Sharing the Christmas spirit

-
Dec 28 2019

Bringing the Christmas spirit to families
It was a busy week and full of miracles.
Christmas eve we visited some families and sang Christmas hymns and shared Christmas cookies. We met this amazing family and taught about Jesus Christ the purpose of his life and his sacrifice. Christmas night we visited some people we are teaching, close by and stopped by President and Sister Loureiro to drop off some Christmas presents for them from the missionaries.
A man that the missionaries had taught a few months ago called us asked if we could come by and teach him more about the Book of Mormon.
We are also taught his neighbor. She was of another faith and just wanted to talk and criticize us. haha We managed to get a couple of words in and invited her to learn more about the church and really search for her answers.
I'm practicing my Spanish with the Colombian elder that lives with us and honestly, I like Portuguese a lot better.
If only the sign that was correct, and it actually was 0

I had splits with an elder from Balckfoot, so we talked about Idaho and taught a few people yesterday. We had a lesson with a recent convert familia about what it means to be converted and he bore his testimony on his conversion to what we do in the church. He is a good guy. 

I love this work and I love to be a missionary. 
I know that god listens to those who sincerely pary and he give the best gifts.
Merry Christmas 
-Elder Sheffield


Made a birthday cake for Dad


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

O Espirito Santo

-
22Feb 20  This week was great. Full of ups and downs. But as the end of the week came, there were a lot more up then there were downs.  Here on the mission I have come to recognize the spirit so much more. We feel the holy spirit to confirm truth and testify of God. God has given so many blessings to us that we might have this spirit to be with us. What a great promise! The spirit guides and prompts us in our lives and to have Gods direction in our lives. Everyone can feel a little bit of this divine power helping us on our way, but those who are baptized and receive the holy ghost by the laying on of hands can feel the true gift of the holy spirit. As I have strived, failed, gotten up and strived again to be a true messenger of the restored gospel, I have felt the holy spirit playing his role in this work of God’s. I felt the spirit this week while teaching a man about the story of the Book of Mormon on his doorstep. I felt His power te...
Read more

What have you learned?

-
Image
Feb 29 2020 Dear Family So Elder Eastwood was asking us about what we had learned in District meeting! And I loved hearing about what everyone said they had learned. I LEARNED SO MUCH! So my new go to question is what have you learned lately? So here are some things I learned this week Today was already so great. Presidents wife came over to clean our house with us to show us how a pro does it. So I learned a lot about cleaning today haha Listening to music while scrubbing bathrooms reminded me good ol’ Saturday morning cleaning at home. We have a couple awesome lessons for today, with investigators!!! Aide and also Josemar and his family! Pray for them! Also, other important people that need Gods help: Jose and his adorable family, Nicolas!, Eduardo, actually… just buy a phone book from Juiz de Fora and just go name for name praying for everyone! Do you remember Ginger Ramiez? She is in my mission and is a great missionary I learned abou...
Read more

What's really important

-
Mar 20, 2020 Dear Famil y  So just starting off, It's so good to hear from you and I couldn't be safer or better. We're tucked away in the little mountain cities of brasil. I know why God called me right here for this time right now.  Everyone is going a little crazy, stressed out, paranoid here but in the mission everything is amazing we are working our buns off in the service of the Lord.  Preparing missionaries, tracking buses, and flights and everything, helping the missionaries rally around the members and use the tools they have better.  This is the most exciting time to be a missionary! haha  Presidente called us to put together a war room, where we can make plans, so in a couple hours we got all of the phone lines that we had working, a couple whiteboards and started making plans and calling all of the missionaries.  We are keeping an eye on everything. It's exciting to be in the middle of the action...
Read more