June 11, 2012
Olá Familia!!! Eu amo vocés!!!!
Portuguese e melhor. bem, um pouco. Mas
porque eu tenho um otimo companheira- eu estou a aprender mais rapidemente.
:) I can tell I am getting better because now people ask me if I am
from Ukraine, Spain, or Italy. Better than American, but not quite to
Portuguese status yet.
Wow sounds like everyone has a had a great week!!
Good luck to Abs leaving home and walking into the crazy jungles of
Virginia wrestling with Brigham, singing with Jacob, watching CARS with Caleb
and snuggling with Mark... You are going to LOVE it!!! I did! :)
I think the person sitting next to me smoked weed before he came in.
blast. As always, thank you for the e-mails!!! I LOVE BEING A
MISSIONARY!!! Holy cannoli. I am so happy.
This week we had an Irmã Conference!!! A
conference with all the Irmãs- ONLY! Best conference ever! haha.
But seriously, it was amazing. I felt so much strength and support.
It was so nice to swap ideas and thoughts and best of all I saw friends
from the MTC and other irmãs i met here that i thought i woulnd´t see until
after the mission! Irmã Torgan talked about all the main points in Preach
My Gospel. I am determined to be a Preach My Gospel Missionary.
President Torgan gave us faca (the knife) as always, but as always ended
with love. This morning I read in Mosiah 5:1-5- King Benjamin´s people were so
touched by the spirit that they repented and didn´t want to do anything bad
ever again. I feel that way on the mission. I never want to go back
to my old self. I want to keep changing for the better. The people
in Mosiah made a covenant with the Lord to always remember Him and keep His
commandments. I wanted to make the same covenant right then and there.
But I thought about it more and realized that I made that same covenant
at baptism and I renew that covenant EVERY week when I partake of the
Sacrament. WOW!!! i am SO grateful!!! i am so grateful for
the privilege, opportunity, and blessing I have to take of the Sacrament and
renew my covenants with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. President
Torgan always says that people can´t come unto Christ without the covenant of
baptism. We can keep the commandments but Heavenly Father cannot bless us
to the full extent if we do not first make a covenant with Him. When we
promise Him, He promises us. I am so grateful for all the blessings that
I have. I am so grateful for the covenants I have made. How
special. When we try our best to keep our end of the deal, we are blessed
100 fold.
We were walking on a road with a little bit of
country and we decided to knock a door, actually it was a gate and we didn´t
knock, the dogs let the owner know we were there... :) We talked to a man
without a shirt (that actually happens a lot) and we gave him a card and set a
time we could return. When we returned we talked to his girlfriend.
She has had the hardest life. wow. She said that her
boyfriend gave her our card and she was going to through it away but Mario said
´Don´t! you need to talk to them!´ She was so touched by the spirit, it was
incredible. She cried with us and talked with us for about an hour.
The gospel changes lives. It brings so much hope and happiness and
love. Jesus Christ loves everyone and wants everyone to use the
Atonement. As we were walking back I had the impression to knock some
doors. We were in a hurry but followed the prompting and the first
building we rang some bells and no one answered but then a window right
next to the door opened and a women was hanging up clothes. We
talked to her and come to find out my companion had already talked with her the
transfer before I came, but it was fast and the woman didn’t leave any contact
info. The women´s name is Francisca and she had tried to come to church
one Sunday but couldn´t find the chapel! Heavenly Father knows His
children.
Yesterday was crazy. crazy awesome. Six
people came to church! one of our old investigators who had disappeared
has now re-surfaced! And had a baptismal interview last night... at 9:45
pm.... long story. He will be baptized this week! We have met so many
amazing people! So many miracles have happened! I am so grateful to
be a tool in the Lord´s hands. His work is incredible. I am sorry I
biffed (haha) the last email- actually President and Irmã Torgan are up to
2,400 baptisms so far! Something President Torgan always says to do when
you are feeling down, when something didn´t go right, etc. is to repent.
Repent, repent repent and then get back up and try again. We as
missionaries are here to call people to repentance- to use the Savior´s sacrifice-
the Atonement. I am so grateful for the Atonement. I am so grateful
for the Sacrament. i am so grateful for Covenants. I love you all
so much!!! Hurrah for Israel!!!
Irmã Tingey
Transfers next Monday! ah! already?!?!
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