I LOVE the MISSION!!!! SOSOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!
Wow. What a great life. I studied Helaman 5 this morning: have you ever felt like you are stuck in a dark spiritual cloud? Remember the talk on putting pavilions in between ourselves and the Lord? Well, what do we do when we feel that way? We turn to the Book of Mormon- the book of answers. Hel. 5:40-47 is an incredible story full of the spirit and it explains what we need to do when we feel like we are stuck in a dark cloud and we feel like light or revelation can´t penetrate- the answer is this: repent. Have faith and pray until the cloud leaves or the pavilion breaks. Simple yet effective. i LOVE repentance!!! i am so happy and grateful to cry repentance unto this people. The Atonement is the best thing that has ever happened to me. For our zone conference last week I came with the question ´I have 6 months left on my mission. What goals should I have to finish strong and the way the Lord wants me to?´ And the answer came: study and focus on the Atonement. Again- simple and effective. One of the major things we as missionaries learn on the mission is how to use the Atonement- and it is basically the fundamental thing we are teaching everyone- how to use the Atonement. We must ALWAYS be repenting- because unfortunately we are always sinning, but the faster we repent and change; the faster we get back on track, have the spirit and we can progress. repent repent repent. It is the best! When we repent we are not only changing our behavior, but our NATURES. We are repenting for good. So I invite all of you to study more about the Atonement and Repent! Being completely clean and pure ALL the time is the BEST!!!!
Random thoughts and stories: Remember the currant bush and remember who the gardener is and trust in Him. He might have to cut you done a lot to build you back up to who He wants you to be. We need to be completely consecrated to the Lord. It is not what we are giving, but HOW that makes the difference. I don´t know if I already talked about this- but something that I really learned with my experience of reading the 4 gospels before Christmas was that we can read and read and study about Christ and learn a lot about Him, but we won´t REALLY get to know Him until we do act like Him and do His works- what He would do. Things start to happen when we are willing to sacrifice. This week we found this man in the church one night and turns out he had talked to the Elders on the street and he came to talk with another member. Anyways we have seen him a couple times since then and we always get into awesome gospel discussions. He told me that he feels like I have answers for him and he was disputing with me about the Book of Mormon and I asked him if he had read any of it and he hadn´t and so I told him too and he kind of chuckled and said ´you are right I need to read it first. I am hard.´ and I said ´I am hard too.´ which made him chuckle harder and now he tells everyone how I am pushing him and annoying him but in a good way. hahahahahahaha just a funny story. One day we were knocking doors and we knocked this one door and a short petite woman answered from Brazil and immediately invited us in and then called her friend from the kitchen and her son from his room to come listen to us!!! It was sooo awesome!!! We taught about the Book of Mormon- turns out this lady had picked up a Book of Mormon from someone’s trash pile and had read a bit of it and said she would NEVER through that book away!!! saweeeeet. We felt to go find this old investigator from the area book named Fatima and she is SO cool and she said ever since the elders had talked to her she has been reading the book of Mormon!!!! WOOHOO!!! That is a sure sign that she is ready. I have a huge testimony of the Apostasy and the Restoration. The Bishopric gave us some names to look up and so we went and visited this one menos ativo named Rosa and she pretty much gave us a huge list of reasons why she doesn´t want to come to church anymore but we helped her see that the base question that she really has is are our prophets truly called of God which actually is reflecting on her testimony of the BOok of Mormon. The BoM is the answer to everything- any doubt is based on that testimony. I LOVE the Book of Mormon and I KNOw it is true. We taught this really sweet lady named Fernanda (we first talked to her on the street earlier in the week) and she is super humble and also ready for the gospel. Every time we teach about Joseph Smith and the Restoration the Spirit fills the room and every person in it. At the zone conference this past week I talked to one of my old comps.- Irmã Suzarte- I served with her in Setubal- well she just recently left that area and she said that one girl we found knocking doors will soon be baptized!!! YEA!!!! I know this church is TRUE1!!!
