tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28108759202496898092024-03-12T19:44:22.528-04:00Sister Deseret Rose Bruno Adventure to Brazil Sao Paolo East MissionDr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-11315567547760031072014-03-17T18:41:00.003-04:002014-03-17T18:41:38.696-04:00I Guess I Have More Time Than I Thought<div class="yiv4555492113gmail_quote" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395052891335_8146">
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Italo
still doesn´t have a desire to get baptized!!! He believes in
EVERYTHING, but he says that he just doesn´t want to get baptized.... We
taught him almost everyday this week and he just keeps becoming more
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are helping a few less active families come back and it´s great to see
when they too progress, but sometimes it seems harder than even teaching
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Friday was the leadership
meeting. It was a greet meeting. I felt the spirit SOOO strong and it
made me want to be BETTER than I have ever been. I also got to bear my
farewell testimony and of course I cried!!!!! It made me think back
about all the experiences that I have had on my mission and think how
grateful I am for each person I have met here!!! All of my
investigators, recent converts, companions, members!!! EVERYONE!!!! </div>
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Saturday was an emotional day.. First an
investigator, who we have been trying to decide whether or not to cut,
CUT US!!!! It was wierd. He called at 7 am and told me that it was
better for him to stay far away from us because he said he was starting
to ``like`` me and he knew that it was not allowed. UGHHHHHH it made me
sad because I never did anything to make him like me.. I think its just
because he is so lonely and we actually cared about him and he felt the
spirit and confused the feelings. I don´t know..... I just hope that
Heavenly Father gives him humbling experiences that will help him accept
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Then at night we had an open
house at our chapel. It was good because 2 friends of a member came and
they really liked learning about the church, but me and my companion
tried really hard to get people from the street to come and see what it
was like, and NO ONE would... :( But one girl that we talked to came to
church the next day so that was AWESOME and we´re going to start
teaching her on tuesday!!! Woohoo. </div>
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These Last 4 weeks I just want to TRY my hardest and see MIRACLES!!!!!!</div>
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Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-50425354462546174952014-03-10T11:21:00.000-04:002014-03-17T11:22:59.910-04:00Road Rage Kindness<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394736631938_64686">
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On
thursday we had mission conference with Elder Costa from the quorum of
the seventies!!!!! He is sooooo awesome..... He shared so many awesome
stories. My favorite one goes like this. He had just moved back to Brazil from são paulo when he got called to be the presiding seventy of
brazil and his wife asked him.... you´re going to have to learn how to
have patience in the traffic of São Paulo... andddd he said his first
day driving to church office building he entered a lane in front of a
little red fiat and the little red fiat gotttt SUPERRR mad and started
honking and following close behind him. When he came to a red light she
pulled over next to him motioned for him to roll down his window and
started cussing him out.... He remember what his wife said about
patience... Nodded his head and said have a good day... god bless....
and went his way. He said the very next day the very same thing happened
with the exact same lady. and he gave the same response. Then a few
days later they just happened to be in the same spot again.... And a few
days later again.... And before he knew it she was smiling and waving
back at him... The next week he decided he was going to give her an
invitation to stake conference and a book of mormon. And that sunday she
went to stake conference and then was eventually baptized.... Hahah it
was great to hear all of his little stories.. It made me realize that
heavenly father really puts us in the right places at the right times.
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On Saturday We taught an awesome lesson to our
investigator Italo who has been saying that he knows the book of mormon
is true and that joseph smith is a prophet, but doesn´t feel ``vontade``
Wich is like will or desire to be baptized. We taught him the plan of
salvation again and taught him about the importance of faith and
repentance.... He was super interested in the repentance part and he
committed to repent and be baptized on saturday.... but then he didn´t
go to church on sunday so we have to move it to after he goes to church
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We also taught 6 new investigators this week, and 2
of them went to church. We were super happy about it!! ANDDDDD big
surprise they also have word of wisdom problems: cocaine... dang it. But
one of them is SUPER smart. He read almost 40 pages in the book of
mormon after we left it with him. And he remembers like almost every
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Alexandro and Sandra are doing A LOT better. This
week we went to the place to mark their wedding, but unfortunately their
birth certificates were too torn apart... So we have to order new birth
certificates and go back this week. BUT they will get married, and I
hope I´m here to see it :)</div>
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Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-68635653481399325362014-03-03T15:00:00.000-05:002014-03-03T15:00:04.303-05:00Persistence in the pursuit of righteous desires can help us develop talents, attain our spiritual goals, and serve others.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tomorrow are transfers!!!! and that means.... just 6 more weeks of me... wearing this name tag.. 6 more weeks of me being this cute sister missionary. 6 more weeks to do my best and help as many people as I can!!!!
This week was good. After Elder Evans visit, we worked hard and saw some great results!!!! ANdddd this week Elder Claudio R.M Costa is going to come give us another mission conference. Two members of the 70s in Two weeks... WOOHOOO :) It will probably be my last mission conference.
We started teaching a few new investigators. We are helping reactivate a few less actives.
The family whose dad is a drug addict didn´t use crack this week. He just used marijuana instead.... Not as bad.... andddddddddd HE WENT TO CHURCH!!!! finally :) :) It was the cutest thing ever to see their family sitting on the church bench all together. It truly was a miracle. They called sunday morning and said they weren´t going... and I kept saying yes you are. YES YOU ARE. Someone will be at your house in 15 minutes to pick you up. AND THEY WENT :) and he loved it. and their going to get married this month and it´s going to be great!!!!!
Italo went to church as well, which made us really happy!!!!!!! andd the family that we are helping reactivate...which also made us super happy!!!
Sunday we had a weird experience.... We were walking home to do our weekly planning and some ladies from another church stopped us and invited us to go into their church to visit and to talk to their pastors... I´m not sure why I accepted the invitation. But we went in... and just stayed for a few minutes, and prayed with their pastor. It was sad. But I shared some pass along cards with them and invited them to come to our church. Who knows? Maybe they´ll call for the free dvd :)
What did I learn this week? Righteous persistence pays off. Alexandro always says that were are persistent and that's why he went to church. When I think of persistence I think of Jesus Christ. He persisted day after day to follow the will of Heavenly Father. And he inspires us to do the right thing in our own lives. To be persistent in our righteous desires and actions. Because one day we will receive a reward for it!
I´m pretty sure I will stay in my area with my companion for my last transfer, but If anything happens I´ll let you know tomorrow.... <br />
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Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-7655327108212845782014-03-02T16:54:00.002-05:002014-03-02T16:54:59.815-05:00 "It's not enough to wish, it's not enough to dream, it's not enough to promise. We must do."TUDO BEM???
This week was an eye-opener.
We are still working with our investigators to help them obey the word of wisdom. Unfortunately we made the decision to cut a few of the investigators that we had that were not interested in changing or even wanting to know more about the gospel :(
BUTTT we are going tomorrow to mark the wedding of one of the family we are currently teaching! woohoo. I´m so excited for them. Sandra is SO awesome. She has the biggest desire to change. ANDDDDD she is pregnant. So she will be married before the baby comes.
