sister pereyra & me from last week at the hawaiian party
good
●i gave a talk
in church and it wasn’t horrible.
●i might have
practiced my talk while teaching as a substitute in the primary ctr class with
9 year olds...
●it’s getting
cold (60s-80s) but i like it!
●lunch fell
through for the other elders so six of us had lunch together and it was a
blassttttt.
bad
●nothing
specific to say here... except my pictures won't load:(... so if that’s the only thing bad, that's actually good, right???!!!!!!
awk
●the fact that
i’m pretty sure anyone who knows me well enough on the mission answers the
phone with ´´what the heck´´ everytime i call. it’s mostly the
brazilians.
●also… the
fact that all of my district, aka my mostly brazilian district, started using
phrases like “what the heck?” “oh my gosh!” etc… more than portuguese
phrases. i mean… president wants everyone to learn english? J
awesome
●last p-day we
played a brazilian version or dodgeball… and i kinda dominated #humility
but serious. ok i didn’t win allll the time, but I definitely
didn’t embarrass the family!
●awesome
lessons*
●I GOT MY BDAY PRESENT—22 DVD!! I LOVE YOU
ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
nothing i say in this email matters because ISAAC IS GOING TO SERVE IN VEGAS BABY!!!!!! Literally…
viva las vegas in spanish and i’m so
going to visit when i get back!! (sorry dad) i’m so pumped!! watch out world,
the faldmos are going to have two
missionaries out!
*yesterday we
had a lesson that started crazzzzzzy but turned into something wonderful & powerful. the
elders were asked to go to a member’s daughter’s house and give her a blessing. but
she lives in our area and they couldn’t go alone, so we all went. shortly after
we arrived, she started telling us her life story and all of her problems. she
has medical problems but also is severely depressed… even thinking about
killing herself. almost everyone has abandoned her and things are really hard
in her life. it was soooo difficult to hear and listen to everything she was saying.
when she stopped talking…there was so much i wanted to say, but at the same
time i wanted so badly to say exactly what she needed to hear. i have never
pleaded so strongly in my heart to have the Spirit work perfectly through me and
say exactly what our Heavenly Father knew she needed to hear. we all bore testimony
to her about the love our Heavenly Father and our Savior have for her and that
she is never ever alone, and that our Savior knows exactly what she is going
through because He felt all of her pains in the Garden of Gethsemane. I
testified that if she would put all of her faith in the priesthood blessing she
was about to receive, she would see miracles in her life.
really, at the end of it, i needed the lesson more than she did
i think. i needed to remember why i am here. i needed to remember that the
gospel of Jesus Christ is better than any temporary medicine. i needed to
remember that i can be a tool in the Lord’s hands. i needed to remember the
love that God really does have for every
one of us. the Spirit was so strong and all of us left with tears in
our eyes and I left with a renewed need to find those searching for the
restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
i love you all soooooo much and i’m so psyched for elder faldmo
and the people in the NLV mish! wooooohoooo.
xoxoxoxo sister faldmo aka ash
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