Matthew Rocks!

These past few weeks I have been studying Matthew in The Bible and I am loving it!

Today I thought a lot about when Christ returns. He explains a few things himself in chapter 24 and I started thinking... I wonder where I´ll be when he comes. With my family? (i hope).. what country? Will I have kids, will I be married? What will I be doing with my life?

And then I started thinking more about the exact moment. Details, you know?

And the only thing I could think is that I hope I´m doing something worthwhile helping someone and not just sitting on the sofa.

How lame would that be?  "oh hey! I was just.... sitting here ..doing .uh... nothing."

hahaha but in all seriousness I hope I can live my life so full of good works that I don´t need to wonder.

Of course I will need to sit down and just relax, but I think you know what I´m trying to get at.

I am so grateful for this time that I have here in Brasil to not have to worry about anything else and to serve completely.

How blessed am I?!?! :D

Have a wonderful week!

The way we learn!

First things first!

Happy Birthday to Donna Lachaga!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Maria thanks for the email! I miss you and Melanie A TON!

I feel as though I´m in one of those transition stages. You know that feeling when you need to make a decision and  you know what you should do, but you still haven´t decided to do it because a part of you wants the other choice, but you know you´re going to need to and you can feel yourself changing. It´s that on the brink feeling. yep. that´s where i´m at.

I feel like I´m going to see and change a lot in these next 6 months. If I let the Lord work with me.

I can feel it. Okay... better analogy. When your running and you´re going, you´re going, you´re going and it´s getting hard, but then there´s this point you hit that it suddenly gets a little bit easier, but the part right betore is tough almost as though you can´t catch a good breath so you need to push a little bit harder and then all of sudden... awwwwwwhhhh.

That´s how i feel. the moment right before the awwwwhhh. 

It´s a good kind of pain. no worries :)

It´s interesting to me how some things happen that you never thought would happen. And it´s not even as if it was a big deal that it happened.. it just... happens.  And then in the end it makes sense and you think... why didn´t I see that one coming?

And it´s even more interesting how our feelings change. How I would of felt about it before is different than how I feel now. It isn´t good, it isn´t bad. It´s just happening. There´s no point to over think it.

Lesson of the week and one of the many of my mission:

Let it run its course. If we try to stop the rivers flow... we will just end up wet and probably coughing up water.

I love you all. I´m happy! :D And I´m learning. :D :D

Have a great week!

Only 5 more transfers!

First off.... 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D

Wish I was there to celebrate with yooooooouuuuuu.

And.... a few weeks have passed but congratulations to Amber and Brent for your 2 years! :D

Second... another transfer has passed. I feel like with every blink of the eye another one passes!

I´ve decided to not blink anymore. It´s frustrating because my eyes are getting pretty dry.

I don´t have much to say this week besides that the book of mormon truely is my favorite book and I am awed everyday by the things that I learn and the spirit I feel.

oh! okay I lied... one more thing.

Last night we were teaching a couple the plan of salvation. The "husband" (they aren´t legally married yet) is a member but hasn´t been to church for a few years.  Last night as we were teaching, the "wife" had a lot of questions. I have these little picture things that we use to teach so i sat on the floor in front of everyone to talk to them. (We had 3 members with us). As we came to the part of the plan called "mundo espiritual" (spirit world) she stopped us and asked... but i was raised to believe that there is heaven and hell and that what we do here on earth will decide where we go in the end. How can there be more after this part... why are we even here if we´ll have another chance to change after we die?  We explained all the details about the differences between repenting here on earth and in the spirit world. She still wasn´t completely satisfied with the answer so everyone started discussing and trying to help her and I just sat and listened. I was thinking... none of this is helping her. She understands, but she´s not relating. I then tried pay attention to just her. As I looked at her I had this thought, "what does she feel her relationship with god is?" FInally when everyone stopped talking for a second I asked her... When you think of God what do you think of? Love or Anger? She replied Love. I then testified to her the love that God has for everyone single one of us. No matter what we do he still loves us. He has to let the consequences happen, but he still loves us. ANd he will do anything and EVERYTHING to give us as many chances as he possibly can.

It was a doctrine really simple, but it helped her. And even more, it helped me. As I testified I could feel the spirit testify to me the truth of what I was saying. I could feel God´s love for every person in that room and for me. I don´t know if anyone else felt it the same way I did, but I was a feeling that I could not deny. And it was a feeling that I didn´t even know that I needed.

This is why I´m here. Because God loves each one of his children and can´t bare for even one to be left behind.

Here are some more pictures!

Love you all!

1. I drank water from a coconut!

It was really different than I expected, I didn´t like it. But! It was a cool experience!

2. All is well here in Atibaia! :D

3. The theatre we did in our ward :)

4. Our turtle friend. She doesn´t have a name... but we love her anyway.

5. I touched a rattle snake. I´m cool. The end. hahaha