I love this gospel. I love this work. I love the Lord. I know the Atonement is real. I love Braga and my comp. and my mission. I love all of you and pray for you!!! HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!!
com muito amor,
Síster Tingey 1/28/13
Wow. What a great life. I studied Helaman 5 this morning: have you ever felt like you are stuck in a dark spiritual cloud? Remember the talk on putting pavilions in between ourselves and the Lord? Well, what do we do when we feel that way? We turn to the Book of Mormon- the book of answers. Hel. 5:40-47 is an incredible story full of the spirit and it explains what we need to do when we feel like we are stuck in a dark cloud and we feel like light or revelation can´t penetrate- the answer is this: repent. Have faith and pray until the cloud leaves or the pavilion breaks. Simple yet effective. i LOVE repentance!!! i am so happy and grateful to cry repentance unto this people. The Atonement is the best thing that has ever happened to me. For our zone conference last week I came with the question ´I have 6 months left on my mission. What goals should I have to finish strong and the way the Lord wants me to?´ And the answer came: study and focus on the Atonement. Again- simple and effective. One of the major things we as missionaries learn on the mission is how to use the Atonement- and it is basically the fundamental thing we are teaching everyone- how to use the Atonement. We must ALWAYS be repenting- because unfortunately we are always sinning, but the faster we repent and change; the faster we get back on track, have the spirit and we can progress. repent repent repent. It is the best! When we repent we are not only changing our behavior, but our NATURES. We are repenting for good. So I invite all of you to study more about the Atonement and Repent! Being completely clean and pure ALL the time is the BEST!!!!
Random thoughts and stories: Remember the currant bush and remember who the gardener is and trust in Him. He might have to cut you done a lot to build you back up to who He wants you to be. We need to be completely consecrated to the Lord. It is not what we are giving, but HOW that makes the difference. I don´t know if I already talked about this- but something that I really learned with my experience of reading the 4 gospels before Christmas was that we can read and read and study about Christ and learn a lot about Him, but we won´t REALLY get to know Him until we do act like Him and do His works- what He would do. Things start to happen when we are willing to sacrifice. This week we found this man in the church one night and turns out he had talked to the Elders on the street and he came to talk with another member. Anyways we have seen him a couple times since then and we always get into awesome gospel discussions. He told me that he feels like I have answers for him and he was disputing with me about the Book of Mormon and I asked him if he had read any of it and he hadn´t and so I told him too and he kind of chuckled and said ´you are right I need to read it first. I am hard.´ and I said ´I am hard too.´ which made him chuckle harder and now he tells everyone how I am pushing him and annoying him but in a good way. hahahahahahaha just a funny story. One day we were knocking doors and we knocked this one door and a short petite woman answered from Brazil and immediately invited us in and then called her friend from the kitchen and her son from his room to come listen to us!!! It was sooo awesome!!! We taught about the Book of Mormon- turns out this lady had picked up a Book of Mormon from someone’s trash pile and had read a bit of it and said she would NEVER through that book away!!! saweeeeet. We felt to go find this old investigator from the area book named Fatima and she is SO cool and she said ever since the elders had talked to her she has been reading the book of Mormon!!!! WOOHOO!!! That is a sure sign that she is ready. I have a huge testimony of the Apostasy and the Restoration. The Bishopric gave us some names to look up and so we went and visited this one menos ativo named Rosa and she pretty much gave us a huge list of reasons why she doesn´t want to come to church anymore but we helped her see that the base question that she really has is are our prophets truly called of God which actually is reflecting on her testimony of the BOok of Mormon. The BoM is the answer to everything- any doubt is based on that testimony. I LOVE the Book of Mormon and I KNOw it is true. We taught this really sweet lady named Fernanda (we first talked to her on the street earlier in the week) and she is super humble and also ready for the gospel. Every time we teach about Joseph Smith and the Restoration the Spirit fills the room and every person in it. At the zone conference this past week I talked to one of my old comps.- Irmã Suzarte- I served with her in Setubal- well she just recently left that area and she said that one girl we found knocking doors will soon be baptized!!! YEA!!!! I know this church is TRUE1!!!
I love this gospel. I love this work. I love the Lord. I know the Atonement is real. I love Braga and my comp. and my mission. I love all of you and pray for you!!! HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!!
com muito amor,
Síster Tingey 1/28/13
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