I'm on a Mission (Week 50) — Called to Serve in Cuiaba

What's up dooooooods this week literally went by faster than a giant underwater Texan worm. So many insanely rad things happened this week and my testimony grew so so much it was so cool. If there was a salty splatoon in heaven my spirit would definitely be tough enough to enter after this week's occurrences.

This week we had Zone Conference and they told us to study a part of Preach My Gospel that talks about the Book or Mormon. I had one of the most eye opening experiences ever while studying, and I realized how important it is to read the Book of Mormon every flippin day. I realized that just like my body needs food, like a nice Panda Express meal or a Double Double, which would be so nice right now, also my spirit needs some nice food too. I realized that the days I didn't pray and read the Book of Mormon my spirit would be like dude I'm freaking hungry gimme something good to eat, and although my body had food, my spirit was toasted. I realized also that every time we read the Book of Mormon we should be in contact with God, and ask him to continually renew our testimonies of the truthfulness of this book. Testimonies, like they say, are like a plant, and if you stop watering the little dude he's gonna get all crispy and die. It's simple. Water your testimonies every day dudes.

Alright so the most bonkers thing happened on Sunday with Wellington and Vanessa. First off we show up at their house to go to church with them, and we see all 3 of there kids wearing white shirts hahah way too rad. Naua even had a little future missionary sticker on his shirt. Even better than that we look inside and see Wellington wearing a white shirt, who claims he hates white shirts. We get to church and during second hour we were reading in Acts 22 and I read like 3 verses and stopped at verse 14 then Wellington was like let me read bro and literally just stripped the Bible from my hands, and I was just so dumbfounded because the dude doesn't even like reading in front of us at his house. So he reads in front of the whole group at church, is wearing a white shirt, and here is where is gets even better. We get home after the meeting and go into their house to leave a message. We felt super prompted to invite them to get baptized and so we did, and Vanessa as always was like I'm in, and Wellington was like ehhhhhh, then out of freaking nowhere Vanessa was like dude, I don't really like to talk much about coincidences, things just happening randomly, but Wellington I want you to read the 2 verses that you read at church for us really quick. She pulled up Acts 22:15-16 and handed him the phone and he just starts reading “For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. And now why tarriest thou: arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord” and DUDE I LITERALLY HADN'T EVEN NOTICED IT THE FIRST TIME WHEN HE READ IT AT CHURCH HAHAHAHAH and when he read it he just like started laughing and looked up at us and was like welp, looks like I'm getting baptized hahahahahah it was freaking insanity. I am so so grateful for prayer and for the ability to Fast and to realize that when we truly pray and when we truly ask with faith, MIRACLES HAPPEN.

I love this gospel so much and I am so exited for Wellington and Vanessa to get baptized on Aug 17th!!!

So this week I wanna give a shoutout to Micah Bode, my Mom, and my older brother Drake. You three gave me exactly what I was needing, exactly when I needed it. Last Monday after we got back from emailing I knelt down at the side of my bed and offered one of the most difficult prayers I've ever offered. I painfully fought through my self pride, my impossible self centered desires, and told God that everything that I have is His. That I am ready to give myself to Him for as long as my days may be. This week I saw my love, and my desires change. I realized how much I have to change, and never had a single moment where I felt overwhelmed. I feel as if God is guiding me, and although I might have 1000000000 freaking things to change, 1000000000 things wrong with me, He doesn't give a freak. I know without a shadow of a doubt that as long as I do my best to get better every day, I will feel God’s presence.

Love you guys gotta bail already because I'm hungry as a horse, but until next week <3

This is called terere. It’s a mixture of herbs you drink with cold water. I love it