Elder Joseph Sant: Week 61 Santarem

Hey Y'all! Tudo bem!?

My week was a pretty good one and a pretty basic one! We worked a lot in our area and we we had a lot of fun! We saw a lot of miracles this week and I am excited for this upcoming week!

Earlier this week we were waiting at the bus stop, so that we could take the bus to our lunch, for like 25 minutes and my comp says "hey elder, I forgot my mask" so we start heading home to get his mask and we see the bus for our lunch pass the stop! So I am a little frustrated, we were running late and so was the bus and now we had to walk all the way home, just to walk all the way back to the bus stop again. So we do that, me and my comp both put two extra masks in our bags so that we won't forget the next time. And we wait for the bus again and finally we take the bus to our lunch. By this time we are running almost an hour late, which isn't good because that means that a family has been waiting on us so that they could eat.

but we are finally on the way, almost there, and some white car stops us and the guy inside rolls down the window and asks, in english(although I didn't realize it at the time), "are you American?" Haha, I replied and we started talking. He said he wanted to move to Utah, and he heard that in Utah they have a lot of our churches. He explained that he wants to get to know our church and visit it! We were pretty stoked and now we are teaching him and helping him prepare for baptism! Also he delivered lasanga to us on saturday night, for free, so thats just another blessing! Also, if we hadn't had that little frustrating hour of forgetting things and walking back and forth we wouldn't have ever taught or met this guy! So really the Lord blesses us in our trials and many times through our trials!

This week my comp and I shared 1 Nephi 3:7 with a lot of people and it is really one of my favorites! Imagine, the Lord tells you and your family to leave your city by foot and walk for a really long time, like weeks or months! And then you get to a good spot and God says, "ha, jk, you gotta go back to grab something you could have gotten before you left, I just didn't tell you about it" that would be a very dificult situation! I don't know if I would have had the faith to deal with it! But I love the faith of Nephi, he said "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." How powerful! The Lord will always provide a way! Many times the way is already prepared! We just need to have the faith necessary to find His path and stay on it. To trust that he already made the way, our job is to humbly find it! I know that the Lord provides a way so that we can all accomplish what we need to, with faithful action!

Now pictures!

1. My comp snapped this picture at a lunch without me knowing somehow

2. Alter do Chão! It is starting to dry, so in about a month there will be a whole lot of Beach! I love visiting here and the hour long bus ride is always an experience! Haha, the bus is always full of people, almost to the point where they can't close the doors