Oí!
How are all you missionaries doing? For those of you who don´t know I´m here serving in the Brasil Fortaleza Mission. As of right now (November), I´ve been out eight months. I don´t know about you, but for me the time has flown by! It´s been a great experience so far and I´ve grown so much. A mission is such a blessing, for the missionary and those you are serving.
So a little bit about my mission. Brasil Fortaleza is a huge city next to the beach with a population of 2.5 million people, located Northeast of Brasil. My first area, Baturité, is about a 3 hour bus ride from Fortaleza and is located up in the mountains. It was a great experience, they have a small branch of about 100 members with 40-45 attending regularly. It was a lot of work to serve there, but I absolutely loved it. I made some wonderful friends and met some of the most kindest, loving people I´ll ever meet. I´m now in Metrópole and I´ve been here three transfers now with the same companion. I love her and my area! Me and my companion are over two wards and they´re great! It´s like being back at home. We´ve had really good success here, but had some hard times as well. I think one of the hardest things as being a missionary is getting people to come to church. You work, work, work all week with investigators and then comes Sunday and the people don´t want to go. Being a missionary takes a LOT of faith! But we truly receive blessings as we show our faith to our Heavenly Father. Like it says in Ether 12:6- "for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." We have to be willing and faithful to work before we get what we want. Henry B. Eyring once said, "Faith is not hope. Faith is not simply to know God could do something. Faith is to know that He will." This is TRUE faith.
Something I´ve realized here on the mission is that the Lord works in His own time. I had an experience my first transfer here in this area. We were teaching these three family members and a friend of theirs about the Restoration. After the lesson we asked them if they would read the pamphlet and pray about it. They all said yes except for one of the family members. He´s 16 years old and his name is Wesley. He straight up said no and didn´t want to continue with the lessons. His aunt told us that he´s very arrogant with the "mormons". But we saw him and his family quite often because they live right above us. Time went by and we would always say hi and ask how they were doing and we became really good friends with all the family. More time went by and I´m into my next transfer. We´re heading back to our house for the night and our other neighbor, who is a member, tells us that Wesley went to seminary! We couldn´t believe it, it was a miracle! So the next day we´re teaching a different family member (you would think they would decide to learn about the church all at once, but no they like to do it one by one :) and Wesley sits in on the lesson. At the end, we invite Wesley to be baptized and he said yes! We were so excited and the next day he tells us he bought a little notebook to take notes at general conference. He had changed so much, I couldn´t believe it. He also told us that he couldn´t make it to the Saturday session because he had to work, but would be there Sunday for sure. And the next Sunday he was baptized. I know without a doubt that when we are keepíng the commandments, following the mission rules and striving to be the missionary we were called to be, we will see the blessings and miracles that come from our hard work. I found a quote the other day that I love which says, "Pray as is everything depended on God and then work as if everything depended on you." -Francis Cardinal Spellman....I know that I´ve found myself at times ask for help in some things and maybe not done my part as I should´´ve, but when I work hard and do my part I can see the blessings and help from the Lord.
Wherever you missionaries might be, whether it be in a hick town, the big city, foreign country, the good ol´ MTC or packing your bags; we "are servants of the Most High God, with a testimony to bear, truth to teach, and souls to save." -President Thomas S. Monson...Never forget that!
Be faithful and diligent in doing the work of the Lord. I am happy to say that I am a servant of the Most High God-what a blessing! Not just for me, but for those I am helping to come unto Christ and receive eternal life.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas!!! May we all remember the importance of this special day, the birth of our loving brother, Savior, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
I wish you all the best!
With love,
Sister Salisbury
Monday, November 1, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
October 25, 2010
Hey!
