November 11, 2019

Marriage-Eternity

Another week in the mission gone and it was a good one!

Tuesday night we taught the twins João and Maria about the importance of the Sabbath day and how they can better focus on the Lord, like going to church, spending time with family, and visiting and serving others. They said they wanted to make that day a different day so they will do more activities as a family, how sweet!

We got to teach an older man named Marcio about the importance of prophets and that we have a prophet here on the earth, and we showed him a picture of President Nelson and Marcio had see him on the TV when Pres. Nelson came in September, that was neat. He also asked my companion if she was pregnant.....he is older hahaha so we both laughed and afterwards she said we really needed to start running in the mornings hahaha. 

We visited a lady in our ward who moved here from Germany when she was a baby and her house is full of pictures and trinkets from Europe, and pictures and stories of her family! Her mother, who passed away last year, lived in the time of Hitler and he had ordered every German family to do their family history work. He had different intentions, those of which were used for evil works, but for this Irmã she has information about almost all of her family so she has been able to go and take them to the temple to do their ordinances. The Spirit of family history is real and it is what connects us to so many power protections and blessings.

Thursday we visited our investigators Adelia and Eri who still need to get married, but we taught them more about temples and the unity we feel as a family through the gospel of Jesus Christ and encouraged them to put in the effort to get married so that they can enjoy all of the blessing and promises of God.

On Saturday, Sabrina and Carlos got married!!!! Whooot! They got married in the church building and the spirit was super sweet! The ward was super nice to help them out with the wedding and the bride was so nervous, she hardly smiled walking down the aisle but at the end she smiled so it was good. We are super happy for them! I felt it testify to me as she walked down the aisle and as they promised to love and serve one another, that really God wants us to make and keep promises, and that He wants to help us keep His commandments. His love is pure and the church of Jesus Christ is true! They are so cute together and can now prepare to make the covenant of baptism and prepare to be sealed for all eternity next year! Our Bishop gave the couple advice and it is the advice that President Hinckley gave, the 4 things for a successful marriage:
1) Respect for each other
2) Control your actions and serve the other always
3) Financial Honesty
4)Pray together as a couple and as a family every day

One day when we were clapping at doors, we clapped at a door and a man came out and he ended up being a member that had become less active about 5 years ago and now is going to another church, but he was open to us coming back so we went by on Thursday and read Moroni 7 with him  and his none-member wife and she really liked the Book of Mormon! They said we can come back again and meet their 2 kids! Super special!

It rained a lot this week which was nice for a break from the heat.

I know that God lives! That with our families we can be happy for all eternity if we keep true to our covenants and be worthy of the blessings of Heaven. 

Love to all!

 
-Sister Giles


Sister Conceição celebrated 1 year in the mission so we had Subway to celebrate!