Week #64 - Acai Lessons!

 Monday, April 12, 2021

Oi Gente! Another fantastic week in Brazil!! I love it here so much. I know I say that every week, but it's still true!! Lots happened this week, so let's hop right into it...

Things here in Brazil are still pretty shutdown. In fact, in Palmas, the whole city is pretty much on a "lockdown," at least that's what everyone is calling it lol. We are not able to meet with members right now, and we have to wait for our investigators to invite us over for in person lessons. We can't ask if we can just come over. So, me and Sister Hernandez have had to think of different ways to try to find people and to meet with people in person. There is a type of food here called açaí, we have it in the USA too, but its wayyyy better here. So we asked 2 teenage girls we are teaching to meet us at the açaí store! And they did! First was with Bia on Wednesday and she wants to be baptized, but has some stuff she has to overcome in order to he baptized. And then on Saturday we had more açaí with our friend Layane! And we talked about faith with her and how we all need to strengthen our faith. It was a fun way to meet people hahah! 

We have been contacting like everyone in our phone, because as missionaries here move around to different areas, the phone stays here in the area. So we call a bunch of people asking them if they still want to learn more about Christ! Sometimes they say yes. And sometimes they say no hahha... so that's been fun! It is still hard to understand some stuff in portuguese, especially with phone calls haha, but I am learning more! My companion Sister Hernandez, is already fluent in Spanish, so she knows a lot of portuguese and is willing to correct me when I make a mistake!! 

Here's is the biggest miracle from the week: we have someone we are teaching, her name is Brenda. We were supposed to have a phone call lesson with her last Monday but asked if we could do a video call, because it is way easier to understand haha! She explained to us how she has anxiety, and then invited us over to her house in person the next day... well OF COURSE we will come over hahaha! #miracles! So we went over, and taught her the Restoration and she absolutely loved it. As we were talking about the Book of Mormon and we're reading it with her, we invited her to pray to know if the Book of Mormon was true. She looked at us and asked if she still had to pray even if she knew the Book of Mormon was already true... so we asked her if she believed it to be true, and she said YES! Talk about faith! We invited her to still pray, and she texted us throughout the week telling us that she prayed and felt happiness and peace. At first she said she didn't receive an answer, but the thing is when we pray our answers normally won't be big grand miracles, but instead feelings of peace and hope. We explained this to her and she said that she had received her answer that the Book of Mormon is true! So we are going to go over tonight actually and invite her to be baptized. I'll update y'all with that next week ;)

Love you all so much!! 

♡Sister Guilott♡