This week was the best week of my life!! It was hard to say bye to Sister Resquin, but she´s going to live in west jordan after the mission so Ill get to see her again, vai dar certo.
A story real quick: 2 pdays ago I decided to download talks in Portuguese on my MP3 player. So, like any other person on the planet, I plugged it into the computer here in the Lan House. The problem is that when I plugged it in, my MP3 player deid! It wouldnt turn on or charge or do anything after that, and so I put it on my shelf, my heart becuase of the loss of my MP3. While mourning the loss of my MP3, I said a little prayer that it would start working again, and then moved on with my life becuase really it wasnt that big of a deal haha. That night I had an extremely real dream that I got out of bed, walked to my shelf where my MP3 was, and turned it on like normal. So guess what I did when I woke up? I dont know why but I didnt get out of bed and check my MP3 player (oh ye of little faith). so a week later I remembered my dream and decided to give my MP3 another chance and yes, it worked!! I learned 2 things from this experience. First, God answers prayers, even the prayers about the little things in life that will not have eternal consequences in my life. My MP3 player mattered to me and so it mattered to Him too. Sometimes I forget that all I have to do is ask God to help me and He will. it is so simple!! Second, sometimes God answers our prayers way before we realize we already have our answer. I suffered for a whole week without music (hinos da Igreja) when I didnt have to! I am certain that if i would have checked my MP3 player the same day I had the dream it would have worked. Instead I was blind to the answer I had recieved and didnt realize it was an answer until a week later.
But anyway, I´m a mom!! Minha filha is Sister Negreiros, shes from Sao Paulo. She is so cute and helpful and I feel like she is training me more than I am training her haha! I am not surprised though becuase there was a moment in the taxi ride to Trindade after I picked her up while she was asleep next to me when the spirit told me that I have a lot to learn from her. The spirit literally slapped me in the face and told me in portuguese `você tem muitas coisas para aprender dela.` It was awesome.
So yeah I picked up minha filha on Tuesday and guess what else happened on Tuesday?? THATS RIGHT BATISMO!! An investigator of Sister Vergas and Sister Monteiro(who is home now) got baptised on tuesday, so Sister Negreiros got to see a baptism her first day in the feild! Im pretty sure she is the first missionary in the world that got to do that on her first day. Also she gave a talk at the baptism on...baptsim! Needless to say, I was one proud mama.
Also this week has been really interesting becuase of the festa de Trindade. There are so many people in the city its crazy! Also every morning since Friday the Padre wakes us up at 5 so thats awesome. His voice is megaphoned from the Basilica so all of Trindade can hear him say prayers and stuff which is really cool, but i dont know why it has to be at 5am, ya know? Theres a lot of weird things going on here becuase of the Festa. On saturday we were walking home and all the sudden millions of cowboys on their horses come out of nowhere, so that was exciting!
Also Sunday was great becuase we had 4 people come to church! one of them is called Maria de Lourdes. We planned to meet her in front of the Jean Darrott at 8:50 so we were there waiting until 8:59 and she didnt show up. Church started and after 10 minutes I turn around and she is there!! Turns out she made it to the Jean Darrott and we werent there so she asked God to guide her to the church. He guided her!! It was awesome.
Thats all for this week, thanks for reading!! I hope you all have a great week and remember that Heavenly Father loves you with all of his heart.
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