Sapiranga - Week 13

March 28, 2016

It´s a serious question in which i would love a serious response!!

Moroni is always seriously legit!!

Sorry i haven´t been sending emails these past two weeks! i´ve beed loaded with emails tosend to President and to mummy! so i´ve been lacking time to send. mom and President come first! :P

But know i love you guys and i´ll always send an email in the future! sometimes waaaaay in the future, but it shall be sent!!

This week was really great teaching! i´ve had some pretty incredible experiences teaching from the book of mormon and about the atonement of Christ. the two most important peicese of our religion! Christ and his Atonement as our center and the Book of Mormon as the Cornerstone of the church, people really start to see the joy and peace that the Latter Day Saints enjoy through these two huge parts of our faith!

I can´t really give much deatil about this week, but it sufficeth me to invite you guys to study more about the Atonement and Saving Sacrifice of Christ, especially through that amazing book of scripture called the Book of Mormon. I can echo and testify of the promises found in the introduction to this wonderful book. read it, live it, love it.!

Love you all!

Stay Legit like Moroni!

Tudo Bem em Brazil!

ELDER Scarlett

Sapiranga - Week 11

March 14, 2016

Holy Goodness!!!!!

this past week was flippin amazing!!!

I cant write it all but i want to share with you what happened this last sunday! 

These past weeks we´ve been learning how we can better use the spirit in teaching and we encountered a scripture in Doctrine & Covenants that talks about how you can know if you´re teaching with the spirit. is says that you and the other person will rejoice together in feeling and teaching through the holy spirit! I´ve been striving to have experiences like that these past two weeks, the best and biggest experience i´ve had yet was this sunday!

First off, last week i was asked to give a talk on the following sunday, or this week, being busy as missionaries are, i prepared minimally. 

In the first class about the restoration and Joseph Smith, my spiritual eyes opened a lot and i received a lot of strength to my testimony of the restoration! 

The second class i was able to learn more through the spirit about the Book of Mormon and some of it´s teachings. I even gave a small commentary that shocked me and the teacher! Totally prompted by the spirit. he told me what to say and it was confirmed through the tears brought to both the teacher and my own eyes, it was simple too, only about the significance of the phrase baptism by fire! Wont forget it!

But the highest moments this sunday were in sacrament meeting. I was preparing a bit more about the talk and listening to the talks of the other members. my mind was opened and drawn to many scriptures which the spirit said would be of great strength the the ward! 

i was third speaker and they only left 25 minutes for me. i´ve never been so prepared to give a talk, never been so animated! i opened my mouth and the spirit told me exactly what to say! i was in tears within the first 5 minutes and so were many of the members, including my best member friend! i spoke on missionary work and how each member should be engaged. i´ll forever be surprised and moved at this talk. there isn´t much more i can say to describe it, but i can really say that i know i was an instrument in the hands of the lord yesterday in uniting a ward in bringing the blessings of the gospel into the lives of all his children! 

Elder Scarlett

Sapiranga - Week 10

March 7, 2016

This week was pretty great! one of the struggles we´ve been having here is that lessons with member we far and in between. but yesterday we made some visits with some of the young men, and they are looking for opportunities to go out more with us! the leaders are starting to show more interest in helping us out with visits and with new pesquisadores! it´s a real blessing and an answer to a lot of prayer and fasting on out part!

Yesterday we visited a less active lady with two of the young men. on of the young men is good friends with her and wanted to pass by and talk with her. shes 50 years old and has problems walking long distances, but she said shes never stopped reading the Book of Mormon and has always had a desire to go back to church! okay! we can work with that! we´´l be visiting her for a bit and looking for members that can help her with regular rides to church! she is a real jewel! thank you Washington for being a great young man!

We´ve had tons of expériences fining new families and investigators who are really exemplary! but here is the spiritual nugget i´ve been neglecting for so long! Enjoy!

I´ve always loved the story of Lehonti (Leônti) and his firm resolution! and i always love the warning given by his example. He fell to the temptations of Amalekia to leave his firm resolution just a little, and for this he lost his life, and the lives of many of his lamanite bretheren.

On a brighter not we have the example of Moroni who put his "firm resolution" on a stick. his firm resolution was centered not in a physical fort or mountain, but on the mountain of our Lord God. his example of faith unshaking led to the salvation of thousands of his bretheren and worked even unto the saving of their very liberty to Worship. 

I love how these two examples are given in stark contrast, Leônti falling into the satanic grasps of Amalequias only a few chapters after Captain Moroni saved his bretheren from the same trap laid by the same satanic hands.

I know when we are centered with a "Firm Resolution" to follow our savior, centering our lives on his mount, we´ll save our lives and our liberty! 

Today me and my companion made our own "Firm Resolution" to follow the rules of the mission and to succeed in fulfilling the pattern of excellence this next week. We´ve been working hard, but GOd asked for more than we were giving. so now we´re cantering on the mount and preparing to the battle we´re about to fight. it´s going to be a lot of hard tiring work, but we´re going to do it in the  best ways possible. with our eyes and hand centered and working on and with the lord!

Elder Scarlett

Sapiranga - Week 9

March 2, 2016

This week was pretty great! one of the struggles we´ve been havinghere is that lessons with member we far and in between. but yesterday we made some visits with some of the young men, and they are looking for opportunities to go out more with us! the leaders are starting to show more interest in helping us out with visits and with new pesquisadores! it´s a real blessing and an answer to a lot of prayer and fasting on out part!

Yesterday we visited a less active lady with two of the young men. on of the young men is good friends with her and wanted to pass by and talk with her. shes 50 years old and has problems walking long distances, but she said shes never stopped reading the Book of Mormon and has always had a desire to go back to church! okay! we can work with that! we´´l be visiting her for a bit and looking for members that canhelp her with regular rides to church! she is a real jewel! thank you Washington for being a great young man!

