Today was amazing! It really was a day that I truly felt the spirit of the Lord. I realized that it's through the Lord that I can help in his work. The day started with a long day at the office. Every Monday is super duper long because everyone is in the office. I got some work done, sure, and started making some spreadsheets, which was exciting (its kinda sad that making spreadsheets excites me now...)! The day was super long and I got done what I needed to do in the office for the day. We went to a family's house of a recent convert of ours, Luana, and taught them about the commandments and they loved it! It's always super cool to see the Lord touch the heart of our investigators. Afterwards, we had to use the bathroom because we had drank a TON of Terere...which is like a herb that you add with lime juice...something like that hahaha! It's hard to explain, look it up! We stopped by to use the bathroom real quick cause it runs through you faster than....well, something really fast. Anyhow, we decided to visit some of the people that we had made contacts with, so we started walking. Elder Pará, my companion, decided that we needed to take another path, so we did...and we saw (wait for the intensity to build)...nothing. So, we went on another path, thinking huh maybe its the spirit guiding us, but we didn't meet anyone new....until we got to the end of the road. We passed a lady that was laying on the ground, totally out of it, almost blacked out drunk! And she was with her young daughter. I didn't feel like I had to talk to them because, to be honest, its not SUPER rare to see a situation like that here. But, Elder Pará felt like we needed to talk to them, so ...(another pause for intensity) we didn't. We kept walking and then we saw a car stop in front of us and AGAIN, we felt like we should talk to them and we also didn't! BUT! This time we eventually did turn around and we went to talk with them to see if they needed help. Turns out they had stopped their car to help that same lady that Elder Pará had felt like he needed to talk to earlier! All 4 of us went over to talk with this lady and see if she needed help and how we could help get her and her daughter home safely. Elder Pará kept the woman awake on the ground trying to find out where she lived and just talk with her so she wouldn't pass out. In the meanwhile, I went over to the 9 year old daughter and started trying to find out any information. She knew where she lived, but the people in the car didn't have space for them in their car (it was a tiny truck with a billion chairs in the back so they really didn't). I talked to the little girl about who we could call and who else lived in her house and she helped out. We got a hold of her stepdad who could come and pick them up. We all thought he would have a car! After the call we waited and I talked with the daughter trying to distract her from the situation and ask her about what she likes to do, eat, play, whatever I could to distract her from her mom´s state of being. While we were waiting, a member from a different ward passed by and stopped. Their car was full of his family and asked us if he could help in anyway. At that moment, the stepdad showed up without a car and without a way to take this woman and daughter home! The church member told us he would drive home and drop off his family and then return with his car. In about 5 minutes he returned to drop them off and we continued walking to our appointment with our recent contacts. While we were walking there, we ran into the same church member without even meaning to and he showed us the house of these people. We entered and obviously the stepdad was mad with his wife for being so drunk and so disoriented. We went in and I swear this was the most drunk person I have ever seen in my life! She passed out 3 times while we were talking to her! We didn't know what to talk about, but all of their kids were super friendly and all younger than 9. The stepdad didn't have a lot of patience with the kids, so I kept the kids attention and showed them photos of our pamphlets while Elder Pará kept the adults attention...talking about Christ and his love for us. Being in that house and situation was hard to feel the spirit but we started with a prayer and everyone! Even the little ones listened closely and I truly felt the power of the spirit and power of prayer. We stayed for a bit and talked about Christ and how we can have a happier family. I don't think our teaching got through very much but the stepdad calmed down and understood that he needs to have patience with his family before he does anything drastic. I left them with the most sincere prayer that I could give and pleaded God for the protection that he could give to those kids and to give patience to the stepdad. We left the house and started thinking about the miracle had happened. Maybe during the lesson it was hard to feel the spirit, but afterwards I knew that I was an instrument in the hand of God. It just so happened that we stopped to help the people in the car, it just so happened that a member stopped to help the missionaries, it just so happened that we ran into him to find the house of these people and help give the stepdad time to calm down before he could react out of anger about the situation. I am grateful for the time I have here and I am grateful for the life of a missionary. If you feel like you should do something don't wait, just do it!!!
I'm sorry its been a while since I've written, but sometimes life is boring here in the office!
Love you all and don't forget that God loves you also!
Here are some pics from Christmas time...I know I'm super bad at this whole email thing and I always forget to send an email... SORRY! Some people from my first area gave me the Harry Potter shirt and SO MUCH CANDY! They really are great! Have a great week!
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