Sounds like you guys had a good primary program!!! And guess what?! IfI stay through this next change I´ll be playing for the primaryprogram in both of the two wards we´re over! I´ve been practicing withthem. and they´ll be singing I Know My Savior Loves Me, too! I lovethat song! Oh mom, I got the newsletter and all the weddingannouncements! THank you so much, and the picture of chandler and mattin the othello game! I love it! It´s hanging up on my wall :) And theguys beat ROYAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) How was it?! Did chandler dogood?? I want to hear how it went! And yes I saw the temple issue inthe ensign. It is so neat, i haven´t had time to read it, but i saw itat a members house. That´s crazy there was a typhoon where colton is,did they have to be evaacuated or what? THat´s scary!Well, the girl and boy that i had talked about weren´t baptized, butwe´re working with them. Another member of their family was baptizedthough. His mom came to the baptism and the spirit was so strong. SHewas crying and thanked us so much for being a part of their family, Ican see her joining the church sometime. I don´t think it will beright away, but seeing two of her sons now baptized I think it willreally make an impression on her. And she´s already seen a big changein her oldest son.Wow, this is my last week of this transfer! I can´t believe it. NExtmonday will be a new change. Im pretty sure I´ll be staying here andmy comp will go. SHe´s been here 6months and i think she´´s ready fora change. I don´t want her to go though, i want at least one morechange with her. We´ll see what ha´ppens...well i hope your doughnut class went well today mom! I sure could gofor some homemade doughnuts right now :) well good to hear thateverything is going well and the football team is having success! Hopeyou all have a GREAT week!!! I love and miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,Sister Salisbury
Sounds like you guys had a good primary program!!! And guess what?! IfI stay through this next change I´ll be playing for the primaryprogram in both of the two wards we´re over! I´ve been practicing withthem. and they´ll be singing I Know My Savior Loves Me, too! I lovethat song! Oh mom, I got the newsletter and all the weddingannouncements! THank you so much, and the picture of chandler and mattin the othello game! I love it! It´s hanging up on my wall :) And theguys beat ROYAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) How was it?! Did chandler dogood?? I want to hear how it went! And yes I saw the temple issue inthe ensign. It is so neat, i haven´t had time to read it, but i saw itat a members house. That´s crazy there was a typhoon where colton is,did they have to be evaacuated or what? THat´s scary!Well, the girl and boy that i had talked about weren´t baptized, butwe´re working with them. Another member of their family was baptizedthough. His mom came to the baptism and the spirit was so strong. SHewas crying and thanked us so much for being a part of their family, Ican see her joining the church sometime. I don´t think it will beright away, but seeing two of her sons now baptized I think it willreally make an impression on her. And she´s already seen a big changein her oldest son.Wow, this is my last week of this transfer! I can´t believe it. NExtmonday will be a new change. Im pretty sure I´ll be staying here andmy comp will go. SHe´s been here 6months and i think she´´s ready fora change. I don´t want her to go though, i want at least one morechange with her. We´ll see what ha´ppens...well i hope your doughnut class went well today mom! I sure could gofor some homemade doughnuts right now :) well good to hear thateverything is going well and the football team is having success! Hopeyou all have a GREAT week!!! I love and miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,Sister Salisbury
Monday, October 18, 2010
October 18, 2010
Hey!
How´s everyone doing?! Sounds like you guys are still staying busy.That´s cool you guys are fixing up the brown house, i didn´t know youwere doing all that stuff. It´s going to look way different by thetime i get back. Football is doing good by what I hear. I´m nervousfor you guys this friday I hope you beat royal! Has chandler beenplaying linebacker at all? All i ever hear is him playing quarterback.BUt it sounds like he´´s having a good time. THat´s good that garrettis getting opportunities to play, too bad he wasn´t there in the lastgame.The members here are pretty good about feeding the missionaries well,although we had somewhat of a funny experience happen just the otherday. IT´s funny now but at the time we were dying. So we´re heading tothe members house for lunch, which is on the other side of town. Weget there and we sit down to eat and what´s different is that thefamily doesn´t eat with you. THey´re eaither in another room doingsomething or they leave. Even the mom left the kitchen, but anyways wehave Nothing to drink, the meat tasted like dog (not sure what dogtastes like, but i really think it was dog) and they don´t havedessert. I wasn´t disappointed about the dessert, we usually are luckyif we get dessert. BUt it was quite interesting, then after we werefinished everyone comes in and we´re all talking. It´s a bit differentand it´s not usually like this all the time. But I can´t complain,it´s better than nothing and they take the time to make the meals forus and i really am greatful. Lots of times the members ask us what welike and honestly I will eat anything. BUt they like to make something"different" for us rather than beans and rice. Honestly though, i lovethe beans and rice i don´t want them to "change it up" THe meals forthe most part though are really good. Well, we had a baptismsaturday(another neighbor) and it was really neat. REmember the girland boy that we were teaching last transfer that I told you about, andthe experience we had with them? Marilia and João Victor, well I thinkthey´re going to be baptized! Marilia was talking about it last nightand now that her brother and nephew are members I think she´ll realizewhat the right choice is. THey all live in the same house and hernephew goes to seminary every night and she´s really good friends withour other neighbors and some of the kids from the ward. We´ll see whathappens this week, we´re going to talk with them. Well, i have to getgoing. Hope all is well and hope you all have a great week! I love you!!!!!!!!!!
