OH family......HI...You guys sound like you had a great weekend!!!!!! I am so jealous that everyone was together for the weekend...but....hey. I am here in Brasil....thats pretty neat.
This week was....hard. Hardest week on my mission. I feel like....looking back...every problem that could go wrong in one house...went wrong. I am going to talk to dad for a bit. Dad, you know that day (I don't remember exactly what problems, but there were a ton). But we had a leak, and you spent hours fixing it, and then when that happened, the dish washer stopped working...and when you fixed that...you looked up and saw moms "honey-do list"...well that was our week.
Problem after problem in this new house. Haha. But it was awesome, because my companion is like Tim the Toolman...she fixes EVERYTHING!
As for our investigators. We have an investigator that we are helping with Drugs and Alcohol. He is really special. His name is Semario. And we have been trying to get him to do little steps, baby steps. Longest story short. This week we decided to talk to him about Alma 34. TODAY is our day of preperation. And as long as we are trying to prepare to do the right thing, we will have enough time to do it. We started talking more about the atonement, and how the antonement was done for every single one of us. Semario, the worlds most hardest investigator.....that night, said a prayer. Humble, sincere, and full of faith. For the first time in many years, one young man took the first step to changing his life. I didn't realize how important doing the smallest things would make the biggest difference. I saw one young man, 26 years old, fight off Satan and his worldly temptations. And then this Sunday morning, I saw one, head to toe, dirt covered 26 year cigarette smoker, alcohol drinker, walk into to our chapel. When I saw him walking in...that quote from an apostle that says "My favorite smell, is the smell of cigarette smoke in the middle of the chapel. Cause that means, that someone who isn't perfect, is trying to become more like his savior, and that he is in the right place to start." (Something like that....)
SEMARIO PRAYED AND WENT TO CHURCH. I cried, I totally cried, of happiness to see a son of God, fight off the temptations and start doing the Lord's will.
This week we also were able to really begin teaching Paulo and Gabriel. They have a date to be baptized
February 7th, and they are really progressing. During the lessons, Paulo shows his desire with the sincere questions he asks. Gabriel shows his desire by reading and praying every night. Paulo is the dad, and Gabriel is 11. And they are awesome!
I am loving Palmas. I know that a lot more cool things happened, but I am short for time, and without a brain today! Love you guys!! Praying for every single one of you!
Sister Craig
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