Hi everyone!
Sorry my time will
be short today because we have a million things to type up and send to our ZLs
and Presidente Gomes but here are the updates in São Miguel.
We are teaching a
nice woman named Eleneice, a neighbor of a member here. Well we were teaching
her and her husband, and then one day we stopped by and she told us her husband
had picked up and left with another woman... after being married (LEGALLY
married people-that is a big feat) 33 years he left. So now we are trying to
help her see that sometimes the Lord takes things out of our lives that don’t
help us grow spiritually, even when we like those things.
Here they are
starting back up a one time a week activity at the ward. It’s sad to me when
very few people show up and the leaders have worked to plan it all out and have
it all ready. I had the haunting words of dads voice come into my head when I
would complain that I didn’t want to go to mutual every week: ´´we support our
leaders and our activities´´. I didn’t ever know what that meant-but now I do! When
we go to the things they plan you’re showing you actually support and
appreciate their efforts.
One funny moment
this week was that a lady from the church department in Sao Paulo called our
phone to talk to the American sister I live with. This woman doesn’t speak Portuguese
and was asking some questions in English to me-what I didn’t realize is that I
was responding in Portuguese and she wasn’t understanding... at one point she
said ´´Ok I’ll call back later when someone is there who speaks English´´ and I
said ´´oh okay. Oh wait I speak English!!´´ Keepin it classy over here with my
Americanized Portuguese.
But anyways things
are going really good here! I get along good with Sister Monteiro, it’s funny,
we´re the tall companions with straight hair and the girls we live with are
both short with curly hair. But I really love this area. I feel such a drive to
work every day even if my body doesn’t feel the same way- I don’t have patience
or time anymore to sit around doing nothing because I feel like I have the
personal responsibility to help all these people know the truth! Just think
about how unique and powerful our message is! There are people waiting for it
even if they don’t know it yet! We are part of the true and restored church of
Jesus Christ, with a prophet, 12 apostles and the priesthood here on earth. How
special is that message!
amo muito vocês se cuidam!! (Love you so much. Take care of yourselves)
Sister Walker
ps the pics are of
a great hammock at a members house and my new district-the elders are super
stoked they can use hats and sunglasses now.
BIG NEWS:
MOST WONDERFUL NEWS IN THE WORLD: SISTER
BARBOSA EMAILED ME, WHICH IS GREAT NEWS BUT SHE TOLD ME (idk why it was in caps I
was just really excited) she got a message on FB from a young man. We´d taught
him and his mom and dad and sister all the way back in Estancia before we were
transferred. He told her that his mom and sister had been baptized, and that he
had got to baptize his dad!!!! He thanked us a lot for our work, and said ´´I
will never forget when you knocked on my door and asked if our neighbors were
home (we were looking for the ward members that live in front of them) because
of that, today I know about the true gospel of Jesus Christ. I will never
forget Sister Barbosa and Sister Walker´´. Such a precious moment for me-THAT
is why I’m here. That’s why we serve missions. So that after all of the tiring
and hard moments you go through you get to plant the seed so that a family one
day will start on their journey back to our Father in Heaven. Wow! I can’t even
believe that happened.
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