Feliz Dia Das Maes!!!

Jolie Huisken
May 16, 2015
4 min read

Hellooooo everyone!!! I hope everyone had a very happy Mother’s Day!! I KNOW I DID :) Man I have the best mom ever!!!!

SO yeah this week was great for so many reasons!!! We taught a ton this week!! It always feels good when you teach a lot of people, walk a lot, and are just so exhausted when you return to the house knowing that you did all you could that day to help people and fulfill your purpose! It just makes you feel so good!!

We're helping another less active family come back to church! They’re soo excited! It’s a huge family with aunts and uncles and grandparents!! And they have a ton of kids who haven’t been baptized yet! So were helping them all get excited and prepared to be baptized!!

Also this week we had 2 BATISMOS!!! Woohoo!!! Saturday was the baptism of Endrew! He is part of a family that we reactivated! It was soooo amazing to see them all there and so excited for his baptism! And for them to be feeling the same spirit they felt at their baptisms and helping them remember why they joined the church and strengthen their testimonies!! They’re a really special family I love them so much! And I am so happy to see them getting strong in the church again!! The next day Endrew received the Holy Ghost in sacrament meeting! It was just so happy!!

Sunday after church was the baptism of Linedie! Her son got baptized a while back and is married to a member. We started teaching her and she decided to be baptized!! She was so excited to be baptized and now all she can talk about is when her granddaughter turns 8 she'll get baptized too!! :) So cute!! At her baptismal service, her son receive the priesthood! It was really awesome to see a family coming together through the church! It was a very special exciting and happy day!

Baptism is so so important!! It’s the door we have to enter to gain eternal life!! We must follow the example of Christ and be baptized by someone who has the authority from God!! I’m so grateful to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints where we have the power and authority of God to perform these saving ordinances that will help us make it back to the presence of our Heavenly Father!!

Eu estou muito grata por a ajuda que o senhor da para seus missionarias! por o espirito que toca nas corações das muitas pessoas e ajuda eles ganhar um testemunho do evangelho restaurado. eu estou muito grata por este oportunidade para ser um instrumento nas mãos de Deus! eu estou muito feliz para ser um missionaria e para servir Ele cada Dia! E para ajuda todos os filhos de Deus achegarem-se a Ele!

TRANSLATION: I am very grateful for the help of the Lord for his missionaries! For the spirit touching the hearts of many people and helping them gain a testimony of the restored gospel. I am very grateful for this opportunity to be an instrument in God's hands! I'm very happy to be a missionary and to serve Him every day and to help all of his children!

Scripture of the week!

Alma 17:9 - E aconteceu que viajaram muitos dias no deserto; e jejuaram e oraram muito para que o Senhor lhes concedesse que uma porção de seu Espírito os acompanhasse e permanecesse com eles, a fim de servirem de instrumento nas mãos de Deus, para, se possível, levarem seus irmãos, os lamanitas, a conhecerem a verdade, a conhecerem a iniqüidade das tradições de seus pais, que não eram certas.

TRANSLATION:

‘And it came to traveling many days in the wilderness; and fasted and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go and stay with them in order to be an instrument in God's hands, so, if possible, their brethren, the Lamanites, to know the indeed, the knowledge of the baseness of the traditions of their fathers, which were not correct.’

Shout outs!!

Shout out to my Mom who’s the best Mom in the whole world!!! Every day should be Mother’s Day for her because she’s seriously the best and I love and miss her so so much!!

Shout out to Linedie and Endrew who were both baptized this week!!!

Shout out to the little shop next to our house starting to sell açai!!!

Shout out to having cupuaçu (Jolie’s favorite fruit) and peixe (fish) at like ever meal with the members because they know how much I love that!! :))))))

Shout out to the lady who owns the apartment we are going to move into, for keeping things interesting by moving our moving date every week!! :) Ha-ha ahhhh!

Okay love you all!!

Transfers are at the end of this week!! What?!?! I hope I stay here! But who knows what the Lord has in store for me!! :)

Tchau Tchau!!!

--Sister Huisken!