Oi família!
No one worry, I´m healthy again. Whatever it was that I had last week has
passed now and I´m healthy once again.
After sleeping almost all of Monday (literally, I slept almost 16 hours)
I´m back to full and complete activity. Being sick on the mission isn´t super
fun, but I made it through. I´ll make an effort to not get more sick during my
mission.
So, things have been a little hard lately. We´re short of good people in our teaching
pool. We find any number of people who
have already heard the message or have no desire, so we were really hurting for
new people to teach that want to hear more about the Restoration of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. So, we´ve been doing a
lot of walking. Mostly trying to contact
less-actives. We have an old list of
members of the ward here and we´re trying to contact as many of them as we can
and bring some people back into the fold.
Things have been difficult, but we´re managing to find some less-active
members who have some desire to come back.
Que bom.
But in the midst of all this walking was something super
cool that happened this week. We met a
guy named Victor. I had already passed
by him in the street before but hadn´t every made contact with him. One day as we passed by him to do another
visit he called us over and said "I want to learn more about your
church. You´re the Mormons
right?" We responded that we were
and he began to tell us a few things about what he had heard. We marked a return appointment and gave him a
Restoration pamphlet. We headed back the next day and it was AWESOME!!! He had already read the pamphlet and had
understood really well. He explained
"So, the prophets receive the priesthood and guide God´s children here on
earth, right?" Seriously, he used
the word priesthood. I haven´t heard
that from an investigator in ages. After
we indicated that this was correct he said "and Joseph Smith received the
priesthood right? So, he´s a
prophet." It was amazing. The lesson went super smooth and he
understood and accepted everything. My
favorite part was the end when he said, "You know, I smoke and drink
coffee. I think I´ll stop with that. I
don´t know if I want to be baptized yet too, but I´ll begin thinking about that
too." We hadn´t said anything about
these things yet. This is when the
Spirit is teaching, not the missionaries.
Long story short, Victor is progressing really well. He´s having some oposition from his family,
but we´re working to overcome that. He´s
super solid. It was super awesome to me
to see that after a lot of walking, the Lord rewarded our work. This is the Lord´s work. This doesn´t mean success and baptisms 100%
of the time. It was never easy for Jesus
Christ, it certainly won´t be easy for us.
But His mission was 100% worthwhile, so mine will be too if I´m willing
to give it my all.
Amo todos de vocês.
Grande abraço, fiquem firmes.
So, there was a couples dinner Saturday night and they
didn´t take the thing down until after church on Sunday, so we took pictures.
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