Hey Y'all! Tudo bem?
This
week was another good one! It is now rainy season here! It has been
raining almost all week! It is either raining from like 5 am to 2 pm or 1
pm to 11pm. Every day! It reminds me a bit of Louisiana in rainy season
but I think it rains a little more here. I have heard that rainy season
starts about now and will end in May or June! So thats pretty
exciting!
This week we
heard about a family that lives pretty far away that has someone who
wasn't baptized, so we went there and the mom was like "only me and my
oldest doughter weren't baptized." So we are now teaching the rest of
the family! 
Something
that I have loved about Óbidos is that a lot of people have such a
focus on families! Families are sooo important to God! He loves our
families and intends for our families to be eternal, not only a part of
our life here! And here the focus is definitely on families!
This
week an apostle of the Lord, Elder Soares, did a devocional online for
all of Brasil! Woot woot! It was pretty exciting! My comp and I live
pretty far away and so we got to join the zoom call with just us.
Normally it was a group of missionaries but it was just us on our
screen. So that was a little bitter sweet cause its also nice meet with
other missionaries!
Something
that Elder Soares spoke a lot about was faith! That the answer to many
of our difficulties is simply increase your faith! He quoted a scripture
that I think was really interesting. It said "And Christ hath said: If
ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is
expedient in me." This is in Moroni 7:33 in the Book of Mormon. Like I
have said recently, God is still a God of miracles! And the only thing
lacking is our faith! Now this is sometimes hard to hear, that we really
need to increase our faith, but to me that is also the expectation. I
do not expect perfection from or anyone else, and neither does God. We
are still a work in progress here and no one is going to be perfect. So
don't expect perfection and don't expect to stay the same. The Lord is
just asking for our honest efforts!
Now the pictures! Sorry, but I don't have a ton this week!
1. Elder Caldeira and I waiting for a member so we can do visits with them.
2. Uncle Iroh because hes awesome.
3. Our little set up to watch elder soares
4. A hamburger that we got that was actually pretty good!
5. Zona Santarém! Now there are 3 other Americans, including 2 others from my group!
6. A delicious dessert that a member made for us!
7. A fruit salad some members made!
8. RIP elder Caldeira's shoes.
This
is about all for this week! Feel free to email me if you would like or
if you have any questions! Hope y'all have a great week!
I love you all!
Elder Sant
Acreditar. Amar. Fazer.
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