Saturday I had the privilege to go to a meeting that had the zone leaders and sister leaders from the 5 missions in the huge city of São Paulo. We got to hear from Elder Evans from the seventy who works on the missionary executive council. It was an awesome experience. He talked so much about our true purpose as missionaries. A lot of the time missions focus on the one thing that is easiest for them to do. Here it is baptism. In some places is less active work. and we forget that we should be helping in all areas of the doctrine of Christ: faith, repentance, baptism, receive the gift of the holy ghost and endure to the end. Heavenly Father has great expectations for our generation. He wants us to be obedient so that he can bless us. He wants us to help him with his Purpose: to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of men. He also talked a lot about the importance of families. There is nothing more important than our families. We can only get to the celestial kingdom when we are sealed together and enduring to the end as a family.
This morning he came and talked to our whole mission. It was a very humbling experience. He was very inspired and hit the key points that our mission needs to be better at. It was one of the best mission conference I have been to. He also told us that Heavenly Father gives us our desires. If we desire good things and good results he will give them to us. and how do we show our desires? By the things we do. So we have to do GOOD things.
I know that this really is the work of salvation.
Sister Bruno Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-25319566887121326862014-02-17T18:15:00.001-05:002014-02-17T18:15:56.699-05:00And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones; And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures; And shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint. And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.<div id="yiv474398788">
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YUP you guessed it : WORD OF WISDOM!!!!!! This week weirdly enough really strengthened my testimony of the word of wisdom. <div>
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seems like ALL of our investigators have problems with the word of
wisdom. Two drug addicts that are FIGHTING their addictions. One family
being destroyed by the bad drug habits of the dad. One investigator who
wanted to become a professional bartender. One family whose parents are
chain smokers. I have never seen so many bad effects of breaking the
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We had an awesome
lesson with Italo (investigator who wanted to become a professional
bartender)! We taught him about the plan of salvation and marked his
baptism date for the 2nd of March. Then when we taught the word of
wisdom he ACCEPTED it so well! And has now stopped drinking alcohol and
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We started teaching another drug addict who is truly
sincere about changing. He has cut down so much. He went from using
drugs almost every day to once a week. And he told us that when his dad
told him to have a beer at the bakery (yes here the drink at
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Shout out to all of you for being such great
examples when it comes to the word of wisdom. I have luckily NEVER been
tempted to break the word of wisdom. But up until this week I also had
never realized how big of a blessing it has been in my life. I AM SO
GRATEFUL FOR THE WORD OF WISDOM!!!!! It truly blesses us in all aspects
of our lives. Health Wise, Knowledge Wise, Saftey Wise... ALL ASPECTS
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Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-13269991516670768882014-02-10T15:37:00.001-05:002014-02-10T15:38:14.185-05:00"Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward."Dear Family,<br />
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One
of the families we are teaching is really accepting! One problem. The
dad of the family is addicted to CRACK. We taught the first lesson with
him drugged up. It was an interesting experience because his week is
SUCH A GOOD INVESTIGATOR. She had so many good questions, and she is so
sincere in her desire to know. She felt the spirit so strongly. The dad
wants to stop he told us that he did. He recognizes that its destroying
his life... It was really sad to see what he was giving up, and to see
the pain that he caused in the life of Sandra, his wife. I know it will
be HARD, but I know that he will be able to!!!! </div>
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Saturday
was the baptism of Megara!!!! It was SO SWEET. I am so happy for her.
She had been waiting for this day for so long, and her mom who isn´t a
member went and really liked it as well. She may still be saying that
she is not interested, but I KNOW that Meggy is going to help her whole
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taught Italo again this week and he accepted the invitation to be
baptized :) He is SOOOOOOOO AWESOME. He works so hard in life, and he
really just wants to know peace and wants to know how he can get rid of
the guilt that he feels. He read the chapter we left him in the Book of Mormon 2 times, and he said that he felt good when he prayed!!!! </div>
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Happy Valentine´s day this week to everyone!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!!</div>
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Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-49530912655918604252014-02-03T15:57:00.002-05:002014-02-03T15:57:56.998-05:00Do You Think God Puts Good Things in Our Path? I Do!!!!Dear Family this week was a HOTTT one. We were told that this summer has been the hottest ever recorded here in São Paulo.<br />
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in vain. We did a lot of contacts, and now have a lot of not only new
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Next Saturday is the baptism of Mégara. She is so awesome, and excited for
her baptism. I made her little invitations. She has been waiting for soo
long for this. It´s going to be a really special day for her. I picked
a sheep on her invite because she is entering into the flock of Jesus
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week we also had interviews with President Ferrin. It was a GREAT
interview. He showed us two pennies a bronze penny and a steel penny,
and asked us which coin we would want to be. I of course picked the
steel penny because I had never seen a steel penny before and I thought I
would want to be the different one. But then he told us that steel
rusts a lot faster and other facts about steel that made me want to
change my answer. Afterwards he showed us a silver coin and then a gold
coin... A pure gold coin... It was SOOO pretty. By this point I
definitely had changed my mind. He told us that the truth is that there
is very little pure gold in the world. And that we are like the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1391460699_0">gold coins</span>.
There may not be a very high percentage of members in the world and an
even smaller percentage of missionaries, but we are UNIQUE and of GREAT
WORTH. We need to show the world that our message is worth more than
gold :) I have learned so much from President Ferrin, I hope that I can
be a light in this world and help many people enjoy the gold that I have
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we had a VERY interesting experience. We were walking to church and
this random guy came up to us and asked if he could ask a question. I of
course answered Sure... He proceeded to ask ``Do you think God puts
good things in our Path?`` I answered yes.... He then started talking
anddddd it didn´t take long to realize that he was a little drunk. He
told us that a girl that he had met the night before sent him a message
saying that he needed to let Jesus enter into his heart. So what did he
do? He walked into the nearest church... A Igreja Universal... The
Universal Church... He stayed there for about 5 minutes got
uncomfortable and left. That's when he saw us. We invited him to go to
church and he did. And he stayed all 3 hours and LOVED it... and I think
the alcohol had even worn off by the end... I´m hoping we can help
change his life and his families life!!!!! I know that Heavenly Father
loves him regardless of his poor choices. I hope that he is willing to
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also found 2 new investigators. Rosangela and Italo. Mother and Son.
