Dear Family,
This week I got my new (and I assume final) companion, Sister Gearheart. I think I mentioned last week, but I trained her in the states and she just got here with her visa and we are stoked to be working together again. We are laughing pretty much all the time, but still working hard :) There are now 3 companionships here in our ward: 3 Americans and 3 Hispanics.
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Clearly I was way excited for my new companion! We weren´t at transfers because we are out in the boondocks, so I brought a sign to greet sister gearheart's van just to make sure she hadn't forgotten who I was :)
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Miracle of the week: Leticia finally got baptized! I worked with her for a long time with Sister Moser, but she was struggling with some things so we put it off a couple times and one time we almost cut teaching her because she wasn´t progressing too well but her grandma (who she calls mom. She doesn´t have a dad and her mom died in an accident when she was really little.) called us one day saying thank you so much for helping her she has changed so much in even the little things since yall started coming her. She used to just stay in her room and be really angry all the time, but now she helps me clean the house and talks to me and i know its making a difference. It was one of the most beautiful baptisms I´ve seen here because I know how much she´s struggled to get to this point. She had a really really difficult first 16 years of life, but now she isready to be in the Lord´s caminho and she is doing great.
Leticia!
It was also so cool to see both Sidnei and Jonathan show up to church in white shirts and ties yesterday and they are getting ready to receive the priesthood next Sunday!
Another blessing of having Sister Gearheart arrive is that she has been with a few of my former companions and was able to share some cool miracles. A Less Active I worked with in the states went thru the temple, some of my past investigators were baptized, etc. In my first area here in Brazil I was only there one transfer and there was a woman that I taught, but who didn´t want us to teach her anymore. We were able to teach her mom and her mom got baptized the week I left but she still had no interest. Apparently she still had no interest and always hid away when the missionaries came, but a couple months ago she had a dream that Sis. Gomes and I were at her gate knocking and knocking and calling her to get baptized. Apparently she took that as her sign from heavenly father and she decided to totally change her life around. She and her boyfriend got married and a few weeks ago they got baptized. It was a tender mercy to see how so many times you don´t even know what a difference the little things can make! We are So incredibly blessed to be Representantives of Jesus Christ. Being the messengers of the gospel of Jesus Christ which truly changes the lives of these people!
We had another wonderful family at church yesterday, Rosie and her daughters Bruna and Jovana. It was actually kind of a miracle how we found them too, because I passed there house wanted to go there but we didn´t have time, but Jovana (6 years old) found us and we ended up going back to that same house. Rosie also had a pretty rough past,but is so ready to change and follow the Lord´s path. Pray for her and her familyt that the can stay strong and prepare to get baptized as well!
Love you all lots!
Sister Lewis
We found what we thought was a giant avocado so we took it with us all day long and then when we got home it was just full of cotton which was super weird.
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