Week 76

Monday, May 27, 2019

This week the windows of heavens were truly opened and rained down blessings. My companion and I stood outside with five gallon buckets catching them all

 P DAY - so this last pday was one of the best in a while. We ate lunch with a member and taught her friend. Played a good bit of ping-pong and took off to play some true basketball. It’s fun because the Brazilians go so hard! They see America as being the land of basketball and having an American team to play against is the dream of a life time for them. We also bought chords for my guitar and my comp taught me how to put them on and get everything prepped. During the night we had an appointment with a family divorced. The ex-husband is a member less active and gave the reference. The family is really progressing!

     The real highlight of this week was Sunday (yesterday). We have a couple we are teaching that are really struggling in life. We were able to help them a little to have food in their house and they are even hungrier for the gospel. Sunday morning we were trying to figure out how we would get them to church. All the members in our ward that have cars (which is very few) all were not able to help due to ward conference assignments. We also had to get Gabriel to church to be confirmed and that was stressing us out. But we left the house early ready to make something work. I felt prompted to call a less active member who has helped us multiple ties and has become a real friend to me. But I pushed it aside because I knew he worked all night and lived far away. But again I felt to call him. After calling him we discovered he was in a park two blocks from us and had finished taking a client to an event. We were more than willing and excited to help us get this couple to church. We also went to get Gabriel who was supposed to sleep with his cousin (who is a member) but last second couldn’t and was without money for a bus. He wouldn’t have been able to go if we didn’t go get him. In the end he was confirmed and our couple loved church and accepted baptism. 

    Another fun miracle: We had an ex pro soccer player that is a member of the church that came and did a fireside with our ward and stake. He is friends with our bishop. He played on the team that won two world cups and 3 Brazilian titles. And he helped create the program that became my favorite team ever! I got to sit with him on the stand and converse with him for a while. Of course we took pics and he signed my jersey. But the miracle was that he was there to teach about temple work and family history. And because Gabriel was confirmed in front of him, he will pay the price for him to visit the temple next month. This will really shape and found Gabriel’s testimony that will leave him firm for life. Gabriel was supposed to be confirmed last week but was sick. While we were sad and discouraged a little we didn’t realize that God was preparing this all to happen. It’s truly a testimony builder to know that God has everything under control. He knows all, See´s all and truly all loving. How can we not follow him that only wants the best for us?

Anyways this week was amazing and we are excited to start another one! Love you all and hope you all have a great week! Keep being examples and the lights of the world! 

Love Elder Lee