They are just two really nice people. And Italo had a lot of great
questions. After we taught the Restoration he asked us how he could
know if Joseph Smith was a real prophet or a False prophet and we
explained that he could read the book of Mormon and pray!!!! And he told
us that he is looking for PEACE in his life. We promised him that he
would find peace through the BOOK OF MORMON and the gospel of Jesus
Christ. I know the book of Mormon is true and if Italo really reads it
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know that God puts good things in our Path!!!!!! He did after all put
all of you in my path :) We just need to look for the good things and
make sure to share them!!!!!!! Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-81200194920792851162014-01-06T11:46:00.000-05:002014-01-07T11:47:24.025-05:00La Cucaracha<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summer is in full bloom here in São Paulo...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On
New Year´s there were SOOOO many fireworks right outside of or
window... and while trying to sleep a firework landed on our house... It
was pretty intense.. I thought that I was in a war zone. I think Brazil
should think about revising their laws about firework use. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cockroaches
are just having the time of their life... Funny story. We were teaching
José this week and he had bug bombed his work office about 2 hours
before we got there and there were COCKROACHES EVERYWHERE... I would say
I saw at least 100. My companion killed about 20 while we were
teaching... Let´s just say it was a hard lesson to get through... and
that I may or may not have screamed during the first vision because of a
cockroach on my foot.... José is the cutest old man I have ever met in
my life.. He just kept laughing and killing them before they got to
me.. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Me
and Sister Peart worked HARD this week and though we may have not seen
immediate success we are starting to up our pool of investigators :) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow
we are going to the Temple as a mission and I am SUPER excited. Me
and Sister Peart read a talk by Elder Holland about missionaries and
covenants and I loved this quote maybe it will help you Franny and Michael. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190000" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190001" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190002" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">when </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190003" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190004" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">entire </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190005" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mission </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190006" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190007" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">united </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190008" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190009" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190010" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">strength </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190011" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190012" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">every </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190013" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">missionary’s </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190014" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">integrity, </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190015" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">every </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190015" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190016" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">missionary’s </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190017" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">personal </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190018" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">covenant </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190019" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">keeping,</span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190020" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190021" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190022" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">move </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190023" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mountains. </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190024" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190025" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190026" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190027" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">such </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190028" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unity </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190029" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190029" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190030" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">power, </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190031" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190032" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">endowment </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190033" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190034" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">heaven, </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190035" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">coming </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190036" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190037" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">every </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190038" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">individual </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190039" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190040" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190041" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mission, </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190042" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nothing </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190043" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">can</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190043" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190044" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“stop </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190045" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190046" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">work </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190047" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190048" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">progressing.” </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190049" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190050" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190051" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190052" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190053" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">way </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190054" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190055" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the</span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190056" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“truth </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190057" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190058" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190059" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">will </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190060" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">go </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190061" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">forth </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190062" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">boldly, </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190063" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nobly, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190063" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190064" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="yiv1934413332" id="yiv1934413332chunk190065" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">independent.”</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1389016159711_34435" style="color: black;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1389016159711_34434" style="line-height: 18px;">Congratulations
Annika and Keith.. I would love to see some pictures ASAP!!!!! Now that
Keith is a part of the family someone should tell me his email so I can
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LOVE YOU ALL!!!! </span></span></span></span>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-51882565907775564622013-12-30T15:09:00.001-05:002013-12-30T15:09:49.549-05:00Touched by the Spirit<h2><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">This week I feel like I have learned a little bit about what it truly means to bear one anothers burdens. This week we started teaching a woman named Fernanda. She is passing through a really hard time because she is currently living with the father of her two sons. Who is unfortunately an alcoholic. He can´t even work because he is so addicted to drinking. He is literally drinking his life away. As we have gotten to know her and have talken to her, I can honestly say that we have been bearing her burdens. I feel SO MUCH sadness for her, but I also feel so much HOPE for her. Unfortunately she can not work because she has a little baby of 1 month old and has to wait until he is 4 months old to stop breast feeding him. But she said that everytime she prays and thinks about the new years something fills her with happiness and hope. I don´t know exactly how to help her overcome these problems, but I am confident that Heavenly Father does and I hope to be able to continue to bear her burdens and help make them lighter. </span></h2><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We also taught Josè and he is SOOOO ELECT!!!!! We taught him the restoration and he got really emotional and cried. It was the most tender moment I think I have ever had in my life. This cute little old man so willing to accept the teachings of Christ in his life. I thought about how much Heavenly Father must truly love him. We marked his baptism for <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">the 12th of January</a>. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I´m so excited for this new year. It is going to be SOOOO Great. I know it. I am a firm believer of New Year´s Goals, so I hope that everyone writes out 14 goals for the year of 2014 and puts them in a visible place so that everyday you can remember and try your hardest to reach them. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LOVE YOU ALL!!! HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! THANKS FOR ALL OF THE SUPPORT AND LOVE :) </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Desi </span></div>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-52494575261486720782013-12-23T12:52:00.001-05:002013-12-23T12:52:04.994-05:00Christmas WeekA lot happened this week!!!!<br />
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Tuesday
we had our mission Christmas conference. It was great to see all of my
missionary friends that I have made over this last year. It also made me
really reflect on my own testimony of Jesus Christ. I KNOW that he was
born to save US!!!!</div>
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We worked well the rest of the week. </div>
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We
had a REALLY AWESOME experience this week!!! We were headed to an
appointment at an investigators house that we had never been to before. I
looked on the map and memorized the route, but as we were heading there
I decided to turn on a street that wasn´t on the route. I didn´t know
know what the street was but I was just like let´s turn here. As we were
walking down the street we saw two men standing outside of a house. Two
men that we had Never seen before in our lives. When of them shouted
``OI SISTERES`` We were like ummmm hiiii???? And he started going off
about how we were sent from God.... We were like are you a member? And
he just kept going off about miracles.... Turns out that he is a member
that lives in a different city that was just visiting his friend for the
day. A friend who isn't a member. His friend is going through a rough
time and earlier in the
day he told him that he should let the missionaries come by and talk to
And we just happened to show up when the member was leaving. We really
were sent by GOD!!!!! I´m super stoked to start teaching José.. .He
seems really sincere and actually interested. Thanks to the awesome
missionary work that his friend did. I know that when we are worthy we
will be led by the promptings of the Holy Ghost!!!!!! </div>
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This
week we PRAYED so much to be able to find new investigators, and we
actually found a lot of new people to teach. Most of which are not
married, but living together. Hoping that the New Year brings a lot of
weddings and happy newlyweds... Maybe Annika's wedding will start the
trend :) </div>
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Excited to talk to everyone on Christmas... We get an hour and a half to talk... What time should I get on?!?!?!?!?! </div>
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LOVE YOU ALL </div>
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Desi Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-87880018727066019772013-12-02T16:17:00.001-05:002013-12-02T16:17:36.365-05:00We should even give thanks for our afflictions because they turn our
hearts to God and give us opportunities to prepare for what God would
have us become. - Dallin H. Oaks<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was a TOUGH one!!!</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tuesday I got a knarly farmers burn. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wednesday I went to the doctor because I haven´t been able to sleep because I cough so much that I start to vomit at night, but then I didn´t have money to buy the prescripition so I felt like I wasted precious work time :( I´m allergic to all of the pollution that they have here in São Paulo :( And I still have random allergic reactions </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thursday was thanksgiving. No one here even knows what Thanksgiving is, and we didn´t have money to really celebrate. We scraped some personal money together and bought a lime pie after we worked and ate it at night. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Friday was the day of rejection. We got rejected by every single person we talked to on the street, and to make matters worse this great family we started teaching that I had really gotten my hopes with told us not to come back. and worst was that they refused to give me a specific reason. Just that they just weren´t really interested right now. That was the worst. I tried to be brave and tell them what they were missing out, but it didn´t seem to have much effect. Afterwards, I cried so hard that I couldn´t work for like an hour!!!!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today I got robbed... Again.... luckily they only stole the cell phone and my bus pass. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The point of these hardships isn´t to complain... just to say that Heavenly Father gives us afflictions because he wants us to learn and improve. I think he wanted me to learn to be grateful no matter what happens!!! It made me really evaluate the things I am grateful for. I´m grateful that I have the gospel in my life, and I´m grateful for all of the people that I have had the opportunity to teach. I feel like I have LEARNED so much from each and every one of them. Today I got to spend my pday with a recent convert from Vila Prudente. At the end she started crying when I left.... and just told me Sister Bruno... Não esqueça perseverar até o fim... Sister Bruno, Don´t forget, Endure to the End... It made me happy to see that she remembered what we had taught and that she was HELPING me!!!!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Going to continue enduring to the end... and taking advantage for every day that I have here on the mission</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister Bruno </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PS- Thanks for everyones help with my byu apps!!!!!! </span></div>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-14476589206223061982013-11-30T11:57:00.000-05:002013-12-02T11:58:27.085-05:00"The Lord’s way is not to sit at the side of the stream and wait for the water to pass before we cross. It is to come together, roll up our sleeves, go to work, and build a bridge or a boat to cross the waters of our challenges."<h3 class="details hidefocus" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1385996789466_16551" tabindex="-1">
<a class="subanchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1385996789466_16667" style="max-width: 1381px; width: 1546.72px;">I don´t have a lot of time to write this week because I have been working on my college essays, but this was a great week!!!!</a></h3>
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1386003146_0">On Friday</span>
we had a specialized training with President Ferrin and the assistants.
