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| Mini pizzas night! |
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| Cookie?!?! |
Whats up guys? Just to explain the paragraph above, we had lunch with Bishop and his family yesterday and we were talking about cartoons and shows we watched as kids and he showed me that "Ze Colmeia" is Yogi Bear🤣 Just goes to show, I still got a lot to learn!
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| In bishops car |
But in other news, heres the update for this last week in one word: RAIN....and lots of it😅
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| In the rain! |
And heres the week in review:
Monday - Elder Black wanted to visit this Country store so we went! While we were there, I helped Elder Black get a cowboy hat and found out how they use steam to bend the hat sides, it was pretty cool! While helping translate for Elder Black, I got to meet Adisson and his wife Jessica who are the owners of the store (Thanks for the help guys and the 3d printed cow skull!)
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| Nerf Or nothing |
Tuesday - The first day of a rain filled week🌊 Here in brazil, when it rains, a lot of people get sick and dont tend to answer the door so it gets a little difficult to work but, we found some awesome people! First, Sueli, who speaks a little english and watched the broadcast of the sacrament meeting this week, and second Alisson who lived in Canada and has friends that were missionarys for the church! Later that night, we went to bring some of our friends to seminary with bishop and we were just talking about the mish and things we cant do, and out of no where bishop said in perfect english, "you cant kiss elder". We bursted out laughing🤣
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| 2 elders in the sun! |
Wednesday - ZONE CONFERENCE. My biggest take away was how we as missionaries dont need to make someone perfect to be baptized! We just help give people what they need to progress and be made perfect in Christ (Moroni 10:31-32). We also did a division with the AP's and I worked with Elder Rodrigues! It was cool to see him come back to his original area and he got to surprise some people he taught!
Thursday - Not much happened today but it was cool to find a raspberry bush growing fruit like the one at my house back home! We also had lunch with a member family of venezuelans who were learning english. Let's just say, we all have a lot to learn in regards to how to speak another language🤣
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| Segway! |
Friday - Do you guys remember that dog from last week? Im pretty sure he is my spirit animal (like in the movie coco) because he walked with us all morning during our visits! We talked to the end of our area for lunch and he came with. He ended up making all the dogs at lunch bark as soon as we arrived.[Mom note: He met another guy today and noticed he had a BYU hat!]
😅 But the cool experience was when we were heading back home at 9PM and I felt the need to talk with this man sitting on the corner. His name was Anderson and he explained how we really wants to change his life and have a better connection with God. We talked with him for a bit and felt that I needed to give him a Book of Mormon. When I showed it to him, he told us that last week he said he wanted a Book of Mormon and that we were that answer to his prayer. The last Book of Mormon I was holding onto for the day, was his.
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| Members and cleaning |
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| AP'S |
Sunday - Sadly the baptisms we had marked today fell but it was still a pleasant Sunday. We actually got a call from Fernanda, a recent convert, who said she had investigators over. We came over and they started asking us all sorts of questions. I knew based on the questions, that this was a prank and they were members😆 turns out one of them does Professional photography for temples of the church!
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| Fernanda visit |
Even though I had an experience this week when someone else confirmed a spiritual prompting for me like with Anderson, I like to think that we are always recieving these answers and directions. The spirit of the Lord is given to us and we can know promptings come from it by what it calls us to do. I think this is how I truly have learned to recognize the spirit and so can you! (Moroni 7:15-17)
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| Elder Niz sleeping |
Love you all! Even though we may be miles away, we share the same sky! (Shoutout to anyone who knows the reference😉)
Até a próxima!
- Elder Dfish