Hey everyone! Tudo bem!?
This week
was another great one, but for different reasons! To start off we moved
houses! We moved from our house above the bakery to an apartment
complex that is safer, does not have huge holes in the outside wall, and
has a view of the Tapajos/Amazon river! Its pretty nice! But we had to
move everything to the third story. We were dead after doing it haha. We
were running across our area to teach lessons and after that wemoved
houses all by ourselves. We rented a truck and a driver but he only
drove, we loaded and unloaded, and did everything but the 3 minute drive
between houses.
So my
comp and I were pretty tired, and the next day we had a big meeting
with President! It was honestly a great meeting, because right now I am
in the best spot in the mission, the best city! President loves our
zone and it was just a great day! Our president loves to tell stories so
it was a day full of funny stories! I loved it! I got to have an
interview with him and he gave me some transfer deets, but he made me
promise to keep my mouth shut, so I'll wait till next week to spill the beans.
And
then we started working hard again, and it was tons of fun! And then
president called us and said he wanted to see our new house and take us
out to lunch. So naturally we cancelled our lunch for the day and we
gave him a tour of our new apartment. He said they will buy new
mattresses for us and they will get an air conditioner for us!! I was
pretty excited for this because I haven't stopped sweating since the
moment I got here, hahaha. And lunch was really good! He took us to the
best restaurant here in Santarém and it was just all around great!
And then we ended the week with more work and another exchange. So I spent the end of the week
working in another area! It was really fun and we got to help out with
the baptism of a family of 5! It was really awesome! I loved it! And
afterwards a group of like 25 americans arrived and sang a hymn to the
family and I was shook. I couldn't believe what I had just seen! So I
went and talked with one of the Americans for a little bit (which was
very weird to talk in English with someone besides my family) and they
were just visiting to do some service and they are actually attending
the congregation that I am assigned to here in Brasil! So I will get to
see a whole bunch of Americans the next two weeks!
This week
I was reading in 2 Nephi 31 and I loved verse 20, that says "Wherefore,
ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect
brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye
shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the
end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life." This
lays out so many ptinciples of the gospel for us to learn and live. We
need to put our trust in the Lord and press forward knowing that only
through Christ can we really be enough to do all we need to do. We need
to have hope for ourselves and the perfect plan of God! Love one
another! Feast upon the words of Christ! I wonder what difference it
would make in your life, if instead of reading the scriptures every day
you feasted upon them every day? And if we will try our best with all of
this, we have the promise of eternal life from our loving Heavenly
Father!
That is about all for this week, and now pictures!
1. Us unbuilding our beds
4. The view from our apartment! You can see the amazon river right there in the back.
5. And in the same photo, but a little zoomed in, you can see a chicken on the roof of that house.
6. Another picture of the view
7. President talking to us in our meeting
8. The best zone in the world!! It is honestly so fun here in Santarém
9. Again, the best zone in the World!
10. To close it off, the best fish I have had here in Brasil
11. Our lunch with president!
This
is all for now! Feel free to email me if you would like or if you have
any questions or people to pray for! Hope y'all have a great week!
Com muito amor,
Elder Sant
Acreditar. Amar. Fazer.
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