I really enjoyed the training and it gave me motivation to work harder
than I have ever worked before!!! When we left I started talking to like
EVERYONE in sight. It was a really rewarding day. </div>
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On Sunday was the baptism of Gabriel. He was so HAPPY afterwards :) It has
been super awesome to see the change that he has made in his life. Next
step... Endure to the End </div>
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We are
currently increasing the number of people that we teach, and had a good
number of investigators at church so that was really rewarding to see. I
hope that this week is a good week for all of you!!!!!!!!!! </div>
Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-2527311681792118832013-11-18T12:44:00.000-05:002013-11-19T12:45:23.948-05:00The Pursuit of Happiness<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26349">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26350" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">This week was not at all what I was expecting it to be. But it ended up being a pretty good week. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">We
were in high gear doing TONS of street contacts. Doing all we could do
find new investigators. But yeah that didn´t work out too well. We only
got two new investigators out of the 50 contacts that we did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">But,
we worked all week with Alicia (the daughter of the couple who is going
to be married next month to be baptized) and she got baptized
yesterday. She is so AWESOME. She was so excited to be baptized, and
everytime she prays she prays that her parents can get married soon so
that they can get baptized too!!! I am SUPER excited to plan a wedding
:) Should be happening in about December. I might not get to be there
for Annika´s wedding, but at least I´ll get to see a wedding. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26290" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26289" style="line-height: 24px;">We
have also been working with Gabriel. Gabriel is the son of a recent
convert, Janai. He never was very interested with meeting with the
sisters and he just likes playing soccer on the street and getting into
trouble. But when I saw him, I was like. We need to teach him!!!! So me
and my companion started slowly trying to gain his trust and BAM. Before
he knew it he was taking the discussions. And he is super awesome. His
biggest concern right now is HAPPINESS. He wanted to know how he could
be HAPPIER. We have been making that a key point in all the lessons that
we teach him. For the first week we taught him, everytime we extended
an invitation he wouldn´t give firm answers. It was always ``maybe i´ll
go to church on sunday`` ``Let´s see if I remember to say a prayer
tonight``. But when we taught him <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1384882920_0">on saturday</span>
he had a great bonding moment with his mom. And talked about the change
that he had seen in her after her baptism. She stopped saying swear
words, stopped drinking, stopped screaming at him, stopped beating him.
And he said ``she does look a lot happier`` This was like the most
rewarding thing I have ever seen. It made me think..... man THE GOSPEL
TRULY DOES BLESS FAMILIES!!!!!!! And after the lesson we invited him to
be baptized and he said YES :) Then he went to church on sunday and saw
the baptism of Alicia and afterwards he came up to us and said ``Eu
decidi, eu vou me batizar domingo que vem`` I have decided to be
baptized next sunday!!!! WOOHOOOOOOO. It made me soooo happy to see him
happy and to see him respond with such a firm answer.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26324" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26323" style="line-height: 24px;">What
I have been learning with Gabriel is that the only way to find true
happiness is through the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no other way.
Heavenly Father wants to see us happy. He wants to see us on the right
path to eternal life because he loves us!!!!!! It reminds me of the tree
of life. The fruit is what is true happiness. </span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv517348533" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26326">
<span class="yiv517348533" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26340" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And it came to pass that I beheld a </span><sup class="yiv517348533" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a</sup><a class="yiv517348533" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8?lang=eng#" id="yiv517348533footnote10" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #486fae; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1384882920_1">tree</span></a><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">, whose </span><sup class="yiv517348533" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">b</sup><a class="yiv517348533" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8?lang=eng#" id="yiv517348533footnote11" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #486fae; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1384882920_2">fruit</span></a><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26327" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> was desirable to make one </span><sup class="yiv517348533" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">c</sup><a class="yiv517348533" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8?lang=eng#" id="yiv517348533footnote12" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #486fae; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1384882920_3">happy</span></a><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia,; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26329">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26331" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26330" style="line-height: 22px;">And
how can we get to the tree of life?!?!!? Following the iron rod which
is the word of god!!!!! When we follow the commandments and live the
gospel we are going to be happy regardless of what is happening in our
lives because we will have hope that we will be blessed and that
Heavenly Father will fix the bad things that are happening. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26339" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26338" style="line-height: 22px;">Love you all!!!!</span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26334">
<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26335">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26337" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1384874134244_26336">"The
more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the
less likely we will be on a path to regrets. The more we rely on the
Savior’s grace, the more we will feel that we are on the track our
Father in Heaven has intended for us." Dieter F. Uchtdorf </b></span></div>
Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-57564003159217571322013-10-28T20:14:00.001-04:002013-10-28T20:14:11.657-04:00``The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the
lips increaseth learning.`` Proverbs 16:21 Goodbye to Vila Prudente<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today is my last day in Vila Prudente. Translation- Vila Prudent. The name of this area describes my time here pretty adequately. I feel like I have learned SO MUCH in these last 6 months here in Vila Prudente. I´m so grateful to the Lord for the opportunity that I have had to be here. It will forever hold a very special place for me in my heart. I have learned soooo much from the members on how to truly serve the Lord with all my heart, might, mind and strength. I have learned from my investigators and recent converts how to have more faith. I have been given so much wisdom of the scriptures and the plan that Heavenly Father has for me through the hours that I have studied here. Heavenly Father has given me the experiences that I have had here to truly help me be more Prudent. I will forever be grateful for the time that I have spent here. I know that I was spent here for very specific reasons. To find the people that I have taught and helped enter into a covenant with Heavenly Father. Every single one of them where prepared by Heavenly Father, and I feel strongly that it was my purpose here on earth to find them.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Its wierd. I feel like I´m leaving home again. I feel like I´m leaving my family all over again. Words will never describe the amount of love that I feel for this area. It will forever hold a piece of my heart. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Next Stop, Vila Esperança which is translation for Vila Hope... I guess Heavenly Father wants me to learn how to have more hope. Haha... </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">``Wisdom is The ability or gift from God to judge correctly. A person gains wisdom through experience and study and by following God’s <span class="" id="adtext_7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent; border-left-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; float: none; text-decoration: underline; display: inline !important;">counsel</span>. Without God’s help, man does not have true wisdom (<a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.28?lang=eng#27" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">2 Ne. 9:28</a>; <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/27.26?lang=eng#25" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">27:26</a>).`` (<a href="http://lds.org/">LDS.ORG</a>)<br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love you all!!!!!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Desi </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="height: 198px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px;"><img src="cid:ii_141ffda7d1c8ba52" alt="Inline image 1" style="width: 320px; left: 0px; right: 0px; position: absolute;"></p><br></div>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-53549375263516006042013-10-14T21:15:00.001-04:002013-10-14T21:15:57.492-04:00The Time Is Now<div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week I have officially been on my mission for <b>1 year</b>... It seems like yesterday that I was entering the MTC.... Times flies so FAST<br><br>Last week was kind of frustrating because I just felt really unmotivated and it wasn´t a good feeling. <br><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week I am going to choose to be<b>HAPPIER</b>, and <b>BETTER</b>..... <br><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> It should be a much better week because we have a baptism on Saturday and a baptism on Sunday.. :)<br><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am learning that the time to act is now. I need to take advantage of every minute left that I have on my mission. To be the Best I can, and to help as many people as I can to<b>come unto christ</b>. In 1 year I have seen so many changes in myself and in others. I´m so grateful for this past year that has passed by. It has been such a <b>rewarding </b>year. I´m looking forward to these next 6 months as well!!!!!! THE GOSPEL IS TRUE<br><br>Desi </span>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-59274595788949798772013-10-07T19:24:00.001-04:002013-10-07T19:30:40.639-04:00Setting worthwhile goals gives direction to our lives.