Oi família!
Well, Élder Feliz is feliz this week. It wasn´t exactly one of those weeks where
you have huge numbers to report to the mission office, but it was a rewarding
week. For the first time in my life I
talked to a Jew! Okay, I met one jew
once in Salt Lake, but beyond that I had never met one before. We had Leadership Council on Thursday and
afterwards my companion and I went to Burger King for lunch. Not my number one choice, but afterwards I
saw why it was inspired. We walked in
and I saw this guy wearing a yamika (?) and I thought "Wow, I always wanted
to talk with a Jew before" and as we were waiting for our food he called
me over and started talking with me. He
told me how a Mormon had saved his life and how he was eternally grateful to
him for that. Then he told us what a
good influence this membr of the church had had on him and that according to
all of the research he had done, the Book of Mormon has to be true. He said
"It's simply too perfect.
Everything fits." It was a
super inspiring discussion that I´m super simplifying, but it was awesome.
But the experience of the week was with Sheisla again. We taught her this week about baptism and the
need for proper preisthood authority and she spent the week praying and seeking
an answer if she should be baptized. We
arrived one day and she began explaining to us what she had been receiving as
answers. Generally, she prays, asks for
an answer, and then opens the Bible. She
said that one day she had been praying and she began to cry. She had the most amazing feeling as if she
was been hugged super tight by our Father in Heaven and that he had aliviated
all of her suffering and sadness. Of
course that was an answer to her prayer, but how could I explain that? As soon as I had this thought a scripture
came to mind, Matthew 11:28-30. We read
it together. "Come unto me all ye
that labor and are heavy leaden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I
am meek and lowley in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is
light" and she agreed that that was exactly how she felt. It was soooo awesome to feel so guided. We explained that when we are baptized we
take upon us the name of Jesus Christ using Mosiah 18:10 and explained that she
could feel the same aliviation and relief she had felt by being baptzied. She said she would pray one more time and
ask, but that she was feeling that she should.
It was an amazing lesson. The
next day, she said she would be baptzied!
So, we´re preping her this week and praying that this week will work
out! It´s been an amazing journey.
I love being a missionary.
I know this is the Lord´s work.
He´s watching over us.
Até o próximo
Élder Evans
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