I bet you are all super jealous of me right now!
But you shouldn't be! Because as cold as it is there.......is as hot as it is here!
Can I get a Halleleluia? (Don't judge me.....I know I
didn't spell that right at all!) Sister Araujo is walking on her ankle
now! Oh yeah! I was dying! It was good to hit the pavement again!
However, I realized that being cooped up in my apartment for a couple
days gave me a special energy boost!
Because I hadn't been able to share the gospel for a
couple of days, the second I stepped outside, I couldn't help but talk
to everyone that I saw! At the beginning of my mission, I was super
afraid to make contacts with people on the streets or in the park or
whatever. I have really grown to love it though. My companion thinks I
am super crazy because I stop people on the sidewalk, talk to punk
teenage boys, anyone and everyone. Sister Araujo is new on the mission,
so she is super afraid of rejection. Yeah, of course it is sad when
someone rejects your message because you know how much it could bless
them, but even when I am rejected I AM SO HAPPY because I know I put the
message out there. I am SPREADING the gospel. I am doing my part by
informing everyone and letting them exercise their agency. My missionary
advice of this week: Don't be afraid to open your mouth and share the
gospel! You NEVER know who will be receptive!
Yesterday, we made a contact with a man in a park. I
was really wanting to give a Book of Mormon to someone, but didn't want
to give it someone who would just throw it in the trash afterwards. We
started talking to a man named Luciano who was sitting on a bench
watching his kids play soccer. We talked with him a bit and asked us if
we were "Mormons." We explained that Mormon is a nickname we have. He
asked where this nickname came from. Booyah. Perfect lead in to talk
about the Book of Mormon. I whipped out my Book and Mormon and said,
"Because of this book right here." I explained a bit about it, testified
about it, and gave him the Book of Mormon. He took it and was looking
at it with so much admiration and hunger to know more. He said, "Thank
you so much for coming to talk to me today. I was really needing this."
Because I am the most unlucky human being on this planet, he doesn't
live in my area, but we passed his address on to some Elders that will
teach him. I am disappointed that it won't be me that will teach him,
but I am grateful to have been an instrument in the Lord's hands to find
this special son of God.
Word is going around that Elder Bednar and Elder
Oaks will be here in Porto Alegre this month. Pray that they will call a
meeting with the missionaries here!!!!!!
I love you all so much! There is no greater call in which to be engaged than that of the Lord's!!!
Sister Autumn Barnes
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