What´s up everyone!? This week was pretty good except almost
everyone in the zone got sick. I just got a cold, but there´s something going
around. The weather here is absolutely nuts. Tuesday and Wednesday I thought I
was going to melt, Thursday and Friday rained, and now it´s cold haha.
Anyway this week was Igor and Patricia´s wedding and
baptism!! It went super well and I´m thankful that I could be a part of it. I
got to baptize Patricia and it was a great experience. They were both glowing
afterwards... pure joy.
There was a family at the wedding that is one of Igor´s
friends. We were talking to them and they said they are from the church
Assemblies of God. The wife said that her Uncle is a Pastor and that he said
whenever she has a question, to ask the Mormon missionaries because they will
know. But he also said ´´don´t let them manipulate you because they are really
good at that´´ hahaha. We explained that we answer questions, but we always ask
people to pray to know for themselves if we are teaching the truth. Hopefully
we can start teaching them soon.
We also found a woman named Tereza. She was working in her
bar and I was writing down the street name. She started to talk to us and we
explained what we do and she got really interested in our message. We taught
her the Restoration and she loved it so much. She was asking about our Prophet
today and stuff and then she asked ´´how does another Prophet get chosen when
he dies?´´ So then we explained about the Quorum of the 12 Apostles and how the
President of the Quorum would be the next Prophet. She then said that God must
choose His next Prophet by letting some Apostles live less and others live
more. When she said that I was super impressed! haha. We are excited to work with her and she really
wants to go to church but couldn´t make it this Sunday.
We marked another baptism date for Ana, Ruan, and Carlos for
Nov. 12th but they didn´t go to church again and I was pretty bummed...we still have a good group of people that I am excited to
work with though!
This week I was studying more about charity and I realized
that the moment we put ourselves in front of others we lose charity. The moment
we say ´´I can´t take it anymore´´ we don´t have charity. The moment we judge
someone or are jealous of someone we don´t have charity. If we get irritated
easily by something we don´t have charity. I realized why through the
development of true charity, we will become so much more like Christ. I also
understood why Moroni taught that we
must beg the Lord with all of our energy to help us have charity. It really
isn´t easy, but like Elder Holland said this past conference, the Lord expects
the most from us.
Love you all, have a fantastic week!!
Elder Scheer
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