<div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So this week was SUPER BUSY.... A lot happened!!!! A LOT<br><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Monday was our district meeting. And me and my companion put our new goal for 8 baptisms for the month of October.... We know that it is a high number, but we both felt inspired to put it as our goal. I have yet to reach a monthly goal on the mission, and this is the highest goal I have set, but I know that Heavenly Father will help me reach this goal with a lot of prayers and fasting, and obedience. <br><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tuesday we had the opportunity to visit one of our Recent Converts in the hospital. She has lung cancer. It was the first time that I entered a cancer hopsital. It was really an eye opener for me because It made me realize how blessed I am to have the health that I do, and the life that I do. It also made me really sad to think of all the people that our nearing the end of their life, and don´t have the gospel. I´m really grateful that I do. It makes me want to help EVERY single person in my surroundings!!!!!!!!! <br><br>Wednesday we had so many scheduled appointments we had to run from appointment to appointment!!!!!! And so it was the rest of the week. But we saw some awesome progress in a lot of our investigators. <br><br>On Saturday was General Conference. One of our investigators before conference told us that She WANTS to be baptized. She has investigated the church on and off for 10 years!!!!!!!!! She is the cousin of a member. She still has her first book of mormon that was given to her by elders 10 years ago!!!!!! At conference she wrote down 10 questions and in just one session 9 of the 10 questions were answered. And the second question was answered during the second session..... It made me SOOOO happy. And now after conference she is 100 % sure!!!! I loved conference!!!!!!<br><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also on Sunday we had 2 baptisms of 2 girls. Geovana and Amanda. We met them 2 weeks ago. Their mom works for a member cleaning her english school. They went to church last week and loved it!!! This week we taught all of the lessons and they were baptized yesterday. Their mom wants to be baptized too, but its a complicated situation... She lives with someone that she is not married too, but she can´t get married because if she does she will lose the money that she gets every month for being a widow..... But I know that Heavenly Father will help her realize that it´s worth losing the money, to take part of the only TRUE church, and to make a covenant with the Lord!!!!!!! Anyways I don´t know how exactly she is going to feel that she needs to be married, but I know that she will!!!!!!! <br><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We have another investigator who has a baptism date for <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">the 20th of October</a>, and a lot of others that we have been teaching a lot and who have gone to church, so we know that our goal this month is definitely possible!!! <br><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I feel like goals are definitely something that I have been learning a lot about on my mission. It´s a way to help us progress. Our goal here on the earth is to prepare to meet God. He wants us to all be perfect like he is. Our progression in necessary. We can´t just stay the way we are, we always need to be progressing. Setting High Goals shows our Heavenly Father our desires, and when we have goals we are willing to work hard to reach them. <br><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Set your goals high, if you have not already done so. <br><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Desi </span></div>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-64539302823537039332013-09-24T13:42:00.001-04:002013-09-24T13:45:40.408-04:00``There is nothing so unchanging, so inevitable as change itself``<div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So this week was an interesting week. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tuesday was transfers, and me and my companion Sister Amaral were told that we would stay... So we were all excited about this new transfer and the great things that we would see together, because we have two awesome investigators that have baptisms marked for October, Marcos and Karina. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Wednesday we wrote goals for the transfer and talked about all the things we could do, to help our area, and we were super pumped to work hard!!!!!!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then on Thursday, we got a call from the Assistants that there was going to be an emergency transfer because of a situation that happened with other sisters. When I first got the call I felt heartbroken. Sister Amaral went to a different area, and I stayed here in Vila Prudente with Sister Oborn. Sister Oborn is my second american companion. I feel sad that Sister Amaral left, but I already love Sister Oborn!!!!!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But ever since Thursday it feels like everything is changing in my area. We started working in a different area than usual, we have new investigators, we are trying new methods of working. The mission is wierd. I feel like in one day I feel up to 100 different emotions. Happiness, Sadness, Excitement, Discouragement all at the same time. I´m sad that Sister Amaral isn´t my companion anymore, but I´m happy that Sister Oborn is my new companion. Change is hard, but I know that it is for the best. I read a talk by Marvin J. Ashton that described exactly how I am feeling. Here is a quote he used from C.S Lewis, </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace” <br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And so it is, with us. Sometimes change is hard. But it´s usually for the best. I hope that I can learn to adapt quickly and see the sense in what God is building in my life. I hope that this week will be a good one for me and Sister Oborn and for all of you!!!!!!!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love, </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Desi </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br>NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-family: '"Helvetica","Tahoma","Arial","sans-serif"';"><font color="#666666"><br></font></span></div><font color="#666666" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></font></div>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-48618801898216967362013-09-18T14:44:00.001-04:002013-09-18T14:44:51.069-04:00``When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many
blessings; name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord
has done.``<br><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wow. This week was such a GREAT WEEK. A week I will definitely never forget. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It started out with us going to the TEMPLE on tuesday. I´m so grateful that I had the opportunity to go to the temple and enjoy the sweet spirit that is found there. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="cid:ii_141279376f973baa" alt="Inline image 1" width="474" height="671" style="height: 424px !important; width: 300px !important; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then we worked hard on wednesday, and <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">on thursday night</a> we had the baptism of Rafaela before seminary. She was SOOOO happy, and so touched by the spirit. It´s been so awesome to see her progress. She is totally involved in everything. She has already read all of 1 Nephi and is working on her personal progress with her sister Raquel. Yesterday she recieved the Holy Ghost and when we passed by we asked her what it was like to have the holy ghost and she answered that she woke up today so happy that she cleaned the house entire and made lunch for her sister, something that her family always complains that she doesn´t help with. It made me so happy. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="cid:ii_141279a08567cb0e" alt="Inline image 2" width="944" height="1258" style="height: 399px !important; width: 300px !important; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And then on friday we worked hard and on Saturday we had the baptism of Sabrina. WOW. I couldn´t even believe that I was so blessed to be able to see the baptism of Sabrina. It was such an awesome Baptism. Her Sister, that I had met in the MTC in provo was there. We had invited EVERYONE to come and see her baptism. It was such a special moment for me. Her being baptized while I am still in the area made me really reflect how truly blessed I am and how much Heavenly Father really loves me. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="cid:ii_14127a381e9a58a1" alt="Inline image 3" width="944" height="1500" style="height: 476px !important; width: 300px !important; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During her baptism we sang My Heavenly Father Loves Me, and our LMA is a proffesional piano player, who did the accompany. Sister Amaral sang the first verse in portuguese, I sang the first verse in english and then together we sang the second verse in portugese. It was so good that a lot of people cried and afterwards the bishop asked if we sing it as a special number during sacrament meeting the next day, so we did, and Sunday was such a good day too, because we saw our recent convert Jeferson pass the sacrament with his aaronic priesthood. We saw Sabrina and Rafaela recieve the holy ghost and we had 3 really great progressing investigators there. I don´t know if I´ve ever felt so happy in my whole entire life. <img src="cid:ii_14127b036fca3993" alt="Inline image 4" width="944" height="750" style="height: 238px !important; width: 300px !important; "></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And... Tuesday are transfers. I don´t know if I will stay or if I will leave my area. I love my area and I love everything about my mission. I´m so grateful for the Lord for giving me the experiences that I am having. I´m so grateful to be a missionary. I´m so grateful for all the blessings that he has given me. I´m grateful that we have the true restored church of Jesus Christ, I´m grateful that we have the plan of salvation, I´m grateful that we have the knowledge of the things we need to one day return and live with Heavenly Father. I´m grateful for my companion for the great attitude that she always has. I´m grateful for President Ferrin because I know he is inspired in all things that he does. I´m grateful for ALL OF YOU. Every single one of you. You have always been such great examples to me. Sometimes we pass through hard trials, but I know that Heavenly Father has given us SO MUCH because HE LOVES US. I´m so grateful for Jesus Christ because it´s through him that I have all of these things.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">``Gratitude is a feeling of appreciation and thankfulness for blessings or benefits we have received. As we cultivate a grateful attitude, we are more likely to be happy and spiritually strong. We should regularly express our gratitude to God for the blessings He gives us and to others for the kind acts they do for us.``</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister Bruno </span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br>NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-family: '"Helvetica","Tahoma","Arial","sans-serif"'; "><font color="#666666"><br></font></span></div><font color="#666666" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "></font></div></div>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-80514386257832880962013-09-09T20:27:00.001-04:002013-09-09T20:27:41.798-04:00There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met.
