updates of the week:
physical therapy is super rad! I seriously want to do this as my career after my mission now. So yeah, everything totally happens for a reason.
But this week was super good! First of all, my foot is doing a ton better, and I am finally walking like a normal human being again (: thank you for all the prayers and fasts - I am so so grateful becuase without a doubt, that is why I am doing better.
But we saw some great miracles this week!
First of all - Carine, Antonio, and Lucas. The best. family. ever. from Belem. We invited them for baptism on the 20th of January and they accepted! They are so incredibly prepared, and excited to live the gospel. Honestly, I was blown away when Antonio had a question about the prophet, asking how we would get a new prophet - and then explained exactly how it works with the apostles, the seventy, everything. If that doesn't show how prepared they are, I don't know what does.
We are also teaching the husband of a less active (Josilene), Jason. She recently returned to church, and her "husband" (they aren't married) came along a few times. The first lesson we had with him he had a lot of doubts, and kind of just wanted to bible bash.. so we left him with a part to read in the book of mormon and to pray about these things. Great. Returned a few days later, and he said he had lots of questions and doubts, and started asking about a bunch of stuff that he had read on the internet *insert huge sigh* look, I love the internet, but really. There are some ridiculous things that exist on the internet about the church.
He started to get into bible bash mode, when I just cut him off and said - "before we start can we say a prayer?" hahaha. He seemed a bit thrown off, but we said a prayer to invite the spirit. And the lesson was so spiritual, and we were able to explain about Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon in a way so clear that we recognized was only possible through the Spirit. I asked him if he had read the book of mormon, and he said "no", just looked on the internet, so we invited him to READ the thing that will answer every question! We will be teaching them tonight/answering questions about the temple, so I'm stoked.
BUT all is well here in Bacuri! Pray for Jason, Carine, Antonio, Lucas, and Leilane this week!
Sister Hill
2. sisters de bacuri
3. sister pereira
4. our food for NATAL
5. GIANT BOOK OF MORMON at the leadership conference
6. Sister Lucas: "hey ya know how at stake dances when they say you have to dance with a book of mormon between you? well..." HAHAHA
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