Dear
family and friends,
Thank you so much for
the emails and pictures. I can’t believe how much snow you guys have. It looks
so pretty. Are you back to going to school normal without delays or anything?
Rae looked so so so pretty for the dance. I loved the dress and the accessories.
Did she actually dance or stand there and talk? :) I have been learning how to
salsa!! Everyone here knows how to dance and loves dancing. So living with a
lot of Latin Americans I’ve learned a few things. I’m really bad, but it’s a
lot of fun trying haha.
This has been a good
week. Everyone is doing well. Three investigators came to church yesterday. One
is a mom of a family that we have been teaching. They have been meeting with
the missionaries for a long time and know everything, just don’t want to get
married. We had a few good lessons with them this week and then went back on
Saturday to invite them to church again and she didn’t think she would go
because she had a few things she needed to do. We shared with her the
importance of going to church and putting Christ as a first priority but we didn’t
think she really understood after we left. But she came!! We were super happy.
This week Sister
Vasquez had to go to the doctor and we got to go back to Boa Viagem!!! It was the best. I love that
area so so so much. My dream is to go back there my last transfer. You guys
need to go there some day!
This week is the start
of a holiday here called Carnival. Its gets really crazy apparently and isn’t
very safe for us to be on the streets, so we have to go home every day at 5 o
clock from the 13th until the 19th. I don’t like staying inside so much, but we
will have a lot of time to study.
One important thing
that I’ve been learning is the importance of reading the scriptures, saying
prayers, church attendance, the simple things that truly make a huge
difference. We’ve met a few different families that were at one point super
strong in the gospel, but for some reason stopped doing those simple things maybe for not
even very much time, but fell away. And at first I think how could that happen? No one is exempt from Satan’s temptings. But God is
so much more powerful. I really like what it says in Helaman 5:12. When we
have a foundation constructed on Christ that makes all the difference. Doing
those simple things can keep us safe from sin.
I hope you all have a
great week. I love you all!
Love,
0 comments:
Post a Comment