Semana 43
Olá todo mundoooo
So I don´t have a ton of updates for
this week, but I´ll put out a bullet list of events for this week:
-Sister Carvalho has been sick this
whole week, so we took a trip to the hospital. She´s doing fine but the
ever increasing heat doesn´t help much.
-I got all 3 of my packages!! The
hump day package was the cutest thing in the world - I am sleeping with my cute
stuffed camel (named "camelino") every night and makes me excited for
the next phase of the mission! Thank you soooo much.
-Monday afternoon we took a 9 hour
bus ride to Natal for mission counsel - that trip is terrible. But the coolest
part was arriving in the city at night, Natal is the most MAGICAL city during
the Christmas season (naturally, "Natal" means Christmas in
Portuguese). They had huge decorations and lights stringing the entire city. It
made me super homesick to be serving in the capital. It was also super fun to
see all of my old mission friends, Sister J. Baker, Sister M. Baker, Sister
Lopes, Sister Gonçalves, and the elders too. So the mission counsel was cool
because you get to see all of the statistics of the mission and how we rank in
terms of all the other missions in Brasil, and our progress and where we need
to improve. We´ve got some things to work on, but so far our mission is doing
really well #batizador!
-We are 2 weeks and running without
water here in Sousa... and the elders apartment is the only place that never
runs out of water so for the past 2 weeks they have been bringing huge jugs of
water to our apartment for us to take bucket showers. It´s been a great lesson
in humility and gratitude that I don´t live in a desert :)
-Helenice was baptized this week! Her
baptism fell through last week but things worked out this time. There
truly is magic in taking that first step of being baptized. The Lord blesses us
immensely when we make convenants with Him.
-This week in my personal studies I
studied about repentance. Everyone thinks that repentance is something terrible
or really hard that we are "obligated" to do. But really it´s one of
the greatest blessings that God has given us! Imagine the terrible feelings
that we have because of sin - it ruins us. Alma taught about repentance in
Mosiah 27:29,
"My soul hath been redeemed from
the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity. I was in the darkest abyss; but
now I behold the marvelous light of God. My soul was racked with eternal
torment; but I am snatched, and my soul is pained no more."
I love the sweet relief that comes
because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We really can see the "marvelous
light of God" and be freed from our sins.
I love what I´m doing, and am so
grateful to Heavenly Father for every minute to be His servant here in
Northeastern Brasil.
Até próximo,
Sister Brown
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