Oi família!
Well, I´m no longer in Fortaleza. Like I said last week I´ve been transfered to
Caucaia and I´m with Élder Borges. Élder
Borges is from São Paulo and he´s awesome.
He works hard, he´s dedicated, and he´s a convert to the church. The missionaries taught and baptized him 3
years ago. He stayed strong in the
church for a year and then headed out on the mission. It´s awesome working with him because he
understands how the investigators feel.
All of my other companions were born and raised in the church. Bad thing? No. Personally, I feel super blessed that i had
the oportunity to be born in the new and eternal covenant. But, Élder Borges brings a new perspective to
my teaching because he understands what it´s like to be an investigator. It´s going
really well. I´m super excited to work
with him for this next little while.
But the big news of the week was a super cool experience we
had yesterday. We headed over to the
church early to make some phone calls to some investigators to see who would
come to church. We got there and Élder
Borges said, "Let´s call Maia."
Maia is a woman that Élder Borges contacted a few weeks ago. So, he called and invited her to church. she said "Alright" and sure enough,
she showed up about 30 minutes later! We
had a good first hour and then came time for Sunday School. Maia came out of Relief Society and said
"Well, I really liked the first lesson.
But I´ve been a believer in the faith for 6 years now, do I really have
to attend Gospel Principles? I think I´m a little beyond that." Élder Borges said, "Oh this will be a
lesson that you´ve never heard before."
LSS, the teacher didn´t show up.
So who gave the lesson? That´s right,
me. As i was sitting before the class I
was thinking, "Restoration or Christmas?" and the Spirit came to me and told me I would
have to pick one and just have faith that it would work out. So, I chose the Restoration. It was awesome. Everyone really liked the lesson but what was
better was how guided I felt. The whole
lesson I felt like I wasn´t even the one teaching, but that the Spirit was
using me as a tool to teach what the Lord wanted them to hear. My favorite part was when I recounted the
First Vision. It was as if the world
stopped for a few moments. No sound came
from the outside, The only thing that was sounding was my voice as I said
"I saw a pilar of light, exactly over my head, above the brightness of the
sun...." Without fail every time I
have recounted Joseph Smith´s marvelous vision of God and our Savior the Spirit
confirms to me that it is true. All the missionaries bore testimony about the
truthfulness of the message and we left everyone with the invitation to pray
about the message during sacrament meeting and everyone accepted. As we were leaving we tried to set an
appointment to speak with maia again and she said "well let´s see,
tuesday, thursday, saturday, sunday, oh, sunday i´ll be here again" and as
we climbed the stairs to the chapel "Élder, what´s the name of the prophet
agian?' It was awesome. I love seeing how every single day miracles happen
on the mission if we´re willing to let them.
I know that our Savior, Jesus Christ, lives. I know that he was born, lived, died, and
lived again for us. This is His
church. I am His representative. I am so grateful for the opportunity that we
have to remember Him during this wonderful Christmas season. Remember Him this
season, and why this season is so special after all.
Amo vocês! Até
quinta-feira!
Élder Evans
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