Algo que Nunca Senti Na Minha Vida

Boa tarde gente!!! Então esta semana foi maravilhosa!!! Primeiramente, vemos muitos pequenos milagres esta semana e no mesmo tempo muitos dificuldades e distrações.

Primeiro os distrações e dificuldades. Eu não acho que eu fui ao hospital mais na minha vida do que eu fiz esta semana. Nos fomos por o hospital ou físico terapia cada dia esta semana. Geralmente o hospital é para mim, mas na sexta feira nos fomos por um outro hospital por Sister Soares. Ela estava tremendo, super fraca, e mal podia andar direto. No início foi engraçada mas depois a gente foi para casa de uma família que nos estamos ensinando e ela perdeu sentimentos na mãos dela! Nós rapidamente chamamos um táxi e 20 minutos depois estavam no hospital. Aparentemente, ela precisa de mais comida e água, kkk só isso! Mas cada dia, a gente foi por o hospital, e perdeu muito tempo da manhãs para trabalhar e estudar. 

Mas nos tivemos muitos milagres também!! Então primeiro com milagres! Encontramos tantas pessoas maravilhosas para ensinar e ajudar! Eu quero compartilhar sobre uma mulher que estamos ensinando a Elizete. Gente, seriamente ela é perfeito, eleito! Ela se mudou para a nossa área e, infelizmente, literalmente tem nada. Estamos trabalhando nisso! Mas ela conheceu um dos nossos recentes conversos seu primeiro dia aqui. Este é o primeiro milagre! Depois que eles se conheceram, encontramos o recente converso que nos deu endereço dela e fomos imediatamente lá! Ela estava perguntando-lhe muitas perguntas sobre a igreja, então nossa primeira lição com ela basicamente, falamos sobre tudo! Profetas, batismo, templos, dízimo, bispo, batismos para os mortos, literalmente tudo! Milagre #2! Descobrimos que o recente converso tá ajudando com alimentos para ela e coisas assim! Milagre #3! O último milagre é o meu favorito! Ela foi à igreja conosco ontem e ela adorou demais !! Ela conheceu o bispo e disse que, quando apertou a mão, sentiu algo que nunca antes sentia na vida dela. Algo tão incrível e poderoso! 

Eu sei que o que ela sentia foi o Espírito testificando para ela que realmente, bispo é um portador do sacerdócio e chamou por Deus! Eu sei que ela sabe que essa é a igreja de Cristo e é verdadeira! Eu sou muito animada para continuar ensinando ela, e ajudar ela aceitar este plano em vida dela! Ela foi e ainda é procurando essa igreja! 

Muitos milagres esta semana! MARAVILHOSA!!! amo vocês com todo meu coração!!

Sister Moss 

Here's the Google Translate version of Sister Moss's letter...

Good afternoon guys!!! So this week was wonderful !!! First, we see many small miracles this week and at the same time many hardships and distractions.

Distractions and difficulties first. I do not think I went to the hospital more in my life than I did this week. We went through the hospital or physical therapy every day this week. Usually the hospital is for me, but on Friday we went to another hospital for Sister Soares. She was shaking, super weak, and could barely walk straight. At first it was funny but then we went home to a family that we are teaching and she lost feelings in her hands! We quickly called a taxi and 20 minutes later were in the hospital. Apparently, she needs more food and water, lol! But every day, we went to the hospital, and lost a lot of time in the mornings to work and study.

But we had many miracles too !! Then first with miracles! We found so many wonderful people to teach and help! I want to share about a woman we are teaching to Elizete. Folks, seriously she's perfect, elected! She moved to our area and, sadly, literally has nothing. We're working on it! But she met one of our recent converts her first day here. This is the first miracle! After they met, we met the recent convert who gave us her address and we were immediately there! She was asking him many questions about the church, so our first lesson with her basically, we talked about everything! Prophets, baptism, temples, tithes, bishops, baptisms for the dead, literally everything! Miracle # 2! We found out that the recent convert is helping with food for her and stuff like that! Miracle # 3! The last miracle is my favorite! She went to church with us yesterday and she loved it !! She met the bishop and said that when she shook hands, she felt something she had never felt in her life before. Something so incredible and powerful!

I know what she felt was the Spirit testifying to her that really, bishop is a priesthood holder and called for God! I know she knows this is the church of Christ and it's true! I'm very excited to continue teaching her, and help her accept this plan in her life! She was and still is looking for this church! 

Many miracles this week! WONDERFUL!!! I love you with all my heart !!

Sister Moss

 Extra News...

