Dear Family,
The week went well, we worked hard trying to find some new
investigators because none of our investigators went to church this week unfortunately,
so this week will be a lot of finding new people to teach.
We have already found of couple of new families that are
super interested, they made a cake for us and everything ha-ha.
My companion is from Goias and he is the only member of his
family that is a member of the church. He was baptized about a year and 9 months
ago but he has a ton of knowledge of the church and it seems like he was born
in the church. This week he has been feeling down because he received news that
his friend was electrocuted and died, so I’ve been trying to help him out a
little, but he is doing fine.
It was a good this week with teaching also, our leader of
the missionary work is preparing to go on his mission here in a month, so he has
been with us to teach which I thought was good.
We had a meeting about the importance of members and the
role of them, and he happened to participate and our ward missionary leader
helps a ton, he is only 21 and he only has a year in the church but he seems
like he has a ton of time in the church, he said in the meeting that sometimes
the members get confused with church and the temple, they think that you have
to be worthy to go to church and they judge those that are going to church just
to get better, and that the temple is the place where you have to be worthy, he
said that church is like a hospital to help the sick. He also got on top of
everyone saying that the role of the missionaries is to baptize and that the
members should be the ones making friendships with the new converts because the
missionaries don’t stay in the ward forever and also to not wait for the
missionary to leave to be a friend but to be a friend a quickly as possible and
then when the missionary leaves that person will already feel comfortable to
stay because they will have someone to talk to.
He has been such an example to me, I don’t know why I never
got involved with missionary work before the mission, but I wish that I did. He
talks to everyone he knows and invites everyone to every activity, makes me realize that everyone is a missionary, and that not
just the missionaries that are serving a mission with a name tag are
missionaries in our church.
sounds like everyone is doing well,
I think one of my favorite things this week was hear about
Cole´s home coming, and his talk, it had me in tears just hearing about it.
Give him a hug for me,
Hope everyone has a good week,
Love
Elder Toma
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