22 April 2014

4-22-14

Dear Family,

Best News of this week was hearing about Hunter´s Mission Call!!!!!! Ahh so excited! There was much screaming and happiness in this "Lan House" when I announced it to my roommates. We all made guesses this week and posted our guesses in the apartment and my companion who is from Peru guessed Peru :) So SO SO excited for you Hunt! A little disappointed that we still won´t have any more Portuguese speakers in the family, but serving a mission is the best thing you could possibly do with your life right now and you will absolutely love it! And I think I should get home right before you leave! I head home the 25th and probably arrive the 26th. And I’m so excited to hear about Leslie as well! Wow we are so blessed!

So this week our Pday got moved to Tuesday so we could be out finding on Easter Holiday, but we also had meetings all morning so we really just have enough Pday time to write our families. I´ve had to get up at 4:30 twice this week and will have to tomorrow as well to go to Curitiba, so I´ll be praying for a lot of physical strength this week, but the plus side is that tomorrow we get to go to the temple! Ah I´m so excited! We hit our goal as a mission in March (1 baptism/missionary) so we all get to go this month and it´s amazing how much more you appreciate the temple when you don´t have the opportunity to be there much. We had a really good leadership conference this week talking about the power of desire and the power of words. It´s so true that when you really want something you make it happen, so it starts with us having that desire and helping others have that desire as well!

Something else I have realized this month is that the Lord knows So much better than I do which people are ready. The past couple of weeks I´ve thought I had these golden investigators, but then they don´t end up going to church and then the people that I just pass on the street and make a quick contact, end up coming thru and going to church! ----and that´s why you have to invite EVERYONE. We made a goal this week to really talk to everyone and I think we had literally committed almost 30 ppl to go to church. Only 5 of them actually went, but it was the people that I honestly didn´t think would make it. But the Lord knows their hearts so much better than we do. There´s this cute little family of a dad, son and step son that live in some rough conditions, but they truly are realizing the need to change and that is when God can help us. It doesn´t matter how horrible our situation, if we are humble enough to let God help us, He is always there! So I am so excited to see the changes that will come to Arinizio, Paulo and Raul. Please pray for them that they can keep going strong so that they can truly change their lives and enter into the Lord´s way which is the best way!

I love you all!

Sister Lewis