Subject: Uma Transferência na Cidade
Maravilhosa
Well,
I apologize for not having sent an
email last week, but things were very busy and I had a lot of people to respond to and not very much time to
get it all done... but, as you might have guessed from the title of this email,
I have completed one transfer here
in Brazil and am currently in the second week of this five week transfer!
During
these seven weeks here, I have:
walked 456398363746 miles, met some awesome people, met some interesting people, taught some great people, taught some hard-hearted people, learned how to speak Portuguese, learned how to understand Portuguese, nearly died of an asthma attack, read a ton, learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube, become more patient, become more humble, become incredibly skinny, and
probably a lot more other things that I cant think of at the moment. But,
needless to say, I have been sufficiently
busy here in São Gonçalo!
What
are all of y’all doing? I really am interested
in hearing about your lives so write me
emails!
This
week was especially awesome in that
we got four of our investigators to
church. Joares, a 78-year-old man who has been to nearly every church out
there, has missed two baptismal dates
we set, but we fasted with him
Saturday night until Sunday afternoon so that he will receive an answer that this is truly the Lords Church.
It
was a cool experience because he isn’t in very good health, but was willing to sacrifice food and water for
a while so he could find the truth. Its moments like these that make me realize
that there are people out here who are hungry
for the truth and when we find them we need to do everything possible to give them what they need.
In
my training this week we studied the importance of the Book of Mormon in the conversion
of people. Truly, everything goes back to the Book of Mormon. If someone gains
a testimony that it is true, then Joseph Smith had to have had to power of God to translate it from
Reformed Egyptian to English. And if he had that power of God, then he had to
have received it as it says in the Bible "by the laying on of hands".
And if he received that power, then everything
he says has to be true, because a man with that power cannot lie or destroy the
plans of God.
I
know Joseph Smith restored the
Church of Jesus Christ again on the earth so that we could have everything necessary to return to the
presence of our Heavenly Father. The Book of Mormon has the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ
and is our guide to know exactly what we must do to have happiness in this life and eternal
happiness in the life to come!
Read
the Book of Mormon, ponder what you
read, and pray to know if it is or isn’t true. Heavenly Father will tell you
the truth! My testimony wont do
anything for you until you have gained
your own.
I
want you all to know that I love you
so very much and feel your prayers
every day, as I am able to meet the physical
and mental demands of being
a missionary. Be happy, be loving, be
charitable, and you will never go wrong!
Love,
Elder
LeSueur
Mormon.Org
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