Tuesday, November 24, 2015
She cleaned her house and made something sweet not knowing why. (11-16-15)
This week has been the greatest yet! Literally, miracles happened this week. So, I told you last week that it rained a ton, well this week it was exactly the opposite, and I dont know if you had a chance to check the weather mom, but it was extremely hot, but I have no idea how hot because it was in Celsius.... but you probably could fill buckets with the sweat that I sweat. Anyway...we also continued to knock doors at the beginning of the week, so we were outside a lot, not really teaching, but Wednesday it all changed. We had a Zone Meeting on Wednesday, and I got to see Elder Sant again, and we also have an Elder Seaman from Philidelphia, anyway, I split with Elder Klinsman in my area and Elder Barros went to Santana. We had a miraculous day, first a youth minister stopped us and really just asked us what we get out of serving a mission, and I shared Alma 29:9 with him (really great verse) next we made some good contacts and met some great people. But we found one lady, 60 years old, never once talked with mormons before, and she suffered from breast cancer earlier in her life. She was buddihst and converted after 17 years and was baptised into the Methodist church. But she has always felt this longing for more. She woke up Wednesday and she just knew something was going to be different. She said she cleaned her house, not knowing why, and then made some sweet pumpkin stuff still not knowing why. Then we knocked on her door. She was so touched, we shared the Restoration and told her to pay attention to how she felt while we explained about Joseph Smith. She could feel the spirit prompting her that what we said is true as she listened. She promised to read the book of Mormon and pray about it, and after reading Moroni 10 when we returned she says she feels that God was speaking this directly to her. She is really a miracle like I said, just amazing. But she´s not the only one, We have found so many people, and after what has felt like so long, we are finally finding real investigators that are interested in hearing our message, and are willing to make changes, and they are truly growing. It´s so amazing to watch this. We found 3 others, and I won´t like they are the rough, almost hippie looking type of people. One has these huge dreadlocks. But this teaches you why you don´t judge, they are super interested, and really understand the need for authority, the thing is almost everyone we teach, they all see and understand that everything we are saying, it all makes sense. The only problem is that they won´t pray and ask, and really it´s a humility issue. Another family we found, not married honestly, both about 50 years old, and the wife can´t read, and the husband barely, but we invited him to pray and ask if Joseph Smith was called as a Prophet of God, and he did recieve his answer. He lives in a tiny house, but honestly, in the moment, he recieved a truth that is greater than all the knowlegde that so many people on this Earth cherish and pridefully flaunt. It´s truly amazing to be apart of this work.
So about the brownies, I actually didn´t make it to class on Wednesday, we got stuck in a lesson with another awesome family we found, Leticia and Ben-Hur(yes, his name is literally Ben-Hur, how cool is that!) He´s a fireman here and he also race's bicycles. They have a 1 year old son named Arthur, such a great family, and they are super interrested and had a ton of questions. So I missed English class, which is actually really improving! btw mom, I haven´t recieved your package, but I´ll probably get it when President Brum comes for stake conference at the end of the month. I´m doing fine btw, I did get slightly homesick, but honestly, I´m way to busy to get homesick hahaha. No, I do not like Reese´s puffs, and I found reeses here actually! also found a backery really close to our house, pão de queijo(cheese bread), sonhos (literally: dreams and they are just that) all kinds of great breads here. And our Christmas Conference will be in Rio Preto north of Araçatuba and I´ll travel there in the morning, and then that night travel back late. It´s like 4 hours on the bus one way. I´ll be able to skype at President Galvez house, a member of the Stake Presidency here. Can´t wait to talk to CR and everyone!
Love you all,
Elder Wyatt
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