love, sister salisbury
How´s everyone doing?! Sounds like you guys are still staying busy.That´s cool you guys are fixing up the brown house, i didn´t know youwere doing all that stuff. It´s going to look way different by thetime i get back. Football is doing good by what I hear. I´m nervousfor you guys this friday I hope you beat royal! Has chandler beenplaying linebacker at all? All i ever hear is him playing quarterback.BUt it sounds like he´´s having a good time. THat´s good that garrettis getting opportunities to play, too bad he wasn´t there in the lastgame.The members here are pretty good about feeding the missionaries well,although we had somewhat of a funny experience happen just the otherday. IT´s funny now but at the time we were dying. So we´re heading tothe members house for lunch, which is on the other side of town. Weget there and we sit down to eat and what´s different is that thefamily doesn´t eat with you. THey´re eaither in another room doingsomething or they leave. Even the mom left the kitchen, but anyways wehave Nothing to drink, the meat tasted like dog (not sure what dogtastes like, but i really think it was dog) and they don´t havedessert. I wasn´t disappointed about the dessert, we usually are luckyif we get dessert. BUt it was quite interesting, then after we werefinished everyone comes in and we´re all talking. It´s a bit differentand it´s not usually like this all the time. But I can´t complain,it´s better than nothing and they take the time to make the meals forus and i really am greatful. Lots of times the members ask us what welike and honestly I will eat anything. BUt they like to make something"different" for us rather than beans and rice. Honestly though, i lovethe beans and rice i don´t want them to "change it up" THe meals forthe most part though are really good. Well, we had a baptismsaturday(another neighbor) and it was really neat. REmember the girland boy that we were teaching last transfer that I told you about, andthe experience we had with them? Marilia and João Victor, well I thinkthey´re going to be baptized! Marilia was talking about it last nightand now that her brother and nephew are members I think she´ll realizewhat the right choice is. THey all live in the same house and hernephew goes to seminary every night and she´s really good friends withour other neighbors and some of the kids from the ward. We´ll see whathappens this week, we´re going to talk with them. Well, i have to getgoing. Hope all is well and hope you all have a great week! I love you!!!!!!!!!!
love, sister salisbury
Monday, October 11, 2010
October 11, 2010
Dear Family,
Wow, this week was absolutely a miraculous week! We had a couple baptisms come up out of nowhere, I still can´t believe it. We had a really good week though and we´ve been working really hard. 2 of ours neighbors were baptized sunday along with a girl, Carol, that lives down the road from us. We had been working with her all of last transfer. We taught her every lesson, watched just about every video that we have about the church (the restoration, by small and simple things, The Joseph Smith Movie, a video about Thomas S. Monson), but she still wasn´t ready to be baptized. She said she had felt the spirit, she read and prayed about everything, but the problem was she had been talking to a friend from another church and Carol was getting really confused with everything. So we just kept telling her to come to church and get involved with seminary. And she´s been coming to seminary a lot, she really enjoys it. Then the day that the elders came to interview our two neighbors we pulled carol out of seminary just to talk with our LZ. After he talked to her he called us in and he told carol to tell us the news....she said, "I´m getting baptized!!!" She was so excited and me and my comp couldn´t believe it!
