Mom, thanks for the
quote I love that! I cant tell you how true that is! One of the most
frustrating things about Portuguese is that I can’t express just how much I
love the gospel! I had someone ask me one time "What if you found out all
this wasn't true" And I said if all this wasn't true I wouldn’t even exist
and there would be no point to my life! The very fact that I exist and want to
be happy means there is a God and this is the way he has provided for us to
have true joy! I received an assignment yesterday to speak in church next week
on Amor e Lar (Love and Home) and I just kept crying as I tried to prepare my
talk because serving a mission makes me realize how overwhelmingly blessed I am
to have the gospel (the way that we can have love in our homes) and to have the
family that I have!
So glad you get to
spend this time with the Masons! Give them lots of kisses for me I love and
miss those kids!
Love, Sister Lewis
1-13-14 Dear Family,
First off: I loved the
quote mom sent about how when missionaries know the gospel that is all they
want to do. It is so true! It’s like an obsession, but a really good one :) We
had a conference with the whole mission this week and President gave the most
emotional talk about the Savior and the atonement, I don´t think anyone made it
thru without crying. But it truly is our motivation. It´s what keeps us going
thru the hard times. He reminded us that when we feel desanimo, that is what we
need to think about is what the Savior went thru.
Last week AnaClaudia
(one of our recent converts) wasn´t at church and we were a little worried,
come to find out she had finally found a job last week but with this new job
she has to work every day. When she found out she had to work on Sundays she
went back and told her chefe she would only be working there one week because
she needed to be at church on Sundays. I love how much recent converts love and
recognize the importance of the gospel!
It was also really
cute that Hilda (another recent convert) told us our first time after church
that she never wanted to wear a skirt and was concerned about going to church
because of it. This past week when we passed by she was so, so excited to
inform us that she had made 2 new skirts out of some old curtains she found so
she could look "chique" at church (She’s the cutest 74 yr old on
planet earth. I attached a photo of her with her new skirts that she sewed)
We´re teaching a lot
of youth right now and they are so awesome. We had so many people promise they
would be at church and I thought it was a bit ironic that everyone always talks
about how the youth are so rebellious today but when we went to go get our
investigators it was all the adults that flaked out and the youth that came to
church and were so awesome!
One miracle of the
week - we found this couple, Renata and Pablo, turns out that Pablos parents
are members now and he wanted to be baptized too but where he lived didn’t have
members so he decided not to be and he just moved here a month ago. They both
loved church and were excited to hopefully get married soon so they can get
baptized!
We found the cutest
family in the world this week too. It’s a single mom with 6 kids and the oldest
is 11, but these kids are so smart and so well behaved. We showed the
restoration video and the 11 yr. old was totally enchanted. Afterwards we asked
him why he was so into it and he said he felt like it was speaking specifically
to him. He and his sister love English so they each give me ten words every
time to teach them and Chaue is making a song in English from them. We brought
them a bunch of old Liahona magazines last time which they all loved too it was
cute. They couldn’t go to church this week, but we´re confident we’ll get them
there next week :)
We are being so
blessed right now. Sacrament meeting was all about missionary work yesterday
and we had several different leaders in the ward come talk to us this week and
thank us for the changes that are happening in this ward and how the missionary
work is moving. It´s true the work is hastening!
Love you!
Sister Lewis
Photos:
-Hilda with her chique
new saias
-You are always soaked
here. Either from sweat or rain. It will be SO hot and then it will just rain
like crazy!
-Our district has more
Americans than Brazilians this transfer so we all had lunch together at
Subway.. about as American as it gets here J
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