Semana 50
Olá todo mundo!!
It´s officially
2016, which means I`M COMING HOME THIS YEAR!!!!! Can you believe it? I
seriously feel like I´m just beginning to understand how to be a missionary and
I´ll be on a plane home here in 6 months... just like you all said. When the
snow melts and school is out, I´ll be home. :)
So for my email
this week I wanted to share some parts from my journal of what our week was
like.
"This past
week I have really been working to develop more diligence. Ever since the
Christmas Conference I have realized that I need to work more diligently and
that I was mission out on blessings from the Lord. Today, I saw huge blessings
because of our diligence. Our area has really been a challenge because of how
far away and big it is. Today lunch was SUPER far away, we didn´t get to our
area until 4 pm. Usually when we lose so much time in the afternoon it´s not a
very productive day (probably because we let it be like that). But today we
took a different route, and passed a man who said "boa tarde" to us.
Unusual. Usually people aren´t the first ones to talk to us. We kept walking,
but after we passed his house the Spirit nudged me to go talk to him. I ignored
it and we kept going.. after a few minutes I couldn´t take it and said,
"ugh okay! We need to go back and talk to that man." So we turned
back and knocked on his door. He welcomed our visit as if he had been expecting
us! After getting to know him, Francisco told us about his hard life in Rio and
that he had moved back to Sousa to try and start his life over. He felt like
his life had no meaning after he had lost his son as well. We had the
opportunity to teach him the Plan of Salvation and his countenance changed, he
looked as though he had more hope. He will come to church with us on sunday. I
was so grateful that I listened to the Spirit in that moment! The Spirit guides
us to the people who are needing our message. We also were prompted to visit a
contact from a few weeks ago, and after introducing us to the entire extended
family we taught them the Restoration and they are all going to come to church
with us on sunday! After the lesson, Damiana (the mom) said that she felt as
though her seed of faith had begun to sprout and grow, and she believed in the
message of the Restoration. The Lord really opened up doors for us today, all
because we worked diligently. Today was an example of the scripture, "do
not run faster than you have strength" but according to what I can give,
the Lord will provide the rest!"
We saw little
miracles every day this week because even going at the pace we could, we worked
diligently. We had some wins and some defeats. We had a baptism of a quorum
fall through (always a huge bummer). As we create our teaching group we are
quickly cutting and having to weed through. Opening an area has been tough, but
I have grown so much these last 3/4 weeks of this transfer and I have been so
spiritually edified! That has been the greatest reward.
So here´s to a
new year. A year with redoubled efforts to more faithfully serve the Lord, to
follow His footsteps, a rekindled sense of love for our neighbor and for
Him.
I love you guys
so much! Until next week!
Sister Brown
ps - pictures
from our week. I risked a day to take my camera out and take a few pictures of
our area. It´s just countryside and lots of dirt…
i got burned
this week…
also if you were wondering what Sister Brown looks like in the kitchen, here you go! (of course I´m making tapioca.) AND I remembered what you guys said on the skype and I decided to
do my own step by step tutorial on how to make tapioca! haha so here we go -
you have your tapioca that you buy from the store, and then you have to pass it
through a strainer to be granulated
and then you
cook them! (but there´s an art to cooking tapioca that only brasilians and
sister brown know about ;) )
and then
afterwards you can eat your tapioca with whatever you want! with eggs, cheese,
banana, tomato, the list goes on and on! So maybe there is hope for me in the
culinary department when I get home…
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