Gente do céu!
This week was very interesting. Our house emptied and filled with all new
elders... and actually the entire zone haha. only 4 elderes stayed and 6 elders
arrived. The other companionship here got white washed so they passed a pretty
rough week, but they are good elders and have energy to do the work. My comp is
a super star. Super humble and he inspires me to open my mind more to
possibilities. His faith is outstanding and he is basically Elder Martin all
over again. So i feel like as i respect and serve him, i am also making up for
how i treated elder martin. This week we lost a day because of the zone counsel,
but we still had outstanding numbers and we found some really special less
active families that are part members. We had a really neat experience on sunday
with a brother from floripa. He lives there but came to videira to give a
training. Also, he spoke in sacrament meeting about how grateful he is that he
had enough courage to read and pray about the book of mormon and after, enough
courage to be baptized, go on a mission, and be sealed with his wife in the
temple. it was exactly what our investigator needed to hear.
After the meeting i thanked him personally and he pulled us aside to talk
for about 15 minutes. Dad, mom... the Lord inspires people to pass along his
words. I have been praying for weeks and yesterday this brother answered my
questions, doubts, and gave me new ideas for the work. Coupled with the desire
of my companion... I really feel unstoppable. The Brother said: "Your nametag
has two names and that means you are never alone. You never stand alone or
testify alone. there are many callings in the church that bring us close to
Christ but not one will bring us closer than the calling of an Elder. When an
apostle receives his calling we don't call him aposlte (blank) we
call him Élder..." He bore his testimony to us and I knew that he knew i had
been waiting for these answers. It was amazing.
I love you guys and i miss hearing from everyone.
It was 33 degrees celcius yesterday and it's
only going to get better as the year rolls on. QUE bênção e maravilha! I am with
an american comp but as always, we don't speak english and we don't plan to. We
are very excited for this transfer and everything is looking up :)
Amo muito vocês!
-Élder Grondel jr.
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