June 30, 2014
Another great week in Brazil…
Brazil is playing well and the
people are happy. I haven’t watched a single game but all that people want to
talk about is soccer, so it’s hard to not get caught up in the excitement of
the World Cup.
We had a great meeting this week
with our mission president, President Fortunato, and our stake president,
President Sales. They talked about how they wanted the missionaries and
the members to work together. The church is very well organized in all
that it does. It’s interesting they think about the keys that the
missionaries have: teach, baptized, and confirm. The wards have the keys
to the missionary work: find and rescue. Both parts are essential for
anyone to be baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ. It’s important for
us to learn our duty and then to act in all diligence so that the miracles can
happen (D&C 107:99). We are the instruments that Heavenly Father uses
to do his work so we have to be ready and willing to serve in our obligations.
We have been finding lots of success
recently working with families that are less active and incomplete. It’s
such a rewarding experience to help rekindle the desire that these people have
to be part of the gospel. Always we are rewarded with new members and
lots of referrals. Recently, we have started asking for less active
families to visit at our dinners with members. Whenever someone says the
word "less active" we instantly think of someone we know who isn’t
coming to church anymore. We can go to the rescue though and bring them
back. You don’t have to be their home teachers to give them a visit and
invite them to church. This past week, we found a family of 4 who moved
to the neighborhood a couple years ago and lost contact with the church because
they were too nervous to go to a new ward alone for the first time. They
are now getting back into the habits of reading the scriptures, praying daily
and the youngest son will be baptized soon. It’s fun being a missionary.
I love you,
Elder Marsh
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