10 years of Marriage!

Yep, that’s right. Ten years of marriage! You´re probably all like what the heck. Let me explain. So this week as I was doing a split, one of the sisters told me that she did the math, and she figured out that spending two transfers with one companion is equivalent to spending 5 years of marriage with your spouse. How she figured that out, I don´t know but I thought it was pretty funny. So my comp and I have almost 10 years of marriage ha. So here´s to ten years of marriage to us! 

But anyways....... This week was good, :) We spent more time visiting the members and less active members and it made a difference. We had 5 less-active members in church yesterday so I think we are doing something right ha! 

A couple of weeks ago we received a referral from some members in another area. We tried to visit this family but we never found them. But, this week we finally found them in their house so we are now teaching a family. :) It’s Aldo (the husband) Dagma (the wife) Eduardo (who is 8 years old) Aldo (who is 5) and Lara (who is 1). And they already know some members and everything. So we were super excited. So they have already received the missionaries a few years ago but nothing happened and it was only Aldo who would really sit in and participate. But this time the whole family was there and she even gave us a ride home after. We are thinking this is a good sign because one of the sisters in our ward was super surprised that we got a ride home. So we have a lot of hope for them so please keep them in your prayers!  

Also, yesterday our investigator Rafael went to church! We were super excited!! We have been visiting her for a couple of weeks now and she finally was able to go to church yesterday!! So we will see how it was for her and hopefully set a baptism date with her, :)

This week we did splits with some of the sisters in Brazlândia! So that means I got to see Sister Dixon a bit, :) But I spent the day working with Sister Huff who is from Sandy so that was pretty cool! But it was fun to go to a little town again and work there.

But I think that’s about it for this week. Today we spent a little more time visiting some sights here in Brasilia. But, I hope you all have a fabulous week! Remember to always say your prayers and read the scriptures! Love you all!

Com Amor, 

Sister Steadman

Congresso Nacional

McKell and Sister Alves

Weekly Update

Well another week has flown by! I can’t believe it’s Monday already! But here’s a little bit about this week :)

First off, our investigator José Fernando. Hess been really struggling to find an answer. So this week we really focused on the Holy Ghost and praying. So we marked Moroni 10 for him to read. When we arrived in the visit he said he had read and we were super happy! Then he went on talking about how people ate each other and i was like what?!?! Haha. We were so confused! Then I tried to remember all the war stories but all I could remember is when they would leave the bodies in the desert and the animals would eat the bodies. So we tried explaining that to him but he wasn’t satisfied. So then the three of us did a scripture search. And finally he found where he had read. Well when he went to read, he read Moroni 9:10..... Which says:

"And after they had done this thing, they did murder them in a most cruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto death; and after they have done this, they devour their flesh like unto wild beasts, because of the hardness of their hearts; and they do it for a token of bravery."

So then we went on to explain how the BOM teaches us things we should do and that we should not do... haha. So we went back to talking about feeling the spirit and receiving answers and he says he feels good every time he reads and prays. But now he is struggling to understand why he needs to be baptized again. So that is our challenge this week. To help him understand why he needs to be baptized again.

We spent a lot of this week contacting people and trying to find some new investigators. We found some really awesome people! One afternoon as we were teaching seminary, a woman walked in the church. So Sister Costancio talked to her as I continued to the give the lesson. And turns out that her "husband" knew the church when he was a kid but wasn’t too interested. But then she saw the plaque and saw that we teach English and she got super excited. So we went and visited her and her husband this week and we were super happy! So he knew the church when he had about 12 years. But he wasn’t too interested. But now he is really wanting to learn more and be baptized!!! Yay!!! But we’ve got a few things we’ve got do to do help him out first, like marriage and the word of wisdom. But at least he is willing to change! So we will see how things go this week :)

Well that’s it for about this week! I hope you have all had a wonderful week and I hope that this next week is even better! Keep reading the scriptures and saying your prayers :)

Love you all!
Sister Steadman