From an email dated 4 November, 2013:
*when this world makes you crazy and you take in all you can bear*
*just call me up*
*because you know I'll be there*
*and I see your true colors shining through*
Okay, I know I know... no faz isso, but lets be honest Phil Collins makes
EVERYTHING better. Pretty sure he could salvage a justin bieber song if
necessary, but lets hope it *never *comes to that! haha
anyways,
this week has had its ups and downs as per use, buuuuut I think as time
goes by it'll get better. Not easier, but better. Really the only stumbling
block for me right now is the language, but like I said, it takes time
right?
Had another baptism this week! A young *rapaz *Chezekiyah.... yeah I know,
but if you met his dad youd understand.... haha he grew up in a religious
community and left about 3 months ago. We seriously taught him 3 lessons &
he went to church once & wanted to be baptized! We were like.... OKAY! haha
so he got baptized yesterday :) It was great! And whats even better is we
asked another young man in the ward, Marcello, to baptize Chezekiyah.
Marcello is about the same age as Zekah, but all the elders like asking the
son of the Mission Prez to baptize investigators, or do it themselves.
Marcello was absolutely over them mooooon when we asked him! And in his
closing prayer he thanked Heavenly Father for being chosen to baptize Zekah
;) so we helped not one but 2 young men realize their worth & see their
divine potential.
Which leads me to my next spiritual segment of my emails :)
Lately Ive been thinking *a lot *about our eternal, divine naturel.
In 2 Peter 1: 4 it talks more about this:
*Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust*
Wow. If theres one thing this mission has shown me is that scriptures Ive
read before have been opened up to me in ways unlike ever before. This
scripture hit me so hard the other day when
I read it.
We all, *all *of us are literal children of a divine Being. Which means we
all have inherited divine attributes from Him. I loved thinking about this
deeper today as I looked at a quote Id taped up on my wall.
"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a single
drop"--Rumi
So many MANY layers of interpretation in this quote, but Id like to just
say this:
We are limitless beings only limited by the limits of mortality.
Wow, haha look whos been Wordsworth-ing it up right?? haha but seriously!
Our spirits are eternal, limitless, unhindered, & divinely powerful. We
have an *ocean* worth of potential within ourselves that have yet to be
tapped into.
*You are the entire ocean in a single drop*
You are *eternity *in a single body. (Aristotle didnt say that I did. what
up!)
Its impossible to fathom and comprehend the idea of eternity & forever
because of our mortal minds, but I know its true. I know it so deeply.
And bearing this in mind it is incredibly essential for us to NEVER EVER
forget our divine nature. Our divine heritage. I think thats the best part
of being a missionary is seeing people like Chezekiyah see at least a part
of his divine potential and live up to it;.
Our Father in Heaven doesnt see us by our sins or our scars, our past or
our present, our decisions or our doubts.
He sees us in terms of forever.
Never EVER forget your divine worth. But more importantly LIVE your divine
worth.
To end this email I'll share a few things Ive learned while being in Brazil:
1.) The bus drivers here are NUTS
2.) they have ants here that look like the butt of a scorpion. they call em
"formigas" but I like to call em "ants from the innermost circle of Satans
un-airconditioned basement" hate em!!!!
3.) everyone writes in cursive. and unlegibly. EVERYONE. including guys.
4.) every animal here hates me. seriously. EVERYONE owns a dog & not a
single person takes care of em. Ive only met 1 dog out of about 300 who
hasnt wanted to gnaw my head off
5.) every house has an electric voltage thing that runs across the top of
their fence. it looks like the shawshank redemption
6.) if youre not careful you could end up eating 4 meals in a single
sitting depending on how fast you eat
7.) they have the best bread & cheese ive ever tasted
8.) their napkins are made out of paper.... seriously
*just call me up*
*because you know I'll be there*
*and I see your true colors shining through*
Okay, I know I know... no faz isso, but lets be honest Phil Collins makes
EVERYTHING better. Pretty sure he could salvage a justin bieber song if
necessary, but lets hope it *never *comes to that! haha
anyways,
this week has had its ups and downs as per use, buuuuut I think as time
goes by it'll get better. Not easier, but better. Really the only stumbling
block for me right now is the language, but like I said, it takes time
right?
Had another baptism this week! A young *rapaz *Chezekiyah.... yeah I know,
but if you met his dad youd understand.... haha he grew up in a religious
community and left about 3 months ago. We seriously taught him 3 lessons &
he went to church once & wanted to be baptized! We were like.... OKAY! haha
so he got baptized yesterday :) It was great! And whats even better is we
asked another young man in the ward, Marcello, to baptize Chezekiyah.
Marcello is about the same age as Zekah, but all the elders like asking the
son of the Mission Prez to baptize investigators, or do it themselves.
Marcello was absolutely over them mooooon when we asked him! And in his
closing prayer he thanked Heavenly Father for being chosen to baptize Zekah
;) so we helped not one but 2 young men realize their worth & see their
divine potential.
Which leads me to my next spiritual segment of my emails :)
Lately Ive been thinking *a lot *about our eternal, divine naturel.
In 2 Peter 1: 4 it talks more about this:
*Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust*
Wow. If theres one thing this mission has shown me is that scriptures Ive
read before have been opened up to me in ways unlike ever before. This
scripture hit me so hard the other day when
I read it.
We all, *all *of us are literal children of a divine Being. Which means we
all have inherited divine attributes from Him. I loved thinking about this
deeper today as I looked at a quote Id taped up on my wall.
"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a single
drop"--Rumi
So many MANY layers of interpretation in this quote, but Id like to just
say this:
We are limitless beings only limited by the limits of mortality.
Wow, haha look whos been Wordsworth-ing it up right?? haha but seriously!
Our spirits are eternal, limitless, unhindered, & divinely powerful. We
have an *ocean* worth of potential within ourselves that have yet to be
tapped into.
*You are the entire ocean in a single drop*
You are *eternity *in a single body. (Aristotle didnt say that I did. what
up!)
Its impossible to fathom and comprehend the idea of eternity & forever
because of our mortal minds, but I know its true. I know it so deeply.
And bearing this in mind it is incredibly essential for us to NEVER EVER
forget our divine nature. Our divine heritage. I think thats the best part
of being a missionary is seeing people like Chezekiyah see at least a part
of his divine potential and live up to it;.
Our Father in Heaven doesnt see us by our sins or our scars, our past or
our present, our decisions or our doubts.
He sees us in terms of forever.
Never EVER forget your divine worth. But more importantly LIVE your divine
worth.
To end this email I'll share a few things Ive learned while being in Brazil:
1.) The bus drivers here are NUTS
2.) they have ants here that look like the butt of a scorpion. they call em
"formigas" but I like to call em "ants from the innermost circle of Satans
un-airconditioned basement" hate em!!!!
3.) everyone writes in cursive. and unlegibly. EVERYONE. including guys.
4.) every animal here hates me. seriously. EVERYONE owns a dog & not a
single person takes care of em. Ive only met 1 dog out of about 300 who
hasnt wanted to gnaw my head off
5.) every house has an electric voltage thing that runs across the top of
their fence. it looks like the shawshank redemption
6.) if youre not careful you could end up eating 4 meals in a single
sitting depending on how fast you eat
7.) they have the best bread & cheese ive ever tasted
8.) their napkins are made out of paper.... seriously
9.) & if you buy tampons, youre considered a prostitute... SERIOUSLY
anyway, love yall so much!!!! cant wait till christmas to skype yall!!! :)
:)
anyway, love yall so much!!!! cant wait till christmas to skype yall!!! :)
:)
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