Oi família!
Well, I´ve got good news, and I´ve got good news. Guess who got baptized? ALUIZIO!!!!!
Practically two months and now he glady entered the waters of baptism
and covenanted with our Father in Heaven to take upon him the name of Jesus
Christ for the rest of his life. It was
absolutely amazing to see how everything came together and the Spirit that was
felt. I truly learned in a very powerful
way about the promise of the Lord in Doctrine & Covenants 18:15 that if we
sould labor all our days and bring but one soul, how great shall be our
joy. Sure, I´ve had the opportunity of
baptizing about 10 people, but still, Aluizio was something special. To be able to see a family united under the
gospel as they prepare one day to become an eternal family is something I will
never forget. I´ll try to send pictures
soon. Our initial plans for computer
usage today kind of fell through so I don´t actually have my camera with me
right now. But, I have pictures, and
they´re marvelous.
Truly the Lord has blessed us a ton this week. In general, I´m learning a lot about
positivity and being able to laugh and not take things so seriously. We had a decent week. It was one of those weeks on the mission
where you have things happen that you´ll never forget and when things happen
that you can´t wait to forget. We had a
number of appointments fall through and a number of plans drop as well. But I´ve learned well to take council from
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin in a talk he gave a number of years ago called
"Come What May and Love It".
In this particular talk Elder Wirthlin gives suggestions for the things
we can do to face adversity and difficulties in life while still remaining
happy and upbeat. He gives four
suggestions in particular:
1) Learn to Laugh
2) Seek for the Eternal
3) The Principle of Compensation
4) Trust in the Father and the Son
Although this week has had it´s ups and downs, I really focused
on the firt suggestion this week, Learn to Laugh. I´m pretty sure that in the course of my
doing this, Elder Tribino thinks I´m crazy, but it´s been amazing at the
results. I don´t come home at the end of
the day mad thinking "Ah what a waste of a day" instead my thoughts
have become "Well, we did everything we could." Sure, our days aren´t perfect but I´m truly
learning the power of positivity.
Missionary work sure isn´t easy (shocker) but Trev once wrote me and
finished the e-mail with "Be happy because Jesus would´ve been" and
that´s the truth. When we´re truly
engaged in the cause of the Lord, with certainty we will face challenges, but
just smile and laugh. Things work out in
the end.
Até mais! Eu vos amo!
Elder Evans
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