August 13, 2012
I AM AN AUNT!!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I AM SOO
HAPPY!!!!! PARABÉNS!!!!! Jackie and Ben and Ian Craig- I LOVE
YOU!!!!!
Wow family what a WEEK!!!! We received a package August 9th from our Father in Heaven- a reminder that He loves us and that we are here on this earth to learn to become like Him and to have families and to love one another. I love my Father in Heaven and my family!! Thank you for teaching me to love and for loving me. Ben was so kind and wrote me about details- about what happened! What a miracle. I am SO excited for the pictures!!! I could be wrong, but in the pictures it looks like Ian Craig has Jackie’s chin and in one picture it looks like he has a similar nose that I have! Everyone give him a squeeze for me!!! And tell him that his crazy red-headed Aunt loves him and can´t wait to see him after she serves the Lord for a year! But that she loves him so much and felt his presence with her during the mission. And that she is kind of sad that she won´t feel his spiritual presence anymore, but she is happy he is here in body and safe and sound.
Okay I am going to type like a fiend- super fast because i have SOO much to say so sorry for all the typos. Okay so this week was incredible full full full of miracles!!!!! We had 8 people in church yesterday, we met our goal of 18 new investigators and we had a BAPTISM yesterday!!!! But I need to explain some things beforehand.
Okay, first of all- Ben you are so right and thanks for reminding me. We feel Satan the hardest before something incredible will happen- just like the first vision. I was super low last week and the beginning of this week. So I asked for a priesthood blessing- my first one here in Portugal. Don´t ask me why I waited so long. It was SO incredible and SOO special. It was in English- my district leader from America blessed me, but the other missionaries didn’t understand because they are Portuguese and Brazilian. haha. I won’t tell everything that was said because it was very sacred to me, but the Lord said he loves me and that He is proud of. I can´t tell you how much that meant to me. And He said that my family was kneeling in prayer for me that that they love me and that I need to remember that and share that love with other people. Family, thank you. Thank you for praying for me and for loving me. Thank you for your strength. The love I have from my family is a gift I need to share. That blessing comforted me SOOO much!! After the blessing I shot some hoops with some brothers in the ward rapidemente and felt a lot better. =)
This week our Revelados were Sergio and his mom. Sergio went to EFY this week. We have been visiting his mom everyday and she is INCREDIBLE- Arlete, I wrote about her last week! She is incredible. She asked the Lord if the Book of Mormon was true and she received an answer- she cried. Normally we mark people for baptism with a specific date the second lesson, but we didn´t feel to mark Arlete until Friday. And the Lord´s timing is really perfect. The night before Sergio called and said that he had a huge spiritual experience and wants to be baptized Sunday. So we talked with her about her being baptized also and she said she already thought about it. She still had some doubts but in that moment a security man entered her cafe- this was at night- and said to listen to the sisters because everything they say is true. Arlete said ´don’t tell me you are a member too!`´ and he said yes I am a member and I served a mission! And we all talked to her about the gospel and more about temples and the spirit was SOO strong and she didn´t have any doubts about being baptized. I will NEVER forget that lesson it was INCREDIBLE!!! Unfortunately we found out that they aren´t married civilly. So she couldn´t be baptized on Sunday. BUT we also talked to her husband this week and she said it was a miracle that he stayed in the cafe and talked to us because he doesn´t like anything to do with the church. We became his friends and I showed them some pictures of you all form the beach and they were awed at the huge family and that we are united. They want a family like that. We have talked to arelete sooo many times about temples and being sealed as a family in the temple. Irmã Suzarte and I have felt lots of times this week- spiritual impressions that this family will be sealed together in the temple. We will be there to see it. It is one of our mission goals to baptize a family and then see them be sealed in the temple and because we both have this goal- the Lord is blessing us. The husband came to the baptism yesterday and the spirit was sooo strong, I know he was touched. afterward I asked him when he will be baptized. He laughed and said he was already baptized- the answer of all catholics. uhuh. no siree but we will keep talking! I LOVE this family. This family is SOO special for me. Satan was working on my so hard, and now look at the blessings- this family. Arlete and João will be baptized this transfer.
Another thought I had was with the questions people have before baptism- for the interview before baptism to makes sure they are ready/worthy. And I thought about how with the sacrament every week we renew our baptismal covenants /or we are baptized another time essentially. And how if we don´t pass these questions ourselves every week, we are not worthy to partake of the Sacrament. If I am not following or doing what the Prophet has asked, if I am not paying tithing, if I am not keeping the Sabbath day Holy, etc. I want to be better at keeping these commandments so that I can take the Sacrament more worthily. I want to read the Prophets message every month and act on his words. I want to pay tithing immediately after I receive money, I want to have the Lord´s day be more holy for me and more special- to really prepare for this day.
I know that Jesus Christ lives and that miracles occur. I am so blessed to be here. I am so grateful to be here. I love being a missionary. This time is precious. I know that the Lord has comforted me a lot with family and with Ian. I love the Book of Mormon. Keep reading it. I LOVE YOU LOV YOU LOV EYOU!!!!
