With that said, this week has
been doing exactly as such, trying to find out exactly why the Lord has
kept me here in Cova Figueira just a bit longer. One of the first things
that brought me to was a gospel study on repentance, mostly for the
purpose of sharing with our less active members, and it brought me again
to one of my favorite scriptures, in Alma 36, verses 17 through to 20,
which talk about the complete joy and love that Alma felt, as he truly
turned himself to the Lord, and how doing so caused him to forget the
bitterness of his pain. In a small way, this taught me that the Lord
really does have great joy stored up for me, I just need to turn to him
to let it him give it to me. In doing so, I thought about the statement,
'whether you can or you can't, you're right'. I guess this week was
important for me, cuz it's helped me gain the attitude I need to keep in
staying in this area a bit longer.
We were
able to see a few small miracles in our area this week. We have one less
active woman, named Eduarda, who all the members had told us to pass by
and talk to a few weeks back, having just gone recently inactive. In
the first visit we made to her house, she was more or less apprehensive,
told us she didn't have time, etc. , yet we still taught her; that was a
few weeks ago. Over time, she's slowly been warming up to us, until
this week, when, on Friday or Saturday night, accepted the invitation to
come to church again. We passed her on Sunday morning before we went,
and she told us she wasn't going to come because she 'didn't have shoes
to wear to church', but we talked her through it, and told her she was
coming to church. It was so awesome to see when I sat down at the piano
in Sacrament Meeting and looked at the congregation, and saw her sitting
with her kids. It was freaking boss.
This
week, I also had the opportunity to go on a division with Elder Cosmo to
his area in Estancia Roque so we could do a couple baptismal
interviews, which was fun. I love going back to Estancia Roque every
once and a while, and it's always so much fun because everybody there
just gives the elders food, like all over the place. I think I had 5
different cobs of corn in two different houses, as well as some cookies
cooked in egg (kinda weird) and some fresh goat cheese (also weird), as
well as some little treats and dinner too. I never leave there hungry :P
Elder Cosmo is also a lot of fun to hang out with, he's from Brazil and
is a bit more reserved, but when we've had as long as we've had in the
same district together, we get along pretty well. It's fun cuz I always
get a little test on my Portuguese when I go out with him, since he
speaks like no English, and he happens to have a beautiful Brazilian
accent as well.
This week also brought Zone
Conference for us, which was good. We had the opportunity to hear from
the Assistants, and President and Sister Mathews. Sister Mathews just
rocks it every single dang time she gets up, like her trainings are so
good. She gave a training on Chapter 4 of Preach my Gospel, and I
thought I knew what it was all about, but she proved me wrong cuz she
pretty well expounded straight doctrine to us. It was good. We also
learned how to make like missionary shirts out of paper to give to
people for like commitments and such. The last thing I thought I would
be doing on my mission would have been making cute little paper shirts,
but the mission really does change ya I guess.
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| Rding in the Hiace - Elder Cosmo sleeping in the back seat! |
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| Rock throwing never grows old! |
Love y'all! Have a good week!
The Lone Elder Massey
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