It was wonderful talking to my wonderful, beautiful family. If I have learned anything on the mission is that I love my family more and more and that every one of you mean the world to me. So many families I see here in Brazil are screwed up because of infidelity, drugs, addictions and other evils that are every increasing in the world. But in seeing the light in the eyes of my family reminds me that the light of Christ is still in every single one of us, and that that light can break through the darkness of any addiction or sin.
Well, I have some news for yall! Sooooo mom already knows a bit however, I just recieved a phone call from President G that a new sister from the US is coming in tomorrow who doesnt speak a word of Portuguese.... and guess whos gonna train this wonderful Sister?...
Guess....
Yours trully! Oh my FREAKING GOSH SERIOUSLY?? haha yup.... 12 weeks of language study and I am now a "senior" companion instead of the comfortable position of "junior".
I felt for a while that Id be training this american sister but I kind of shrugged it off thinking.... "welll, my portuguese isnt perfect yet, so theres no way Im gonna train."
EH. Think again, sparky. haha.
But when my fear almost overtook me I remembered part of a talk from Elder Henry B Eyring that talks about mountains to climb. And Id just like to share a bit of it with you all, while at the same time comforting my own fears.
"I heard President Spencer W. Kimball, in a session of conference, ask that God would give him mountains to climb. He said: “There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, ‘Give me this mountain,’ give me these challenges.”
And so I encourage you all, my dear friends and family, that with great mountains, with great challenges, there is great opportunities for the Lord to mold and shape us into the sons and daughters He wants us to be. With this new mountain, with this new challenge that the Lord has placed before me, I am humbled and encouraged to know that even though I feel inadequate and incapable, the Lord will sustain me, He will be my buoy and my belayer (I have no idea how to spell that, but the person whos at the bottom of the mountain supporting the climber).
I love this gospel, I know that God lives. I know that this church is true. And I know that if we have faith as small as a grain of mustard, wecan move mountains. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
xoxo
Sister VerHoef
btw this pic is of me, sister m, elder b and elder s. Elder b is one of my best friends here on the mish! :)
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