Patience and Advice

 So, update we got the results back but, we have one more meeting this Friday to find out what the final outcome is. So, I should have a set plan by Friday but that could always change (I think that my mission president likes to keep me on my toes). 

This week was a more eventful week for us we got to go to the temple and get lunch with all the missionaries and made a video for the ward we are in. 

 

Temple 

So, the temple was amazing it was probably the best experience I've had yet. It was just very relaxing and gave me time to step back and just forget about the whole knee thing and focus on helping others and learning in a house of the lord. 

 

Video/service game 

So, we decided to do a little activity for our ward and them members because we can't visit them. So how it works is we made a dessert for a family and the catch is that when they receive to, they have 2 days to do a dessert or a present for another family and it goes on until Christmas. We made a video to explain it and gave an example I'll add it here If I can and if not, I'll add it to my Google drive. 

 

Things are getting better thank you all for your prayers. I love you all and am very grateful for all of you. 

 

PHOTOS

I'll add them here when we get it all loaded, should be later today. 

 

Just Waiting for Results

 

So right now, we’re just waiting to get results from the doctor (we got the x-ray, but it didn’t show anything so just waiting on the MRI). I went on Saturday and should know by tomorrow what's going on. Other than that, we just stayed home all week lots of fun stuff. 

 Doctors visit 

So, when I went to the doctor, they gave me a bunch of stuff I had to fill out about my knee, and it was very difficult to understand what was going on because it was all medical terms which I don't know. So, it was a lot of asking one of the ladies to explain it and at one point she was just like you can just skip this and talk to the doctor when you get in. So, it was a fun time it was actually really fast, I got an x-ray and an MRI in less than an hour. 

 God's will not ours 

Every week we do a study of a book called preach my Gospel which helps us be better missionaries and understand how we can help people in the best way. This week's study was about prayer and the power it has. One of the biggest takeaways for me was about how God has a plan for us and he is going to do what is best for us. So, with prayers we can have faith and want things to happen but if it's not the will of God it won't happen and that's ok because he has a plan for us that is better than any plans we could think of ourselves and sometimes we just need to trust him. It won't always be easy, and we might not always understand but it's all for the best and one day we will look back and be thankful. 

 Division 

This week the zone leaders came to do a division with us and me and Elder Godoy spent the day worming on my Portuguese and telling story's because we couldn't do a lot more because of my knee. But it was good for my companion to be able to get out of the house and walk around. 

 Love you all have a great week and I'll keep everyone updated!!

-Elder Amata

 

PHOTOS

We've been making a lot more food too. 

                                         

Building a Dresser

 

Forgot to send this last week  

 This week I started building a dresser, we got a lot of studies in and that's pretty much it. Now were just waiting to get an appointment to the doctor:)

 Building a dresser 

So, since we've had to stay in the house for these past 4 days and are staying there until I get my exams, so we've had a lot of time. We are starting to build a dresser we found the only problem is we don't have instructions. Soon we've been doing our best and it's turned out pretty good so far, but it's also taken a lot longer then it probably should. One of the cool things I noticed is that even if the start is hard the more you try to put things together the easier it gets. I did 2 drawers the first one I messed up a lot and it took almost an hour and a half but the second one it only took 30 minutes and looked way better. So, with that I remembered that some things just take time and the more we try and the more we do the easier it gets. 

 Staying in house 

It honestly been pretty difficult we can't really visit people because they live to far to walk, and I think we'll be in the house for the next week so if anyone has Ideas of what we could do I would love the help. 

 That's it for this week, love you guys I'll keep everyone updated