Team Justic and Mercy

Well what a week it was! Everyone told me that after 9 months in the mish, it all flies by so fast. For me, now is when it really is starting to fly by! I seriously can’t believe where the time is going! But it seems to be Monday before I know it! But, here´s a little bit about our week :) Let’s see how much I remember ha...

Here in the mission we are really trying to strengthen the church here. Strengthen the members and help reactivate the less active. So, this week we tried to really put that into practice and it seemed to work out well :) We have been trying really hard to get the members more involved in our work, and they are slowly helping ha. But it was better this week.

First off we have Raimundo. We taught him in the church this week with a member and it went really well :) I was really surprised with this member because he is a quieter guy but he has such a strong testimony and the spirit was so strong. He was asking him all sorts of questions. It was so perfect! Then another night we taught him about the BOM with another member and once again, it was awesome! He really was progressing! But, unfortunately he wasn’t in church yesterday. So in the middle of sacrament we went to his house to see what was happening and we ended up talking to his mom a bit. Turns out he has been drinking a bit. But he called us later and explained a little more as to why he wasn’t in church. But he is still preparing to be baptized. So we will meet with him tomorrow to really see when the best time for him to be baptized is.

Jerffeson..... Sometimes I just don´t know what else I can do to help him. He made a goal with our District leader to be baptized on Saturday, but he is still smoking. So we are still in the battle of the cigarette. But we have hope, ha. One day it will all work out.

This week we also taught Eduardo in the church with a member. We planned to teach him with one of the sisters but she wanted to practice the piano, so we taught him with her granddaughter who is 9, ha. But it was an awesome lesson! She helped a lot! She has a huge testimony and told him about some Mormon messages that he could watch that would help him, ha. It was super funny! But Eduardo is still having a lot of doubts. He has a date for baptism in our church this Saturday and on Sunday in the other church. And in our lessons he is kind of wanting to teach us. So we are really focusing on helping him understand that there is only one true church.

But yesterday in church we had some of our less active members there so we were happy about that!

This week we are noticing that sometimes we really have to be very blunt with people and straight up with them. And my comp sometimes has a hard time with that, ha. So she tells everyone that we are team justice and mercy. I’m the justice and she’s the mercy, hahah! But it’s true. And everyone tells me that I look like someone who would be straight up with the investigators, ha. But someone’s got to do it!

Well that’s about it for this week! I hope you all have a marvelous week! Here´s a scripture for you all too read this week Mosiah 2:41. One of my favs. Well always remember to read your scriptures and say your prayers! Love you all!

Com Amor,
Sister Steadman