Strength From God

There are so many wonderful things to do to help progress the work of God. I´m thankful for the opportunity I have to be apart of God´s work. It´s been amazing to see God help us in the work. Last Tuesday we had divisions and my companion told me about a wonderful experience he had with the other Elder. He met a man on the street who got really excited to see the missionaries. He grabbed my Elder´s planner from him and told him where he lived, his name, and when he wanted us to come visit him. So a couple days later we were walking down a street and a saw a man sitting on his car in front of his house and I told him we are missionaries and we have a special message about Jesus Christ. Before I could say anything more he had dropped the food he was holding and ran to open the fence for us and he started shaking my hand. We sat down on his sofa in front of his house and we had a wonderful conversation with him. I couldn´t understand most of what he was saying, but my companion told me he´s had a really rough life. However, I could understand that he has a strong desire to follow Christ and he´s been searching for the truth for a while. There are some people I´ve met on the mission so far that are strangely familiar and he is one of them. We talked with him for about an hour during which we shared the first lesson about the restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon. It wasn´t until after this visit that my companion told me that this was the same person he met on the street eariler, and then things made a lot more sense. We met with the same man a couple days later during which we taught the plan of salvation. Before the lesson we were privileged to meet his family. The mother told us she was very grateful that we were teaching her son. Later we told we were both from America. Right after we told her that. Shen ran into the kitchen and yelled at her daughters something like, "Did you hear that?! These two missionaries are from America!" After that one of the daughters came in to the room and started asking us questions like where we live and how late we can stay out. We made sure to quickly tell this family about some of the rules we have from the missionary handbook. I love the missionary handbook. The rules help us in so many ways. After our lesson this man gave us some free fruit and invited us to have shurraskoo with his family next Friday. Shurraskoo is delicous brazilian barbeque. Learning the language is not easy, but God has given me strength to do what I need to do. Yesterday was my first time bearing my testimony in front of Brazilian ward. I´m so thankful that the Holy Ghost helps me to know what to say. After that church meeting. The two investigators we have that went to church said they want to be baptized next sunday! Be grateful for the past and make the future awesome!

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