This week was a great one with my brand-spanking new companion Elder Borges. He is from São Paulo and he was trained by my good friend from the CTM Elder Welling! He's a great guy, a hard worker, and the complete opposite of Elder Eiras. It's pretty funny how different they are. Elder Eiras was the life of the party, had a megaphone for a voice, and was SUPER animated. Elder Borges is more meek and humble, more kept to himself. On the mission, you get to work and deal with so many different personalities, it's a great time.
This week SAMUEL GOT BAPTIZED!! Samuel is a heck of a guy. He loves to talk to me about the United States. He's spent the past 3 weeks asking if I can take him to the States haha. After he was baptized, in the bathroom, when he could baptized again. He's the coolest guy. I was lucky enough to baptize him as well. He's even more excited to pass the sacrament in a couple weeks with his friends.
This week we saw many miracles as we worked our little back sides off. We found Fernanda and Felipe. Half of their family are members and they've already visited the Church a lot already. They were just waiting to be baptized. They have a date set for this Saturday!! We found Nicholas and Vitor, kids of an ex-investigator, that also have been to the church a lot as well. They're super excited as well to be baptized this Saturday. Also, we recieved a referral of Gabrielle who will turn 8 on August 15th, and her baptism is marked on Saturday as well!! Her parents aren't members, just her sisters, so it is a baptism of the elders.
I'm learning a lot in my study about humility. One thing that measures our humility is our willingness to learn from everyone. In the mission, it doesn't matter if your companion is a greenie or is in his last transfer, you can learn a lot from each companion. However, if you think that you already know it all, you stop progressing.
There's a scripture in Proverbs 19:20 that illustrates this truth:
20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
When we recieve instruction and counsel, we will always be wiser in the end. However, if we brush off instruction, because we "know better", that's where our spiritual progression stops.
Every day, every sacrament meeting, every conversation, we can try to learn more and more. We know that all we learn here on Earth will rise with us to the heavens. We are all here to make mistakes, learn, and be better than we were. If we make mistakes, and learn from them, I testify that we will "be wise in [the] latter end".
AMO TODOS DE VOCÊS!!
Abraço,
Elder Eliason
P.s.
I forgot my camera at home, more pics next week
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