Things sure are changing here. So much is happening that my mind is absolutely blank on what I should write. So I'll share two announcements and a cool story.
1 - I forgot if I said anything yet about this, but we started teaching a free english class here in the church. Its started out slow with our "alunos" (yeah I cant remember this word in english) but it is starting to bring success now.
2 - This week, President Cabral has made a mission-wide challenge to for us to bring 20 investigators to sacrament meeting to each and every ward in the mission. Pray for us, I really want to see this miracle happen.
Story: I spent a trip to the mission office last p-day and the money that I had saved up to get this CTR ring. I lost the one I brought with me on the mission and this was a major upgrade. Pretty sick CTR ring huh?
Yesterday, a man came to church who we hadn't seen before. His name is Rodrigo and it had been about 3 years since he had attended church. He told us about the tragic death of his mother a few days back and how she had given him a CTR ring that served as a reminder and helped him years back stay strong and faithful. But some years back he lost his ring. With tears in his eyes, he asked if there was any way that we could help him get a new ring, that it would be everything for him to have that remembrance again of his mother and his testimony. We told him that we would talk to bishop and see if there was anything we could do. Then the prompting came that I should give my awesome new ring to him. Despite this feeling, we proceeded to inquire and search the church and the members for a spare ring. We quickly realized there weren't any out there. I still fought hard against the spiritual prompting to give away my ring. But after a sacrament meeting filled with much prayer and contemplation, I realized what I had to do. After the meeting, I took my ring off, found the man and told him that we had found a ring for him. He looked at me and my companion with tears in his eyes. Words don't describe the joy in his eyes and in my heart in knowing that I did what the Lord needed from me to help this man. He has invited us to come to his house to visit and teach his nonmember wife and two sons.
Sacrifices are not easy. At times they are against our human nature. But when we make an offering to the Lord in obedience, money can't buy the happiness and rewards that lie ahead. I realize more than ever that I am just a man. Weak and poor, but with the power of God, can help miracles happen for those I love.
Eu amo vocês!
Élder Hamilton
Missionário de A Igreja De Jesus Cristo Dos Santos Dos Últimos Dias
Ala Bangú - Missão Brasil Rio De Janeiro
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