Hey family,
So this week was good! We had an awesome lesson with Fabio at a
ward member’s home (Sister Affleck) it was really awesome because the
Portuguese elders were able to come and help Fabio understand better the
lesson. We talked about the word of wisdom and brought Fabio a picture of
the temple to show him how our bodies are like the temple and how important
they are to Heavenly Father, especially how we take care of them! It was so
cool, at the beginning of the lesson as we were starting Fabio made the comment
(because we have touched on the word of wisdom before) that sometimes God asks
us to do things, and even though we don't understand why, He has a reason and
we just have to listen to Him. It was so cool, that really helped the lesson go
very well because that's exactly how most people feel about the word of wisdom,
is that it doesn't make sense haha But that's ok Fabio is beginning to
understand more and more and that's so awesome! Half of our lesson was in Portuguese,
it was way cool!
We were also to see Loretta this week, things have calmed down a little bit for
her, and so she was ok with us coming over! We were able to read the
parable of the ten virgins with her and talk about how we need to always be
preparing for the coming of the Savior and she whole heartedly agreed that it
is good to always be preparing because we never know when He's coming, and
that's true! This week we are going to try and have a lesson with a member in
our ward (Sister Peterson) on the Plan of Salvation, I hope that it all goes
well, I really think that this could give Loretta some peace of mind.
This week we also had exchanges (if you don't know what that is ask Sam or Matt!)
But I was able to be with Sister Dunford in her area and we saw a girl who is
just becoming active again named Erin, she is very sweet and works a ton at
Disney; but has been realizing that she needs to come back to church and has
been making more of an effort. We went and taught her about Fasting and the
spirit was so strong, we talked about the blessings of fasting and all
committed that we were going to fast together on Sunday (so yesterday) it was a
great day to fast too, you can always feel the spirit so strong when you fast,
and there is always something that can be fasted for!
So we've had an interesting week I would say, basically all of our lessons fell
through except for Fabio haha, we weren't able to see Norris, but he said that
we could see him this week, so I hope that goes through! We have been
really focusing lately on teaching the less active families the lessons and it
has been going great. It really helps them to see how simple yet wonderful the gospel
is and how much it can bless their lives. It is so exciting to see an investigator
progress, but I love and feel just as excited when the less actives progress
back into the gospel as well! It is so amazing to see that change take
place in their lives and how their countenance changes when they start to feel
the spirit and come closer to the Savior again, so exciting!
So Sam will like to hear this,
yesterday we were having dinner over at the Fitt's home and they of course like
everyone else have a pond in their back yard. Well the Fitt's have about
a 4 to 5 foot gator in that pond and Sister Fitt feeds it every once in a while
haha, which is super illegal in Florida, but she likes that it hangs out back
there. So after dinner we went out by the gate and sure enough the gator
saw her and came right out of the water to the gate to be fed. We didn't feed
it but brother Fitt started throwing bark to it and the poor thing was trying
to eat it
. Brother Fitt didn't want it to eat real food anymore so that
it would go away, but they are all pretty sure it wont go anywhere now. It was cool;
I got a lot of pictures of it.
Tonight I am really excited, we are going to dinner at the Beck's house with Fabio,
Brother Beck went to Brazil on his mission and so we are trying to get a
fellowship going there. He is going to make a Brazilian BBQ and it sounds
way good, Fabio is way excited too. We originally were going to have the
Portuguese elders come but they ended up having a lesson, but that's ok, next
time! Well that it all for this week! I hope you are all doing well!
Today is the start of my 4th transfer; I've only got 9 more! How crazy is that!
I am still in Lake Reams as well just as I expected to be because I will be
finishing training Sister Thomas, then I will no doubtfully get transferred
somewhere else! But that's ok; I can't leave until I see Fabio get baptized!
Well I love you all, have a great week!
-
Sister Jamison
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