Life in the Mission Office

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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 Transfer day. So we were running all over the city to buy tickets and get uber drivers and grab bags of arriving missionaries and farewells of the missionaries leaving. We had a fancy dinner with President and mission president’s wife made mashed potatoes and rolls and jam!!!!! Best birthday dinner. Then they sang parabens (congratulations) to me and we ate ice cream.

We had a testimony meeting for the new missionaries and they have strong testimonies -so strong

We also had the farewells for the missionaries leaving and they wrote a song for the mission that is stuck in my head still!

We talked about how testimonies are forged. I really liked that word. It’s like how we are molded and moved with the pressure and the heat and the obstacles that hit us but it’s all forging us into better disciples of Christ.

In the new testament, it talks all about how the early saints were forged and they had to be really strong and it’s so true for us still.

I have seen myself change so much and I don’t plan on stop changing!


I’m being forged

love ya 
-Elder Sheffield

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