Quickly:
Certainly it is different working here. I
am learning that the word misson doesn't just mean 'take pictures, make
friends, learn a language, etc. etc' Though these things are
good,'mission' means 'growth, service, and Baptise.' All of these, minus
baptisms, hurt. All of these as well are needed to become who we need
to become!
This week:
I ate a huge ant - on purpose
We helped chase a goat back to someone's home
It rained A TON
We painted our apartment
We experienced a miracle.
We Baptized Elisangela!
The baptismal service was fantastic! I need to explain a miracle first.
Elder Napan and I have the same amount of time in the mission field here
in Brasil, so he is learning the language too. My trainer and his
trainer had to interview Elisangela for Baptism and so we had to find
our way to an appointment. We had been there by bus, but not at night
and not from the spot we were at.
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Being
a man, I thought I knew where we were going. We. Got. Lost. Elder Napan
and I, being the only ones in the street, prayed. Hard. Asking for a
miracle to lead us to our appointment. We asked God for sure direction
that we could recognize, understand, and follow to get there.
We said Amen.
Elder
Napan turned around and asked this 20ish year old guy how to get to the
address we were looking for.I was thinking 'where did this guy come
from??' He said that he was heading that way and that he'd show us.
No
joke. Not even two seconds after we closed our prayer, God had lined up
this 'angel without wings' to guide us to our appointment.
STRAIGHT MIRACLE
On
the way he said that he had looked into many churches because each
church must have a little bit of the truth. We asked him if he thought
that the original church that Jesus established had all the truth. Of
course it did. We told him that that church had been restored, got his
address and telefone number, and other missionaries will be teaching him
soon!
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