Oi família!
Well, my last 25 is going well. We´re trying to give it a 100% sprint the
last transfer. The heat is always fun,
but we´re working hard. We´d hit
something of a brick wall this week because we contact everyone possible and
everyone says the same thing, "Oh, if I have time I´ll go by",
"I don´t want to promise and then not fulfill" and things like that,
and we were super frustrated. Then we
were at lunch on Saturday and the sister of the ward who we were eating with
said, "you know, the only missionaries who I saw who passed by here asked
me who they should pass by who was less-active with family members that weren´t
members. They went there, reactivated a
bunch and baptized a bunch too."
Élder Helvey and I got super excited and we said, "So who do you think
we should visit?" and she said,
"Well, go here, here, here, and here" and we went that
afternoon. It was really awesome because
the less-actives we all like, "Wow!
I haven´t seen the missionaries in forever! How´s it going?!?" And all of the ones we visited said they
would come to church yesterday. One
family came and they young man brought his girlfriend too! It was awesome. The Lord has given us a new direction in our
work and we´re super excited to see what happens.
But we also had a really cool experience with finding this
week. Friday we had planned to do
contacts from 2 until 3 as close to the church in our area as possible. Now, contacting people during these hours is
already extremely hard because there are few people in the street because of
the heat, but we had no one that we could have taught at that hour, so we went
for it. As we were getting ready to head out we learned that our lunch had been
delayed for an hour. So our plans
changed from doing contacts from 2 to 3, to doing contacts from noon until
1. So, doing contacts from 2 to 3 is
hard. I thought that doing contacts from
noon until 1 would be impossible. After
noon until 2 here in Ceará is difficult because everything closes for
lunch. Houses, buisnesses, schools,
everything. But earlier that day we had prayed that that day we would be able
to find an elect family in that area.
So, we headed out and began working.
About noon we were waiting under a tree looking for where to go that had
people and we saw a mo walk by with here two kids. We quickly walked up and said, "Hey,
we´re missionaries!" And we began
talking with them. So we met Irmã Rosangela,
and two of her children, Zeus (seriously, how cool!), and Antonio Marcos. We asked if we could come back later and talk
with her family and she said that we could.
We returned later that day and met her daughter, Mayra, and we had a
great lesson as we discussed the Resoration.
The kids were so engaged in what we were teaching. They said, "Yeah, let´s go to church
mom! We want to find the true church!"
It was really cool. Then, they
came to church yesterday! It was
awesome! The Primary presidency said,
"The children of Irmã Roseangela were awesome! We want them back next week!" It was really cool to see how the Lord
answered our specific prayer. I´m a
little sad that when we headed out that I didn´t have more faith, but the Lord
rewarded the little faith that we had that it would work out. And it did!
This week we´re going to head out and talk to everyone about General
Conference and we´re going to take a bunch of people there. I´m pumped.
As you all prepare for General Conference think of some
questions that you would like the Lord to answer and write them somewhere. Then as you watch the conference I promise
that the Lord will respond to each and every question you have. He has never failed to respond to my
questions. I love conference and I know
that Thomas S. Monson is the Lord´s prophet for the earth in our day. As we listen to and follow his counsel, we
will be following the cousel that the Lord has for each and every one of
us. As He said in Doctrine and
Covenants,
What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not
myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass
away, but shall all befulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of
myservants, it is the same (D&C 1:38)
I know that these words are true.
Amo vocês! Até o
próximo!
Élder Evans
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