June 23, 2014
Hey everyone!
This week was GREAT! I can't
believe Devin and Dalton are both in the MTC now. So exciting! When does
Karin leave? Devin's been in pretty much all of my personal prayers this week,
as well as all of you at home. I hope you're doing well!
I decided to do something a little
differently for my email this week. Who's ready for a play by play? (As time
allows. We've got 10 minute!)
Monday: Preparation day, but with
four lessons and four new investigators! Woohoo! All of our plans had fallen
through, and we decided to visit a contact from the other day, who passed a
referral of their neighbor, who gave a referral of their neighbor...and
so it went. It was wonderful.
Tuesday:We had until 3:00 to work
because of the World Cup. So we went out running!! We had a lesson with Vânia
first thing, which was perfect. We marked a new baptism date with her, and
she's feeling really good about it! We taught her about the Plan of Salvation,
and her daughters were asking us questions about things the kids at school were
saying. "Is it true that after we die, we can be born again as a
man?" We talked to them about our divine natures as daughters of God. It
was soooo special--we told them that Heavenly Father was our Heavenly King
(nothing's translating right today, sorry.) and told them that they were his
daughters. We asked them, "Do you know what daughters of Kings are
called?" and they looked up at us with excitement in their eyes.
"Princesses?"
AWWWWWWW. Hahaha it was very cute,
really.
But Vânia is set on her course, is
living the word of wisdom, and is excited. WOOHOO!!! Please feel free to
continue praying for her :) I felt the difference this week!
Wednesday: We got up early to go to
Multi-Zone Conference...and President and Sister Martin's "Goodbye".
(There's a really good word for that in Portuguese. I don't think we have that
in English) Sister Vaughn and I were responsible to give the training for all
of the Sisters, and HOLY COW are there a ton of them! I've never seen this many
Sisters in my life! (Except in the MTC, clearly. Sidenote: We redivided what
areas we're over--we adopted 3 more areas and lost Cerquilho). We spent the
part of Tuesday that we were stuck at home praying and planning for what we'd
share, and we were really blessed to feel the Spirit guiding us. It was more or
less based on that one quote by Elder Holland that......ok. You can find it in
PMG chapter 1, under the subtitle of following up or something along those
lines. Read it. Love it. Then go apply it. :) We talked about how to teach with
power and testimony, and then how to use that same power to effectively follow
up. Obviously, the spirit doesn't inspire me in English anymore. Sorry. But it
really was good!
We said goodbye to President and
Sister Martins, which still feels surreal. I sure do love them.
Thursday: We worked hard, visited
Vânia, had a couple of good lessons with some other people...and that's all we
have time to say
Friday:Another good day! LAILA'S
LIVING THE WORD OF WISDOM!!! She's doing so great! It's incredible to see her
faith growing like this!
Saturday: Y'all ready for this? We
taught 16 lessons, and found 14 new investigators. Whaaaaat. That would be my
new record! (Not that it's about numbers, but it's fun to be able to see the
fruits of our labors!)
Sunday: We visited a less active
woman we had discovered on Saturday with some women from the ward (she hasn't
had contact with the church for 40 years). She fell away because she started
smoking...but 5 days before we found her, she decided to stop! And did it! WOW.
Her 10 and 11 year old granddaughters live with her, and one of the women who
visited them with us took them to a church activity! The girls loved it, and
are saying they want to be baptized. We'll see where this goes!!!
Well...I am out of time. This week
looks like it'll be full of miracles, and we're so excited!!!! I love you
all!
Sister Fuller
Sure love President and Sister Martins!
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