August 1, 2016 Week 52
This whole week was ridiculous because here in Caicó there has been
a party/holiday for about 2 weeks called Sant´Ana! everyone is celebrating this
Saint by drinking and having parties and all that good stuff...so que não!!
So yeah it was hard this week cause no one wanted to listen and no
one wanted to go to church because there would be parties and no one wanted to
wake up early with a hangover to go to church!!
it was ruff.... but I know that it will all work out!
we have one investigator named Fabison! We met him in the street
this week and we marked his baptism right then and there! he said yeah, and
that is mom would love that because she keeps telling him to go to church but
he doesn’t like to go to Mass (? it´s called that, in the catholic church?) so
yeah we went and visited him the next day and we met his older Sister...guess
what her name is ....VIRGINIA!!!! WHAT ARE THE ODDS!!! haha (shout out to my
bff Virginia) and i was like sister, it´s a sign...and we started to talking to
us, she gave us lime cake (so good) and then a little bit after we marked her
baptism too and she accepted!!! I was like LET´S GOOOO!!!! this was Thursday I
think! The next couple of days though were rough! Fabison started to say that
he´s going to give up on it cause all of his family is Catholic, and that his
sister Virginia said the same thing!! But you know what, we kept teaching him,
gave him the book of Mormon and I KNOW that the Holy Ghost will touch his heart
and that he already knows that he should keep following that feeling and that
Spirit!! I know that he will be baptized! and so will Virginia!! I have
faith!! So yeah. every time we meet someone who is like in tune with the
spirit and shows potential, there is always opposition to fight with us! (SATAN
WORK)
we had a mission conference on Wednesday with President
Mazzagardi! It was sooo good!! There was a part that I like a lot. It was in
the end of the conference and an Elder asked about profound Doctrine and he
responded, ´The Sacrament’. I was like uhhhhhh really? and He started to
explain that the things that are repeated are the doctrines more profound than whatever
other thing (sorry that my grammar is terrible I’m translating Portuguese to English)
and I was like it is sooo true!! the simplest things in the gospel are the most
profound and important and meaningful!! There are so many things that we can
learn from the Sacrament if we study and we learn and look at the details!!! It
was like ´boom big ol explosion` (can you guess the movies quote mom??) but
yeah it was really cool!! I got to talk to President MAzzagardi for a little
bit! We started to talk about the East Coast because he lived in New Jersey for
a long time!! HAHA I guess you can say we are Buddy buddies now...jk!!! It was
great to see all the missionaries again and to get the spiritual alimento
(?)
it was awesome!!
Sunday night we had a family night with a family in our ward...I
love this Family so much!!! I taught them how to make cookies :) It was sooo
good!!! Elder L. Gomes made the cookies, and they turned out really good!!...I
guess I’m kind of famous for my cookies in the mission haha!
I love every part of being a missionary...some parts better than
others, but I just know that my sufferimento doesn’t even compare to the
sufferement of my Savior for me!!
I love you all!! Alma 37:30-37
-Sister Talentino
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