2 months baby!

2 MONTHS AS A MISSIONARY!!! Woot woot!! I'm learning that missionary time is weird - it moves so slow but yet so fast. 


HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WEEK

- this weekend there was a festival/3 day long party. Which means a few things: 1. People party allll night (like walking through the streets at 8 am on Sunday morning there was still music going from the speakers stacked 15 ft high and verryyy drunk people hanging out) 2. Creepy Bahian men are at their creepiest 3. Lots of guns and 4. Nobody wants to talk about Jesus. So needless to say, it has been an interesting few days.

- I officially have a new name - Sister Max or just Max. Turns out Maxfield is just too hard for the Brazilians to pronounce. Even Max is sometimes a struggle

- Here's a little bit of Brazilian culture that I learned this week: holy crap these people loooove to talk. Like I think they could talk forever if they tried. I hardly understand what they're even talking about, but they just keep going. We try to turn our conversations to Jesus, but these people are not afraid to interrupt you or just not listen at all to what you have to say and instead just talk

- We don't have too many contacts in this area because both me and my comp are new to parque da cidade. So this week has been a lot of trying to find people to teach, which is hard, but there are so many miracles through our days that make me happy. So still hard, but good :)

- We had Zone Conference this week!! It was way good, but before I get to the spiritual part, I'll tell you the funny stuff so you can make fun of me. Of course, because I am an American girl from Utah, they asked me to play the piano. The STL's asked me last Sunday if I knew how to play, and deciding to give all my talents to God, I begrudgingly said yes. They then proceeded to send me 5 pages of sheet music to an ancient hymn that I've never heard of, with Zone Conference 2 days away. They're all still alive, but I will likely not be asked again to play the piano unless they are very desperate.

- Now for the spiritual part. For Zone Conference, the mental health senior missionary gave us a presentation, which was sooo good. And the senior missionary is American which means it was in English!! (God really knew what He was doing there because I needed to hear all of what that lady had to say). One thing she talked about is how we can't compare ourselves or our work to other missionaries. Instead we need to look to God to know if what we are doing everyday is what He needs us to do. She gave us a question that we can ask in our prayers every night: "Is what I did today acceptable for you?" Maybe we get a 'yes', maybe we get a 'no you can do more', but at least we know that the instruction is coming from an all-knowing God, and not other 19 year olds. Because at the end of the day, Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are the ones presiding over this mission. And we can look to them all day everyday for support and guidance.

life is good :)
love you all
sister maxfield


(and apparently I need to take more pictures throughout the week haha)






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Welcome to Bahia

Image
  highlights!!! - last p-day I was talking with an elder in my mission in our chapel who is from Brazil. We were just chatting when we hear gunshots outside. He then goes "welcome to Bahia". The members told me that when I see a person with a gun, i just say "arma bonita" (beautiful gun) and keep walking, so yep, here we go - one day when we were out tracking we were hungry so we got some açai from this cute little store. Lets just say we got the owner and his family's phone number so hopefully we can teach them and get free açai hehe - we take basically the same road everyday into the main neighborhood of our area. And one day on this road, we saw a cute little old lady out on her porch with some grandkids. We went up and started talking to her, and she was soooo sweet. She even gave us popsicles. We got her number and told her we would come back the next day. So we come back the next day, same thing, super sweet and free popsicles. We pass by again on our way ...
Read more

Job's Not Finished

Image
Job's finished? Job's not finished.  We're working até o pozinho and got some serious miracles cooking for the next few weeks.  - Kaike! Pray for Kaike! - Ariane! Pray for Ariane!  - had my last zone conference and had to give my last testimony to the mission! Very bittersweet! - President took everyone who is finishing their mission this transfer to a Bahia soccer game, which included but was not limited to VIP tickets, unlimited free food, and watching president cheer silently for the opposing team. That's all I got for now, but as for a spiritual thought: I've been thinking a lot recently about one of the Savior's encounters with the Apostles after His resurrection. He found them fishing and asked Peter 3 times if he loved Him more than he loved the fish. John 21:17 "He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was greived because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto Him, Lord, thou knowest all...
Read more

Smile and Wave

  HOLY CRAP SHE'S ACTUALLY IN SALVADOR This week has been craaazzzyyy, let me tell ya. I'm currently living in an apartment with 5 sisters, and we have 1 phone, so not too much time, but I'll tell you the good stuff - HIGHLIGHTSSSSS So the church really just decided to throw a curve ball and change it all up over here. 1) new preach my gospel - updated on our literal last day at the ctm, so we've got to learn it all again. 2) the day I arrived in my mission, I learned that it is no longer Salvador south, but now just Salvador. Ill send a pic of the new boundaries, but just know that it changed a lot, like a lot. Which means that the past 4 days have been crazy with missionaries getting reassigned and all. However, this means that the Salvador temple which should be done in about a year will be in my mission which is exciting!! My area!!! I'm currently serving in Parque da Cidade! Its an area right in the city on the coast and the chapel is right on the beach hehe. I...
Read more