Querida Família,
Tudo bem?? Como vai?
Another good week here...the days are flying by!
Lots of ups and downs this week.... getting dropped by some of our best investigators.... and then turning the corner and finding AMAZING new ones. I find that's how it is in the mission... you for sure have the rough days, but you just keep on working and soon enough you're back on top again. :) The Lord has blessed us SO MUCH this week, and it's been incredible to see how the Spirit has been guiding us, in a VERY real way. It's very humbling, and I just hope that I can always listen and obey the promptings He sends me.
The BEST part this week... : We've been receiving quite a few referrals from members, and because they're usually in the neighborhoods that are SUPER far away and hard to get to, we took a while to get around to contacting them...which was a mistake. I've learned this week that there is NOTHING better in the world than a referral from members! It's so good to teach people who are prepared and interested and ready to receive our visit. So different than the people we generally meet knocking doors. :P We contacted two amazing families this week, and they are both really sincerely searching to know the truth. It's so good. We taught the Restoration for Junior and Kawana (they are a young couple with a 1 year old daughter), and they accepted all of our invitations - to read the Book of Mormon, to pray, to go to church, and to be baptized! They asked questions about how to pray, how to feel the Holy Ghost, how they could receive an answer that our message is true... after the lesson both Sister Rojas and I left their house just beaming. :)
The other family we contacted was just as wonderful - Michelle and Jonas, and their two kids, a 6 year old daughter and a 2 year old son. We introduced the Book of Mormon and invited them to read, and Jonas told us that he had always wondered why Christ wouldn't have visited other parts of the world - he was so excited to read about Christ's visit to the Americas in the Book of Mormon! They both told us that we couldn't have arrived at a better moment to visit them and share our message. The Spirit was strong and once again, we both just felt so happy and excited to have found such a wonderful family to teach.
So the moral of the story is, missionary work is SO much more effective, SO much easier, when the members get involved! When we live the gospel, serve our neighbors and friends, LOVE others, opportunities to share the gospel will open up all around us. I know that's true! I'm so grateful for the members who have sought to be that example and have trusted us enough to invite us to teach their friends. It's made such a big difference in our work here.
Anyways, that's about it from me. Hope you are all doing well! I love you guys so much!!!! Have an amazing week!
Love,
Sister Gee
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