Yes I started PT. my MRI showed that I have a little tear on my meniscus. I've had 3 sessions of PT and have just done shock stuff so far. also I will being going to the doctor a bit more now. I've had what i thought was just an ear infection for a while. it prevented me from hearing for almost 4 months so we went to the doctor again today to check it out. she said its a miracle that i dont have pain to my ear and stuff. apparently its more than just a normal ear infection. They asked me to ask you if any one in our family other than me has ear problems. so do we have someone else or am I just super special? I will be having lots of tests done in the next few weeks to find out just exactly what happened. I will be buying some meds today so if you see a big withdraw or purchase on the credit card its just medicine. I'll keep you updated on this medical stuff.

We all Fall Down!!

So unfortunately I don't have a whole lot of time today, so I'll write in only English.

Não tenho muito tempo hoje, esta email é só inglês! Me-desculpe Brasileiras! Amo vocês!

But this week has been fantastic!! Lately we've had a really hard time meeting people but this week we met an eleita!!!! I don't remember the English word for this but she's perfect!! We were looking for her house, I think 2 days after we made first contact with her and my goodness guys, she lives basically at the end of the world!! It was nearly impossible to find her house! We were searching and searching and getting really discouraged that we couldn't find her, so we stopped and said a prayer. When we finished praying, the first person we asked for information asked if we had a place of reference or a name of the person. We told them the name of our eleita, J, and she replied "there's literally only one person that i know in this neighborhood with this name", she pointed out the house to us and left us to discover on our own if it was the right person. huge miracle because it was her house!!! 

 

It was pretty late so just noted where she lived and returned the following day. It was probably the best lesson ever!! I felt most comfortable and felt like the Spirit was really working through me! We taught about the gospel of Jesus Christ and asked her to be baptized! She accepted!!! Then we tried to mark her for a date too, usually we just ask people to pray about it and then go back and mark a date, but this time we did both!! We asked her if she wanted to be baptized on the 22 or the 28 and told her that on these 2 dates we would have a reunião batismal. She asked what exactly a reunião batismal is, and when we told her that on which ever date she chose she would literally be baptized, I was really scared that at that point she would say no, but she didn't!! She accepted so quickly and chose a date!!! So we have a baptism coming up on the 28th!!! I'm super excited for her!!! we almost couldn't contain our joy for her!

Also this week was Friday the 13th and by the title you could probably guess what happened! Well I'll tell you the story! So sister Soares and I were walking home, and I don't know how it happened, i think my foot got caught in a crack on the sidewalk and i twisted my foot but I tripped and fell! Guys it was probably the funniest thing ever!!! We both couldn't stop laughing!! Haha seriously was too funny!! Luckily there weren't tons of people on the street at the time but the people that did see were laughing too! and one kid yelled as we were leaving "it's better to laugh at it than to cry!" haha so funny!!! Luckily I didn't hit my bad knee too bad, but now I have two bad knees haha! 

 

 

Speaking of knees, I'll be starting physical therapy this week with one of the other sisters! Should be good for me! Not super excited but I'd much rather go through therapy than return home to you guys early! Not that I don't love and miss you all with all my heart, but I don't want to leave here!! Oh that reminds me, I cant believe that I've already been out 7 months!!!! guys 7 months!!! That's almost half way done!!! Where is the time going???? 

 

 

Other than all this not much else happened, we had interviews with Presidente but for most of my interview we talked about my knee. He also thought that i had only 5 months here. To be honest I feel like that's all the time i have but no, i have 7 months!!!! 

Guys I want you all to know how much I love and miss all of you guys!!! I know that God is always looking out for us and helping and assisting in literally everything we do!! We watched a video yesterday in church and I want to leave a quote from the video with you guys.

Not word for word, but it was a video about Fathers. And in part of it, it compared our Fathers and parents in general on earth with our Heavenly Father. It said something along the lines that when we're kids we trust 100% in our parents. 100%! And it made the comparison that even though we're grown, we still need to trust in our Heavenly Father with 100% of everything we have. Because He is in charge of everything, and just like our parents on earth, He will take care of us and protect us with every fiber of His being!!

I love you guys so much!!!! Hope you all have a fantastic week!!

Sister Moss

Nova Transferência, Nova Companheira, Mesmo Areá!

