FAMILIA!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S
2016?! Wow this year flew by. It literally seems like just yesterday I was at
BYU but no...that was a whole year ago. Man time flies. And speaking of, I hit
5 months this past week. Wow ditty wow wow. That's kind of crazy.
Anyways this week was awesome! We
started teaching two younger people (and by younger I mean 14 years old) who
have a really strong desire to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be
baptized! One, Maria Eduarda, is Jaciara's sister. She attended Jaciara's
baptism and came to church these past two Sundays! She is super animada to
learn about the gospel and even before we started teaching her, she had already
started reading the Book of Mormon! Then we have Lucas. He is Jaciara's and
Adrieli's friend and when we started teaching Jaciara, he was there for the
first couple lessons but then hid on us. But a couple Sundays he came to church
with two of his friends! That week, we decided to revisit him and see how he
was doing. Well we did just that, and he had been thinking a lot about baptism
and what we had marked for him to read no Livro de Mórmon. Ele também decided
he wanted to be baptized! He has a huge desire to learn about the church and is
sempre searching for and asking questions. He is also really interested in the
priesthood and has a strong desire to prepare, pass, and one day bless the
sacrament. Ah guys Maria Eduarda and Lucas are awesome! I really don't think
that when Adrieli (who is a member) invited us over to teach Jaciara, that it
would have this big of an effect. But the happiness you get by living the
gospel is just so contagious that how could someone not want to learn more and
live it? Ah I love being a missionary and seeing excited other people are to
learn about the gospel!
Guys guess what?! I did a street
contact in English this week! We were walking down the street when Sister
Marquina stopped to talk to a man. Even before she could start, he said,
"sorry I don't speak Portuguese." Ah well I was super excited because
I could actually fully communicate with him and understand 100% what he was
saying! So I started to talk, but it didn't turn out the best it could have
because I kept saying Portuguese words instead of English but in the end, I got
my point across and visited him yesterday. So yesterday we taught about Jesus
Christ and the example He set for each one of us when He was baptized. And this
time, my English was a little bit better and what was even more awesome is that
Sister Marquina speaks enough English that she could understand and communicate
with him também! It was an awesomley different experience! And thanks to the
CTM in Provo, I had all the pamphlets in English so we gave him one of the
Restoration and are going back next Sunday to teach him! Ah! I'm excited!
Well I hope you all have a fantastic
first full week of 2016! I love you all so very much! Thanks for all your
support!
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