OI FAMÍLIA!!!!
Ummm not a ton of things happened
this week....Brasil had yet another holiday that started Friday (11 de November)
and lasted until Wednesday of this week. And everyone in São Paulo loves to go
up to the beautiful beaches in the north. So there weren't a lot of people home
this week because of this but we did manage to teach a good number of people
and still find new people to teach. But what really highlighted this week was
the conferência de zona that we had this Wednesday. Half of the mission got
together with Presidente and Sister Broadbent and the assistentes and talked about
a wide range of things. Everything from how to be autossuficiente (self
sufficient) até how we should always leave um compromisso(commitment) with
everyone we meet. It was really reinforced that we shouldn't be afraid to
invite others to pray, read, go to church, etc because this is our purpose as
missionaries. We will only help others come unto Cristo by inviting them to do
something that will help grow their fé. If we don't invite, they most likely
won't do it. We also talked about how we can be autossuficientes(self
sufficient). How we can work so that we don't have to rely on others to do
things for us. Presidente talked about how in the mission, it is the perfect
time to work on this. Presidente also threw in there how we should always be
HAPPY no matter what's happening! To always choose to be smiley and happy. This
life is full of dificuldades and problems for every one of us and if we choose
to let that bring us down, we will have an unhappy, uneventful life. We always
need to choose look on the positive side of things and smile even when
everything is going wrong. We have a rule in our mission that we can only be
sad for 5 seconds and then we have to rebounce and continue on. When we don't
let those little things bring us down and are always happy, not only will we
have a wonderfully happy life but we will also help others to feel happy!
And at the very end of this week, we
meet a wonderful lady named Rosana. We are teaching a little girl of 11 years
named Ingrid and were taking her home Saturday from a ward activity when we met
her tia Rosana. We dropped her off and were just about to leave when Rosana
stopped to talk to us. She asked a lot of questions and at the end of it all,
we taught about the plano of felicidade(Plan of Happiness). She lost her son
and in all the churches she went to, they always taught her that she would see
him after this life but not remember who he is and that only the people who are
evangélicos will go to heaven and the rest....way down in the deep. But as
members of the Church of Jesus Cristo, we know that this isn't true. We testified
how she would be able to see her son again and not only see him but remember
who he is and be able to live with him forever. We didn't have too much time to
talk with her because it was getting late but left um panfleto(pamphlet) with
her about Heavenly Father's plan for us and how depending on our actions, we
will be able to live with Him again or not. We marked to go back another day to
teach more and are super excited!!!
That's about it folks! Amo vocês(I
love you)!! Have the most smiley week ever!!
Love,
Sister Hilchie :)
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