First off, thank you to everyone who sent in birthday wishes! It was really fun to see an inbox FULL if all of them, ha ha. My comp thinks I'm the most loved missionary on earth right now and I about feel that way :). Thank you one and all!
So this week I got an unexpected visit from Elder Francom for P-day. He was with a missionary finishing his mission and this was an old area of his so we all get together for the day. We mostly just played sports together all day.
So this week was great. We started off the week with no real prospective baptisms and ended the week with a baptism every week this month (minus last week)! It's pretty great. We found out a long time baptismal date came back to town this week so he was baptized yesterday. His name is Rodrygo and he's pretty great. He's the grandson of another one of our recent converts and was pretty on fire since we first met him, despite the fact he's only 14! Gotta love how God prepares his children. We just showed up Wednesday and he was there, ha ha.
It's also been raining a lot here.... I mean like a lot. It pretty much went like this for 3 or 4 days straight: The hottest days I´ve ever spent on my mission an then around 3 or 4 o'clock the rain just exploded on top of us.
We usually had about half an hour of warning but we'd go into a lesson and get out of it just in time to run a bit and ended up taking on a bunch of rain before we made it to some shelter. We pretty much just went home to get out of our wet clothes those days. Oh and we lost power for about 20 hours which was fun. We passed the night in candle light which was pretty cool actually.
We spent my birthday like normal but passed by a recent convert's home and she made us an AWESOME cake. It was a fun little get together. I also made us an apple pie in the morning that turned out just great. Sister Wright (mission president's wife) called too to wish me happy birthday :).
Um, not a whole lot more to really report. The work is good and we are managing to get the mission standards in spite of cutting plenty of time out of out days because of the rain. Like I said, we have a ton of baptisms lined up so it should be some good weeks to come.
I guess I want to talk about limits. Sometimes God pushes ours, not because He doesn't love us but because He knows that we can be much better than we are. I heard a story I heard once from C.S Lewis:
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
I love that message there and I think we all have plenty to work on and learn there. Stretch yourself, it's how we grow and fulfill God's plan for us
Hope you all have a great week!
Um no exército de Deus
-Elder Teela
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