A great gift that I think God has given us is the opportunity to serve! What a blessing! The principle of service is recorded in Mosiah 2:17." And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.´´
Service really is the way to feel the love of God more profoundly in our lives. What can we do to give service to someone? There are endless and creative ways but one really awesome is a little precious book called The Book of Mormon. :) I challenge each of you, as a family or individually to think of someone right now who needs to feel or know the love of God more in their lives, and this week give them a gift more treasured than all. I promise that you will be able to bring joy into that person´s life, you will feel a deeper love and understanding of the love God has for you, and your family will be more united and happier. Pray and ask God for strength, for He will give it to you. Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Amen. D&C 4:7
Mission life is going well here in Vila Galvão! It was ridiculously cold this past weekend and I slept with 2 blankets, 3 long sleeves, 2 pants, and 3 socks......I did not know Brazil got so cold! We are loving working with the members and teaching our investigators that Christ is our only way to receive pure happiness.
For the 4th I made scrambled eggs and chocolate milk, then we went to the mission office for interviews that we have every transfer. There were a couple of other American Elders there so we talked about America so that was a good. It rained for 2 days straight and is ridiculously cold.
Our ward is so incredible and really are excited to help us with this great work! We have a couple Sabrina and Carlos who live together but are not married but are doing the paper work now and are ready for baptism! We don't know how long the paper work will take and they don't have a lot of money to pay for it so the Bishop talked to the people of the ward and will help pay for their wedding and we will have a ward fast for them this week! Our Bishop is super involved in mission work and wants to help with our investigators and less actives.
We have a less active family that has started to return to church and one of the boys is 13 and has already received the lessons from the other sisters, we just need the permission from the mom for baptism and he will be baptized this month! We have lots of ideas to help unify the ward and it is a fun time here in the city, a different way of life than the interior where I was. Lots of people live super close or on top or under neath each other so we are always meeting new people and still getting to know the members.
One older lady in the ward always gives money to the missionaries for lunch, but she had a surgery in the hospital so we went and visited her this past week. She hadn't had the missionaries over in years and we talked about family and we had the impression to sing to her ´´How Great Thou Art´´ and after wards she said that was always her husband´s favorite hymn, he passed away 2 years ago and she cried because she was so grateful to hear us sing it for her and felt him. It is so special to hear the promptings of the Spirit and see how closely God knows each of His children.
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
Love, Sister Giles
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