We´ve had tons of expériences fining new families and investigators who are really exeplarary! but here is the spiritual nuget i´ve been neglectig for so long! Enjoy!

I´ve always loved the story of Lehonti (Leônti) and his firm resolution! and i always love the warning given by his example. He fell to the temptations of Amalekia to leave his firm resolution just a little, and for this he lost his life, and the lives of many of his lamanite bretheren.

On a brigter not we have the example of Moroni who put his "firm resolution" on a stick. his firm resolution was centered not in a phisical fort or mountain, but on the mountain of our Lord God. his example of faith unshaking led to the salvation of thousands of his bretheren and worked even unto the saving of their very liberty to Worship. 

I love how these two examples are given in stark contrast, Leônti falling into the satanic grasps of Amalequias only a few chapters after Captain Moroni saved his bretheren from the same trap laid by the same saatanic hands.

I know when we are centered with a "Firm Resolution" to follow our savior, centering our lives on his mount, we´ll save our lives and our liberty! 

Elder Scarlett

Sapiranga - Week 8

February 22, 2016

This week was the first week of training for me and my new companion! My New companion, Elder Rocha Neto, is from Recife, Pernambuco. He´s an amazing missionary already and is learning really quick!!

The first week of training generally starts like this:

 - Trainers arrive at the "escritorio" tuesday morning (I arrived monday night! :P)

 - President and the Assistants to the President pick up the New missionaries at the airport 

 - Everyone Eats lunch, Nobody knows who will be who´s companion yet.

 - Afterwards, president has a meeting with the trainers while the new missionaries rest.

 - Meeting with everyone, Discover who is companion with who!

 - Dinner! (This time was an all you can eat pizza buffet, i ate 22, other ex football playing american beat me with 23...)

 - Sleep!!! (Trainers sleep in Escritorio and new missionaries in hotel!)

 - Wednesday, wake up, prepare, wait for van.

 - Van takes us to morning meeting.

 - Lunch at Buffet Livre Bem-Chique!

 - Afternoon Meeting

 - New missionaries interview with President

 - Everyone leaves for the field! (We got to our house at about 8:30 at night, little time to work)

Elder Rocha Neto and I have worked our Butts off this week and had some pretty incredible experiences! We´ve been learning alot about the Scriptures and the way the Lord wants this missionary work done! it´s been pretty incredible and i can´t wait to send you guys some stories about this upcoming week!

Love Reading All your emails!!

Stay Awesome!

ELDER Scarlett

MISSÃO BRASIL PORTO ALEGRE NORTE

AV. VISCONDE DE MACAÉ, 245 –CRISTO REDENTOR

PORTO ALEGRE, RS, BRASIL – CEP: 91350-290

(51)9334.1484/3348.5268

Sapiranga - Week 7

February 15, 2016

It´s all going crazy here! i didn´t know missions could be like what i´m experiencing! sometimes when i look at all of what is going on it just seems like a big mess of random parts moving in random directions doing who knows what! i found a scripture in Corinthians chapter 1 that talked about how the foolishness of God is Wiser than the wisdom of men, and the weakest things of God are stronger than the strength of men. i´m starting to understand it now!

so to let you in on the craziness, i´ll be training this next transfer. i don´t know who it´ll be yet, but in any case i´m training! holy goodness!

When president called to tell u,s i found a lot of comfort in those scriptures in 1 Corinthians, i´m a pretty weak tool for Heavenly Father to use, but i know it´s wisdom in the lord. i´ll be saying a lot of prayers this next transfer! :)

Elder Scarlett

Sapiranga - Week 6

February 8, 2016

How great is it to live one more day in the life of a missionary!

How great is it to have one more p-day to hear from all my friends!

So we´ve been working hard this past week, meeting with new promising investigators, eating plenty of churrasco! 

If you´ve read my emails, you´ll remember that i talked about a couple who contacted us on the street and invited us over for dinner! we had that appointment this week! they are an amazing family! They´ve received a lot of the missionaries who have passed through this area and always love the visits and messages we leave with them! we have another dinner appointment with them, they want me to make them american pancakes! 

Yesterday had an experience that taught me a good lesson. Sunday was going a bit slow, not getting many visits with investigators, and nobody is on the streets. i was a little bummed. the week before sunday we had a good good run with visiting and helping investigators but Sunday was super slow. Just wanted to get in one good visit before day´s end. we were walking to the house of a less active member for a visit and a drunk man started walking towards us. no idea where this would lead so i just braced for impact. he started talking to us and said he was going for another drink. we asked if he liked drinking or if he wanted to stop. he totally opened up and told us how he wanted to change, but just didn´t know where to start. he ended up inviting us to his house where we shared a message with him and his wife who doesn´t believe he can change. after the lesson and closing prayer they understood that we were there to help them, they both had a light in their eyes, i think it was the light of a new hope in Christ.

As missionaries we preach the Gospel of Christ, that it exists in its fullness today and has power to help anyone who receives it. A missionaries hope is to encounter those who really want to come closer to Christ, just as this couple. This is why i love the life of a missionary. this is why i love hearing from my missionary friends on p-days. We are given the opportunity to witness the miracles wrought through this wonderful gospel every day! 

love you guys!

Tudo Bem em Brazil!

ELDER Scarlett

MISSÃO BRASIL PORTO ALEGRE NORTE

AV. VISCONDE DE MACAÉ, 245 –CRISTO REDENTOR

PORTO ALEGRE, RS, BRASIL – CEP: 91350-290

(51)9334.1484/3348.5268