This week we did a lot of contacts! We knocked(Clapped) on a lot of doors! Everyone will come out and say hi but not everyone will let you in to share a message. They say that is just here in Ponta Porã because people are rich. But we spent a day doing contacts where we didnt get in any door(gate) we went to! And then another day where we got in every door we went to! It was pretty great! We met an amazing family with a brand new child. We love them so much and hope to grow with them a lot!
It is the rainy season here in Brazil so about once every week it will just poor. Out of no where. Yesterday we were trying to find a house of one of our recent converts. We thought it was this one house so we clapped, asked, and it wasnt. Then i thought maybe it could be another so we clapped, asked, and it wasnt. So we started to walk away but then it started pooring. The lady insisted we come in under the covering. So we did. We ended up talking for a while and sharing a message while the rain trapped us in. She then expressed how she knew we were meant to be there by God and she needed to hear what we had to say. Even though she was a strong catholic, she expressed her gratitude and her surety that we are servants of the Lord. How great is that! We hope to return to her house and talk about the pamphlet we left with her. But how awesome to know that I was an instrument in the Lords hands! I didnt know it at the time i was telling my companion i think this might be the house! I just thought it could be the house we were looking for! When really it was the Lord working through me! So amazing!
We also have been visiting a member who hasnt been having the best time lately. He has been stressed with all the things in his life and worried about what to do. We were able to talk to him about the big picure of life. And how if we are too focused on one thing, we cant see all the other things that are in our life. It will cover our view. We all need to focus on the big picture and what God has in store for us and how at any moment of our life is just a little part of a big plan for each of us. I was able to read my patriarichal blessing this week and how awesome is that! The Lord has blessed us with a blessing that will promise us great things in our lives if we would just be obedient and heed to the council in the blessing! It was so great to look at that and see the personal liahona in my life.
I know this gospel is true. I know that God knows every single one of us individually and has a plan for each one of us. I know that He can and will help us. All we need to do is trust in Him and ask. God can give us strength to get through difficult times. And we can and will come to know of the truth of His gospel if we ask in faith. I know that if we dont rekindle and keep feeding our spiritual fire, it will go out. If we need to, we can ask God again and again if the church is true to recieve a peace and reasurrance that will feed our spiritual fire. Doubt is not of God. The blessings of this gospel are infinite. I know this.
-Elder Nelson
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