Feliz 2015 para vocês!!!
This week it really hit me that the mission is coming
to an end. This is the year to come home and 2014 flew by sooooo fast. It just
goes by faster everyday.
Had a really good week this week!!! It started off
great with me and Elder Preator giving a 15 minute training in each district
meeting to help the missionaries see that they can do way better and work
harder, and that the numbers they have been putting up each week aren't acceptable. It was a success and really opened a lot of eyes. We just know
their potential is so much higher then they give themselves credit for. We are
here to help people come unto Christ and we should go out everyday feeling
great to share what we know with others.
New Year´s was pretty fun. It was hard to work since
everything here was closed starting about 4:00 and people were partying it up.
But we ended up eating "Pão com Ovo" (french bread with egg) at a
member´s house which was fun! On New Year´s day I went up to Santa Maria
Sul to do a trade with missionary in the zone who has been struggling a little
bit. It went awesome!! We were able to mark 3 baptism dates and we had a blast.
I know Heavenly Father answers our prayers. Right when I got there before
lunch, we just sat and talked since he was going through some difficulties and
feeling really down about the work. I prayed that we would have a great day and
that it would help get him excited to continue ahead! The Lord came through (as
always) and the day was awesome!!! We also were able to help a guy who
had some problems. Usually everyday a lot of drugged up and drunk people come
up and talk to us. But this normal guy came up to us and looked me in the eyes
and says "Help me, I´m thinking of killing myself. Tell me something I
need to hear." I just put my arm around this guy and read him a message
from the scriptures. He told us how he has a wife and a newborn son. I asked
him if taking his life would help out his new son. He answered that it wouldn’t.
I told him that if he had faith and stayed strong, that 20 years from now when
his son is struggling and having problems, he can tell his son that he
struggled at one point as well, but overcame it. He can be an example. He was needing Powdered Milk for his son so we were
able to help arrange it for him. Great experience. I could feel God´s love and
I felt a convincing principle in my heart that God loves all of us. He loves
all of his children and that's we need to love one another. Love your neighbor as
thyself. It made me think later, why is there so much evil and wrong in
this world? Why do people judge others and bring others down? Why can’t we all
have a perspective that we are here to prepare ourselves to live with God (Alma
34:32) and that we should help each other so we can all reach that ultimate
goal. Then I realized that is what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is about.
Helping us become like our Savior and follow in His example.
We are teaching some family members of a recent
convert here. One of their family members (who we knew and saw almost every
other day) died of cancer at age 52. We were able to testify of Christ, that He
is our resurrected Lord and Savior and that we will all see our loved ones
again. I asked one of the brothers of Noé (who died), if he believed he would
see Noé again. He answered that He wouldn’t remember him. I then asked, "would
you like to know and seem him again?" and He answered with tears,
"yes, I want to, with certainty." We then bore our testimonies
of the Plan of Salvation and promised him he would see Noé again. that is
something I know! With a certainty, sem dúvida.
We have some awesome things planned for this week
since my companion is leaving Gama on Thursday morning and then flying home on
Friday. Elder Willardson has been a great friend. I'll be in a trio with Preator
and Barusso until Monday for transfers!
I love y'all so much!!! Have a great week and 2015.
Elder Bean I
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