I absolutely love it here in Metrópole, I will have a really hard time when I get transferred. I´m pretty sure though I´ll be staying this next change. My comp will make 6 months here by the first of november, so she´ll most likely get transferred. She´s only been in two areas, 6 months in the first area and then she´ll have 6 months here...she´s ready to go though, but I´m not! I love the people here, it´s like home to me, the members, the investigators, our neighbors, everyone! It´s a really neat place. Well, i gotta finish this up i don´t got much time left. I hope all is well and i love you all! Hope you guys have a good week!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Wow, this week was absolutely a miraculous week! We had a couple baptisms come up out of nowhere, I still can´t believe it. We had a really good week though and we´ve been working really hard. 2 of ours neighbors were baptized sunday along with a girl, Carol, that lives down the road from us. We had been working with her all of last transfer. We taught her every lesson, watched just about every video that we have about the church (the restoration, by small and simple things, The Joseph Smith Movie, a video about Thomas S. Monson), but she still wasn´t ready to be baptized. She said she had felt the spirit, she read and prayed about everything, but the problem was she had been talking to a friend from another church and Carol was getting really confused with everything. So we just kept telling her to come to church and get involved with seminary. And she´s been coming to seminary a lot, she really enjoys it. Then the day that the elders came to interview our two neighbors we pulled carol out of seminary just to talk with our LZ. After he talked to her he called us in and he told carol to tell us the news....she said, "I´m getting baptized!!!" She was so excited and me and my comp couldn´t believe it!
I absolutely love it here in Metrópole, I will have a really hard time when I get transferred. I´m pretty sure though I´ll be staying this next change. My comp will make 6 months here by the first of november, so she´ll most likely get transferred. She´s only been in two areas, 6 months in the first area and then she´ll have 6 months here...she´s ready to go though, but I´m not! I love the people here, it´s like home to me, the members, the investigators, our neighbors, everyone! It´s a really neat place. Well, i gotta finish this up i don´t got much time left. I hope all is well and i love you all! Hope you guys have a good week!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Monday, October 4, 2010
October 4, 2010
Shay had a baby girl and trevor and karin are moving to SLC?!?!!?!?!? Wow, i can´t believe it!!! That is so exciting :) :) :) I´m so happy for everyone right now!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well this week was great, we literally witnessed miracles this week. So two of our neighbors are members now, they were baptized last transfer and this past week something happened that we never thought would happen. Two of our neighbors that live above us are really interested in the church. One is 9 yrs old and his cousin is 16. The 16 yr old, wesley, has been going to seminary. We went every day this week! And our other neighbor, who lives with the two that are members now, José, he´s really good friends with wesley and he went to seminary as well. We had tried teaching them last transfer and they were really ignorant about "mormons" but we´re teaching them now! The other night we were heading back to our place for the night and wesley and josé were sitting on the curb. We talked a little bit and then told them good night. Then wesley called my name and told me to come here for a second. He asked me, "can two people be baptized on the same day?" I told him of course! And i was thinking, ´no way´......and then he told me they both want to be baptized! And ever since then they have been awesome as we´re teaching them. And then saturday night we were heading back from general conference and they were sitting on the curb again and wesley was so excited to talk to us, he had bought a little notebook to take notes at conference!!!! It was so awesome! Conference was so neat! It was a little harder to understand this time, but i got what i could out of it. Saturday session, as the congregation was singing Lord, I would follow thee, I felt the spirit so strong. As we were singing i sang the first two verses in english and the last two in portuguese. And when i started singing in portuguese i started to cry. It literally had hit me that i was in another country, speaking a different language and many miles from home, but then i thought...but I´m still among my brothers and sisters. I have such a love for the people of brasil. Especially here in metrópole, i feel at home here...i really feel at home. I have a second mom that lives right down the street from us and my neighbors are so wonderful and i can´t even explain the members to you. I´ve made so many friends here, i think it´s going to be much much harder to leave this area.
