Internal Prayidge and Romeo (Week 68)

Sup dudes this week was kind of poopy. I'm not about to sugar coat it and say it was freaking rad because it was just boring haha. We had some Sunday afternoon miracles though to top off the cake. One morning I woke up and it was cold as heck and so I just sat down and studied from 7-11am when we had to leave to lunch and I listened to the same Christmas CD 7 times hahaha. Merry Christmas you bums.

All of the super epicly rad mega bros that we found near the church just bailed on us basically the whole week which was a spiritual sacker. Sister Ana Paula is married to this super rad dude named Cesar, but he freaking hates the Church haha. I've been praying a ton to get a good ole opportunity to talk to him and we were walking by their house on Friday to go down by the church and we felt like we should go knock at their house. We show up and knock and when he realized it was us he just disappeared faster than the fruit flies in our apartment spawn.. spiritually sacked. Sunday night rolls around and we felt like we should go to their house once again so we pass by and they let us in and after we chatted with the rest of the family for a little bit he came out and we were stoked. We got talking just about motorcycles and hot chicks because all dudes like that, just kidding mom, and then asked if we could share a message. He was like if it's about your Church I don't wanna hear it hahaha and I was like whoa there dawgy dawg calm it, we're just gonna talk about Jesus. We talked about loving God, and loving your neighbor and I was just grinding some internal prayidge hoping that he would feel the Spirit. After the message he was really grateful and made us some juice! Also he wants to barbeque us up some meat so I'd consider that a Green means Go, Captain Crispy. If there's one thing I dislike more than tight cardigans, it's forcing people to like the Church, that's why I freaking love the Spirit so much. Love is meant to be felt, not forced.

This other insane occurrence that happened was we were walking all over this part of our area looking for a certain street to find some old investigators we had decided we were gonna try to contact. We walked around for like an hour looking for this street and everyone we asked told us a different way so we were pretty confused. We finally just find ourselves walking down a random street, and some dude in a Corolla pulls up and was like hey what is your purpose hahah and before my companion could robotically recite the Missionary purpose I was like we help people to come to know Jesus, and he was like well what are you doing right now and we were like looking for the street 24th of October (my dad’s birthday haha) and he was like well you're on that street! Let me take you down to the house you wanna go to hahah so we just got in and he took us down there and no one was home at the old investigator's house so he was like what are you guys gonna do now and we were like well we'd love to go to your house and teach you if we could! He was like for sure let's go so we just went to his house and taught him a super good Restoration lesson and he has so many questions and it was so rad. He told us that he was bored of just sitting at home and so he went for a drive and prayed and asked God to send him to some of His messengers and then he said right after that he felt to just drive up a certain street and then he found us ahhahh so freaking rad! His name is Romeo and it's gonna be great teaching him!

These past weeks I've been reading a lot in the book of Matthew which has filled my spiritual cup to the brim. It has made my love for my Savior grow so much. It's like spiritual bone meal. I love my Savior so much and I know without a doubt that He's such a cool dude and just wants everyone to be happy. That's my simple testimony I wanna leave with you fine folk back in the Motherland, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Shoutout to my mom, she makes everything better.

Family Night

Spidey

My companion Elder Abplanalp (his first name is Porter too) was given Elder Porter name tags when he hit the mission, for some reason. He doesn’t want to go by Elder Porter so he gave me one of his old name tags. My mom had Elder Craig (my middle name) name tags made for me last year for fun because NO ONE can say Roskelley right, here in Brasil😂, so now the name tag set is complete!🙌🏻