This has been quite a week, but so far
I haven´t lost my mind yet and the Lord keeps sending angels of every
kind to help me this week. Training is definitely hard, but Sister
Bunch is so great and has such a desire to learn fast. She had a little
moment of feeling overwhelmed by the culture shock but got over it
fast. We´ve been running in between appointments on the two farthest
sides of the two areas that are now all ours, I have to remember
everything all by myself for the first time without a senior companion or
two other sisters in the house, and all the while explain everything to
my companion and make sure she´s doing okay. But like I said, a lot of
angels were on my side this week, and I´d like to name a few:
Fabio,
a less active who gave us Laércio´s reference. He´s been teaching with
us and doing an amazing job of it, also following up with Laércio when
we couldn´t this week. He even asked what tomorrow´s lesson would be so
he could study. Laércio was baptized at the District Conference on
Sunday, and was so happy. He has so much faith. He has been a smoker
since age eight and just decided to stop because he had the desire to be
baptized. At the baptism he was all smiles and he said he almost cried
from happiness. He´s so awesome and humble.
Felipe,
my recent convert. Thursday, it wasn´t even in our plans but I felt
like we should visit him. He answered the door with the saddest face
I´d ever seen and had started growing a beard and just looked
depressed. He told us he had been feeling bad about his life and he had
no desire to even leave his house or pray or read the scriptures. I
got so worried about him, he said he hadn´t felt that way in two years
and the feeling lasted 6 months. In that moment I told him he had ten
minutes to get ready to go teaching with us and Larissa. So he got up,
came back all dressed and shaved and smiling, and we went to visit other
recent converts. He helped so much in teaching and bore testimony of
the Book of Mormon. He said he didn´t even know if he would be alive
right now if we hadn´t shown up in his hour of need. I just wanted to
cry it was so spiritual seeing him teach for the first time and gain a
desire to help everyone. He´s such a great guy.
Nino,
a recent covert from my new area. He and his best friend David who was
baptized with him call each other Elder and help a lot in that area.
They used to be punks, and still kind of look like it but a I gave Nino
the pamphlets of tithing and the law of chastity. They are changing a lot.
They´ve been the only way I´ve been able to keep up with the two areas.
I could not find Ariano, who was supposed to be baptized Domingo. He ended up not going to church,
but they´ve been taking care of everyone when I can´t.
Anderson,
our ward mission leader who is super young and has been really going
the extra mile to help me. He´s the only one in his family who works
which makes it hard for him to go on a mission, but he still finds time
to help us. Because of him the investigators and recent converts from
the vila went to church Sunday.
Larissa, who´s
come a really long way in her testimony from teaching with us a lot in
the last transfer. She´s 13 and has a tough family situation and stays
with us because it´s better than her house or any other thing she could
be getting into. Sunday morning my companion woke up super sick so
Larissa passed in everyone´s house who we couldn´t.
There
are a lot more, like our Zone Leaders, the Branch President and his
wife and the Sister Training Leaders but everyone´s been helping a ton
and it´s been amazing. Pray for Ariano, Danilo and Douglas, our
possible baptisms who have been to church several times.
I
love you all so much! Make the last weeks count! Remember how much
God loves you and wants to help and just wants you to be happy.
Training has made me understand God´s love so much in just one week and I
can´t even imagine the love I´ll have one day for my actual children.
Can´t wait to talk to guys and can´t believe how fast time flies. Have
an awesome week!
Beijos,
Sister Moore
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