No keys - no phone! (Week 49) — Called to Serve in Cuiaba

What's up family and other dudes this week was definitely a one of a kind. It was actually a pretty stressful one hahah. On Thursday the Zone Leaders traveled to Primavera do Leste to do splits, and locked the lock on the front gate. Interestingly enough Elder Soares lost the keys somehow inside the house, so we had no way to leave the house. And to top things off I must remind you that Elder Decker lost our phone 2 weeks ago and the office still hasn't sent us a new one, so we had no way to leave home and no way to call anyone. We magically got a hold of some people at the bar across the street, so we called the Sisters and they walked to the key place and sent a guy to our house and he came and switched everything out ahhaha. We ended up losing all of our visits that night and had no way to call the people to tell them we couldn't make it to their house. Also Elder Soares got me sick so it has been a LONG week hahaah, but there are always little miracles in every day through all the other ish.

Saturday morning I was studying and feeling a little bit crumby so I said a meaningful sincere prayer asking God for some help. I then continued my studies and accidentally bumped into Doctrine and Covenants 76:6 which says "great shall be their reward, and eternal their glory” yea cool scripture I know, you're probably thinking it has nothing to do with anything when you take it out of context, but that's just the point. I was studying in Portuguese, and in Portuguese depending on the context the word “their" can also be singular, which is “your". So as I stumbled upon this scripture I read it out of context in Portuguese, and it read "great shall be YOUR reward and eternal YOUR glory” it really was exactly what I needed and it just reminded me how everything that we go through in this life is just to better ourselves. That God has a plan for every single one of us. I really am gaining a stronger and stronger testimony of prayer day after day out here and I have 100 percent certainty that a prayer of faith is stronger than nearly all other things. That humbling ourselves before God is not weakness.

Friday night we did a super rad activity and had a Karaoke night and it was so funny. There is this like middle aged woman in the area here who always tries to hit on the missionaries, it's the worst dude, and she kept trying to sing songs in English and it was soooo bad hahaha. On Saturday there was a huge party thing at the church and Wellington and Vanessa came and they loved it so much it made me so happy. We talked to Wellington and Vanessa... Wellington said he is so close to getting baptized which is such a miracle. The quantity of miracles we have seen in the last 2 weeks, without a phone and without keys, but with some solid faith have been miraculous.

Throughout this short almost year that I've been out here I have really seen how much God does for us. 90 percent of the time these things go unnoticed. In life we get so rushed and so nutty that we forget to just chill the pill and we miss so many things that Heavenly Father is doing for us. In the mission it has been specifically difficult for me to just chill on the stressage and just enjoy life even in the difficulties. It is something that I am learning to do better day after day, and I am incredibly grateful that I have this opportunity for another year to improve and be shaped by our perfect and Eternal Father.

Got some good photographs to recuperate from last weeks one picture pity.

My shoes are 3 shades lighter of brown from the dust in the streets I kid you not

This is Wellington & Vanessa’s youngest kid Pietro