Well everyone, this week was a great one for sure! I hope you all
had a great New Year's because I know I did! It´s kind of funny to think about
what my New Year´s resolutions were last year compared to this year haha. This
year, 2015, will be the only full year of my life that will be completely
dedicated to serving the Lord. So I´ve been doing a lot of thinking as to how I
can make it as great as I can. So we had the baptism of B. on the 31st, the
last day of the year and It was awesome! I was able to baptize her so it was
even better :) This week I went home teaching with a member Irmão F. It
was different because I wasn´t with my companion who can usually take charge.
F. just put me straight to work once we got the houses and I ended up giving
all of the messages and answering just about all of their questions. All the
people we visited were less actives so it wasn´t as easy as talking to the firm
members. It was really intimidating at first but they ended up being really
great discussions. I was able to understand just about everything and say just
about everything I wanted to say! It was actually really cool. I know I´ve
talked about this before but being here forces you to rely on the Lord. It´s
been one of the best things that has ever happened in my life! When I have the
spirit with me I can say and understand just about anything but when the spirit
isn´t there. Just about all of my portuguese goes out the window. So it´s been
really awesome because just to have a random conversation on the street I have
to rely on Heavenly Father´s help because without him, I can´t do anything. So
that´s kind of an experience to share and kind of an invitation to all of you
out there reading this to look at how much Heavenly Father helps you on a daily
basis with the littlest things that you never really think about.
Anyways, we finally got U. to come to church! Unfortunately
we couldn´t get him to come to his own daughter's baptism :/ The past two
lessons with him have been intense! Intents, like camping... Alright, ignore
that, but for real on Friday the
AP´s came to Currais Novos and went on splits with us. We went teaching with
Elder Corrington. He´s an American from Texas and he´s just about to finish his
mission so he´s fluent in the language. Anyways I can honestly say I learned
more from him on Friday alone
than I have from anyone else in my whole mission. Anyways back to the point.
We went to U.'s house on Friday night and usually we read from the Book of Mormon and
testify and answer any questions he has and invite him to come to church and
pray and all that. But Friday we
started discussing why he doesn´t believe in God and pretty much it just comes
down to he has had a lot of trials in his life and doesn´t know why God isn´t
helping him out. And this is where I took over, it was awesome, All of a sudden
a bunch of scriptures were flowing to my mind and I read a verse in Ether 12 that
says blessings come after the trial of your faith and testified and then he
asked why God lets people be killed and bad things happen if he really loves his
children, And so I opened up to Alma 14 about Alma and Amulek having to watch
their families and all the believers being burned and it talks about how the
righteous are recieved up in Glory and we kinda got that settled and then he was
pretty much saying that he has no proof that a God exists so I was like, Bam
Alma 30, where it talks about everything we have on earth testifies that there
really is a God. Idk, it was just cool that I was able to understand his
questions and know exactly what to say and read and it kinda showed to him that
the gospel has answers for everything. So he finally agreed to come to church
and after church he said there really is something different about this one that
he hasn´t felt in the other churches he´s been to. So we´re gonna keep working
with him and fingers crossed!
Wednesday we had the ward's New Year's/Christmas dinner (That we
decorated for again) and it was good. The best part about it...no one got sick
from the food! Woo! I get nervous when we go to places where they feed a lot
of people because the food is almost always bad :/ Speaking of food, we went to
M.'a´s house again for lunch yesterday and she fed us baby pigeons... Yeah, when I say
baby I mean like I´m pretty sure someone went to crack an egg open but they baby
chick had already formed so they just decided to fry it up instead haha. There
isn´t a lot of meat on them so you eat it whole, bones and all. And I would be
lying if I said it wasn´t really good! I ate 8 of them! It was actually really
good. I did however stay away from the feet. The little claws scared me, I
didn´t want to have one stick on the inside of me. But yeah, for sides we
had.... Yup you guessed it, beans and rice haha.
But anyways, this week was really great and I have been taking the
lead a lot more and becoming more and more confident in the language so it´s
been great. I love you all! Make yourselves a great year this year! A igreja
é verdadeiro! Fica firme fica forte!
Elder Harris #2
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