September 22, 2014
Dear family,
Well, it´s finally
happened. I´ve been transferred! I´m going to a place called Suzano, which
sounds kind of like Lorena, just not so far away and not as small. I´m pretty
excited and everyone loves it there, so it´ll be great.
This past week was
really... interesting to say the least! Vanessa was baptized (woohoo!!) and it
was awesome. This ward has always had a problem with people staying for
baptisms, and it was ward conference, so we thought that people wouldn´t stay,
but there were lots of members there, which was good. And it went very well and
was very special. Vanessa is so wonderfully awesome and is seriously so elect.
She already lived the gospel, she just needed to be baptized. She didn´t even
drink coffee! It was so perfect. The only thing she had to overcome was
understanding the importance of going to church, but then she started planning
her weekends better to have time for church and it was easy for her after that.
We´re going to stop by later so that I can say goodbye.
Lots of miracles
are happening and our teaching pool increased miraculously. And the ward had a
super awesome potluck activity that lots of people went to, which was good. I´m
sure Denize has already put pictures on Facebook. I´m going to have to call her
to say goodbye. Every time she has her camera, she says ´´Oh, I need to take a
picture of you to send to Rosa Tillman!´´ It´s awesome. I´m glad that you did
the same thing for the missionaries there mom!
It´s kind of weird going
to a new area, but I´m really excited. And even though it´s sad leaving Vila
Mariana after so much time, half the ward has already asked me to stop by
before I go back home, so it´s just a short goodbye for now.
September 15, 2014
Dear Family,
Happy Birthday Andrew!!!
Hopefully your birthday was awesome. It was so cool seeing you in the video.
You´ve grown up so much!
On Saturday, we had one
of the coolest miracles ever. We were walking along the main street, when a
lady passed by, took a look at our nametags, and then stopped us to ask where
the church building is. Her name is Carol, and she said that Friday and
Saturday she was praying to Heavenly Father to find a church because she knows
that she needs to change her life. She said that she normally takes the metro
home, but felt really strongly that she needed to walk. So she started walking,
and looking for a church. She was about to give up when she found us!
Seriously, it was so cool. We were shocked into silence. She then asked us what
makes our church different from others, and I took a look at S. Godoy, and said
´´Well, have you ever heard about prophets?´´ And we started walking along and
teaching her. She was so receptive, and she already had plans for Sunday, but
said that we can call her during the week so that she can go to church next
Sunday. She´s so awesome! I´ve never really had that happen to me before, where
someone on the street basically said ´´Hey, teach me please!´´ It was such a
great miracle.
Another great miracle was
that Vanessa went to church! Vanessa is our investigator that we´ve been trying
to help the entire transfer. She´s so open and receptive and intelligent. But
she didn´t go to chruch three Sundays in a row, which made us really sad.
However, she went yesterday, and we showed her the baptismal font and the
spirit was so strong as we re-explained the importance of baptism. And so
she´ll be baptized on Sunday. Just in time for my last Sunday in Vila
Mariana.
Another great miracle was
that a member´s friend went to church and already made lots of friends and so
we´ll be teaching him this week.
My companion got really
sick last night, but luckily she´s all better. It was crazy and sad, but now
she feels better.
Friday night we went to a
member´s house and ate pizza and she talked about her mission. I love hearing
mission experiences.
September 8, 2014
Our new president is
seriously the BEST. His name is President Andrew, and he was already serving
here in Brasil as a temple worker. He´s served five missions in Brasil, and is
super loving. The mission already loves him!
I´m glad that everyone
got my letters! I was going to ask about them today to see if they finally made
it there or not!
On Tuesday, we went with
the Elders to give a blessing to an investigator. But let me back this story up
a little bit. Two weeks ago, bishop said that a member from another ward would
call and give us the address of an investigator who would doing a surgery and
would want a blessing, but not just from regular members, but from elders. The
member has a son who´s on a mission, and told Patrícia all about the miracles of
missionary work. So we went on Tuesday with the elders and it went really well.
We called her on Saturday to see how the surgery went, and she was already home
and said that her recovery is going very quickly, that she feels great, and
that she wants us to go back because she already read the restoration pamphlet
and wants to know more. Such an awesome and amazing miracle!
As for our other
investigators, things are a little on the rough end, but are looking up. And
we´re going to do our best to work our hearts out these last two weeks of the
transfer. It´s funny because here in the ward, there are three missionaries
coming back home, and I´ve heard all about them the past seven months, but
they´ll come home one or two weeks after the transfer. I mean, who knows, I
could still be here (although I hope not, because that would mean half of my
mission is in the same area, and I´m ready for a new adventure)
Other than that, things
have been pretty chill. It still hasn´t rained a ton, although we´ll see what
this week brings.
My companion is still as
awesome as ever. It´s such a bummer that we only have one transfer
together.
And... that´s about it!
It wasn´t a very eventful week, but we have lots of new investigators to teach
this week, which we´re excited about that´s for sure! I´ll probably go on
exchanges this week, and so that´s exciting.
How are Jessie and Susan
doing?
Love you all!
Sister Tillman
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