OI FAMÍLIA!!!!!!
Welp this week was really interesting.
It started off real well and we found a lot of new investigators and taught a
lot of people and ah it was just great until Thursday. But before I get there,
we had an experience bem legal earlier this week. We were walking down the
street, everything had fallen through, no one seemed to be at home when we
decided to visit Vitor. We talked with Vitor a couple weeks ago, and he said
that we could pass by any day at his house and with no one else to visit, we
decided to stop by since we were close. Once we stopped clapping and yelling
his name, a woman appeared and said that he had left to go to the supermercado
but to come in anyways. She called her mom (Maria) e daí, we walked in. As we
were passing by the living room window, we saw two Testemunhos de Jeová(Jehova
Witnesses) sitting on the couch. They were there teaching the mom....so we
awkwardly entered and sat down right in front of them. They started to ask
where we were from and a lot of get to know you questions. We responded, they
wrapped up, left and now the stage was ours. We hadn't even started to open our
mouth when Maria told her granddaughter to call her mom who called her sister
who called their uncle and cousin and from there, tons of people came pouring
into the room. There were kids sitting on the chão, the couch full of people
until there wasn't enough space but there still were more people who ended up
standing up. I would say that in total, there were about 15 people in the
living room. Man it was awesome! We shared a message about the plano of
salvação(Plan of Salvation) and focused on how their family could be together
forever. Everyone participated, asked questions and at the end, someone asked
what church we were from. We said the Church of Jesus Cristo of Latter-day
Saints, and they were a bit confused as to what church it was until someone
said "the Mórmons." Then it all clicked for everyone. But what really
marked the visit was when someone else said "the Mórmons....they really
are of Jesus Christ!" And with that note, we said a prayer and left.
Then Thursday I went to a lidership
council meeting with all the zone leaders, district leaders, and sister líder
treinadoras with Presidente and his assistentes. It was a great meeting and we
talked a lot about how we can help the mission grow. We also talked a lot about
making goals and how for everything we do in life, not only in the mission, we
need to make goals and then plans for these goals or you will not go very far
in life. And really that is true....if we want to go far in life, we need to
set goals and then keep on going with them until we alcançar them. We can't
give up just because things aren't going right because we always have tomorrow
and tomorrow is always a new page. So when we fall for a second, just get up
and make new plans to achieve your goal the next day. And with this, we will
achieve everything we put our mind to!
Later that day Thursday, we came
back from the meeting and I was reunited with Sister Lima. We went to visit
Reneane and right at the end, Sister Lima looked at me and said that we needed
to go home because she was feeling a lot of pain. So we went home, planned and
hoped for a better day tomorrow without pain. Well once Sister Lima woke up, it
was obvious that she wasn't doing any better. She wasn't able to sit down and
was walking really slowly because with every movement she did--especially
walking up and down stairs and hills--hurt. So after a meeting with the stake
presidente and lunch, we stayed home. Then on Saturday it was the same
thing....but we did splits with a couple young woman so I was able to leave and
visit a few people that we weren't able to the day before. And Sunday wasn't any
better....we already went to the doctor's but have to go to another in order to
know how to treat this pain exactly and are waiting on presidente to tell us
where to go now. We are hoping and praying muito that he finds a clinic soon so
that Sister Lima can stop feeling tanto door(really bad) and we can get back to
work.
But other than this, everything is
great! Love you all!!! Have a week that is out of this world!!!
Love,
Sister Hilchie
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