Bom Dia!
What's up brothers and sisters! I hope it was a good week. We had a lot going on this week. On Tuesday we had a meeting called Consejo de Lideres, which is a meeting with the zone leaders to talk about the mission. Then on Wednesday and Thursday we had interviews with President. On Friday we had zone conference...so yeah it was pretty crazy. We had lots of stuff to do. Hermana Svec shared something I thought was cool about the Sabbath Day. She shared with us the story when Moses lifted up the brass serpent and all the people had to do was look and they would be healed. But, because it was so simple, many just walked the other way without looking and in the end passed away. We can compare the story to the Sabbath day...how every Sunday we have the opportunity to be healed, maybe not physically but spiritually. It's something so simple, we just have to go to church and partake of the sacrament, and it gives us the opportunity every week to become clean and start the week right. I thought that was cool and stuck out to me in the conference.
This week was a little bit difficult for a lot of our investigators. A lot of them love when we come by and what we share but just don't want to commit and come to church, so sadly we have had to stop visiting some of them. That's always sad when that happens, but we planted the seed and maybe later they will be ready for the gospel. Edgar is really progressing though. It's pretty crazy, he seems like a completely different person now haha. We can now have normal talks with him as he is cutting off the alcohol and smoking. He has been drinking and smoking a lot less now and wants to stop completely. He keeps telling us to keep passing by because he feels good and knows we can help him.
It's awesome to see the changes he is making! We also had the opportunity to find a new family this week...Familia Ariste. They are a really big family and have been passing through a difficult time as a brother of one of the parents is in the hospital and was going to have surgery the day after we found her. We said a prayer with the mom to give her comfort and to help her know that everything would be ok. She told us after that she felt better about it and that she wanted us to visit her and her brother in the hospital the next day. Pretty crazy, that the next day we had interviews with president in Encarnacion which is right next to the hospital, so we were able to visit her and her husband and say another prayer with them. They felt good after and invited us to pass by their house another day to visit them. I know that the gospel will help them so much. I feel that we were sent to find them that night to help them just when they needed it. I know that the Lord really does answer prayers and if we are willing and have a desire to help others He will put people in our way to serve. I have seen that so much here on the mission, and continue to see it. Mann, the gospel is true!!! I hope you all have a great weeeekkkkk! Much Love,
Elder Reilly
Sorry no pics for this week. I only have 1 of my chileno comp
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