Everything is going good in Rio Tinto..
we´ve got some good investigators and the Lord will always bless our
best efforts. I´ve been learning a lot about how to trust the spirit to
know how to say the right thing at the right time, with investigators
and companions. We have authority from God, but it can only be
exersized if we are obedient, if we know the scriptures and if we love
the Lord and other people. I´ve been reading the 12 week training to
get ready to teach, and there´s a lot of things I wish I had known when I
had started my mission. I feel like if I can successfully teach my
filha these things, everything I´ve learned on my mission is worth it.
It´s
awesome to hear that your mission is doing so well! Wow. How many
companionships are there in your mission? I´ve been praying for your
investigators and goals. Our mission is hitting kind of a low, so you
can know that your mission is surpassing what was one of the highest
baptizing missions in the world. Pray for Missão João Pessoa and
President Nogueira. He is a very inspired man that as a temple
President really has a vision of bringing every convert to the temple
and helping the missionaries stay active. I know this calling has been
incredibly stressful for him as someone who has never served a full time
mission, but I know he really cares about us a lot, and his wife too.
The
miracle yesterday was a man, João, who has been to church a few times
and came again yesterday by himself. He was already baptized in his
church and his family is really against it, but he loves the church and
knows he wants to stay there. Have you guys ever read ´´Member
Missionary Work and Finding the Elect of God´´? It´s really awesome and
talks about helping people who think they don´t need to be baptized
again. It´s all just talking about prayer and not doctrine. We were
miraculously able to teach him without his family spoiling the lesson
and marked his baptism for this Sunday and gave him the Book of Mormon,
which before his family had rejected, but this time didn´t say
anything. Pray for João!
The other miracle is
Vitória, who really wants to get baptized, but the area rule is that she
has to wait 3 months because she´s only fourteen. Or she has to be
baptized with her mom, so we´re going to try to teach her but we already
know she´s very catholic and doesn´t want to go to church.. But her
brother, Reginaldo, is a less active member and is 19, so MAYBE we can
reactivate him and get permission from Pres to baptize her before my
mission ends.. She´s so cute and wants to bring everyone to church next
week and go to the activities. Isn´t that just life? She´ll for sure
be baptized though.
Well, the church is still
true and the book is blue. I hope you all have an awesome week. Does
anyone have ideas for simple games to play at a branch family night?
Most of the people who go are the recent converts. We need ideas. Also,
does anyone have any requests of what they want me to bring home from
Brazil with me? Havaianas? Chocolate? Cuscuzeiro? Does cuscuz exist
in the united states? It´s a staple of life here.
I love you all so much!
Beijos,
Sister Moore
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