Caraca boy! Então agora é uma nova transferência! #5! Eu ainda tó em Nova Parnamirim! Mas agora eu tenho uma nova companheira! Nome dela é Sister Soares!! E ela é MARAVILHOSA!!! Cara eu amo tanto ela! Ela tem 7 quases 8 meses na missão! Já aprendi muito com ela! Ela é de Rio Grande do Sul e ela é louco e além engraçada!! Rimos tanto cada dia! Esta transferência vai ser bom com força! Até agora já fizemos muito trabalho. Estou tão animado por essa transferência com ela. Em minha casa temos eu e Sister Soares e Sister Sutto e Sister Barney!! Cara gente, casa celestial!!! Tó muito feliz aqui!

Com transferências eu não tenho muito para falar pra vocês, mas eu vou prestar meu testemunho pra vocês.

Eu sei com todas as fibras do meu ser que esta igreja é a igreja de Cristo restaurou aqui na terra! Que Presidente Thomas S. Monson é um homem chamado por Deus, para nos guia nessas últimas dias! Eu opio ele, com todo o meu coração! Me sinto além do privilégio de ser uma representante do meu Salvador! Ele é todo para mim! Eu tó muito grata que ele sofreu para mim pessoalmente, e por todos nos pessoalmente! Eu sei que por causa de todo misericórdia de Deus que nossa fraquezas pode ser fortes, a gente só precisa perguntar! Eu sei que nossa arbítrio é um grande dom para nos, que Deus nos deu! Mesmo que às vezes pareça mais uma maldição do que um presente. Que quando nos usamos nossa arbítrio por nossa bem, realmente ele é um grande dom, e vai nos ajuda voltar na presença do Senhor! Eu tó muito feliz para ser uma missionária e assistir no obra do Senhor e ajudar com a coligação do Israel aqui na terra! Essa é obra dele, eu tó só um instrumento em mãos dele! Eu amo essa trabalho e eu amo muito meu Pai Celestial e meu Salvador! Essa igreja é única igreja verdadeira.

Eu amo muito vocês!!

Com amor,

Sister Moss

English...

My goodness guys! so now its a new transfer! #5! I am still in Nova Parnamirim! But now I have a new companion! her name is Sister Soares !! And she is WONDERFUL !!! Dude, I love her so much! She has 7, almost 8 months on the mission! I've learned a lot from her! She's from Rio Grande do Sul and she's crazy and beyond funny !! We laugh so much every day! This transfer will be sooo good! So far we've done a lot of work. I'm so excited about this transfer with her. In my house we have myself and Sister Soares and Sister Sutto and Sister Barney !! Guys, this is the heavenly home !!! i am very happy here.

With transfers, I do not have much to tell you, but I'm going to bear you my testimony.

I know with all the fiber of my being that this church is the church of Christ restored here on earth! What President Thomas S. Monson is a man called by God to guide us in these last days! I oppress him, with all my heart! I feel beyond the privilege of being a representative of my Savior! He's all for me! I'm so grateful that he suffered for me personally, and for all of us personally! I know because of all of God's mercy that our weaknesses can be strong, we just need to ask! I know that our agency is a great gift to us, that God has given us! Even though it sometimes looks more like a curse than a present. That when we use our agency for our sake, truly it is a great gift, and it will help us to return in the presence of the Lord! I am very happy to be a missionary and to attend the work of the Lord and to help with the gathering of Israel here on earth! This is his work, I'm just an instrument in his hands! I love this work and I love my Heavenly Father and my Savior! This church is the only true church. 

I love you very much!! 

With love, Sister Moss

Questions and Answers...

How's the work? the work is good, we're working really hard with a couple of people that are so close to baptism! hopefully they take our challenges to pray seriously to know these things for themselves. 

How are your investigators? the biggest problem with our investigators is that they wont pray to know these things for themselves and they refuse to go to church.. but other than that they are so good!!  

How was church? church was super good! I feel really guilty that I didn't bear my testimony yesterday... all the sisters bore their testimonies except me.. I felt like i should have and just ignored it.. I don't know why. Ive never liked getting up to bear my testimony.. ughhh!! 

Your companion? she is AMAZING!!!! 

How's the area? the area is great! we're working with some great people and trying more to work within the apartment complexes now.  

The members? the members are amazing! it was actually kind of cool! I showed up to church yesterday and one of the members gave me hug and said she was so sad because she thought that I got transferred and didn't say goodbye. Haha she really likes me I guess!  

Where are you reading in the scriptures now? Right now I am reading in Alma, about Alma and Amulek preaching to the Lamanites! Its so cool to see the willingness Amulek had to accept Alma into his house and to go out and preach with him!  

What's your most favorite thing you read this last week? exactly what I just said about Amulek haha! 

Which songs are your favorites and help you get through the days? I don't listen to a whole lot of music like Kade does, but I really just love the hymns! and of course I'll find you my friend!