Well, an unfortunate event happened last night. We were at a baptism and taking pictures and there was a member taking the picture for me and somehow she deleted ALL of my pictures on the card :( i wanted to start crying. I havebad luck with pictures getting deleted :( but luckfully i had developed a lot of the photos the week before. And get this, i was going to back up all my photos on cd´s today! But i need to be grateful that i have some pictures that i developed and i have another card full of pictures starting back at the CTM, baturité and part of the area here. 3 baptisms were on the card that got deleted, and my comp doesn´t have a camera so she doesn´t have pictures from them...but anyways i´m feeling a little better now, cuz i had developed 2 of the three baptisms that were on the card so im only missing one, but anyways...well we got 3 birthday´s this week, Happy Birthday to HUNTER, BRAYDEN and SHAUN!!!!!!!!!!!! And sorry about the one´s i missed last month. I´m going to try and remember to mention birthday´s in my email´s from now on, but please forgive me if i forget :) Well, hope all is well and you´re all having a good time!!!! Good luck boys in football this week. I pray for you boys every night that you will be watched over and protected and able to play your best :) I love you all!!!!! Have a good week!:)
love,
Sister Ariana Salisbury
Well this week was great, we literally witnessed miracles this week. So two of our neighbors are members now, they were baptized last transfer and this past week something happened that we never thought would happen. Two of our neighbors that live above us are really interested in the church. One is 9 yrs old and his cousin is 16. The 16 yr old, wesley, has been going to seminary. We went every day this week! And our other neighbor, who lives with the two that are members now, José, he´s really good friends with wesley and he went to seminary as well. We had tried teaching them last transfer and they were really ignorant about "mormons" but we´re teaching them now! The other night we were heading back to our place for the night and wesley and josé were sitting on the curb. We talked a little bit and then told them good night. Then wesley called my name and told me to come here for a second. He asked me, "can two people be baptized on the same day?" I told him of course! And i was thinking, ´no way´......and then he told me they both want to be baptized! And ever since then they have been awesome as we´re teaching them. And then saturday night we were heading back from general conference and they were sitting on the curb again and wesley was so excited to talk to us, he had bought a little notebook to take notes at conference!!!! It was so awesome! Conference was so neat! It was a little harder to understand this time, but i got what i could out of it. Saturday session, as the congregation was singing Lord, I would follow thee, I felt the spirit so strong. As we were singing i sang the first two verses in english and the last two in portuguese. And when i started singing in portuguese i started to cry. It literally had hit me that i was in another country, speaking a different language and many miles from home, but then i thought...but I´m still among my brothers and sisters. I have such a love for the people of brasil. Especially here in metrópole, i feel at home here...i really feel at home. I have a second mom that lives right down the street from us and my neighbors are so wonderful and i can´t even explain the members to you. I´ve made so many friends here, i think it´s going to be much much harder to leave this area.
Well, an unfortunate event happened last night. We were at a baptism and taking pictures and there was a member taking the picture for me and somehow she deleted ALL of my pictures on the card :( i wanted to start crying. I havebad luck with pictures getting deleted :( but luckfully i had developed a lot of the photos the week before. And get this, i was going to back up all my photos on cd´s today! But i need to be grateful that i have some pictures that i developed and i have another card full of pictures starting back at the CTM, baturité and part of the area here. 3 baptisms were on the card that got deleted, and my comp doesn´t have a camera so she doesn´t have pictures from them...but anyways i´m feeling a little better now, cuz i had developed 2 of the three baptisms that were on the card so im only missing one, but anyways...well we got 3 birthday´s this week, Happy Birthday to HUNTER, BRAYDEN and SHAUN!!!!!!!!!!!! And sorry about the one´s i missed last month. I´m going to try and remember to mention birthday´s in my email´s from now on, but please forgive me if i forget :) Well, hope all is well and you´re all having a good time!!!! Good luck boys in football this week. I pray for you boys every night that you will be watched over and protected and able to play your best :) I love you all!!!!! Have a good week!:)
love,
Sister Ariana Salisbury
Monday, September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
Olá família!
All is well here in metrópole! IT´s warming up really fast here!!! We´re going into summer now and it literally looks like a desert, and the sun is getting more hot each day, don´t worry though, i´m using sun block :) THe other day we were walking down the street and it was completely silent (it was after lunch) no one was in the street, the wind was blowing, the sun blazing hot and you look down the street and you could see the sand blowing in the wind...I felt like i was in a western movie and i was thinking of the music that you hear in a scene like this(not sure you know what i´m talking about, but it makes sense in my head :). I´m used to the heat though, i think working on the farm and being in the sun a lot helped me be more accustomed to the weather here. My comp dies though, she hates the sun and she´ll walk in any shade possible, she runs to get into the shade (and im not exagerating either) it´s quite funny really.
