Subject: The Rest of the Story
So,
since I sent out an email only 5 or so days ago, I figured I would give y’all the rest of the story for this week!
Okay, here we go:
Things
were really slow and we only got to
really work for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday because I was mandated to rest so I didn’t push my luck with my lungs. But things
are going well!
We
are coming really close to baptizing
one of our investigators, Joares, if he would just come to church! Gosh! We
have taught him so many times and he
is loving what we teach, and said it
just depends on how he feels when he
goes to church, but every time we make the 45 MINUTE WALK to his house on
Sunday, he has an excuse as to why
he cant come with us. Given, he is 78 and has some trouble walking long distances, but I just don’t understand why it is so
hard for some people to keep a
commitment so simple as coming to church!
All
in all, I know he will be baptized and I think that is a big part
of why he is still alive. To be honest, but he’s not doing very well health-wise
and this is Heavenly Father giving him a chance to receive the blessings of baptism by proper authority in this life.
We
are also teaching a woman named
Denise and her two sons, Douglas (10) and Nicolas (12). They are such awesome people! We have only taught
them a few times because Denise works in a different
city and our schedules don’t
match up except on a couple days of the week, but the lessons we have taught
them have been so powerful!
The
two boys are studs. They love to read
and were absolutely thrilled when we
gave them a Book of Mormon to study. They
don’t have much, but share what they do have. I love that about some of the
people here in Brazil.
To
be honest, Rio isn’t the friendliest
part of the country (according to the natives) and because of that we have a
hard time getting return appointments.
But I know that regardless of the
culture, the Lord is preparing His elites to accept His Gospel and its up to our diligence to find them!
Elder
B. Carvalho and I set goals last night to strengthen
our work because we haven’t been working as hard as we should be. This proves that the Lord will only bless
you as much as you work for. We have been working
hard to teach the people we know, but not hard enough to find those who are
ready to accept our message and to
baptize these people!
Lesson
of the week: You get out of it what you put in. If you aren’t getting the results you want, make the
necessary changes! The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
and over again, but expecting a different
result. Don’t go insane! Study your
scriptures, ponder the words you read, pray
to Heavenly Father for understanding, and you’re good to go! He really has
given us all the tools we need to be
successful on this planet and
accomplish our purpose here: to return
to His presence and live with Him and our families for eternity!
I
know that Christ lives and that His
gospel is perfect. I know that faith conduces repentance which helps causes
us to want to be baptized for the
remission of sins, which allows us to receive the precious gift of the Holy
Ghost to guide us throughout this life
of confusion. The final step is to
endure to the end and do the things Christ did and set an example of. Heavenly
Father loves us and is rooting for us! Do His will!
I
love you all so very much and look
forward to getting emails from you this week! :)
Love,
Elder
LeSueur
Mormon.Org
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