Let
me tell you about this one family we are trying to reactivate. The
mother and her first daughter were baptized in São Paulo a lonngg time
about, but when the daughter, Agatha, was 12 they moved and became
inactive. Then a couple years ago, some missionaries came, reactivated
the mom and a different daughter was baptized, but then something
happened to the mom where she got SUPER offended by someone and refuses
to go back to the ward here. (I think this is just an excuse....) but
anyways, the first daughter agreed to go to church with us on sunday,
but she told us this: "if I don´t feel the spirit, or I don´t like it, I
will leave before it ends." THIS IS WHY I GET SO STRESSED FOR
CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, Saturday
was pretty funny- first of all, a wasp got stuck in my skirt and stung
me twice. Also, we made a delicious cake with one of our investigators
and while it was cooking, we taught. Our investigator mentioned that she
liked the story of Job, and I tried to agree with her. I tried to say
that Job was always faithful (fiel), but I ended up saying that he was
always ugly (feio.) hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yesterday we went to Irmã Sonia (wife of a member). She is SUPER
Hard-headed and smokes HEAVILY. Well, the husband told us yesterday
after church that she likes us. (ha- the only missionaries that she has
liked) so he wanted us to work with her. So we visited her and just sat
and laughed and strengthened our relationship. Then we were very frank
and invited her to baptism. She´s not opposed to baptism, but she
doesn´t want to stop smoking and doesn´t think she can. But after 20-30
minutes of persevering, she said that she would try to not smoke until
lunch of today. This is HUGE!!! She has NEVER tried to stop before. We
will visit her later tonight.
Well this work is going and moving, and I´m praying
for miracles every day. I know the lord will strengthen us. BE THE
EXAMPLE!!!!! I´m so grateful for the savior´s example!
Much love,
Sister Eliason
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