SO i have a few experiences to share about prayer. I have another story about losing keys(goes well with oregon coast story :) So we were grocery shopping and we headed back to the house with all our things. We get there and neither of us has the keys. We were trying to think where they could´ve fallen out. We took everything out of our bags dumped everything out, but no keys. So we left our groceries at our neighbors house and we went to retrace our steps. We stopped at a little bakery to get something to eat because we were starving and during this whole time I was praying like crazy that we´d be able to find the keys. We´re sitting at a little table and i had the thought to look in my bag again. I opened up the frint zipper and looked in a little slot that i didn´t know i had i pulled out some chap stick that had fallen down inside and underneath the chap stick were the keys! I couldn´t believe it! I was so grateful and i said another prayer thanking heavenly father for the prompting and that i found the keys. I´ve found myself praying for many things that i wouldn´t have before. I pray for everything, it´s amazing how the power of prayer works. A couple of weeks ago we had a zone p-day and the elders had told us what church building we were meeting at. We get there and the whole place is locked up. We didn´t have our cell phone, both of us had forgotten our planners which has the elders´ numbers and had no way to find out where they were. ONce again i started praying...within 3 minutes members in a car pull up, has a cell phone, and has the elders number so we could call. WE got a hold of them and the members took us to where the elders were. I know that the Lord answers prayers, and we can pray to our father in whatever situation and he will answer! So last week we were teaching one of our investigators and at the end he wanted me to talk in english, so i gave a little part of the lesson in english. You guys, i couldn´t think of half the words, it was horrible. I started to talk in english and then half the words came out in portuguese it was so weird. I guess this is a good sign!! Well i gotta go, i have more to talk about but im out of time. I love you all and hope all is well!
love,
ariana
All is well here in metrópole! IT´s warming up really fast here!!! We´re going into summer now and it literally looks like a desert, and the sun is getting more hot each day, don´t worry though, i´m using sun block :) THe other day we were walking down the street and it was completely silent (it was after lunch) no one was in the street, the wind was blowing, the sun blazing hot and you look down the street and you could see the sand blowing in the wind...I felt like i was in a western movie and i was thinking of the music that you hear in a scene like this(not sure you know what i´m talking about, but it makes sense in my head :). I´m used to the heat though, i think working on the farm and being in the sun a lot helped me be more accustomed to the weather here. My comp dies though, she hates the sun and she´ll walk in any shade possible, she runs to get into the shade (and im not exagerating either) it´s quite funny really.
SO i have a few experiences to share about prayer. I have another story about losing keys(goes well with oregon coast story :) So we were grocery shopping and we headed back to the house with all our things. We get there and neither of us has the keys. We were trying to think where they could´ve fallen out. We took everything out of our bags dumped everything out, but no keys. So we left our groceries at our neighbors house and we went to retrace our steps. We stopped at a little bakery to get something to eat because we were starving and during this whole time I was praying like crazy that we´d be able to find the keys. We´re sitting at a little table and i had the thought to look in my bag again. I opened up the frint zipper and looked in a little slot that i didn´t know i had i pulled out some chap stick that had fallen down inside and underneath the chap stick were the keys! I couldn´t believe it! I was so grateful and i said another prayer thanking heavenly father for the prompting and that i found the keys. I´ve found myself praying for many things that i wouldn´t have before. I pray for everything, it´s amazing how the power of prayer works. A couple of weeks ago we had a zone p-day and the elders had told us what church building we were meeting at. We get there and the whole place is locked up. We didn´t have our cell phone, both of us had forgotten our planners which has the elders´ numbers and had no way to find out where they were. ONce again i started praying...within 3 minutes members in a car pull up, has a cell phone, and has the elders number so we could call. WE got a hold of them and the members took us to where the elders were. I know that the Lord answers prayers, and we can pray to our father in whatever situation and he will answer! So last week we were teaching one of our investigators and at the end he wanted me to talk in english, so i gave a little part of the lesson in english. You guys, i couldn´t think of half the words, it was horrible. I started to talk in english and then half the words came out in portuguese it was so weird. I guess this is a good sign!! Well i gotta go, i have more to talk about but im out of time. I love you all and hope all is well!
love,
ariana
Monday, September 6, 2010
September 6, 2010
Olá!
Wow this week was crazy!
