What a week! It rained a lot, but has begin cooling off so it has been nice to sleep without the fan blowing directly on me at high speed. hahaha
Our shower broke one night so a guy from the mission had to come fix it, then our lights kept going out so we had to keep going to the circuit board to turn them back on, but the kitchen one doesn't work so last night we made food in the semi-dark. Tudo bem! They do a lot of bbq-ing down here and they always cook sausage and it is seriously so delicious
This week was a good one folks! It has been so fun getting to know my companion Sister Silva better and our investigators are progressing which is really awesome! I feel definitely an improvement in my Portuguese and am more confident to talk to people, because my companion is shy too so it pushes me to speak up more and trust in the Lord. I have to help teach Sister Silva English so she has begun to memorize the first article of faith in English! Whoo! It has been fun because sometimes I don't know the word so we do this guessing game with hand motions until we can finally find the word in my mini dictionary they gave us in the CTM hahaha. She is very patient and we laugh a lot.
Two of our investigators Vinicius and Anglo gave us a ride to church yesterday and they really enjoyed it and the members told us they participated a ton in class!! They are so awesome! They read the Book of Mormon everyday and they are very fun to have lessons with because they have lots of questions and have good insights into the chapters they are reading. Ah, the gospel is so marvelous!
This week we did a lot walking and contacts in the streets and clapping at houses, but almost all did not want to hear more of our message. We were a little down and sad that no one we came in contact with wanted to know more about the true restored church on the earth. We continued to pray and ask the Lord for His help, and yesterday, Sunday, we arrived at church and had 5 different members come up to us with people they want us to visit (aka references) and it is just another reminder of the goodness of God and His timing for His children in the Gathering of Israel. We are all involved and here to help our fellow man receive the saving ordinances to live with God and our families for eternity because of the ultimate sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ!
This Easter season is such an incredible time to really reflect on His Sacrifice and to remember that He Conquered All for every single one of us. He Lives! I love having this opportunity to bear witness of Him and of His Eternal Divinity. Have a fantastic Easter everyone!! Here are a few pictures from this week :)
fotos: -I had açai with nutella for the first time and my life will never be the same. So. fantastically. delicious.
-There is river in our area and a little more full because of the rain.
-a cool view of our area, Vila Ema
-and a park that has a sign ´´to keep the green´´
Our members are so awesome too! Ah, mission life. I did not spot any cockroaches this week outside our house so that was good! People automatically say ´´you are not from around here, are you?´´ because my accent is super American and have blonde hair hahaha
-Sister Giles
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