I hope you all had a fantastic
week at school and work but most importantly, a fantastically wonderful
weekend! My week was pretty great! We found a lot of new investigators,
and our investigators Sister Marquina and I had before the transfer are
still progressing! The Lord is blessing us big time!
We
taught an older couple this week, and they are just so sweet! They live
alone in their cute little apartment and were very open to our message.
They even have already been to church three time when there were elders
in my area almost a year ago. So it's been quite some time since
they've been in contact with the church. But they both really liked
visiting the church and like how it is set up--with relief
society/priesthood one hour, Sunday school another, and sacrament the
other--and have a desire to follow a church. They are Catholics but
aren't firm in their faith. The only reason they're Catholics is because
when the wife's mom was dying, her mom made each of her children
promise to follow her religion. So each of them did and till this day
all but one are still Catholic. But the husband said that they would like
to be firm in one religion and be active participants, unlike they are
now but convincing the wife to go against her mother's wishes will be
harder.
Also this week we finally taught
Julius again (the one from Africa)!!!! He really likes coming to church
and has been there the past two Sundays! The members also are really
welcoming and friendly with him and try to help in any way they can. We
even have some members that are studying English so they practice their English on him while he practices Portuguese with them! It's great to see
the ward helping him and allows us to talk to other members, our
leaders, and bishop when we need to. Anyways, we taught him yesterday
about the restoration and focused a lot on baptism and the priesthood.
He had already been baptized beforehand in Africa and was a bit confused
on why he needed to be again. After a lot of explaining and translating
(because Sister De Lima doesn't speak English so she would talk real
slow and if he didn't understand, I would translate for him), and a
strong presence of the Spirit we invited him to be baptized exactly how
Christ was baptized. With the same authority that John the Baptist had
when he baptized Jesus Christ. And he said he wanted to! Ah guys! I love
being a missionary and helping other people grow their faith in Christ
and help them start down the path that will lead them to live with
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ again!
Boom.
That's about as exciting as it got this week. Other than that we just
walked and walked and walked and walked and talked to random strangers
in the street. Well I hope you all have a wonderfully awesome week!!! I
love you all!!!!
Love,
Sister Hilchie :)
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