Oi! From Brazil!

  Good morning friends and family!  Here has passed by almost another month since I've written, so I'll try and be thorough without writing too much!   Let's jump into the adventures that have happened over the last couple weeks!   First off, we had a kind of punch in the gut shortly after I send my last email.  I talked about Joelma right?  Well, we had a lesson super spiritual where we marked a baptismal date with her...and then the very next day she sent a message to us saying that God had reaveled to her that she didn't need to go to our church.  We were like, WHAT?  It was really out of no where, and we had her member friend send her some messages and try and help her, but in the end Joelma ended up just blocking us.  That was an unfortunate thing, and it really opened my eyes to how much I love the people here in Brasil, cause I did get really sad after she said no, after she had already received her answer.   But th...

  Bom dia!  My p day has officially moved back to Mondays, so I will be sending more regularly on Mondays.   I hope you all have been able to be blessed during the last week.  I'd like to share an experience with you all from yesterday!  Yesterday morning we got ready for church, and left early to go pick someone up to be able to go to the church.  We had spent all of Saturday confirming people could come to church, and by Saturday night a large percentage of them had canceled.  We went to pick up Natalia, but turns out she was still sleeping and didn't answer the door.  We walked back, somewhat dejectedly to the church.  I turned to Elder Serafim and said, "Well Elder, we did the right thing.  It's a good thing.  We showed our faith to the Lord, and our action.  Now we show him that we are ready for the bigger blessings."  I would soon realize how true that statement was.   As we got to the church building,...