10/15
Hello fam!
How are you?
Mom, you will be happy to know that my physical therapist, Pedro, likes to use Asian medicine influence so the other day he gave me a foot massage. He gave me an explanation on how oriental medicine says that everything in your body can be tied to your feet. And then he rubbed the part that has to do with the lumbar spine. And it hurt so badly I almost screamed and cried. He had to have me teach him English words that they don’t have in Portuguese to keep me distracted. He’s a good guy that one, you’d like him. He’s kind of a hippy also. Like feels things very deeply and I wouldn’t be surprised if he does tai chi and yoga. He’s a very tranquil person. And very like emotionally in-tune. It’s interesting but he’s way fun. His broken but actually very impressive English is my favorite thing ever. Like the first week he was speaking to me in English and then gets all excited and says, "my English is from movies and television." so I’m actually really impressed with him.
Anyway, things are good. I don’t really have anything to write about. Life is pretty much the same. Studies, physical therapy, rest in the house some, teach some appointments, and come back to the house. Pedro said I should be sleeping ten hours a night. Craziness. So we come back to the house and I try to go to bed an hour earlier. It’s not easy. Irma Palmer and I always talk at night so I’m staying up later anyway. We gotta get better about that one.
Other than that though, I went on a division this past week. The coordinating sister for our area is actually companions with Irma Quebbeman, my mom! So the other sister came here to Quinta do Conde to be with Irma Palmer and I went to a place called Setubal to be reunited with my mama. It was really good to see her and catch up. I got to teach some really great lessons with her.
They have a bull-fighting ring in their area. Jealous.
Ok so this week we had a really great miracle. This is the kind of thing that used to happen like five times a day in my first few transfers but hasn’t happened at all this transfer because the circumstances don’t allow for a lot of time just doing street contacting. We are always going to a planned lesson or physical therapy.
This one afternoon, Irma Palmer wanted to make the brownie mix Sommer had sent me. Sad day though, our oven is crap. The top burnt and underneath was still batter. She got so sad that she ruined my brownie mix and said we had to go to the store so she could buy me something to replace it. I really didn’t care but she was like distressed over it ha-ha so I said ok. Plus, I was super sick of being in the house so I was like yeah, I can go to the store. And then I remembered that I was being dumb, and if I can go to the store, I can be out working. So I repented really quickly for that thought and then prayed for a little and decided that I really could go out and work. So I promised heavenly father that I was going to find an elect first thing when we walked outside.
So we prayed to leave the house, and I prayed that Heavenly Father would guide us to someone he had already been preparing to receive the message of the Restored Gospel of Christ. We went outside and I turned in the opposite direction of the store and my companion was really confused but I just kept walking because that’s the direction I felt. I looked at the very end of our street and saw the little park thing there and knew that we would meet someone in that exact spot.
So I started walking over there and there was NO ONE outside. And finally we saw this one lady and we followed her down this other street like creepers because I felt like she wasn’t the elect lady but we needed to break the ice with her and then really be ready for the right person. So we talk to her and she only speaks Russian. But tudo bem, we went back around to the original place I had felt and right was we arrived, a woman and her two daughters were walking down the stairs and crossed the street to the spot I had seen. We walked over and talked to them for a minute. Her name is Lilliana and we talked to her about the Plan of Salvation and she was reading the pamphlet before we even explained what it was. And then we invited her to be baptized into the church of Christ when she knew that the things we taught were true. And she said yes!
I’ve had other street contacts accept convite suave before but not the same way. It’s always like; well yeah if someday it turns out this church is right then maybe I'd follow Christ. But she just looked at us and said yes, I want to. So we have an appointment with her today and we're really excited. And even if it turns into nothing, the spirit was there in our contact and it felt so great. It had just been a really down day and then something as simple as asking Heavenly Father to help us find someone works out so perfectly. We walked out of the house; I saw a spot, felt "that’s it. Someone is there" and we went and found her. It was really what we needed that day.
In other news, Irma Palmer also got sick and I’m talking, really, really sick. So the Elders had to come over to our house to give her a blessing. It was WEIRD. They just like knew where we lived and walked up and were banging on our windows. So we let them in and they're like, "oh it looks different in here." it was really strange. And they ate that whole pan of brownies that were burnt and not cooked all at the same time. And then 40 minutes later we were like, yeah this is strange, I mean... cool, and all but are you guys going to give her that blessing or what?
It was a strange night.
Anyway, I love you guys! It’s the last week of the transfer! Next email I’ll let you know if I get moved! Pray for us ha-ha we need it!
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