Oi Querido Familia!
Fun fact, Presidente Parrela always starts his talks or anything he says
with "Queridos elderes e sisteres" but jokes on him because he's the querido!!
(querido=dear). (not the animal). Seriously him and is wife are so sweet, I love
them.
SO YEAH I FELL ASLEEP DURING STAKE CONFERENCE ahhhhh it was only for like
15 seconds and then ou investigator Laisla leaned over and said "Sister Lipps!
You fell asleep!" HAHA does that make me a bad missionaria. NO. It just makes me
a tired one.
I've been striving so hard this week to make EVERY hour count in my time
here. 18 months sounds like alot, but it is so short considering all the work
there is to be done here! I have a feeling the next 14 1/2 months are going to
FLY by and I am determined to have no regrets about how hard I worked or how
many people I talked to or that I should have ran more all over my area to make
it to our teaching appointments in time so that we could have more lessons in a
day. BUT one thing I'm stuggling with is the members in our ward. The problem is
just that they LOVE the missionaries so much, and are accustomed to having
missionaries vist them alot, hang out, make lasting friendships, and those are
all good things, but they don't understand that that is not neccessarily our
purpose. And then they get hurt because we dont come by and visit all of
them every week, and then I feel bad that they don't like us anymore, but I want
every hour of my time to be used wisely, and Im just trying to find a balance
here. Its a tricky situation.
Remember that ex-voodoo priest I told y'all about? He's getting baptized
this Saturday! We are so excited! It will be my first baptism of an investigator
that I really helped find and teach! AH pictures and stories to come next week.
His kids arent going to be baptized yet, because we really want them to be
converted, and not just let them get baptized because they think it'd be cool
and their dad is doing it. But we're going to work alot with them to develop
personal testemonies!
We had splits this week with the Sister Training Leaders, and I was with
Sister Moss, so it was my first time "having" an american companion! We both
still dont have perfect accents yet, so a few people had trouble understanding
every thing we said. It was so funny, this one investigator of theirs was like
"Oh brother, TWO AMERICANS? Yeah Im not gonna understand anything" Hahahaha so
thats life as an american missionary in a foreign country.
Yesterday we found a new family that we started teaching, and we told aout
baptism by PROPER authority, the priesthood, so that that is sealed on earth is
also sealed in heaven, and then invited them to pray to know if they need to be
baptized by this authority, and we were explaining how to receive answers to
prayer, and the husband stopped us, turned to his wife and said "Wait, Honey,
they're right!! Our baptism didnt count! That dude didnt have the authority!! We
have to be baptized again!!" hahaha and we were like "YAAAAAAAAAAAS EXACTLY" and
now that I write it i feel like it might not be funny to people that arent
missionaries but it was hilarious and we were all laughing. and then we still
invited him to pray about it and he was like "Dont i already have my answer?!"
LOLS
Being a missionary still rocks. Even though I fall asleep in church
sometimes, I'm still ridiculously happy, it doesnt even make sense.
Estudo:
John 3:16
Helaman 10:4-5
2 Timothy 1:7-8
"Ask the missionaries! They can help!" Russell M. Nelson
I love you all to brazil and back!
OH AND I GOT A PACKAGE WITH ALL THE LETTERS FROM THE YOUNG WOMEN IN MY WARD
AND WAS SO HAPPY HUGS 2 YOU ALL I ALMOST CRIED OF JOY
Amor amor amor,
Sister Lipps
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