Boa tarde!
This week was awesome, and we worked hard!
Tuesday we did service for an investigator of Sister Finati, which was good. We had to chop trees and branches/bundle them into a cart to clear out an area, and in the hot sun you can bet your bottom dollar it was a lotta work. But it was fun with the other sisters. And the BEST PART - PANTS! Oh blessed, blessed pants. I forgot how awesome pants are. Sister Lucas has the funniest video of me running around jumping just ecstatic because we finally got to wear pants hahaha. Coolest part - the tree we were getting rid of was a mango tree, and there were some mangos left that were ripe. And he picked one up, sliced it up with his machete, and we ate it! Gotta love Brasil.
Afterwards we ate lunch with them, which was so good. The people in Brasil are incredible cooks, and they feed us so well! Grateful (:
We found new investigators this past week - Ana and Flavio. They have two sons age 10 and 7, and they are awesome. They're animated, and fun, and have lots of questions, which is always good for us (: They're not married yet (which is normal in Brasil, because it's expensive.. and even more expensive to get divorced). But we had an incredible lesson with them yesterday about the Restoration, and invited them to read the Book of Mormon and pray. And the spirit was so strong, I could see it working in them, testifying. Very excited to continue helping them continue on this path and learn more about eternal families and how they can be closer to Christ.
Okay, at this point, about half of my letters home consist of the words "The rain here is crazy." I will say this forever, because WHOA. A few days ago, there was so much rain, and the road was just flooded, and I took a picture to show you all. It was just an overall funny experience, wading through the road (aka river) in our skirts all the way to the house of Max and Sanna (menos ativos) where we gave a soggy lesson on the attributes of Christ... and it's moments like this that I just love being a missionary (: Also fun fact - we met with them in my first week here in Parnaíba, and yesterday they were amazed at how much better my Português is (: grateful for the gift of tongues working every single day.
Miracle of the week - yesterday we had church (8:30 be there or be square people of Parnaíba) and 10 minutes after it started, a man walked in. He shook our hands and said 'Hey! Remember me?' it took me a few seconds, but I remembered. A few days ago we were passing by and just greeted him, and he said 'Qual horas por Igreja?' And he showed up! After sacramental was over, he said he really liked it, that our church just seems different than all other churches, and that we have a special reverence. We talked with him and gave him a LDM/invited him to read. And he accepted our invite for baptism! We have another lesson with him today. Moral of the story, miracles happen.
Eu amo vocês! Não esquece de ler o Livro de Mormon hoje! E muito obrigada por suas orações e amor!
Beijos!
Sister Hill
1. Doing service - cutting and bundling trees
2. Fish for lunch!
3. Yummy food
4. Pants for Service
5. CRAZY RAIN!
6. Sister Sanches
No comments:
Post a Comment