I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly,
‘Give me this mountain,’ give me these challenges.`` - Spencer W.
Kimball<div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week had some really great Ups and some really low Downs. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Teaching lessons are always great ups. This week started good, because we taught some really great lessons to our investigators. But as the week went on. Bad news kept coming. Day after day. First day, Jeiza, one of Raquel´s friends that wanted to be baptized for sunday, decided she didn´t want to, but Rafaela was still wanting to the whole week. She´s awesome one day after we taught her about the gospel of jesus christ she went to school and taught her entire class about faith, repentance, baptism, the holy ghost, and enduring to the end. They started calling her pastor Rafaela and she told them. No, actually it´s Sister Soares. Everything seemed ready for sunday: the President of the Young Women made a cake, Me and sister Amaral practiced singing When I am Baptized the youth of the ward got all excited. And what happened?!?! We got there on sunday and she told us she wasn´t going to be baptized. WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?! I thought. I felt true sadness. Geiza the whole week had been talking to her about all the things she would miss out on, like drinking going to parties, drinking coffee things that don´t bring happiness!!!!!!!!! On our way to church we talked to her and made a pact that she would say a prayer and pay attention to what she learned in young women´s and afterwards make her decision... and what happened?!?!? Heavenly Father answered her prayers.... </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">7 </span>For God hath not given us the spirit of <sup class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">a</sup><a class="" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/1?lang=eng#" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-tim&chapterUri=1&noteID=7a" id="footnote6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; list-style: none; ">fear</a>; but of <sup class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">b</sup><a class="" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/1?lang=eng#" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-tim&chapterUri=1&noteID=7b" id="footnote7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; list-style: none; ">power</a>, and of <sup class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">c</sup><a class="" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/1?lang=eng#" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-tim&chapterUri=1&noteID=7c" id="footnote8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; list-style: none; ">love</a>, and of a sound mind.<span class="" style="margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">8 </span>Be not thou therefore <sup class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">a</sup><a class="" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/1?lang=eng#" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-tim&chapterUri=1&noteID=8a" id="footnote9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; list-style: none; ">ashamed</a> of the <sup class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">b</sup><a class="" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-tim/1?lang=eng#" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-tim&chapterUri=1&noteID=8b" id="footnote10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; list-style: none; ">testimony</a> of our Lord</span></p></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She told us that the leaders had given her this scripture to read and that it was exactly what she needed and that she knows that Heavenly Father really answered her prayer and that this church is really true!!!!!!!!!! But she still told us that today couldn´t be the day. the youth spent the entire church talking to her about the decision. I also think that one of the young men helped a lot with the decision, but now she is going to baptized on Thursday. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We also got robbed this week as well. Luckily he only stole our cell phone. But it´s been hard without a cell phone. REALLY HARD. We lost a lot of our investigators numbers and just my luck the same day I left my planner at the mission office, so I didn´t have numbers or addresses of some of the people we had marked to vist during the end of the week. It may seem silly but this was a BIG MOUNTAIN for me. Because after everything seemed to be going wrong this happened. I was already so stressed out because of everything else going on. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But... I know that Heavenly Father gives us mountains to climb for our benefit. Funny because last monday I downloaded free music from <a href="http://lds.org/">lds.org</a> and one of the musics talk about mountains to climb. It says </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">``I know that it won´t be easy, but it´s making me strong. So give me mountains to climb, rivers to climb, something thats going to make me better than I was . Give me mountains to climb because I know its taking me higher than I´ve ever been before.`` </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I thought it was a good message so I translated it for my companion. After everything that happened she laughed and said. The savior heard you. What does it say in D&C??? Song of the righteous is a prayer??? Heavenly Father definitely has a sense of humor. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But this week should be a lot better. We have the baptism of Rafaela on Thursday and Sabrina on Saturday.... WOOO HOOO. Sabrina is finally going to be baptized on Saturday. SOOOO HAPPY. And tomorrow we are going to the temple. I know it is going to be a GREAT WEEK. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Never Give Up!!!! Whatever Challenge the Lord gives you, face it with Courage and know that you are capable. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Desi </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br>NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-family: '"Helvetica","Tahoma","Arial","sans-serif"'; "><font color="#666666"><br></font></span></div><font color="#666666" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "></font></div>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-42894825065015130022013-09-02T10:13:00.000-04:002013-09-05T10:14:55.047-04:00´´Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written´´OIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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So....
This week was a another GREAT WEEK. It started out pretty slow and we
had some major bumps in the road, but the bumps hardly matter because it
ended so good. Yesterday was the baptism of Raquel. Raquel is a 15-year
old young woman. Who is SO awesome. A couple of weeks ago we met her
because we were looking for a different investigator who lives in the
same divided house. Our other investigator wasn´t home, but Luis (Raquel
Dad) opened his door and told us that she wasn´t home and asked who we
were. It just happened to be really outside this day, and he invited us
in and told us that his teenage daughter was home, so we took advantage
of the situation and asked if we could share a message with him. He
accepted even though he wasn´t very interested. As we were teaching
Raquel left her homework to start listening. She told us that before we
had showed up she had a feeling that she needed to find God, a path to
follow, and that all that faulted was us knocking on her door :) She and
her sister Rafaela and their friend Geiza went to church with us for
the last two sunday´s. We always invited them for baptism, but they
always felt like it was too early. This week as we taught Raquel we
invited her for baptism and she told us that she knew that it would be
something good, but that she was SCARED. We shared the scripture in Alma
7 that says not to fear baptism, and we felt really prompted by the
spirit the whole entire lesson. She is such a good example of courage to
me. I know that she was scared because her sister and her friend
thought that baptism was way too early, and that she was CRAZY for
wanting to be baptized. But she decided that it was necessary for her.
