Elder Joshua Sheffield

I got transferred, so now I’m in the area of Jardim America. Which is a slice of Juiz de Fora. Elder Gonzalez is training me in finances, and the mission, and all of our responsibilities of the office.  We go to the office everyday about 10:00am and work until about 4 – 5pm. We don’t have lunch with the members, so I’m missing the homemade food of the members :( Saturday night the assistants had a baptism in the ward, so we prepared everything and I had a part in helping.  Sunday we had a few people na igreja (at church). It’s weird going to church and seeing the president of the mission sitting there with his family, hahaha. Monday we visited some investigators with a recent convert Peterson. We met some really nice people and had some good lessons. A lady we taught said that it was the best thing that happened to her this year so far. That was sweet. Tuesday was my birthday!!!! It was the busiest day so far and it just happened to fall on Tran...

Oiiiii NOW IM IN THE BIG CITY A friend recommended a talk by Elder Bednar and here’s my favorite quote. “ If all you or I know about Jesus Christ and His restored gospel, is what other people teach or tell us, then the foundation of our testimony of Him and His glorious Latter-day work is built upon sand.” We cannot rely exclusively upon or borrow gospel light and knowledge from other people even those whom we love and trust.   I love teaching and talking to people. We sang and played hymns in the center street and talked with everyone and gave away Liahonas . I love smiling to everyone and talking about the savior there is really nothing better. I’m now companions with Elder Gonsalez. Im soooo excited. Love you all so much

August 12, 2019 It was great to talk to my family yesterday! Ill keep this short Here’s a spiritual thought of the week. I was reading a talk called “THE WAY”. I wanted to share some of it with you. It’s by Lawrence Corbridge . It’s simple, it’s direct, it’s clear  Jesus is the Way. Any other way, whichever other way, is just foolish. Ele disse: “Vinde a mim, todos os que estais cansados e oprimidos, e eu vos aliviarei. Tomai sobre vós o meu jugo, e aprendei de mim (…) e encontrareis descanso para as vossas almas. Porque o meu jugo é suave e o meu fardo é leve”. A vida é difícil, mas é simples. Entrem pelo caminho e nunca desistam, jamais. Não desistam. Continuem em frente. Não desistam, e vão conseguir. Há um único caminho para a felicidade e a realização. Jesus Cristo é o Caminho. Todo outro caminho, qualquer outro caminho, seja qual for, é insensatez. Presto testemunho Dele, sim, de Jesus Cristo, que Ele é o Filho do Deus vivo; Ele é o Pão da Vida; Ele...

Me and my Companion Elder Parronchi Trying the foods made for the Master Chef activity This week there were lots of lessons and lots of new people that I cant list them all! Evandro Ivana Jose Maria Dudu Bruno just a few that are needing your prayers We had an awesome Master Chef activity on Saturday . We made a competition of sweet and savory dishes. Elder Shorts - homemade cinnamon rolls .  Elder Niela made parfait. Elder Parronchi made lemon moose . And I  Elder  Sheffield  made red pepper stuffed with meat, bacon and a light cream sauce .  I had high hopes that everyone would make desserts and so I could win in the savory category  uncontended. But IRMA CLEIDE showed up with a perfect chicken pie so infelizmente (unfortunately) I lost. But I won the award for most creative! Are you proud of me mom? ;) Master chef activity winners We have a activity next week, for Brazilian father’s day, it´ll be a kite competition .  We are going to ...