Singing at a "Garage Church"

No new pictures today, as her camera battery was dead, but we did get to see a video of her singing this week from last Spring, and since this post is about singing...

 Okay. I did a crazy missionary thing a week and a half ago....I sang in church......I sang in A church.....yeah....not ours!!!!!  One night, Sister Bastos and I were walking to our bus stop after a lesson, and we passed a house with a "garage church" congregation SINGING AND YELLING in a microphone. We passed like normal, and then Sister Bastos turns to me, 

"Do you have the courage?"

The courage to do what?!

To sing in that "church"!!!! 

......yeah.....Why not! :D

So she went up and asked the person if I could sing a hymn for them. She went up and asked the preacher, and he said yes. I sang "Salvador, Redentor da Minha Alma".  TOTALLY different spirit than the yelling. The preacher actually introduced us as missionaries for the Church after! Super funny and super cool! It´s definitely a moment that I´ll tell my children about one day!

Also, Psalm 23. What comfort!!! I came across this during a really hard day about a week ago, and Heavenly Father is just amazing. He answers prayers, and many many times, He sends miracles that we don't even think to ask for. I know that!

CONFERÊNCIA GERAL!!!!!! QUE BOM!!!!! I got to watch the first day of Conference in English, which was great, but the second day, with technological problems, I only had Portuguese available.  Thanks to the Spirit, I actually understood practically everything!  Heavenly Father is so amazing; One of my language goals from when I first arrived in the field was to be able to understand Conference, and Heavenly Father gave me the opportunity to test that.  Super neat! 

 

I learned SO MUCH!!! But one of the biggest lessons I learned is that Heavenly Father wants to answer our questions. I thought that maybe I had too many questions for Conference, but Heavenly Father answered EVERY ONE so directly. When we really want to learn and act, He´s just ITCHING to answer our question. SO MUCH LOVE

 

Oh!  Sister Marriot AND THE SOUTHERN ACCENT!!!!! I ALMOST CRIED!!!! AND SHE SERVED IN BRAZIL!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY ALMOST CRIED!!!! IT FELT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD TO HEAR!

And thank you, Daddy, for everything!!! I love the things you teach me. Knowing that you´ve served a mission already (one longer and with a harder language too!!!) really helps me more than you know! It´s super inspiring! And your advice is always perfect! I hope I can do this for my brothers and sister and my children one day! I´m learning more and more how my mission is really for my family, and that makes EVERYTHING WORTH IT!!!!

 

This week, PLEEEEAAAASE pray for _____ and family and for ______. They can both be baptized this week. They´re ready, they just need to realize that they are and have the strength to resist the fear and  trials that the Adversary likes to put in our way right before something really good!

 

All my love,

Sister Little