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| Sometimes being a missionary is HARD!!! |
Hey everybody!
How are you all doing?! I hope everyone had a great and fun week! We are almost into May which is craziness! We had a great week here with a lot of fun little adventures and lots of work. We are doing our best to try to get a baptism before Elder Hilton goes home! We are hoping for a miracle this week!! So I'll just get right in to the week!
So Tuesday was the division. It was so awesome to be with two Americans for another day! We had a great day of work and I loved seeing and remembering my days when I was newer on my mission! I felt like such an old dude on Tuesday. Anyway, everything had kind of fallen through and we didn't know what else to do, so like usual, when in doubt we do contacts. We decided to walk to a less familiar street and knock there and do street contacts. Right when we got onto the street, I looked to my left and saw a house with its window open, but it was all dark inside. We kept walking by but I looked again and saw this big pillar of light shining on the ceiling! I stopped and said, "Elders wait, there is someone in this house!" So we went over and knocked and this young girl opened the door. Elder Gray did a contact and she was super receptive so we asked if she had time for a lesson and she said yes! So we got to teach her out front of her house and it was awesome. She has grown up in a different church so she like really knew the Bible even though she is only 15. But she thought it was so cool when we explained that Christ had a church when he was here on the Earth! It was such a cool lesson and I love how the Spirit can touch any heart. Even on a loud, crazy porch in front of a main road with tons of buses and cars going by every minute. It was great!
Wednesday we were back home after we got a quick bus the night before from Porto to come back home to Eunápolis. So
Wednesday we had the whole day back in our area. We had a fun day as well with one minor failure. Irmã Branca had told us that she wanted to get to know better the life of Joseph Smith and stuff so we had thought that we would watch the 1 hour, Joseph Smith movie with her. We got there and she put the video on her laptop and then connected it to the TV. One thing we did NOT think about was the potential problem that the wifi could go bad. And like usual with these type of situations, the wifi started to go bad hahah. Rookie mistake from two oldies to not be more prepared. So after a good amount of trying we decided it wouldn't work and we just left a normal message. It was funny but we made up for it a couple days later. Anyways, Branca is doing great but she just doesn't feel like she has gotten her answer yet about the truth of our messages. She could get baptized any time and we are praying she will get the answer she is seeking!
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| The sign of a hard working tired Missionary. Falling asleep with a pen in your mouth! |
Wednesday night we headed over to visit Jailton! He is Lucas' dad who is not a member. (Lucas is the only priest in our branch and his step-sister is on a mission right now.) Irmão Jailton has been to church twice now and he is a great guy. We got there and decided to teach a little more in depth to him about the Book of Mormon. We also felt like we could watch the Restoration video with him,the 20-minute one. I have a little USB drive with the video so we figured we could just plug it into the TV and watch it. It always works. So I put in the USB and when I went to click on the video all I saw was a big red X saying, "Format not supported"! Ugh! Two failures with tech in one day. It ended up working out because Jailton just watched it on his phone. After we talked about everything we asked him if he had prayed about our message. He sheepishly replied that he hadn't. We told him that he needed to pray and we taught him how to do it. It was really cool and he really committed to praying now. If he gets his answer he can also be baptized any day!
Thursday night we got to visit Israel and his family again! Man do we love that family. Every time we go we laugh and have fun and also feel the Spirit and learn. Thursday night we had a little miracle because their whole family was there again! Second time in a row! Haha it was great. We didn't have a ton of time but we decided to bring back the memories for them of our first lesson. So we watched the 20-minute Restoration video. (As I write this I realize we used videos a lot this week haha). The video was fantastic! I felt the Spirit so strongly as we watched a humble farm boy get called as a prophet. After the video ended, we almost didn't want to talk because the Spirit was so strong. I started to bear my testimony and practically we told them that they need to pray and get serious about all of this. It is sometimes hard to speak boldy but we were blessed to have the Holy Spirit so it really wasn't us doing the talking. They understood what we were trying to say so now we just have to hope that they really have the desire to find out if this is all true! (Spoiler: IT IS!!!)
Friday we made up for ourselves with Irmã Branca and we watched the Joseph Smith movie and it worked! We had gone early to the internet place and downloaded it so it would work without a hitch!! It all went smoothly and we had to have a little heart to heart with her too and speak boldly so she can understand how she can get her answer. We will see how this week goes!
Saturday we had a good lesson with Patrick! He is one of our investigators that kind of tried to get rid of us last week but we still had a lesson marked with him and he told us he would finally go to church Sunday and he actually did! But we had a fun time too after the lesson when we helped him and his dad take this HUGE wooden table out of a house. We tied it to a rope and lowered it down over the balcony because it wouldn't fit down the stairs. It was a fun adventure and we sadly didn't have the camera with us! Only on the phone and the quality isn't good haha.
Saturday night we had a really cool lesson with this girl named Irana! She is Branca's other daughter that we didn't know existed until she brought her to church last week. She is 17 but is already married, or at least we thought, but I'll get to that. So we had marked with her last Sunday to visit her on Thursday but when we went there she wasn't home! Saturday night we decided to go by and we found her at home! We taught her the first lesson and it was awesome! She accepted everything and at the end we asked, "Irana, what do you feel now knowing that all of this that we said happened." She replied, "Well I am very grateful and happy because now I know which church is the true one, and I don't have to keep looking for it!" We were like in shock and then we challeneged her to baptism! She accepted! We gave her a pretty fast date because she only needs to go to church once more. We left excited but then on Sunday we were talking to the other girls in the ward after church and they said they thought that she wasn't leaglly married to her husband Samuel. We were sad to hear that cause we had thought they were married. We will find out this week! And if they aren't married, they'll have to get married and then baptized. haha!
Sunday was a great day as well. We sadly did not have all the people at church that we wanted but we had 4! Irana and Samuel came and Patrick too! And one other member brought her boyfriend who isn't a member. Everyone else didn't come because tomorrow (Tuesday) is a holiday here to everyone went out of town. But we had a great Sunday and the last meeting of the day was really cool because the District President gave a training on the new Ward mission plan thing that President Bangerter has been trying to implement in our mission for a month or so now! And we got a new, AWESOME, branch mission leader so we are super pumped about that! Sunday night we had to get a bus down here to Porto Seguro again and here we are! We are going to do a division, a city that is the furthest south in our mission. We still got another 6-7 hours of buses to get. We also might have to sleep in the bus station but we will see haha! We came down here and this morning we got to go to the boat thing! It was really awesome but the pictures are taking forever to upload so we will see if they work! But at least we got the ones from last week!
Anyways, that was our week! We are praying for some last week miracles for Elder Hilton and we are going to give it our all! I love you all so much! And I love our Savior!! Have a wonderful week!
#itsalltrue
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