A woman we have been meeting with told us this week that she didn´t want us to come back after watching some horrible anti-Mormon videos on youtube. We bore our testimonies, and explained everything, but when we visited her the next day, she said she was done. The day of the video, we explained what we could (as in, my companion did, because I do NOT have the words to explain lies about polygamy and massacres and everything), so I bore my testimony (my very simple testimony I have in Portuguese), and asked her how she felt while watching the video. Scared. Yeah, me too. But now, I want you to pay attention to how you feel in just a minute. I then sang Onde Encontrar a Paz or Be Still My Soul, and PRAAAAYED like I´ve never prayed before that she would feel the Spirit, and Heavenly Father answered that prayer. Wow. What a testimony builder to me of the DIFFERENCE I feel between the world and the Gospel. The Spirit is SO REAL! The next time we visited, she still said that the church wasn´t for her, and she didn´t want to meet anymore. I´ve been praying for her everyday since, that if anything, she´ll at least pray and begin developing a relationship with Heavenly Father because she doesn´t pray now. AND GUESS WHAT!!!! HOLY MIRACLE!!!!!! She showed up aaaaall by herself to Sacrament Meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOSSA QUE BÊNÇÂO!!!! [What a blessing!] So pray for her. We´ll be visiting her again.
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| Sisters Bastos, Little, Paiva, and L.Souza |
Minha nova companheira! [My new companion!] SHE IS AMAAAAAAAAZING!!!!!!!!!!
Sister Bastos! She is seriously AWESOME!! We are super similar and work
super well together. I think I´ve laughed more this week than I have on
my entire mission yet!! She´s super spunky. Sister
McPherson (the other American in our house) got transferred, so it´s just
me in our house now that speaks English. I actually have barely noticed
the no English thing (before, we spoke English at night). My brain is a
little more tired, but it´s really not even a problem at this point!
My umbrella finally was done in this week. Yup. I didn´t yet know what rain in Brazil was like. Now I do. I think we had a mini hurricane one night (luckily we were already in the house). SERIOUSLY looked like Ike with the wind and rain. Flooded our front room, but luckily everything´s tile, so we just shoved all the water back out (my English is dying...I know that sounds funny, but I don´t have a better word...)
Pretty view from yesterday!
I GOT TO SEE SISTER PILCHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sister Pilcher is one of her friends from BYU that was called to the same mission.) TWICE THIS
LAST WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was seriously the happiest reunion
EVER!!!!!!!!! We basically just hugged and laughed and giggled some more
and chattered away in Portuguese (THAT was cool!!!!). Oh my goodness, I
love her so much, and NOSSA!!! She had an amazing testimony and all
BEFORE the mission, but NOW!!! She just GLOWS!!!!!! It´s
amazing!!!!!!!!
The achilles is getting better. Little by little. The KT tape and Strassburg sock are miracles!
All my love!
Sister Little
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