Irmã Aunt Tingey
Wow family what a WEEK!!!! We received a package August 9th from our Father in Heaven- a reminder that He loves us and that we are here on this earth to learn to become like Him and to have families and to love one another. I love my Father in Heaven and my family!! Thank you for teaching me to love and for loving me. Ben was so kind and wrote me about details- about what happened! What a miracle. I am SO excited for the pictures!!! I could be wrong, but in the pictures it looks like Ian Craig has Jackie’s chin and in one picture it looks like he has a similar nose that I have! Everyone give him a squeeze for me!!! And tell him that his crazy red-headed Aunt loves him and can´t wait to see him after she serves the Lord for a year! But that she loves him so much and felt his presence with her during the mission. And that she is kind of sad that she won´t feel his spiritual presence anymore, but she is happy he is here in body and safe and sound.
Okay I am going to type like a fiend- super fast because i have SOO much to say so sorry for all the typos. Okay so this week was incredible full full full of miracles!!!!! We had 8 people in church yesterday, we met our goal of 18 new investigators and we had a BAPTISM yesterday!!!! But I need to explain some things beforehand.
Okay, first of all- Ben you are so right and thanks for reminding me. We feel Satan the hardest before something incredible will happen- just like the first vision. I was super low last week and the beginning of this week. So I asked for a priesthood blessing- my first one here in Portugal. Don´t ask me why I waited so long. It was SO incredible and SOO special. It was in English- my district leader from America blessed me, but the other missionaries didn’t understand because they are Portuguese and Brazilian. haha. I won’t tell everything that was said because it was very sacred to me, but the Lord said he loves me and that He is proud of. I can´t tell you how much that meant to me. And He said that my family was kneeling in prayer for me that that they love me and that I need to remember that and share that love with other people. Family, thank you. Thank you for praying for me and for loving me. Thank you for your strength. The love I have from my family is a gift I need to share. That blessing comforted me SOOO much!! After the blessing I shot some hoops with some brothers in the ward rapidemente and felt a lot better. =)
This week our Revelados were Sergio and his mom. Sergio went to EFY this week. We have been visiting his mom everyday and she is INCREDIBLE- Arlete, I wrote about her last week! She is incredible. She asked the Lord if the Book of Mormon was true and she received an answer- she cried. Normally we mark people for baptism with a specific date the second lesson, but we didn´t feel to mark Arlete until Friday. And the Lord´s timing is really perfect. The night before Sergio called and said that he had a huge spiritual experience and wants to be baptized Sunday. So we talked with her about her being baptized also and she said she already thought about it. She still had some doubts but in that moment a security man entered her cafe- this was at night- and said to listen to the sisters because everything they say is true. Arlete said ´don’t tell me you are a member too!`´ and he said yes I am a member and I served a mission! And we all talked to her about the gospel and more about temples and the spirit was SOO strong and she didn´t have any doubts about being baptized. I will NEVER forget that lesson it was INCREDIBLE!!! Unfortunately we found out that they aren´t married civilly. So she couldn´t be baptized on Sunday. BUT we also talked to her husband this week and she said it was a miracle that he stayed in the cafe and talked to us because he doesn´t like anything to do with the church. We became his friends and I showed them some pictures of you all form the beach and they were awed at the huge family and that we are united. They want a family like that. We have talked to arelete sooo many times about temples and being sealed as a family in the temple. Irmã Suzarte and I have felt lots of times this week- spiritual impressions that this family will be sealed together in the temple. We will be there to see it. It is one of our mission goals to baptize a family and then see them be sealed in the temple and because we both have this goal- the Lord is blessing us. The husband came to the baptism yesterday and the spirit was sooo strong, I know he was touched. afterward I asked him when he will be baptized. He laughed and said he was already baptized- the answer of all catholics. uhuh. no siree but we will keep talking! I LOVE this family. This family is SOO special for me. Satan was working on my so hard, and now look at the blessings- this family. Arlete and João will be baptized this transfer.
Another thought I had was with the questions people have before baptism- for the interview before baptism to makes sure they are ready/worthy. And I thought about how with the sacrament every week we renew our baptismal covenants /or we are baptized another time essentially. And how if we don´t pass these questions ourselves every week, we are not worthy to partake of the Sacrament. If I am not following or doing what the Prophet has asked, if I am not paying tithing, if I am not keeping the Sabbath day Holy, etc. I want to be better at keeping these commandments so that I can take the Sacrament more worthily. I want to read the Prophets message every month and act on his words. I want to pay tithing immediately after I receive money, I want to have the Lord´s day be more holy for me and more special- to really prepare for this day.
I know that Jesus Christ lives and that miracles occur. I am so blessed to be here. I am so grateful to be here. I love being a missionary. This time is precious. I know that the Lord has comforted me a lot with family and with Ian. I love the Book of Mormon. Keep reading it. I LOVE YOU LOV YOU LOV EYOU!!!!
Irmã Aunt Tingey
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