Festas, Facas e Milagres

11/12/18

Bom Dia Família, Nós 'sta fixe?

Another week has come and gone. I thought that when I left the MTC, time might slow down a bit and wait for me to catch up, but as this second transfer is drawing to a close it becomes increasingly apparent that I have no hope of ever catching up. I used to think four months was a long time, like a semester of school or the summer, but this past four months have seemingly flashed by. I fear that one these days I'm going to wake up and the mission will already be over. People always ask "Sister, tem saudades para casa?" (“Do you miss home?”) and I always respond "Não, já tenho saudades para Cabo Verde" (“No, I already miss Cape Verde”), because I'll always have home, but when will I ever have another chance to be here, right now with these people? I hope I can stay in Covo Figueira for another transfer but who knows what this next six weeks has in store for me. But I can already tell I'll miss these people terribly and I just don't know when I'll see them again. Who knew the mission was such a trap!? Making me come here to love and serve these people just to send me away! Something tells me leaving the mission is going to be a lot tougher than coming out onto the mission. Lucky for me, even in missionary time, I've got a while.

This week was wild.  I witnessed some of the miracles made possible by the Book of Mormon. We had two investigators who had yet to read and receive answers, so during one of these lessons with a teen girl named Leana, Sister Ashby says "alright well, we’re going to read with you and then you're going to go pray about it... right now". She'd had a District leader tell her about this particular method once and though we knew it was crazy and had a somewhat low success rate, we pressed forward faithful she'd get an answer. After reading a couple of verses we told her to go somewhere quiet to say a prayer to ask if the Book of Mormon was true. Thankfully, she was willing to put up the silly antics of Sister Ashby and I, and went to do so. A few minutes later, after prayers were said on all our parts, she came back giggling. We weren't sure if this was a good sign and prepared ourselves for her to respond that she'd felt nothing, but after a few moments of stifled laughter, she said "sisters, this book is true". Sister Ashby and I basically actually screamed and then we were all laughing. You know, I don't think before the mission I had ever fully realized or appreciated the power of the Book of Mormon. The purpose of this book is to testify of Christ and in the introduction thereof it boldly invites everybody to read and ask God if it's true, and then proceeds to promise that by the power of the Holy Ghost you will receive an answer. Like, literally how cool is that!?

Anyways I'm out of time but here are some photos.  Love y'all!

- Sister Bradley

Noite Familiar na casa de Katilene

Demon Pegiga spider

Last district meeting of the transfer

Elyse said she wanted more pictures of my face and less of the volcano, sooooo…

On our way to an appointment but unfortunately there were two cows in the road blocking our way, but that's okay because we saw our investigator get arrested about twenty minutes later. Vida boa.