Hi everybody!
Wow I feel like I
was just here telling you what I did and that I didn’t actually do anything
note worthy this week but here goes nothing. This week was really cool, the
other sisters had a baptism of a guy who’s wife was less active but they helped
her come back to church and now he’s baptized too! It was really a miracle, his
story, because I remember when I came here on splits a few months ago and his
wife was talking about him, how it was impossible to baptize him, that he hated
the missionaries, wouldn’t even look at them when he got home. But slowly and
surely the gospel went touching his heart. He finally gave in and decided to
pray and find out if it was actually true and felt the spirit! Everyone in this
ward got to see a real life miracle this week, it was great. Speaking of recent
converts, have you had the new families over for dinner yet? Who remembers all
of their names? Give yourselves a big flick in the head if you don’t. This is
crucial timing for them now!! Right when they’re baptized the adversary works
super hard to pull them out of their little gospel bubble and back to their
comfort zone. They need FRIENDS people. Please help the sisters out!!
Anyways we met some
really cool families this week, that surprisingly all are part of the same
religion but go to different churches. Turns out they are all some sort of
leaders in their churches, like almost pastors but not that high up yet. It’s
like an extremely Christian church, idk how to explain it. But it’s hard to
find time to teach them because they go to church 2 times a week, and the other
family is working all week for the church. So it was a little intimidating to
teach someone who actually has read the bible cover to cover and knows a whole
lot more about Ezekiel than I do.
But what was really
cool is that as we were teaching one of the families, we taught the
restoration. And we taught that after Christ, the 12 apostles all died, there wasn’t
anyone left on the earth with the authority of god. That no one had the power
to baptize or have a real valid church. And that is right in the moment that
usually people freak out because we basically say that their church doesn’t
have real authority, but this woman we were teaching named Socorro said ´´wow
your right! Wow I never thought about that before, you’re really right! And
where did that authority go? And who got it back?´´ And I was so relieved!! I
was SO happy because we teach that a million times a week and basically no one
understands that literally NO ONE on the earth had the priesthood until Joseph
Smith, and she understood it!! It is amazing when you find someone who you thought
would never accept it, but they just need to be given the chance to find out
for themselves! It was such a wonderful feeling.
The other family
was a little less focused and at the end they were super excited to say the
prayer, but little did we know, they asked us to stand up, and when Sister Monteiro
started saying the prayer, each of them began to say their own prayer really
loud and with various ´´amens´´ and ´´hallelujahs´´ and ´´god blesses”.... I
had to hold it together to keep from laughing during the 3 prayers happening at
the same time. But they will learn.
Anyways I’m going
to go take a nap now so see you guys soon!! I love my family very very much. You
are the most important people to me after the savior!! boa semana!
Sister Walker
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