May 29, 2023: Saquarema

 Hello friends and family! How are you all doing today?? I hope everyone's doing great and hello from the tourist city of Saquarema, RJ!!

This week has been a good one, albeit very short! Cause of the conference and transfer that we had it feels like we have had very little time to get on the streets and work! My new comp is called Elder Donato and he's very cool! We've had a great time talking and working and just trying to help the ward here in Saquarema!

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 I started writing this last week and forgot to finish hahahahahah! So I'm gonna continue from this cause it's all valid info still haha!

This week we had another conference with Elder Neilsen of the seventy! It was awesome and he taught us how the weak things of the earth can become strong with the help of God!!

Other than that we had a week where we walked... a lot. We walked about 15 kilometers each day and it was a grind! But in all of this we have found some miracles and members inactive and people coming to church! 

We also feel that we have been able to animate the ward through our work and we are giving a constant effort with the leadership to bring the work to a head here! It's a lot of work but it's been awesome. 

Saquarema is pretty baller, there are some beautiful views and some good things to do and see which has been cool to pass by in all of our walking. It's been fun!

I don't have a ton of things to write about this week so I will just ask you all to pray for our friend Ceia and Neuma! 

REMEMBER
even if you feel weak, the Lord will make you strong.
Even if you aren't enough, the Lord will make you enough.
Through small and simple things great things come to pass!

Love yall!
Elder Bradshaw






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