HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! I woke up and started singing the star-spangled
banner for sister neves and she said "please stop" #AMERICA. im wearing
red white and blue and ate a hamburger for lunch so im about american as
you can get in Alegrete, Rio grande do sul, Brasil.
ALSO
today im 8 months old. I DONT BELIEVE HOW FAST THIS IS GOING. also i
dont believe that after 8 months in this freaking country, i still have
moments with portuguese when im like "wait what the heck is going on?
what are you saying? sister neves please fill me in" lol @ this life.
OKAY
SO OUR ADOPT AN INVESTIGATOR THING WAS A BIG HIT. and my that i mean we
have low expectations due to past failures and we thought no one would
do anything, but like half the people actually visiting their "children"
we gave them!!!! WOOHOO. Actually it was really awesome having the
members telling us about the visits they did and how they were so
courageous to go out and find this person theyd never met to read the
Book of Mormon with them and invite them to church and I was so proud of
them because everyone was like "have you visited your kid yet? My kid
is coming to church this week!" #proudmomma.
So
the crappiness of last week got made up for because we were BLESSED
with 8 investigators at church on sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And i
bore my testimony and in summary said, "im happy the church is true
amen" and it was a GOOD day! ALSO my prayers were answered literally
because we had 4 days this week that it was actually warm and not
raining!!! i didnt even have to use tights!! I was so blessed. For
reals.
Fun fact: we have a less active that we
found and he's 70 and he came to church this sunday and he is so
precious, and every time he prays he starts out with "Good afternoon my
heavenly father" AND ITS SO PRECIOUS. I love it.
OKAY
SO we have this family that we are working with, Isaac and Glaucia and
their two sons, and it is going AWESOME! We found her knocking doors,
and she was super stressed and said basically "my kid is sick, i dont
have time for this" and we said "PLEASE LET US HELP!" and after some
persuasion she let us in and we went at it and cleaned her entire house
for an hour and talked her her about her life; We found out that she had
moved here 5 months ago because her husband is in the army, and they
dont know anyone and dont go to any church but shes always relied on God
in her life. So its kind of a long story, but in summary we left that
day just saying a prayer, and we came back the next day with a member,
and a few days later she TOTALLY had a spiritual experience and knew
that the Book of Mormon was true, and they husband was super shut off,
but we introduced them to people and took them to activities and THEY
CAME TO CHURCH THIS SUNDAY and they are saying prayers as a family and
her husband is gaining a testimony and she told us she never felt this
desire to get to know a church un til she met us and basically IT IS
PERFECT (except the fact that they are not legally married
yet....................)
And yesterday after the fast and
testimony meeting she said "if i went up there to bear my testimony, i
would talk about this...." and bore her testimony to us about all the
changes happe ning in her life, for the better, since she started
meeting with us. SO basically they are so prepared and a blessing from
on high.
My message for y'all this week is about bearing your testimony, because we all gotta do it and if not were going to lose it!!!!
I LOVE THIS CHURCH. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY.
SISTER LIPPS
pics:
The son of our ward mission leader is going on a mission this week to
argentina!! We gave him a present and went yesterday to say a prayer
with their family and it was super special and reminded me of my
departure and we all cried.
Family home evening with investigators!
Our district!! love those guys
Me and sister neves were super legit and made lunch one day when ours fell through.
(lol
another day our lunch fell through and we went to a members house and
read them Alma 8:19 and they let us eat with us hahahahaha every
missionary has to use that scripture)
going to find people sunday morning!
happy 8 months to me!
my american lunch hehe
