So’ Vai
4/24/17
This week I have a new goal. To literally give everything I have, and just let God do the rest. Because I am tired. Sorry to be real, but I am so tired. I love being a missionary, I love spreading the gospel, but I am tired of working so hard and not getting the results I want. Unfortunately, that´s a part of the mission, a part of life. You don´t always get what you want. And I realized that I was relying on myself more than on the Lord. Sunday, we had 6 people firm to take to church. We knocked on all their doors, the doors of other investigators who weren´t as firm, and invited people in the street. We brought no one to church. No one. I was praying desperately during the sacrament, Lord, where did I fail? We did everything in our power. We followed up every day, we taught with the spirit, we studied for them, we went to their houses to bring them to church. Why did everyone fall through? What did we do wrong? At the end of the sacrament, I looked behind me, and saw the sister (Maria Clara) of a recent convert (Daniel) sitting next to my recent convert (Marcel) and another recent convert (Laercio). I looked up and in front of me was sitting a girl (Belli) who is not baptized, while the rest of her family is. We have been wanting to help her, and we had lunch with her family the other day, and she finally opened up a little bit. She had always gone to church with her family, but she hadn´t been going for the last 4 weeks, but there she was, sitting in front of me. After church, another investigator (Luiz) was outside the church and said he had been waiting for us. He was this drunk on the street, but when he is sober he is literally the best. We had been teaching him and he is the Lord´s elect, but the only problem is that his wife played goalie and said that she doesn´t want us teaching Luiz anymore because what will the neighbors think and say about my husband talking to two young girls every day? I have never tried to stop myself from rolling my eyes so hard in my life. She is part of another church, and he never showed interest in her church but loves the gospel of Jesus Christ all of the sudden. Buuuuuut before church we had a brother call Luiz on our phone (because if his wife answers we´re dead meat) and invited him to church, and Luiz said that he had to go to Sorocaba with his wife, but he would go next week. And we saw his walking on our way to church and yelled across the street for him to come to church and he said he would go in like 10 minutes. He didn´t go IN the church, but he went TO the church haha. It wasn’t until later that I realized that the Lord was telling me that He is in control, not me. He has a plan, I just don´t know what it is, and have to trust in Him completely.
I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the true church of Jesus Christ. I know that this is His work, and that sometimes He gives us bread to nourish us, but it tastes like a rock, but we just gotta eat it, because it´s what we need. He knows we can accomplish all that He gives us, and will never abandon us. He is always with us every step of the way. We just have to rely on Him because without Him, we are literally nothing. Just stop trying to do it yourself. (I´m talking more to myself right now) He knows how to everything and He will guide you. He loves you more than you can imagine. You don´t have to face your difficulties alone.
Love and miss you all!!! Boa Semana!!
Sister Evans
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