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| Me and Elder M.! |
How´s everyone doing? Thanks so much for sending the awesome photos and videos from the family reunion! It looks like it was a blast! That´s pretty cool that you guys got a motor home too! Dad, I think a trip up to Capitol Reef is in order when I get back!
Okay, so here´s some news for you. President wasn´t too impressed with my work as Financial Secretary, so I got transferred! I didn´t see that coming, but it was one of the "changes" that I mentioned in my previous E-mail. This transfer I´m in a part of Goiânia called Ipiranga, my companion (Elder M.) and I are the Zone Leaders of the Goiânia North Zone. He´s Zone Leader 1 and has a lot more experience than I do, so I´m pretty grateful for that! I was pretty, well, I think terrified out of my mind´s the right word here, when I was coming into this transfer, but Elder M. is really motivated, sincere, and has made it very clear that he´s here to help me learn! I´m going to need that help for sure!
So, about the mission tour! It was incredible! Elder T. is the Area authority that came to visit the mission, and what an incredible experience that was! He spoke about faith, prayer, charity, it was incredible! I want so badly to see everyone that I know go on a mission just to have the opportunity to be taught by such incredible servants of the Lord. Elder T. had a very neat kind of humility to him, and as he spoke I felt so strongly the Holy Ghost testifying to me that he is a servant of the Lord. He told us about "the veil of unbelief" (See Ether 4:15) and how we must break this veil in our lives to become servants through whom the Lord can work miracles. He taught us how to counsel with the Lord in our prayers, and emphasized the importance of inviting not just to come to church on sunday or be baptized, but invite them to come unto Christ. He did several roll-plays with the missionaries and it was incredible to see the love of the Lord that he conveyed. When the mission tour came to an end, he threw us a curve-ball and asked President K. for permission to say the closing prayer himself. It was so neat to here one of the Lord´s Seventies praying!
I want so badly that everyone can serve a mission! There opportunities to learn to love God´s children and be taught by his servants that are incredible but only exist on the mission. What a marvellous blessing from the Lord is a call to serve a mission! So go serve a mission!!! Everyone! Do whatever you need to do to put your life and testimony in line to serve him. The two years are so short, but so rich with growth in knowledge, charity, spirit, testimony, and in our relationship with our Heavenly Father! So, serve a mission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I's baptism on Saturday!
The sisters had three investigators who chose to get baptized on that day too,
so it was a good crowd! I. is in white at the top left of the photo.
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I´ve got to go now, but I love each and every one of you! You are all chosen children of a divine being, a God who loves us and wants each of us to have joy. Trust in his wisdom and knowledge of how to obtain that joy, because he knows how to have it so much better than we do! Seek to learn his word and live it!
Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Sweet
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| Another picture of I's baptism! |
P.S. Landon, check your E-mail!
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