This week was literally ten times better than all the other weeks combined basically haha. So much happened, and possibly the most inspiring thing happened to me this week. SO lets get started.
SO we worked a lot harder this week. At the end of the email last week I said that I needed to find a lot more people. Well this week we ended up finding about 26 people new to teach. Some of them are awesome and really interested, and others are kind of just willing to listen to us talk. We taught a lot of people this week. I was so much happier when we were working hard. I dont think that I have ever sweat or walked so much in my life. Like literally about 10-15 miles every single day, and I am definitely hot and sweating that whole time, but it kind of feels good to know that I am working that hard.
We came in contact with this man who will probably forever change my mission. So we knock on his door. We had passed by this house before and not stopped there. Well this time we felt like we should knock. So he welcomed us in and then we started talking a bit. He started saying I dont know why but today I knew something good and inspiring was going to happen to me today. Even my dog was acting different as if I missed something about an hour ago (when we walked by previously) Well we then started talking with him about why we were there. Then he said why Would God send you two to me? How did this happen? How did you know to stop here and talk with me? We told him it wasnt us but his Heavenly Father. HE then started crying when we started sharing our message. He wasnt feeling close to the Lord because he was having a problem in his life. Well we told him that is why we are here. He was so grateful and said this is a really strong feeling right now. I dont know how to explain it. Then we expressed to him that it was the Love of HIs Savior for him and that this was just the start if we continued to visit him. HE then said the most beautiful prayer I think I have ever heard. He said the date. ´´October 9 2014 A day that I will NEVER forget, A day when you sent 2 angels my way to help me change my life. Thank you so much for this´´ HE said a lot more, but that was inspiring to me. It was great and I look forward to meeting with him more to change his world.
I am starting to love Brazil. At first it was really hard, but now I am really loving almost everything about it. even the portuguese. At times it is really difficult for me, but other times I can almost say all that I want to say. Some people still have a really hard time understanding me, but it is mostly teenagers surprisingly.
I am starting to try to help my companion learn english. It is pretty awesome. Elder Guimaraes and I are starting to get pretty close, and that just makes it so much better. He is trying hard because I gave him an English planner that he is only writing in english. HE doesnt know much, but he will learn :)
I finally did service here. IT was only for about 10 minutes moving some bricks, but I LOVE SERVICE. So it was good for me.
I have a lot of time to think here, becasue when we are walking and not talking I think about a lot haha. One thing I think about is that this world is a world full of so many distractions, so many things keeping us from what is truly important. And especially with people we meet with, because they never remember what we ask them todo. But I also do realize that they have their lives, and we only take up 15 minutes of their day. It is hard for us to understand because our whole day consists of this. But I think it makes me have more patience with people.
Something intersting here is that they have a kids day. Just like mothers day or Fathers day. All the kids get presents and have parties and everything. It is different, but kind of cool.
I love how much light is referred to in the Scriptures. We are the light of the world, but we cant just let all our light shine full force or people will be dissinterested, or scared of it. It is crazy how much I think abiut light hah.
anyways this week was great, I am so thankful to be a missionary here. I love you all and miss you all,
ELder Hamrick
SO we worked a lot harder this week. At the end of the email last week I said that I needed to find a lot more people. Well this week we ended up finding about 26 people new to teach. Some of them are awesome and really interested, and others are kind of just willing to listen to us talk. We taught a lot of people this week. I was so much happier when we were working hard. I dont think that I have ever sweat or walked so much in my life. Like literally about 10-15 miles every single day, and I am definitely hot and sweating that whole time, but it kind of feels good to know that I am working that hard.
We came in contact with this man who will probably forever change my mission. So we knock on his door. We had passed by this house before and not stopped there. Well this time we felt like we should knock. So he welcomed us in and then we started talking a bit. He started saying I dont know why but today I knew something good and inspiring was going to happen to me today. Even my dog was acting different as if I missed something about an hour ago (when we walked by previously) Well we then started talking with him about why we were there. Then he said why Would God send you two to me? How did this happen? How did you know to stop here and talk with me? We told him it wasnt us but his Heavenly Father. HE then started crying when we started sharing our message. He wasnt feeling close to the Lord because he was having a problem in his life. Well we told him that is why we are here. He was so grateful and said this is a really strong feeling right now. I dont know how to explain it. Then we expressed to him that it was the Love of HIs Savior for him and that this was just the start if we continued to visit him. HE then said the most beautiful prayer I think I have ever heard. He said the date. ´´October 9 2014 A day that I will NEVER forget, A day when you sent 2 angels my way to help me change my life. Thank you so much for this´´ HE said a lot more, but that was inspiring to me. It was great and I look forward to meeting with him more to change his world.
I am starting to love Brazil. At first it was really hard, but now I am really loving almost everything about it. even the portuguese. At times it is really difficult for me, but other times I can almost say all that I want to say. Some people still have a really hard time understanding me, but it is mostly teenagers surprisingly.
I am starting to try to help my companion learn english. It is pretty awesome. Elder Guimaraes and I are starting to get pretty close, and that just makes it so much better. He is trying hard because I gave him an English planner that he is only writing in english. HE doesnt know much, but he will learn :)
I finally did service here. IT was only for about 10 minutes moving some bricks, but I LOVE SERVICE. So it was good for me.
I have a lot of time to think here, becasue when we are walking and not talking I think about a lot haha. One thing I think about is that this world is a world full of so many distractions, so many things keeping us from what is truly important. And especially with people we meet with, because they never remember what we ask them todo. But I also do realize that they have their lives, and we only take up 15 minutes of their day. It is hard for us to understand because our whole day consists of this. But I think it makes me have more patience with people.
Something intersting here is that they have a kids day. Just like mothers day or Fathers day. All the kids get presents and have parties and everything. It is different, but kind of cool.
I love how much light is referred to in the Scriptures. We are the light of the world, but we cant just let all our light shine full force or people will be dissinterested, or scared of it. It is crazy how much I think abiut light hah.
anyways this week was great, I am so thankful to be a missionary here. I love you all and miss you all,
ELder Hamrick
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