She has a desire to follow Jesus Christ and she didn´t let fear get in
the way of keeping and doing all that is written in the scriptures. She
didn´t let it get in the way of following the promptings of the Holy
Ghost. ANDDDD because of her example Rafaela and Geiza felt the spirit
so strongly during the baptism that they want to be baptized next
week!!!!!! The baptism was such a spiritual experience for me as well. I
LOVE Raquel and Rafaela and Geiza so much. They are such beautiful
daughters of Heavenly Father and I know how much happiness the gospel is
going to bring in their lives.</div>
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Sabrina,
another investigator we have been teaching for a long while now, has
also decided to be baptized on the 14th!!!!! Announced yesterday during
Sacrament Meeting. She is also a great example of courage to me. Her mom
is dying of cancer and she feels so helpless, and yet she still has the
courage to put her faith to test and follow the savior Jesus Christ. </div>
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Courage
is to not be afraid, especially of doing what is right. I know that it
is necessary to live the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I know that all of
us can apply this principle in our lives. As a missionary, I know that
sometimes it´s hard to have the courage to go up to random strangers on
the street, sometimes it´s hard to have the courage to commit
investigators to baptism on the first lesson, sometimes it´s hard to
have the courage to always follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost. I
also know that when my heart takes courage and I keep and do all that is
written, the Savior blesses me. I feel so blessed to be having such
great experiences on my mission. I feel so blessed to be in such a great
area with such a great companion. I feel so blessed to be seeing so
much success on my mission. I know that I am helping the Lord help and
touch the lives of others. </div>
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Never Fear. Be of good courage.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378387203933_2907">
Desi </div>
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Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-32936235995070039292013-08-26T16:45:00.001-04:002013-08-26T16:45:50.552-04:00If Ye Have Not Charity<div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was a really really really BUSY week. We had so many things to do and so many people to teach. We have been seeing a lot of work here in Vila Prudente. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tuesday was Zone Conference. It was a good conference. We did a lot of practices and studied a lot from preach my gospel. It made me remember how important the basics are in missionary work. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week we worked hard to prepare Valmir and Vinicius for their baptisms. They both were already SO ready for baptism!!!!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week I learned a lot about the importance of charity. If we truly love the people that we are teaching we will do anything to help them. We put our own comfort aside and SERVE. This week we learned some really bad news, our investigator, Sabrina, whose sister I met in the MTC during TRC, called us and told us that her mom was back in the hospital and the doctors only gave her 6 months to live. After hearing this news I didn´t know what to do, or how to help. I felt like I couldn´t even breath. But Sister Amaral and I talked about things we could do to help and we decided that we just really needed to be there for her and show her how much we loved her. We bought her a get well kit because she was sick this week with a video of the church and a magazine with tea and soup and earrings and chocolate, and just listened to what she had to say, and taught her about the gospel and how much it was going to help her in her life. Her sister that lives in the US is going to fly down this week. As a result of listening to her and her feelings about everything she seems to be realizing the importance of baptism and she feels a lot better about the date we had set as a goal for her. From this experience I really learned that Charity is everything. When we have charity we do everything that we can to help others recieve the restored gospel. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Would love to hear what´s going on in everyone´s life... Even if it´s just the latest picture you posted on facebook. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Desi </span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br>NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><p x-apple-mail="wrapper"><object type="apple/mailattachment" id="049FB054-BF1E-4152-8882-4694687584AF" filename="SAM_0335.JPG" filesize="4884680" hasviewer="0" isdownloaded="0" isprinting="0" width="110" height="71" displaystyle="0"></object></p><p x-apple-mail="wrapper"><object type="apple/mailattachment" id="20D1CA83-368F-44E4-B287-80FDF41EEE7A" filename="SAM_0327.JPG" filesize="4918346" hasviewer="0" isdownloaded="0" isprinting="0" width="110" height="71" displaystyle="0"></object></p><p x-apple-mail="wrapper"><br></p><p x-apple-mail="wrapper"><br></p></font>Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-43044018450243010292013-08-19T09:22:00.000-04:002013-08-20T09:23:16.057-04:00 "Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Each of us can be true for just one day--and then one more and then one more after that--until we've lived a lifetime guided by the Spirit, a lifetime close to the Lord, a lifetime of good deeds and righteousness." Every day that passes I love my mission more and more. Sometimes when I
look at all the things that I have to do, the people I have to talk to,
the things I have to remember I get really stressed out. But as I
remember the little things and try to do things slowly but surely, I
feel better and I see a lot more success!!! I´m learning how to take
life one day at a time.<br />
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This
week was a
great week. We taught Valmir a lot, and he has decided to take a step of
faith by marking his baptism for Saturday the 24th. We had marked his
baptism for yesterday and we kept insisting. We know your baptism is
going to be on Sunday, and we made a circle on his calender at home, but
the only thing he ever answered was I want to be baptized before the
end of the year. But as we taught he said look on Sunday I´m going to
meet my sister (because he´s never met her before) but let´s mark it for
Saturday the 24th!!!!! WOAH we are sooooooo happy for him and his
FAMILY. We know that he doesn´t have 100% surety of what he is doing,
but he decided to take a step of faith. We read the baptismal interview
questions and he has a testimony of Joseph Smith and of the church. He
wanted to feel 100% sure, but we explained that many times we aren´t
going to feel 100% sure. What Heavenly Father really asks for all of us
to do is to go on faith. This week I started to see this in many
instances of our investigators and recent converts. Sometimes it may be
about leaving something behind or about having the courage to act, or it
may be about breaking barriers (Improve what we already are doing)
Whatever it might be we have to do it because of the faith that we have.
I know that Heavenly Father is willing to bless us and help us in every
aspect of our lives when we are willing to show our faith and do the
things that he asks of us. </div>
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Whatever may be happening in your lives, GO BY FAITH!!!!!!!!</div>
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Love,</div>
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<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376999087510_14100">
Desi </div>
Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-86481401560924141632013-08-13T09:47:00.000-04:002013-08-14T09:47:48.480-04:00 "Answers will come in the Lord’s own way and in His time."A BIG HELLO from Sao Paulo!!!!!<br />
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This
week was a good week. This week in our ward we had the opportunity to
watch the baptism of a man who has been attending the church for 26
YEARS and finally decided to be baptized. His wife and kids are such a
great example of faith and prayers. They have been praying for this for a
really long time. It really puts into perspective the phrase: Patience
is a Virtue. It made me think of some of my investigators. Some that I
have been working with for a good while now who go to church every week
and are reading in the Book of Mormon and still don´t want to put a date
on baptism. I know that the Lord is listening to my prayers and their
prayers and that he is answering them in his own way and in his time. If
I have patience and trust in his timing I know I will see the blessings
that he has promised. </div>
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This
baptism was a great teaching tool as well. We started teaching another
man whose wife and daughter are members of the church who saw the
example of Carlão and was really touched. We have been teaching him this
week and he told us that his desire is to be baptized!!!!! He wants to
be able to baptize his daughter who is 6 right now, and wants to take
his wife and daughter to the temple!!!! We challenged him for baptism
for Sunday and he´s about 50/50 right now. But with patience and faith I
know that the Lord will grant this miracle to us. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376484192077_7885" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; line-height: 17.9861px;">Patience
is the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering
without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious. It is the ability to do
God’s will and accept His timing. When you are patient, you hold up
under pressure and are able to face adversity calmly and hopefully.
