The Power of Words

This week we had a ton of success in finding new people! On Thursday, the sister trainers came and helped us out. They spent the day with us, visiting our investigators and helping us find new ones and they helped out so much!

This week we got to sit down and talk to Maciele a little bit more. We helped her set some goals on what she needs to do to be baptized. She’s doing everything right! She just needs to figure things out with her "husband". Whether they need to separate or get married. So we've been praying like crazy but hopefully soon she will know what she needs to do, and then she can be baptized :)

Also this week we met the brother of André, one of our members. So we’ve been teaching him and right from the start he was praying and reading the scriptures! So he told us he wants to be baptized this weekend so we are going to finishing teaching him everything this week and he will be baptized this Sunday!! We are pretty excited :)

The last Sunday in Relief Society we talked about the power of words and some of the women in our group mentioned all the things people say about the church. So we just talked to them about using their testimonies to help others know the truth about our church and by doing so they won’t have any doubts. This week in a couple of lessons I really felt how powerful our words are. Just simple little words can have a huge impact on people. In a couple of our lessons, I could feel the power and the spirit so strong while my companion and I were teaching. Just lessons very simple and basic, but so powerful. It’s amazing how much a simple testimony can have such a huge impact on people.

Yesterday in relief society we talked about Joseph Smith. I tried really hard to stress how important this message is. Just us who have been members for a while, this message is just another message to us. But do we really understand what really happened in this moment? I encourage each and every one of you to really study the first vision and gain a stronger testimony of Joseph Smith. I am truly grateful for the sacrifice he made of us, so in our days today we can have the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

I am so grateful for this gospel and my Heavenly Father. I hope you all have a fabulous week! Remember to read the scriptures daily :) Love you all!

Sister Steadman

10 Months on the Mission

The True Sadness of a Missionary

What a wonderful week it has been! I hope you all have had a wonderful week as well. :)

So this week we tried really hard to visit Luana every day and get her acting so she could be baptized. We visited her a lot and read a lot out of the Book of Mormon with her so she could learn how to relate the stories to her life and get in the habit of reading. It’s amazing to see how much we can really relate these stories to our lives :) So as the week went on she wasn’t reading. It’s not because she was too busy, it’s because she simply just doesn’t want to. So we got together with the Elders and had a family night with them. We talked about the atonement and really focused on what we need to do because he gave us everything. So we started out with an activity. We asked them questions, and they were tough questions, and every time they got one wrong, Elder Noyes did 10 push-ups. It’s moments like these I’m grateful we have Elders here ha! But we tried to show them what it was like for our savior. Oh the spirit was so strong! As of right now Luana isn’t reading the Book of Mormon, but her mom is and they were in church yesterday!!!!

We are also teaching the uncle of some recent members in our ward. With the elders he never did anything and never showed up to anything. So we had a good talk with him. And this week he stopped drinking coffee, he showed up to our bible study, fasted with us and showed up to church! All within a week! We were amazed!! I was so happy! He has a date set for this Sunday to be baptized so we are hoping he can stay strong!

We were also able to find some awesome people to teach this week! We are planning on setting more dates this week for baptism!

But there is one thing I have truly come to learn this week. ya it’s a bummer when we get rejected in the street or people just really don’t want to talk to us, but the hardest thing is when you have done everything for a family, taught them everything and they know it is true, but they just aren’t willing to take the little steps to be baptized. This is truly the sadness that we missionaries feel. Knowing that they have so much potential but they just don’t see it. But I am so grateful for this gospel and this knowledge that I have. I am so grateful to have this opportunity to bring others unto Christ. I love this gospel!!

Well, have a fabulous week! Love you all and read your scriptures!

Sister Steadman

Church house in Cristalina

Family Home Evening in Luana

Playing Soccer