The Field is White all ready to Harvest: Week 13: I ate 3 bowls of ice cream

All that Ice Cream!

Monday-I am grateful for getting used to things, ice cream, and country music.

Tuesday-I am grateful for tender mercies.

Wednesday-I am so very grateful for the Grace of God and working with Him.

Thursday-I am grateful for splits, a clear mind, and the BOM!!

Friday-I am grateful for storms, cookies, calm moments, and my imperfect Portuguese.

Saturday-I am grateful for simple, powerful testimony.

Sunday-I am grateful for listening to the spirit and exercising faith.

Yeehaw, hi y'all just here to testify that that the Lord hears and answers your prayers.

I taught English again and we had only 3 people come but it was pretty fun with just them.

I am learning a lot more about Faith.

My most powerful experience this week was in church. We had people that we had never met before and weren't members there. I went to the 2nd hour class and my comp stayed behind to talk with an investigator and I accompanied the other 2 investigators. They had a member of the Relief Society Presidency with them and so I didn't feel like I needed to help them and sit with them and honestly I didn't really think I could, what more could I have to offer than the person that was already with them, especially when she actually spoke Portuguese. So I sat next to some members. When my comp came in to the class with the other investigator he told me to go sit with the investigators. He sat down with his investigator and I stayed where I was at. I think and think and think and then an impression comes to my mind. This week Rohde and I are working on the Christlike attribute of Faith. I decided to exercise my faith and so I moved and sat next to the investigators. Turns out they didn't have a BOM and I did, of course, being a missionary. So I gave them one and helped show them what scriptures we were reading. After the lesson I testified of the Book of Mormon and invited them to read and all that good stuff. I was able to talk fluently and with the Spirit and they understood me perfectly. It was really good and showed that if I exercise my faith and do my best, the Lord will help me.

My District

I had splits this week and was with Elder Barbosa in my area, Costa e Silva. It was so good. He is a funny guy and we taught 2 lessons and gave 3 messages and it rained pretty much all day which is fine by me. We were also given lots of food by the members so that is always good.

Simple powerful testimony is the way to go.

We are teaching Breno and got him on date for baptism! He wants to be baptized after he turns 18 because then its even more like he is changing his life. Cool I guess but I probably wont be here to see it. 🙁

We had a BBQ on Saturday at noon to start every ones fasts. Such a good idea and I had some seriously good food.

A super profound moment that I really like from this week comes from my companion when we had comp study in the chapel. He talked about how the Prophet has tons of wisdom and knowledge in the church yet his testimony that he shares is simple and powerful. I later had an opportunity to testify and share my testimony on the Book of Mormon to a referral who we had finally been able to meet. It wasn't a long talk, but simple, powerful, and guided by the Spirit. I am grateful to have the opportunity to bear my testimony so frequently.