This area is great! I´m loving
it! It is soooo different from the other area I passed in. The people
here are... rich. The members are some of the oldest in the city and we
get to eat some of the best food in the mission. From a temporal
standpoint this has got to be the best area here in the mission.
Really the food is one of the shining points of this
area, There´s a sister here who owns an all you can eat restaurant. We
eat there twice a month. If lunch falls, the members give us a very good
amount of money to go out and eat. I´ve already eaten at McDonald´s
(which is expensive here) and some other places. There are so many
people here that know how to cook and this week we´re going to go teach a
chef at a nearby restaurant! Oh man I´m loving it!
On top of all those great things, man companion is
great. He´s funny and speaks Portuguese! We´re meeting some good people who are accepting us and our
message. We´ll see if we can´t help them go to church and make covenants
with God.
It´s kinda cool because we have a lot of Africans
here studying at the local colleges. One is a member and knows so may
people to teach! He´s also helping me learn Criolo(?) not sure if
that´show it´s spelled. It´s an African language very similar to
Portuguese. Also very cool.
The more I work out here in the field, the more I
know that God is a part of this work. Just yesterday we had two
experiences. First, we went with the African member! to talk
to his cousin who used to go to church but stopped a few weeks ago. She
wasn´t there but a friend of her husbands was. He said the last time he
had been there the missionaries had stopped by too. But we haven´t been
there in 2 months and neither has he. The first time the Elders met him,
he hadn´t been by their house in 3 months. God is trying to talk to
that man, and after a few hours of talking to him (he had quite a bit of
doubts and problems) he´s going to read and pray about the Book of
Mormon.
We´re also working with an English teacher,
single-mother here. She is awesome. She went out of her way to contact
the missionaries in the area where she works. She´s been going to church
and church activities. She didn´t show up at church this Sunday though
and we were worried to see what had happened to her. We already had
stuff set up for the day and couldn´t
get there until the night. When we got there we were able to help her
clean up her house. She said that she hadn´t gotten any sleep because of
here s year old who was up all night (I thought of Mom.) She told us
about what´s going on in her life and said that she was needing the
visit that night. By the time we left she was feeling much better.
I know from these simple experiences, any SOOO many
other like them, that God will lead us where we need to go when we go
about His work. Many times we won´t even realize we´re being lead, but
when we´re worthy and willing, and put in our effort, God makes miracles
happen in the lives of His children.
I also know that
there are many people searching for the gospel and would accept it if
they only knew where to find it. I love just talking to people on the
street. it´s become a new hobby of mine and Elder Receveur thinks I´m
crazy but it rocks! We find such good people to teach that way who would
never know about the church if it weren´t for us. Most of the time the
people won´t accept our visits or will but won´t do anything after. But
through all the working, sweating, teaching, and searching, we always
find someone who was praying to God for something more in their life.
Something to ´´fill the gap´´ as one investigator put it. The heart
filler is the Gopel of Jesus Christ. It works miracles and changes lives
when we let it. And not only this short mortal life but our entire eternal existence.
So thank you all for sharing the gospel and blessing
others with your testimonies. Help the missionaries and feed them good
food. We love good food.
I love you all and
know that the Restoration of the Gospel occurred through the Prophet
Joseph Smith and that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
The Holy Ghost testifies of it.
Bom trabalho!
Elder Hodson
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