Monday, May 24, 2021
OI GENTE!! Another fun week here in Palmas! Not gonna lie, this week was fun and HARD!! We have some pretty awesome people we are teaching who just don't want to progress hahaha! So it's been a little hard, but we saw some miracles this weekend. Let me tell ya about them!
We have our friend Ederme, who we taught the Restoration and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and he loved both of the lessons. And then... He disappeared! He didn't respond to any of our texts and we were so confused, then this week he finally responded back to us. He was just busy with a project hahaha, but we went over to his home and gave him a Book of Mormon and taught him about faith. He is super cool and has the potential to progress, if he puts in the work! That's the hard thing with being a missionary, seeing people use their agency wrong haha. But we are going to go over this next week and teach him the Plan of Salvation.
Our dear friend Brenda on Monday told us that she didn't want to learn with us anymore, because she was feeling pressured.... It was because we made this calendar for her for 2 weeks worth of scripture readings from the Bible and the Book of Mormon, with a different topic each day. And she told us she would read it everyday, and on te 5th day we asked how she like the reading, and she told us that she wasn't reading... so we of course showed our sadness about this, and that's when she told us she was feeling pressured. So we decided to take a step back these past couple days. And then, Saturday morning we get a text from her saying that she had read the Book of Mormon everyday that week and was a couple days ahead on the calendar that we made... WHAT?? Miracles are real my friends. We are going to have to take more baby steps with Brenda, but I am just happy that she still has the desire to now learn with us again.
Saturday morning we had the chance to meet with our ward at the church building to clean the church building! It was so much fun hahah, pretty hard because the church building had so many bugs and was just super dirty. But after 4 hours of hard work, it was clean! It was our ward (Palmas 3) and the Elders here, their ward (Palmas 4), so we had a good amount of people there to help out. Me and Sister Hernandez have been wanting to find more service opportunities so that we can get out of the house more! So this was the perfect opportunity!
Sunday was the best day ever, because it was the sabbath, and also because we had church in person after not having in person church since march. But, now we are back in person! And it was so awesome! Especially because our friend Jeldes came. And oh my gosh... the members were so kind to him, and just helped him feel so much love and he felt so welcomed. We gave him a tour of the church building afterwards, and we showed him the baptismal font. The funny thing is that the elders had cleaned it the day before, so it still had water haha. I was so tempted to tell Jeldes "Look, it's ready for ya!" But I decided it would be better not to hahaha. But after the tour, a wonder sister in our ward had invited us to her home because her son received his mission call and he was going to open it that night, but we could only go if we had a non-member there. So, we turned to Jeldes and asked him if he wanted to go to this random persons house to watch him open some random calling hahaha, but he was all for it! And he actually came! The guy got his call to Brazil Florianopolis, and it was so cool to participate with that, and even more cool that Jeldes was there. Everyone pray for Jeldes that he can continue to progress. He is soooo close!!
That's all for this week, but remember to always share your testimony with others so they can feel the love of our Savior in their lives!
Love you all!
♡Sister Guilott♡
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