I´m loving serving
here in Vila Prudente. Living in São Paulo is surreal, its HUGE!!!!!!!!
So much commotion.My companion Sister Lima is great, we frequently
get asked if we are sisters!!!!
My recent converts Debora and
Carlos received the Holy Ghost yesterday, and I couldn't be happier for
them. They both are so special and I know that the Lord will find many
ways for them to serve.
This week was a good week, but a
hard week as well. We taught a 40 year old women named Lucia who had
gone to church last Sunday. It was interesting because even though she´s
40 years old she has a hard time understanding a lot of things so you
have to teach her like you would teach a child, but she was really
receptive and I felt like the spirit helped me SO MUCH while teaching
her and when we invited her for baptism she accepted right away, but
when we returned she told us that she could only get baptized in her
mom´s church, Deus e Amor. But it was hard because she wants to get
baptized because we put it in her head, but her Mom would only let her
get baptized in her church, but shes 40 years old!!!!! It was
discouraging to try to help her understand that only baptism with the
priesthood authority will value in the eyes of god and sad to see that
she didn't even want to understand. And as the week went on the same
exact thing happened again. We invited for the baptism they accepted and
got excited about it and the next day she didn't want to because her
husband is Buddhist and said she couldn't. These situations are always
hard because you don´t want to stop visiting them, but you have to be
careful because their are more people that want to hear the gospel and
are willing to go to church and progress and have situations that allow
them too, but it still always leaves me sad to have to cut people from
our group of teaching.
This week my companion is going
to another area because of a fight that another group of sisters had, so
this week should be interesting without her, but I´m excited because we
are going to start teaching the son of a recent convert who just moved
here from Bolivia and only speaks a little bit of Portuguese, but he
seems really awesome and I´m hoping that we can help him feel the spirit
and accept to start a new life centered in Christ through baptism.
I´m loving the mission and I´m
having great spiritual experiences. It´s not always easy, but it´s
definitely been worth it. I know that the Lord sent me here to Brazil
with a very specific purpose. Perhaps before this life I made promises
to some people here in Brazil that I would find them and help them
understand the gospel of Jesus Christ so that they too could return and
live with Heavenly Father and their families forever!!!!! I´m happy to
be serving and to be meeting so many special sons and daughters of God.
EU AMO MINHA FAMILIA!!!!!!
Sister Bruno
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