Hello! Oi!
Eu amo voces!!! And I have lot´s to tell today!
So
this week we had what´s called a "Mission Tour." And it´s when one of
the leaders of the Church comes and visits the mission and gives a
training. AND IT WAS SUPER GOOD. Elder Costa visited us! He actually
spoke in the April General Conference of this year I believe, so look
his talk up! But it was wonderful to learn from him, and my mission
president and see a bunch of other missionaries as well! And I got
letters! Woop! (please write letters, I love getting them 😉)
SUPER
FUNNY STORY that happened this week. We were proselyting, and this one
lady let us into her house, and it was going pretty well and then she
asked, "what day do you all consider as the sabbath?" OKAY, clearly
it´s Sunday. But there´s a church here in Brasil, that thinks it is
Saturday because of translation error in the Portuguese Bible... she
then started to cry because she was so upset about the fact that we
weren´t going to be "saved" because we didn´t keep the Sabbath day
holy. Pretty funny right? Two missionaries in a house, and instead of
us crying about the person, the PERSON was crying about us XD Sister C.
Silva and I laughed a bunch afterwards. But what did we do? We
testified that God loves all of His children, regardless of when they
worship the Sabbath day, and that the Sabbath is actually on SUNDAY.
I
know a lot of you are involved with Leaders Club, or the YMCA, OR have
experience with teaching young children!! As a missionary, we get to
have "family home evening" with some families, and it´s always nice to
play a little game or do a fun activity. BUT my brain is so preoccupied
with other things, that I´ve seriously forgotten all fun activities. If
you have an idea, pleaseeeeeeeeeeee email me :) Muito obrigada!!!!
So
the highlight of my week was Saturday!!!! We got to go to the
temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got up at 2 am and arrived around 6:30 am. And
we stayed until 6 pm!!! By far, one of my favorite days on the mission.
The Brasil Curitiba Temple is absolutely gorgeous, and even more inside.
I cannot wait to go back in about 3 or 4 months!
In
the MTC in Sao Paulo, I was lucky enough to go to the temple every
pday. But here in the mission I don´t have that luxury. I don´t think I
realized just HOW much I had missed the temple, until I stepped inside.
As soon as I stepped inside I felt the overwhelming peace and love that
only is in the temple. I felt so incredibly grateful to be there- in
the House of the Lord. I know temples truly are the sacred houses of the
Lord. I know Heavenly Father and Christ dwell there. There is no way I
can deny that. I know that only in holy temples can we make sacred covenants, or promises, with our Heavenly Father that allow us to one
day return to His presence and live in never ending happiness. ONLY in
holy temples can we be sealed together for time and all eternity.
I
know that God loves us immensely. I know this because He allowed the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to be restored through Joseph Smith, and because
of that we now have the blessed opportunity to live THAT Gospel, and
receive the saving ordinances that can only be found in the temple.
This world we live in now is broken, but we have a link to Heaven, and that link is Temples.
I love you all muito,
xo Sister Councill
p.s. look up Temples on lds.org if you want to learn more ;)
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