(Elder Mackrory)
Boa noite gente!
Espero que a semana de vocês foi bem, a minha com certeza
foi. Vi 9 fuscas, levando o total a 1393,5. Tenho mais uma semana para ver esse
meio fusca.
What’s up guys! So excited to write once more. Today means
that there are only 8 days left of my missionary service here in Brasil. It
makes me very sad to leave this people whom I love so much. This week was
unreal and fast. As I tried to remember last pday, if feels like it has only
been three days, but when I remembered what we did, I had to think twice
because I thought I was remembering the pday before last.
Last pday we stayed here in Iraja, and did a zone churrasco.
As usual, my comp did the honors of absolutely killing it on the grill. We
played a bunch of soccer, and I can see that my time playing with the boys on
the street (who are way better than me) has made me way better than I once was.
Goal goal goal goal. Good times.
On Tuesday we had our district council at the Ramos chapel
for the first time this transfer. That afternoon both of our appointments fell
through, so we basically spent the day doing online work, and it’s nice to have
an area where that never lacks.
On Wednesday we visited a part of our area we hadn’t been to
in a while, and had lots of success! We also visited a few members and that was
really gratifiying and cool to hear their stories and get to know them.
On Thursday we had an awesome lesson with Luciano and Rubi,
and we are so excited for their baptism this coming Sunday. They are so ready.
Other than that, just more online work. For lunch we had to quickly head to the
supermarket to grab some ingredients and so I grabbed some stuff to make a
salad (lettuce, tomato, and onion) and then accidentally walked by the meat
aisle and saw hamburger buns. So I accidentally bought them and accidentally
made hamburgers for lunch. There was no salad for reasons I can not presently
describe.
On Friday we were supposed to go to the temple with Jorge,
but something went wrong and he wasn’t able to go. His day off this week isn’t
on a day when the temple is open, and so unfortunately we will have to leave it
to the next missionaries to take him. We managed to make a few phone call
lessons in the time we would have been at the temple, so it wasn’t a wasted
day.
On Saturday we were at lunch when we get a message from
Carol that she’s on her way to the temple again! She’s super dedicated to
temple work and doing her family history. That night we had our regular soccer
with the boys, and I noticed that my confidence level was way up because of
Monday's games. However, this still does not change the fact that I am the
worst player on the team.
Sunday was a day of miracles! It didn’t start out great,
since we had planned to chat with a friend of ours before sacrament meeting,
but his bus was late. But then, two new friends showed up! They both loved the
meeting and said they will come again. We had an awesome lunch, in which the tv
was playing the remake of Jumanji with the Rock. We ate while the movie
continued to play, and at the end of lunch, which happened to be the end of the
movie as well, I shared a message based on the movie. It was funny at first as
we chatted about how our life can be like a video game (NPCs, side quests,
pay-to-win) and then we had a deeper discussion that was actually pretty cool
about the spiritual gifts (abilities, in video game terminology) that each one
has. We talked about how we need each other to be able to finish the game. We
talked about how Heavenly Father anxiously waits for us to identify, develop
and share our Spiritual Gifts. He is anxiously waiting to give us more of these
gifts as we care for the gifts we have been given.
Tender mercy: This week I have seen how the Holy Spirit
brings to our remembrance all that we have studied. There were many instances
in which I distinctly knew what to say because of my studies. One such moment
was at Sunday’s lunch when the following quote came to mind:
“Each of you has been blessed with divine talents by our
Father in Heaven. He is waiting for you to identify, develop, and magnify those
talents He has blessed you with.”
Spiritual Thought: Ponder by yourselves about the Spiritual
gifts you have been given. Prayerfully decide how you will develop such gifts,
and ask for help from family and friends in developing them. Pray for help from
your Heavenly Father, and you will see that you capacity to bless others will
be increased.
Tender Mercy part two: Remember the Argentinian family that
we taught portuguese? They got baptized this Sunday! It was super cool to see
and I was bounding for joy.
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