May 8, 2023: Week of exchanges

 Hello my friends! How're you all doing??? Hope you're week cause I'm doing great here in Barreto, RJ! This week we had some great times and saw some awesome miracles that I want to talk about! So let's just get right into the email and talk!


PDAY

On the Mish whenever I can I like to do hikes for pday. 10/10 would recommend it has been awesome! Thus week we did one called pedra do elefante! And it was super awesome yall should take the time to do it

EXCHANGE #1

My first exchange was with Elder Brito we spent 2 days getting on the grind together and it was fun! We found a ton of people, taught some great lessons and taught English class too! The most memorable moment was when we gave a lesson to a group of people about keeping the sabbath day holy! We had one friend of ours leave the room saying under his breath "this has to be the true church there's no other option" and it was really really cool.

EXCHANGE #2

I also got to spend a day with one of my best friends Elder Maughan! We worked a ton together and taught some great lessons also. We also ate an entire package of cuzcuz so that was fun hahahaha. Some memorable moments were when we had a lesson that someone stopped us in the middle and said "do you hear the voices?" And we said "uhhh no..." and she was like "ah it must be in my head then, I've been hearing voices non-stop for like 3 months and they wont let me rest." It was weird hahaha. Another memorable moment was when Elder Maughan taught english class how to say "take a chill pill"

HYMN OF THE WEEKEND

We also had a weekend filled with blessings with the baptism of our friend Edilio! It was really an amazing experience to see him make this next step in his life that will bring him so much joy and comfort!

SPIRIT

This week I wanted to tell you guys that on the mission my testimony of studying the scriptures has multiplied tenfold. I know that when we study we are blessed with the spirit of the lord and when we don't, we leave potential blessings behind. When we don't study we will fall into a spiritual rut. But when we study we will have our spiritual highs! So study. Don't leave it for later but start now!

Love yall so much!!

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