This week was an adventure! We had cut a lot of our investigators so this week we explored our area a little more and found some way awesome people to teach! First off, we found Ana Paul. We had the Sister trainers come and spend a little bit of time with us this week so one morning me and Sister Alves went out and made a bunch of contacts. And we came across Ana Paula and her daughter Rafaela who is 4. So we sang them a hymn and marked the next day to visit them again. So I went back with Sister Aldana the next day and we taught her the Restoration. And it was a super good lesson! She made comments and participated and even said the closing prayer! Usually with people here we have to bribe them a bit to get them to say the closing prayer, but she willing said it!
These past few weeks we have been doing personal progress with some of the young women and this week we were really seeing the fruits of the work! They are turning into such beautiful women! In the beginning it was a struggle to get them to pray, but now they fight over who will pray, ha! But they are so excited to get working on the next experiences! We also split classes yesterday in church! We were going to start this week with just splitting the youth and kids from the adults during Sunday School because we don’t have a lot of members to help teach all the classes. So we showed up yesterday and they decided to do all three hours so I gave the lesson in Relief Society yesterday. But from what is was told I will now be in charge of the YW and one of our members here will take on the Relief Society! So I’m super excited about that!
One struggle that we have here in Paracatú is that no one goes to church! Nor wants to! So it’s been a challenge, but yesterday Alsirene showed up! So we visited her a couple of times this week just helping her out with her kids a bit and teaching her little bits of our lessons. And one night we caught her husband as well so we sat them down and read the Book of Mormon with them and it was perfect! The spirit was so strong! So we passed by quickly Sunday morning before church and reminded her because we had an hour change here so everyone forgot. So we passed by and she ended up going to church by herself. But she really liked it! So our plan this week for her is to set a date for baptism! Please send some prayers her way!!
Last night we visited Leo and Bella. So we got there and he told us that he had 2 questions that he wanted to ask. So we said a prayer and we let him do the talking. So he pulled out his bible and started to read it to us. He has been struggling a lot with the fact that Joseph Smith saw God and the Son. And every time we visit him we invite him to do the same thing, to pray and ask God personally. But he always turns to the bible. So he spent about 40 minutes explaining to us that God doesn’t appear to man and that Jesus was the last prophet here on the earth and that there couldn’t be another. We have showed him all the scriptures before, but scriptures just weren’t what he was needing. He needs a personal answer from God. So we sat there quietly listening and when he ended we asked him 1 question. If he had asked God if Joseph Smith was a prophet and Bella said that she has but Leo no. So we sat there and bore our testimonies of the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. We quickly said a prayer and booked it out of there to let the spirit do his work. But we are going to give them time to see if they really will seek for God or not.
Well that’s about it for this week! I hope you all have a wonderful week! Remember to always say your prayers and read the scriptures! For in the scriptures, you will find peace and answers :) I love you all!
Com Amor,
Sister Steadman
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