Wow- 11 months on the mission! It´s so crazy to me!!! Almost a year! I can’t believe it. I feel like I arrived here the other day. Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it??
This week was interesting. It started with Carnival- which meant that everyone went to the beach or traveled. Or in other words, the city was desolate and didn’t have anyone to teach. We found some good missionary things to do though. Just to celebrate, I made a missionary Carnival mask! Ha ha! You always need to enjoy the moment, so I do!
We had a mission conference this week that was wonderful. Our president talked about how we need to find men to teach to help the church and priesthood grow here in Brazil. We have a lot of work to do! I always feel refreshed and reenergized when we have conferences. It was nice to see other missionaries and a lot of sisters!
Our area is doing really well. We have been receiving a lot of references from members, which is the best! We had Jadson´s baptism yesterday. His brothers are recently baptized, and we had been teaching him. He was a little hesitant about baptism, but we marked the date and invited him to pray about it during camp that week. When he returned from young men´s camp, he told us that he wanted to be baptized. He had felt really good there, and decided! We were so happy, and it was wonderful to see all the young men there to support him. The ward we are working in really sacrifices and works to help us. Yesterday we had some less active people, investigators and recently baptized people there. I was so happy to see the members helping and guiding these people, that I wanted to cry!
Everything is going well here with the work. I just please ask you all to pray for my companion. She is having some big struggles, and needs some guidance from the Lord. I am being tried alot right now and definitely learning how to rely on the Lord. I love my Savior. The more I learn about the Atonement, the closer I feel to Him. My knowledge of the gospel is increasing more and more everyday, and I am extremely grateful that the Lord called me here. I know this gospel is true. We all need to repent, change our lives and follow the commandments to be happy. The closer we grow to the Lord through keeping his commandments, the more freedom, peace and guidance we feel in our lives. So what do you need to change? This is what the Atonement is all about. Change. So change something for the better.
I love you all and have a wonderful week!
Love, Sister Gordon
Jadson's Baptism
Trantula...eeekkkk!
Zone conference