So this week was great, a ton of hard work!! WE had some ups and
downs and a lot of lessons fall though, but with that it is so amazing to see
the influence of the Lord in our daily work!! Seriously, something that I have
been learning is to follow the little thoughts or feelings that I get to talk
to someone or to do something!! Só vai...just go! Just go and do!! Sometimes
the person doesn’t accept our invite or they are INSANE MOLHE, but that doesn’t
matter because maybe they know someone and they will share their experience
with them, or their family, or they will be ready for future missionaries, who
know!! but something that I’m learning to do is just follow the spirit and to
be an instrument in the hand of The Lord!!
It´s a little frustrating sometimes when appt. falls through or a
person doesn’t follow through with the compromissos that they make, but this is
when I need to learn patience, amor, diligence...seriously I have learned so
much! I love this gospel and I love the feelings I get when I know a person
that I´m teaching understands and is feeling the spirit!! It´s hard to explain,
but it is a feeling that I love and am so grateful to have these experience,
good and bad!!
So this week we had BATISMO!!! WAHHOOOOOO MARIA!! she is seriously
Eleita...I love her and her desire to really learn more and to search for the
truth!!
This week we talked with her and her family (her sister Mônica and
her niece Ellen will be baptized this week) and Maria said that she wont be
home this week (Thursday, Friday) because of meetings in the Interior...sister
trage and I were like nooooo don’t leave, we need to meet with you so you don’t
flake! ha-ha but seriously...Satan is a loser and he is always working to get
people to move away from Christ and from doing the right thing!! So yeah Sister
Trage and I were a little anxious!! So Friday we went to her house at night and
Maria wasn’t there...NOOOOO...she works in the hospital so sometimes her
schedule is crazy and she works through the night!! (for the past week and half
we haven’t had credit so we couldn’t make any phone calls till Saturday)
Saturday S.Trage and I had to go to the Institute here all day for a Job Fair
that was there to get references and fazer contatas, so Saturday was a little
difficult..BUT Maria went to the Fair and she was interviewed there to be
baptized (MIRACLE) and the interview went so well she said and she said she was
so excited to be baptized the next day (she also said that she went to her
sisters house that lives in the interior and she said she almost stayed there
so she wouldn’t have to be baptized...SATAN) haha I was like minha nossa thank
you Heavenly Father for answering our prayers and helping Maria come back to
Natal!!! but yeah, she is seriously so sweet, I love her and her family!! After
she was baptized she started to cry, so I started to cry, and she said that she
wants to share this experience with her family, she wants all her family to
feel the way that she felt, and also her friends that we are teaching (Matheus
and Emanuele)!!
The gospel is seriously such a blessing in all of our lives!! It´s seriously
so amazing to see the difference in the face and eyes of people, the happiness
that they have after we teach them the restored gospel, the spirit that they
have through following the commandments, through poraçao through, the
scriptures, through going to church!! The blessing that we can receive from God
and limitless, all we have to do is have faith and to follow the counsel that
he has given us!!
I am soooo HAPPY to be here in Natal!! I´m getting a little
trunky thanks to all of the Christmas decorations...they don’t have anything
here for Thanksgiving so it´s all just Christmas!! all the lights and
decorations and minha nossa I love it all but I sinto saudade of snow.here it is
getting more and more hot!!
I am so happy that I have this chance to help people come closer to
Christ, to have an opportunity to have eternal families, to have TRUE AND PURE
HAPPINESS AND LOVE in their lives!!
FUNNY STORY:
-during lunch in a members house the Irmã asked, `so I have 4 Brazilians
in my house...?!?!?! AYYYEEEEEEE hahah she thought I was Brazilian HAHAH I was
like umm não sou americana...she said oh well your Portuguese is really good
for an American (smirk face)
-another situation happened like that again, sister trage and I made
a contact with this guy in the street and he started to talk about something,
and I responded with a scripture and I started to talk about attributes de
cristo and amro and charity...depois the contact Sister Trage said hey, did you
understand what he was saying..I said yeah most of it, why? she said that she had
a hard time understanding and that she was happy that I said something cause she
didn’t know what was going on..HAHAH GIFT OF TONGUES BABY!!!
-So sister trage and I met this family, but we haven’t taught them
anything yet. So we passed by their house to teach them and to confirm another
appt with them. When we got there, they were having a party for there son who
turned 14 years old. We were like oh we´ll come back another day..but the dad
(he is this big guy, like BIG muscyular Police guy) he is like no no no come in
and sit down, we have bolo, comida, coke, please sit down!! S. Trage and I are
like no no serio it´s okay we´ll come back tomorrow...KID YOU NOT, the dad (his
name is Melquisedeque haha boira batizar) he comes over and grabs my arm
and puts me in a chair..hahah he siad no seriously sit down, them he hands me
and sis. trage a plate of bolo and other treats!! hahah I was so scared (not
really but just like umm idk what to do lol) The cake was SOOO GOOD though
hahah so I was happy in the end that he literally forced us in to eat some
cake!!
-but seriously...I love you all and I love this gospel!!
2 Nephi 25:26 ( I think this is the scripture I'm thinking of)
-have a great week and I love you all!!!
-Sister Talentino
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