Hey everyone,
So this week was really busy with travel.
Monday we had to leave early to go to Juiz de Fora to set up things for the zone conference,
Tuesday was zone conference,
Wednesday was splits with the presidents assistants,
Thursday we left Juiz de Fora to go to São João del Rei to do a baptism interview, and when we got back to our area
6:00 it just gave time to take a shower and then do another baptismal interview on the other side of the city. So all in all we just had
Friday and
Saturday to work in our area.
Friday we worked the whole day with Douglas. He helps us a lot and it was a day working by car. It was great. We gave some challenges to Douglas to invite everyone to be baptized and it went well. We visited Natalya, a friend of a member and we marked her baptism date for this week right now. She had already been to the church in another city and said that the book of Alma was one of her favorites. She just needs a little more confidence, but she is more than ready for baptism.
Saturday we had another day full of visits by car with the bishop. Although we weren't able to enter anyone's home, we made the best of the time and talked with people in the road and even got 4 people to go to church the next day. It goes to show that every effort that you do will bring some kind of result, Nothing is worthless.
Sunday Elder Gale and I were able to give talks. I chose to talk about union. I cited a training by Sister Lacerda talking about synergy. Synergy is the capability of working in perfect union with another. In the construction of a house, wooden beams are placed closely to the other. Two beams, closely placed together have the capacity to support 4 times the weight that they could support alone. In order to bring Zion to the light as spoken in Doctrine and Covenants we need to all work together. Then Elder Gale talked about the Spirit. What we need to to do to always have it and act on its promptings. When we live the gospel and all of its requirements we will have the Spirit. When we don't do what the Lord asks then we won't have the Spirit. It is a simple recipe to have happiness in this life. To top it all of Sunday we had the Ward Council and new goals were set and everyone left really excited. We have family nights marked for every night this week and will be making visits with different members every day as well. It will be great.
Until next week!
-Elder Smith
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