Monday-
So Sister Gilbert's trainer challenged us to invite 5 people to baptism
everyday! So after pday was over we started. We prayed and asked the
Lord for help to find people and then we started talking to everyone we
saw and when someone would listen to us and we could feel the spirit we
invited them to be baptized. We talked about the BOM and then asked them
that if they read the book and came to know that the book was true for
themselves and know that the Church of Jesus Christ was true, would they
follow Jesus Christ's example and be baptized? It was really cool. I
could feel the spirit so strong! It made my testimony of The Book of
Mormon grow and my testimony of this church grow. After we talked to
someone we would pray and tell the Lord thank you! We only ended up
inviting three people, but that is a start right!? Two people said yes
and so now we have more investigators we get to teach.
Tuesday- I didn't write in my journal and so I don't really remember what happened this day...
Wednesday-
We went on divisions. So I was able to serve with Sister Maingot in
Guimeraes ( I have know idea how to spell that) It was a lot of fun and
I loved being able to get to know the people there and that sister and
see the joy she has for missionary work. She really helped me talk more
and she helped me see how well I really am doing with the language.
Sometimes we are just a little hard on ourselves!:)
Thursday- Don't remember...
Friday-
We taught José. We taught him the word of wisdom and he accepted it
like no problem and told us that he already doesn't drink or do any of
those things. Wow! That was easy! We also had a member there that was
able to help and answer a lot of his question and bare his testimony. It
was awesome. Then he told us that he wanted to go to the baptism of our
branch president's daughter the next day. Perfect!
Saturday-
We made it to the baptism. All of the baptisms are in Povoa, which is
an hour away by bus, because we don't have a font here. José got a ride
with a member, but the member didn't have room for us so we took the
bus. When we got there the baptism was awesome and I could feel the
spirit so strong! I asked José how he felt and he said, "Normal..." We
don't know how to help him. He accepts everything, but then says he
doesn't feel the spirit. After the baptism he took the bus home with us
and it was quite funny cuz we almost missed it and so we started
running! So there we were Sister Gilbert and I and our investigator
running down the street! Don't worry we made it. Sister Gilbert and I
were able to talk to him more and get to know him more. He really is
awesome! He loves to dance! He said he has been dancing since he was
five. So we have a connection there. Then we got to teach him on the bus
ride home.
Domingo- They keep asking me to
lead the music in Sacrament meeting, but I don't know how and I'm not that fluent in Portuguese and so it's a little bit hilarious, but I love being up
there and seeing all of the ward members faces and seeing them all smile
and make funny faces at me! It makes my day! Also we had been fasting
and praying for help on how to help José and we got our answer! We are
going to teach him the first lesson again this week to help his
testimony grow. Hopefully that will help him get an answer for baptism.
Pray for him please and pray for us to be able to help him:)
That is all for this week. I love you all! Keep smiling:) Remember you have a Heavenly Father that loves you!!
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