Hallelujah!!!

So my title this week could be for many reasons:

 

1 - We met this super awesome baptist lady who was so AMAZING.  She loved Jesus so much, and asked us to come back, so we're going to bring Finding Faith in Christ and ask if she wants to take the lessons.  She said 'Hallelujah' after almost every sentence she spoke, it cheered us up!

 

2 - Sister Downs got her Visa!!! She gets to go down to Brazil on the 20th of August!!! I'm gonna miss her, but she is going to rock it down there!! She's so excited, but I can't even imagine how hard it will be for her, we've both gotten so attached to this ward, she says its gonna be like leaving home all over again!! I know she's going to love it though so we're both super excited. (Plus I get to have awesome Brazilian mission grandkids, that's pretty exciting!)

 

3 - I am finallly getting BETTER!!! I was able to go to the Doctor, and discuss everything thats been going on.  And we finally figured out that it was IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrom).  So he put me on Bentyl which helps with the pain, and told me to eat more fiber, and try as best as I can to have a balanced diet, which being a missionary is hard to do.  So far it has helped so much! I'm still not completely healed, but I'm on the road to recovery, and soon I will be 110%, and I can't wait for that, that will be a glorious day!

 

4 - We were finally able to find a solid investigator, or should I say investigators.  We knocked into this guy named Joe and set up a return appointment.  When we went his friend Bobby came and listened too.  Then we set up to give them a Church Tour.  When they came they brought a friend named Ashley.  So our 1 turned into 3.  We took them on the tour, and then in the baptism room, we put them all on date for the 31st of August.  They said yes, but they needed to pray about it.  We're meeting with them again tomorrow, so hopefully all goes well, and who knows maybe there will be another friend, that would be pretty cool!!

 

Well, those all my hallelujah moments for this week.  I am so blessed to be on a mission, and not just in any mission but in the WA-TAC!!! Whatever anyone says, it is the greatest mission in the world!! We were able to have a mission wide BBQ (or Zone meeting they called it) today and get together and sing and do skits and eat food, and best of all feel of the great spirit that comes when we are able to all be together enjoying eachothers love and service.  It truly is like one big happy family!!

I realized the other day that I have less than a year left, and I seriously started freaking out....thats not very much time, and in mission time its even shorter.  I can't believe it, I need to take advantage of EVERY SECOND that I'm here!!

Well, that is all for this week!! I hope you are all doing well!  I pray for you every night!! I love you so much!! Have a great week!!!

I LOVE YOU!!

 

Love,

Sister Thomas