So harvest should be starting today!!!!! Wow that is really weird to think about!!! I am praying for all of you and those little cherries! Remember I love you all!!!!
I was reading the last general conference address and Elder M. Russell Ballard said this, "Brothers and sisters the gospel of Jesus Christ is simple, no matter how much we try to complicate it", it's so true and so much of what we teach is simple. I gave a talk last week that talked about enduring to the end. And I think a lot of times we want something new and catchy but it reallly is the basics. We will keep hearing the basics because it's exactly what we need to do!!! It's so amazing and beautiful. As we do the basics and live worthy the Holy Ghost will help us learn how to apply these things more in our lives and that is when we grow, God is just and perfect. He will always bless us acording to our faith in keeping the commandments! ALWAYS! Because he is just, he has celestial laws that he abides by and we have to do our part to receive those blessings. We are teaching a couple right now who want to be baptised and are waitig for their marriage papers. They told us a story Saturday about how they had 10 dollars but had to go to the center to buy what they could. They had no gas for two weeks (for the stove, everyone here uses propane for the stove) which means NO warm food at all and it's been cold some days. They have two little boys, one that is almost 3 and one that is almost 1. Someone crashed on their bike and dropped an envelope. Then got up and left, Alex and Laura picked it up and it had 400 dollars in it, they put it in their backpack and contuinued on. A few minutes later the man came back and started asking if anyone had seen the envelope. Alex called him over and told him he had it (Laura was a little more resistant, she wanted to feed her kids) but the man said thank you and that it was his entire months pay. When Alex and Laura came home the Bishop had sent them some food and a tank of gas. They were willing to do what was right and were blessed. They even said, "if we had kept that money, we might have had enough to buy food and clothes but who knows what else bad could have happened?" They have such great faith. They want to pay their tithing and they have nothing!! It's so amazing.
My comp is amazing. We are working together. Sometimes it's hard to speak Portuguese because it's so much easier in English but we are really trying to focus on speaking Portuguese. The Bishop here is really result oriented and is kind of mean. Actually he is just really ´get-it done´ but it's all good. We are doing the best we can and I actually think we are doing really well. Sister Wells and I were talking the other day that we would like to stay together for the next transfer and see all of our couples baptised (we have a lot that are waiting for marriage papers before baptism). I would love it if that could happen but who knows. I might be transferred again at the end of this week, maybe just a different ward. We don't really know.
My companion is from Springville, Utah.
The pictures here are Sister Wells with our phone :) and bedroom. Our ward mission leader is amazing!! He goes out with us all the time and our phone got lost a few weeks ago so we have been without a phone, so he gave us his sons phone. He also fed us chahasco...spelled totally wrong, but its Brazilian bbq, by far the best I have had on the mission and better than any other meat I have ever eaten!!! :) Anyways this is her trying to figure out the phone, and our beds in the background.
The other one is Maira, form Camobi, I don't know if I sent this one last time but I love her. She is so wonderful. Then the other one is a picture of her family (posted last week), the dad finally said a prayer my last night there. First time in four months that he prayed out loud for the group. So tender. The gospel is so true and it blesses families. We have to use our faith to recieve an answer from God, but he will answer, he always does.
I love the gospel, I love you all. This is a very special time I have to serve Heavenly Father and help his children learn about how to return and live with him again. Preparing the way for the second coming of the savior!!
Love always and forever,
Kat
What's new with the kids? :)
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