Hey family!
This week was hard when it came to teaching new people
because we were running around all week doing baptismal interviews but by the
end of the week we got the ward really excited to work.
This week it looks like we have someone to leave with us
almost every day!
Something interesting that I have learned this week is
inspiration and revelations comes way more clearly and directly in our
spiritual meetings. It doesn’t mean that we don’t receive inspiration when we
aren't in those meetings but for me I receive these promptings during prayer
and during study but then in these meetings they are magnified to me. I thought
it was so interesting.
I was sitting in sacrament and just names and people and
members where flying through my head, it was like the Spirit was just telling
me almost as it was in person!
Something that the prophet has said is that God has so much
to tell us and He wants to tell us many things. I remember feeling that
everything that the Spirit was telling me was true, but it wasn’t just a loud
voice He speaks to us so quietly, if I wasn’t praying or listening in Church
then I don't think that I would have even heard it!
Something that I like that President Russel M Nelson has said
is to pray, listen, write down our thoughts, and act. And if practice makes
perfect then the more we pray, listen, write, and act then the faster we can
recognize or receive revelation. I really like the scripture in Doctrine and
Covenants when the Lord commands Joseph and Oliver to write everything down
while they were still filled with the Spirit. Even the Prophet Joseph Smith did
it!
So my companion is really awesome, he is from Paraná Brazil,
it’s in the south of Brazil. He served in the military and is just an overall
great guy, I have been blessed my entire mission to have
such great companions.
This week we taught a lesson to an old guy outside of his
house with tons of birds and chickens running around, to me it was normal but
then I thought about what it would be like in the states and I thought
"wow, this is not normal"! ha-ha he was a nice guy, he wants to get
married and baptized so we are helping him. Afterwards he gave us a whole wheel
barrel full of coconuts and avocados, I didn’t want to accept it but I think he
would have gotten offended if I didn’t ha-ha.
Tomorrow my companion and I have to give a training to all
the zone leaders at the president’s house on the importance of bringing our
investigators to church. Pray that the Spirit can be with us.
This week we presented the new attribute to the zone, we are
all studying about faith.
Wow it has already been a great study, it is so amazing to
see how everything connects like a puzzle. Faith, humility, and obedience are
all so connected and every week I have understood more about each one. It’s fun
to see how much something pops up when you are actually looking for it. I will
be just studying about anything and things about faith will pop up, last week
it was obedience that was just popping up everywhere! Even the president's
weekly message this week is called "FAITH" what a "coincidence"
right.
And you’re right the mission is such a marathon there are
those points where we don’t see the finish line and we don’t think that we can
make it but seeing those people on the side lines holding up
your name routing for ya sure helps us continue and it gives
us the motivation to press forward,
thanks for being the ones routing for me on the sideline and
giving me motivation to always continue.
Thanks for the prayers, they make all the difference
I hope everyone has a great week
Elder Toma
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