Week 62 Obidos

 

Hey Y'all! Tudo bem!? 

So yeah, this week my comp and I got emergency transferred to another area! So there is an area in our zone that had sisters. It's an amazing area and we'll just say it started to get too dangerous for sisters, so our mission president called us on Wednesday and asked us how we were doing and how the work is going. I excitedly told him about all the miracles we have been seeinh and how excited we were, and he said "That's wonderful elder! Look, there is a great house in Óbidos, really big, really nice, I'll send you photos right now." And in that moment I knew that I was gonna be leaving to Óbidos. To say we were a little sad would be an understatement. My comp and I were having a lot of success and loving our area! But I have learned here to do the Lords work without complaing, so on Friday night we took the 7+ hour boat ride to Óbidos! It was definitely a once in a lifetime experience to take a boat down the amazon river and to live in a lottle town in the amazon! 

Except that we arrived in the port at 3 am and it was only a 10 minute stop, so we ran and carried all of our stuff and got a taxi to our house and we arrived in our house at 4 am. It was a pretty exciting night! And the next day we got to know the area only a little and we worked a lot to contact people on whatsapp. The sisteres only left a list of their 10 people that were progressing the most, and thats it! So we have been working a lot to get to know the area! 

But I am already loving this area! When we were arriving we saw some cows that were up to there knees on the amazon river! Here it is just normal to go take a swim in the river or go fishing or hunting early in the morning to get your lunch! It's all so amazing to me! I am already loving it all! 

This week I studied a lot about humility, and in my experience when you study humility the Lord will find a way to really show your weaknesses, not only to you but to everyone! And I wasn't really liking that, so I studied and pondered a lot, why? Why is humiliation the only way to be more humble!? And I found a lot of great scruptures, and I refound a scripture that I have not read in a lot of time! Ether 12:27! My favorite scripture! And I learned 2 things, 1 is that the Lord has already helped me better my weaknesses a lot! And I am still finding a lot of weaknesses in myself and then I realized, that when the Lord points out our weakness, he is really saying "hey, I am showing you this because I know you can be better. I can turn this around for you, to really be one of your strengths!" I realized that the Lord is just showing us perfect and individual love! He really has a magnificient vision for each and every one of us! We just need to turn to him in humility and he will show us our weaknesses and help us to turn them around! And one day we will look back and realize that all of those weaknesses have turned into strengths and we have started becoming the person that God wants us to become, the person we were designed to be! 

Now pictures! 

1. We visited the docks in Santarém last Monday! 

2. Another pictures of the docks in Santarém 

3. The back of the boat before we left 

4. In this one we were on top of the boat 

5. Us with the port behind us

6. Goodbye Santarém  

7. President said we could rent a cabin since it was so last minute, but I think that the future trips we'll be sleeping in a hammock 

8. Another boat on the river at night 

9. Woohoo, arrived at our front door at 4 am, woot woot 

10. A giant frog that was on our door. I poked it and it jumped onto my head and then onto my bag and then the ground and jumped away 

11. Saturday morning I woke up and took this photo of our area. Its a little more rural 

12. First lunch here in Óbidos was really good! 

13. My comp last night. I was calling another companionship of missionaries to see how there week was and afterwards I looked back and I saw that he was asleep with a rubicks cube on his eye I love elder Caldeira 

14. He took this photo of me yesterday just chillin and sending messages to people, almost all day that was a little different than how we normally worked but its all good now, we should be good to go for the rest of this week! 

This is about all for this week! 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.