So we´re working with these two kids right, a girl and a boy, they´re cousins. They are honestly some of the elect! We´ve been teaching them and they just keep on progressing more and more. We have a baptism date and they were excited about and all and we warned them that now it´s really close to the baptism to stay strong and continue to read and pray every day because Satan will work his hardest to stop them from being baptized. Satan is NO JOKE people! The VERY NEXT DAY.....24 HOURS...we were already seeing a change. Friday night we taught them the 3rd lesson about the principles of the gospel. At the end of the lesson we said we wanted to move up their baptism date to sunday because they were ready. They said one more week, we thought, ok, we still need to teach them the 10 commandments, we can have family home evening with them and visit them each day (they live right above us) We said ok, and right as we agreed for the following week I had the worst feeling come over me and I though, nope this is NOT okay. The next day is when we started seeing the changes. Saturday night me and my comp were talking about them and thinking wow, a whole week and we´re seeing changes already. Then my comp says to me, "sister, right when we agreed to have their baptism next week i had a really bad feeling and felt that it needs to be this sunday".....i couldn´t believe it, i told her i had the EXACT same feeling. Right after that we went to talk to them. We told them that it´s very important for them to pray tonight(saturday night) the hardest they´ve ever prayed and ask if it be right to be baptized the following day. We told them after they say their prayer to wait and just listen for a couple minutes and that we would talk to them at church. THey said ok, we get to church and they didn´t show. We were really worried. We still are. WE´re going to talk with them though and see what´s going on. But wow! Goes to show you how hard Satan is working to keep people from having the gospel in their lives.
The language is still coming, being patient and just doing my best. We played volleyball today!!! I was super excited. I could tell I hadn´t played in awhile :( Then we played soccer afterwards...and honestly I think i played better soccer than i did volleyball. My first time actually playing REAL soccer....and i made 3 out of the 5 goals :) me and my comp played with 4 of the guys from the ward. It was lots of fun! Well i was going to send pictures this week, but the place where we usually go, the internet wasn´t working so we had to come to a place where it takes FOREVER and a day to load the pictures, so hopefully next week you´ll get the pics :) well i better go. sounds like everyone´s staying busy!!! Hope you guys have a great week! I love you all!!!!!!!
Love, sister ariana salisbury
Wow this week was crazy!
So we´re working with these two kids right, a girl and a boy, they´re cousins. They are honestly some of the elect! We´ve been teaching them and they just keep on progressing more and more. We have a baptism date and they were excited about and all and we warned them that now it´s really close to the baptism to stay strong and continue to read and pray every day because Satan will work his hardest to stop them from being baptized. Satan is NO JOKE people! The VERY NEXT DAY.....24 HOURS...we were already seeing a change. Friday night we taught them the 3rd lesson about the principles of the gospel. At the end of the lesson we said we wanted to move up their baptism date to sunday because they were ready. They said one more week, we thought, ok, we still need to teach them the 10 commandments, we can have family home evening with them and visit them each day (they live right above us) We said ok, and right as we agreed for the following week I had the worst feeling come over me and I though, nope this is NOT okay. The next day is when we started seeing the changes. Saturday night me and my comp were talking about them and thinking wow, a whole week and we´re seeing changes already. Then my comp says to me, "sister, right when we agreed to have their baptism next week i had a really bad feeling and felt that it needs to be this sunday".....i couldn´t believe it, i told her i had the EXACT same feeling. Right after that we went to talk to them. We told them that it´s very important for them to pray tonight(saturday night) the hardest they´ve ever prayed and ask if it be right to be baptized the following day. We told them after they say their prayer to wait and just listen for a couple minutes and that we would talk to them at church. THey said ok, we get to church and they didn´t show. We were really worried. We still are. WE´re going to talk with them though and see what´s going on. But wow! Goes to show you how hard Satan is working to keep people from having the gospel in their lives.
The language is still coming, being patient and just doing my best. We played volleyball today!!! I was super excited. I could tell I hadn´t played in awhile :( Then we played soccer afterwards...and honestly I think i played better soccer than i did volleyball. My first time actually playing REAL soccer....and i made 3 out of the 5 goals :) me and my comp played with 4 of the guys from the ward. It was lots of fun! Well i was going to send pictures this week, but the place where we usually go, the internet wasn´t working so we had to come to a place where it takes FOREVER and a day to load the pictures, so hopefully next week you´ll get the pics :) well i better go. sounds like everyone´s staying busy!!! Hope you guys have a great week! I love you all!!!!!!!
Love, sister ariana salisbury
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