Jugo Mudante

I didn't write an email last week because I thought nothing happened, but looking back on the last 2 weeks now, holy crap so much has happened. 

highlights!!

- had a 20 minute companionship with sister Johnson, which is the companionship we were waiting for! Pres should've kept us together for longer because that would've been poderoso!

- had zone conference which was a party like always! We left feeling very burned by president, but also ready to make some jogo mudante changes to the work. (and also had crepes for lunch, which believe it or not, was literally an answer to my prayers. Yes, I was literally praying for crepes days before)

- we have entered the Carnaval lockdown! Which means that for a week we can only be on the roads from 11-5 (send help I think I might be going insane)

- helped an 85 year old woman cross the roads that had turned into absolute rivers to get to her bus after church

- helped an irmão make (and eat) pirão and stingray and he told me I officially got my bahian diploma

- Life here is freaking good and freaking hard at times. Here's an actual snippet of sister max thoughts one night while brushing my teeth and looking out the window. "holy crap I'm so tired. Am I crying? Why am I crying? Maybe it's just sweat. Ope there goes 5 more men into the smoke hole in front of our house. I can't believe president said we have to drop all of our investigators that didn't go to church. We had exactly 1 go. That stingray was so good. I really think those are tears. Why am I crying? I love Brasil."

Spiritual thought!!
Yesterday all of our friends who were progressing and said they would go to church didn't show up. Carnaval classic. So we were sitting in the chapel singing the opening hymn with the other sisters in our ward and not one investigator. We had prayed, fasted, and really had hope that people would show up, but no one did. Until out of the blue, 15 minutes into sacrament meeting, not 1, not 2, but 3 friends showed up. Completely out of the blue. They weren't even the friends that were really progressing, but random people we had invited 1 time, and then kinda forgot about (I literally forgot about 1 of them). But this experience reminded me of one of my favorite scriptures. 

Mosiah 7:12 "And now, when Ammon saw that he was permitted to speak, he went forth and bowed himself before the king; and rising again he said: O king, I am very thankful before God this day that I am yet alive, and am permitted to speak; and I will endeavor to speak with boldness"

This week I really tried to speak with boldness to everyone. And God consecrated all of my tiny efforts and sent me enormous blessings. I am forever grateful to God that I have the opportunity to speak and invite all these people to come unto Christ!! And hope I can always speak with boldness! 

life is good :)
love you all
sister max



















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