Hey guys!
So this week was
great, I have learned a lot. I am training a senior missionary how to be
financial secretary. I have started creating a manual for all of the different
tasks and responsibilities. After this is done, any secretary will be able to
learn his job just by looking up what he wants. The manual will be in english
but if i get a chance (i doubt i´ll have time), i might translate it to
Portuguese. Elder Sherman is very cool. He is from Victor, Idaho and loves to
go backpacking in the Grand Tetons! It is so beautiful there, i miss the beauty
of nature. The city is so gross, i dont care if there are cool looking
buildings and a lot of people and cultural things, it is just dirty and smelly.
I almost want to live in the rockys after seeing pictures of where the Shermans
live and hike! Mayby after we all get rich and older, we can all move to the
victor, idaho! I still havent taken a picture with him and his wife, i need to
do that. The mission is a lot of culture shock for Sister Sherman, being her
first visit to Brazil. We bought a cake and some icecream and celebrated her
birthday with her this week. We sang in english so she could feel at home a
little bit. It was fun!
We had a great
miracle, Besides Caio´s baptism, we also contacted this girl in the street one
night. Thais is her name. She wanted to get to know the church and was very
excited. We gave her a chapel tour the next day! Then realized that she is from
the Sisters´ area that is right next to ours. So then we invited the sisters to
our next appt with her in the chapel to teach the first lesson. It was awesome.
She will be baptized the 17th of Febuary in the sisters´ ward!!
I had a great
experience at the temple today!! We went just because it is in our area! I
learned that, for sure, our purpose here on earth is to recieve and learn to
live with a body! I though it was so cool that everything in the temple
refers to the body and to Christ´s body. It is so physical and literal the
means by which we can return to God´s presence. The only part of the creation
that God personally accompanied Jesus and Adam to the grand work was when they
created man (The body of man)! I thought that was so cool that God personally
oversaw that part of the work. That shows me how important we are to God and
how important this lifetime is for us.
I know that God and
His Spirit reside in His temples! I felt that today! I know that the veil is
thin and the work is accomplished here and on the other side. I know that Jesus
Christ is our Lord and Savior. I love the quote by Elder Holland from last
conference when he said "...Because i need mercy, and because the world
needs peace...". I need mercy and we all require mercy to have peace and
to return to our heavenly home!
Love you guys! Pray
that i can be guided to write good essays even with a mind full of portuguese
grammer structure haha!
Elder Sanchez