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Òla minha
família bonita!! Que saudades de vocês!
Thank you
all so much for all of the updates! I absolutely love to
hear from
home and all of your positive advice and uplifting words! I
am
shocked to hear about the state of our country and the decision about
gay
marriage. We really do live in the last days. Even with storms and
tempests
all around us we are able and we will be strong and stand for
the
right. We have to be here in the world, but try not to be of the
world.
We are a
covenant people of the Lord. He will sustain us and help us
when we
stand and stay on His side. Oh how grateful I am to understand
the plan
of happiness. We need to strengthen our own homes first before
anything
else so that we will be able to help strengthen others!
What an
amazing week we have had here in Jundiapeba! E and L,
E and S
married this week, and we are so happy for them! E
is so
strong in her testimony of the gospel. L is struggling a
little
with going to church, but we can help him with that! After we
took all
of the coffee out of their house they have not been drinking
coffee!!
And L was even at a party with alcohol, and guess
what???
He did not drink! Oh, we were so happy for him! E and
S were
not at church yesterday. "They slept in!" Oh please, why can't
these
people just go to church! We were able to talk to their son as
well, A,
and he seems excited as well. If everything goes well on
July 18th
they will all be baptized when they are officially married!
(Weren't
they officially married already?)
B, E and
L's son was finally baptized yesterday! We were
able to
give a training to the teachers and presidents of the classes
in the
ward yesterday, right after the baptism started and it was
beautiful!
I have never had so many people in a baptism before!! 100
people
were there. I could not believe it. B took a while to
ease into
the water because it was too hot this time, but he was
baptized!
Oh it was the sweetest thing :) One day he will remember
how brave
he was.
Right now
we are teaching the husband of a sweet member S, his
name is
B. Okay, I have to describe him because he is
hilarious.
Just imagine the old grandfather on the cartoon "Courage,
The
Cowardly Dog" remember him? The one that mom never let us
watch?
Well imagine him but with brown skin and even skinner and
wrinklier.
Okay, he is the biggest joker ever. We love him so much
and we
are helping him stop smoking. We were so tired of hearing all
of his
excuses so we brought down the hammer. We read about the
Anti-nephi-lehites
with him, how they burried their weapons and never
picked up
another sword to fight again. He knew what was coming and
he did
not like it. He did not want to burry his cigarettes so he burnt
them,
even better! We put up little papers all over the house saying,
"Eu
não vou comprarmais cigarro!" (I will not buy more
cigarettes!)
It seemed
to work because he said that he has not bought any yet,
and has
not smoked!!! OKAY, MIRACLE. He is the biggest
complainer,
but I know that he has the force! (Maybe she meant the
help of the
Spirit, power? haha)
Yesterday
J went to church with us. She is 14 years old and is so
sweet.
(We talked to her on the road one day) She said she
looooved
church. We have so many good people and youth in our ward.
I can
trust them to take our investigators and stay with them all of
church
and when I talk with them afterward, they loved it!
I am so
grateful to be here and to be having all of these experiences.
I loved
what Dad sent me last week in his email. Sometimes when we
have to
prepare for a lesson, a talk or write a paper, we do so much
research
and preperations. But really the most important thing is to
make sure
we are worthy vessels of the spirit. When we are truly
worthy to
have the Holy Ghost with us, we are able to say the things
that the
Lord would say. I know this is true. In our training that
we gave
this week we have been preparing for a long time, but I have
been also
preparing myself spiritually to be a worthy vessel. I know
that the
Lord gave me the words to say. I am so grateful for the
constant
companionship of the Holy Ghost. When I feel that I am
straying
away from Him, or that my thoughts, words, or actions are
making me
lose Him, I do everything possible to have Him back with
me.
I need the peace He brings and the comfort I feel everyday. I
love you
all and I am so grateful for every one of you!! I hope you
all have
a great week!! On Wednesday it has been nine months that I
left
home!! SO CRAZY!! I will never get those nine months back!!!
But I
have nine left to work hard and do my best!! HAPPY FOURTH OF
JULY ON
SATURDAY!!! Okay, you all know how much I love the 4th so I
will try
my best not to think about it this week :( But have a great
BBQ
without me!!! I love you all!!!
USA! USA!
USA!
Sister
Cordner xoxo
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Some of the members we ate lunch with yesterday! Okay, she is the
most amazing cook in the ward and I did not even feel like eating because I was a little sick!
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