Patience is related to hope and faith—you must wait for the Lord’s
promised blessings to be fulfilled.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376484192077_7881" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; line-height: 17.9861px;">Never lose Hope. </span></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376484192077_7876" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 17.98611068725586px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Bruno </span></span></span></div>
Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-57994681928910350102013-08-05T11:11:00.000-04:002013-08-06T11:36:54.670-04:00``And by the Power of the Holy Ghost ye may Know the Truth of All Things``<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375789285696_12176" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Minha Querida Familia,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375789285696_12175" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This
week was the last week of my 6th transfer!!!!!!. A lot of great things
happened this week. Me and Sister Amaral have been teaching some great
lessons, and have seen a lot of results. This week it was evident how
much the Holy Ghost helped us.<br />
<br />This week we had the baptisms of Rafael and Gustavo. Rafael is an
investigator who we have been teaching for a couple of weeks now. We met
him pretty coincidentally. We were walking in the street and out of
nowhere I tripped and almost fell. Graceful... I know :) And Rafael was
sitting on the other side of the street and saw and started LAUGHING. So
of course I started laughing too. We approached him and started talking
to him and turns out that it happened to be on his 21st birthday!!!!
July 16th. We had already gave him a goal to be baptized on the 4th of
August, but he just said I don´t know... Let´s see..... But this week on
Wednesday we got to our teaching appointment and noticed that something
was wrong. And when we were all sat down he told us that he didn´t want
to be baptized. We were in SHOCK.... Wait... WHAT?!?!? So we asked him
why and he started explaining that he wanted to enjoy life that he liked
going to dance and what not. We explained that he could still dance,
and that through the gospel he would enjoy life even more, and read a
scripture<br />
<br /> 14 Now I say unto you that ye must repent, and be born again; for
the Spirit saith if ye are not born again ye cannot inherit the kingdom
of heaven; therefore come and be baptized unto repentance, that ye may
be washed from your sins, that ye may have faith on the Lamb of God, who
taketh away the sins of the world, who is mighty to save and to cleanse
from all unrighteousness. 15 Yea, I say unto you come and fear not, and
lay aside every sin, which easily doth beset you, which doth bind you
down to destruction, yea, come and go forth, and show unto your God that
ye are willing to repent of your sins and enter into a covenant with
him to keep his commandments, and witness it unto him this day by going
into the waters of baptism.<br />
<br />After we read this scripture he said he wanted to be baptized, but
that he wanted to wait more time. When he said that we didn't even know
what to say, but in that exact moment we had realized that we hadn´t
even prayed yet, so we said OK let´s start with a prayer, and we invited
Rafael to say the prayer. And as he started to pray he thanked Heavenly
Father for everything, and said Heavenly Father I decided that I want
to be baptized. And after he said the word Baptized, he paused for about
a minute and said `Lord, I´m going to be baptized <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375791282_0">this Sunday</span>`!!!!
When he said that I felt the spirit so STRONGLY, and when we asked him
what had changed he said that the minute he said baptism he felt like
something was alive inside of him a burning in his heart. He explained
the feeling of the spirit perfectly!!!! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375789285696_12172" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">THE HOLY GHOST IS KEY IN CONVERSION!!!!!!!!!! </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375789285696_12169" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
baptism on Sunday was such a great experience. Gustavo and Rafael were
both so happy. The water was freezing cold and after his baptism Gustavo
tried to swim in the water. It was funny. President and Sister Ferrin
attended our ward and baptism :) Rafael said that he felt like he now
had complete joy in his life. THE GOSPEL IS TRUE AND CHANGES
LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375789285696_12056" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This
week in Sunday School the teacher said that it doesn´t matter what we
are in life. It matters that we are the best of what we are. I am a
missionary and I want to be the best Missionary. I hope you all can
adopt this into your life. BE THE BEST STUDENT, BE THE BEST MOM, BE THE
BEST DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES, BE THE BEST AT SHARING THE GOSPEL!!!!!!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375789285696_12158" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Até Mais!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sister Bruno </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375789285696_12163" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">PS
- This week we had a contest between the districts in our zone who
could eat the most pizza and my district won!!! I ate 9 pieces of pizza
:) Sending a pic!!!!! </span></div>
Dr. Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18061544604584544836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2810875920249689809.post-20415937970466738752013-07-15T07:10:00.000-04:002013-07-16T07:11:16.934-04:00Our Desire to Share the Gospel Takes All of Us to our Knees, and It Should, Because We Need the Lord's Help.<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_2967">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_3097" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_3096" style="color: #444444;">Something
I learned this week is that a testimony truly is powerful!!! We have
been teaching a man named Jefferson from Bahia, and it´s been hard to
get in contact with him because he works so much, but this week on
friday he called because he needed help with his living situation
because he lives in a place where people are always drinking, swearing,
and doing bad things. We called the bishop to help him, and the next day
when we called to see if we could meet with him he told us that we
could, but he didnt feel like studying and that he just needed a friend.
Hmmmm...... Ok I thought let´s go be his friend, and we listened to him
talk about his life and things that we´re going on, his goals and
dreams in life, and I mentioned something about my family and showed him
a picture. He asked me, So if you have such a pretty family why did you
leave them to come here??? When he asked me why I left my family it
made me really reflect, why am I here?????? I thought for a second and
what I came to the conclusion to is that I´m here because the Lord has
given me everything that I have, it was the Lord who gave me such an
awesome family, it was the Lord who has given me the gospel and I know
that Jesus Christ is our Savior. I know of the importance of the gospel
in my life and in the lives of other people. I know that Baptism is not
an option, its necessary. So I shared my testimony with Jefferson, he
said he didn´t want to study but I shared a scripture anyways. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_3097" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_3096" style="color: #444444;">1 Nephi
9: 6 `</span></span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; line-height: 22px;">But the Lord </span><sup class="yiv46019092" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a</sup><a class="yiv46019092" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/9?lang=eng#" id="yiv46019092footnote6" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #486fae; line-height: 22px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">knoweth</a><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; line-height: 22px;"> all
things from the beginning; wherefore, he prepareth a way to accomplish
all his works among the children of men; for behold, he hath all </span><sup class="yiv46019092" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #2f393a; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">b</sup><a class="yiv46019092" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/9?lang=eng#" id="yiv46019092footnote7" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px none; color: #486fae; line-height: 22px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">power</a><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_3098" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; line-height: 22px;"> unto the fulfilling of all his words. And thus it is. Amen.</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_3008" style="background-color: white;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_3007" style="color: #444444; line-height: 16px;">´
I felt like I was actually being prompted and inspired by the Holy
Ghost, it was the best feeling I had all week. And now Jefferson wants
to become a member of the church and be baptized!!!! I was really happy
to see the message that he sent us saying that he wanted to be
baptized. </span></span></span></span><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373973409887_2970">
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