I had to keep myself busy making soup, cleaning up
throw up, taking temperatures, flagging down a member to take us to the
hospital, and while she was sleeping I had to do everything from paint my nails
to start reading the bible cover to cover. It got real difficult this week
lemme tell you.
But this week will be fun because
right now in June and July there is a huge festival called São João going on in
all of Brasil. I’m not sure what they’re celebrating but its bigger than Christmas-everyone
wears plaid and eats a lot of stuff with corn. Fried corn, steamed corn,
cornbread, corn cake, corn pudding, everything under the sun with corn in it. And
we´ll get to go to the branch party here on Friday night-more corn stories to
come next week!
I was always thinking a lot about how
my personality is different here, but I’m not sure if it’s a Brasil thing, a
missionary thing, or just a personal defect of mine, but I feel such an urgency
to speak of gospel things, to tell everyone how it is. Even if no one else sees
how important these things are right now, at least I do and I can help! But I
find myself saying things I would never have said in my past life like ´´you
have to get married, you’re living in sin not being married´´ or ´´you need to
have your son be baptized before Christ comes back´´ and ´´you need to be sealed
in the temple or you won’t make it to the Celestial Kingdom´´. When I remind
the members kindly about keeping the Sabbath day holy I constrain myself to
keep from using Exodus 31:4 but it is oh so tempting... I think that the Lord
is blessing me by taking away my American tendencies to keep quiet and worry
about offending everyone every second- we are in the last days in preparation
for the second coming of Christ people-wake up!! Ok that was my missionary
moment for now. Just know that one day all these people that don’t know about
the gospel will say ´´you knew all along what would happen and what we had to
do-why didn’t you tell me?´´ food for thought!
Love you guys so
much! Talk to you next week!
Sister Walker
In
other news, bean prices here have skyrocketed and everyone is having a panic
attack. That’s pretty much it…
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