A Week of Special Experiences

 

So much happened this week I don't even know what to write. We had a lot of special experiences, and we had some crazy things happen. General conference happened this week and it was really good. Long story's but I think it's worth a read. :)

 

CRAZYNESS

So, this week we had a lot of crazy things happened. We were teaching a lesson and the guy we were teaching started to have a seizure, so we were able to catch him before he fell and give him a blessing, and he turned out OK. It was really cool experience and we’re going back tomorrow to check on him.

Also, we were sitting down waiting because all of our lessons fell through and no one was home, so we said a prayer asking that we would be able to find someone and out of nowhere who we hear a voice, and it was a lady that we did a contact with but couldn’t find her house so we didn't return. She asked if we were waiting for her, and we were like yes absolutely and she invited us to her house to teach a lesson. But I kid you not we said amen and she was like oiii meninos and I swear she came out of nowhere. 

 

BEING ABLE TO HELP

I'm not sure if this will make sense but it's hard to explain because it happened in Portuguese so good luck. And I know it's long my bad. 

This week I was able to help a lot more with one of the people we are teaching, and it means a lot to me because I can’t always understand or help people as well as others. She has read the book of Mormon and has a strong testimony, but she really likes the church she's going to. Her mom and her sister are both members. And she really likes the church, but she didn't know what to do. In between sessions of general conference, we went to visit her to invite her to watch. She ended up coming with us and watching the night session on Saturday. After she said she had a question for one of the other missionaries and she wanted him to be sincere but would ask him the next day. So, the next day in between the afternoon and evening session, we went back to answer her question. We were at her house talking to her and her mom. trying to answer this question for about an hour. Her question was why we kept coming, why we kept teaching and weren't giving up. After one of the missionaries responded the best, he could he told me to tell her what I thought. The first thing I did was, I asked her why she had this question in her head. She said that she felt a spirit, a good feeling about us visiting her and about the church and the things we're teaching so I told her that she already had her response it's because of this feeling, the spirit. She has a lot of questions and doubts and wanted a response right away, so I told her that sometimes we don't always receive responses right away. But with the prophet and the apostles speaking to everyone it might be a way for her to receive an answer. I reminded her that we loved her, and the savior loves her more and we are here to demonstrate the savior's love for others. And this is the work that we need to do as missionaries and as members of the church, we need to be able to demonstrate this savior's love for others because sometimes people have a hard time feeling the savior's love. I know for a fact that the holy ghost helped me to say these things because I know Portuguese, but she understood everything I was saying exactly. Before we entered, we didn't know what the question was, what we would say, or what we would do, but we were able to respond the best we could and she is still having a hard time she's really confused and I know with time she will figure these things out and she will find happiness. Sometimes we need to just do everything that we can, and the Lord will take care of the rest, but until we give it our all we cannot stop. She came to the night session for about 20 minutes and after she had to leave because she had other things to do but she came over and told me thank you for inviting me I don't know what I feel but your heart can be calm I will continue to look for responses. This was very special to me, and I wanted to share it because we cannot give up on people even if we can't help them anymore, just showing love for them is the least we can do. 

 

PHOTOS

We ate jackfruit. 

Got pizza after conference.