Yup, so this week was non-stop sweating but it was a really awesome week!
I jumped over a few more cockroaches this week dead and alive and I sweated out more than I think I have since the cross country days. It is hot and humid.
But sat morning we ran to the street market to buy fruit to make smoothies so that was fun.
Tuesday we taught the twins João and Maria who are 10 years old about the plan of happiness and they knew a lot of stuff and agreed to be baptized by the end of the year! Yay! They are so cute and the only phrase they know in English is ´´i don't care´´ .......they may or may not have asked me how to pronounce it and they started saying it to their mom, ooops.
On Friday, the youth did a master chef activity and we were in a group with our friends Daniel and Lucas. They cooked the noodles and we made the sauce and ended up winning 2nd place!! They have still been coming to seminary and love the church, we hope their parents will get married soon so that they can be baptized together as a family!
Saturday was a day very spiritually filling! We didn´t know it until night time, but that day was the holiday of the Day of Dead here in Brazil. In the morning we were passing by a park and we saw an older lady there and felt like we should talk to her. She shared with us that her husband had passed away almost 5 years ago and that she loved him very much and missed him. Then she told us about her son who died at 23, the same day he found out his new wife was pregnant with a daughter. We felt the Spirit so strong as we explained about families are for eternity and we felt the husband and son there sitting with her and wanting for her to hear the marvelous truth. We said a prayer with her and she asked for us to return another day. It was really special!
That evening we felt like we needed to pass by a woman that we made a contact with last week, so we went over to her house and she was home. Her name is Ana and last year she visited Portugal and the Sisters there gave her a book of Mormon, she has been reading it every since and loves it! That morning she looked at the book and knew that we would pass by that day. She already knows so much about the restoration and wants for her son to hear about the gospel too.
As we ended that day, the Irmã we live with told us it was the day of the dead and that she felt a special connection to her family that day. God really wants us to learn about our families and be connected to them so that we can help and support one another.
I love families and I know that God has a plan of happiness for each of us! I encourage you this week to read a story about one of your ancestors and pray to know how to have a better connection with them. I promise that the spirit of families is real and that you will feel an increased purpose in live and a closer connection to our Heavenly Father.
Make this week a great one!
Happy November!! Love to all!
-Sister Giles
-Sister Giles
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