Week 12: October 7, 2024 Conferência Geral!🤍

Week 12: October 7, 2024 Conferência Geral!🤍

Bom diaaa everyone! Shoutout to Carson who turned 17 on Thursday This week was a pretty solid week! First and most important was general conference Saturday and Sunday! I love conference so much because it is always so spiritually uplifting to hear from the prophet and apostle and other inspired leaders so I'm feeling really good after that! Send me your favorite quote or talk!! 

One thing about conference is we are always encouraged to come with a question and this time I wrote down my questions and when you are really looking for the answers, God delivers through the words of His servants! 

Also this week we met with Rayssa and invited her to be baptized! I think she will either be baptized this week or next week, but we are super excited for her! 

Another person we had on date to be baptized unfortunately decided that she wants to return to her religion of Catholicism which is a bummer but we are glad we could at least help her start going to church again.

I met my companion Sister Barbosa on Wednesday and she is a lot of fun and I am learning a lot from her so that has been good! We have been able to see the Lord's work start to move along here in Montese these past few days so I'm excited to see what we can do in this transfer!

Spiritual thought:

I of course loved every general conference talk, especially those about missionary work and talking about missionaries because it just kind of hits different when you're out here! But one of my favorite quotes was from Elder Uchtdorf about faith. He said "Faith is not faith if never tested. Faith is not strong if never opposed." Faith might be the thing we teach the most as missionaries because it is the first step in the doctrine of Christ and when we teach I like to share the same scripture Elder Uchtdorf shared after this quote from Alma 32:21 about how faith is not a perfect knowledge, but is hope in things we know but can't see. This was just such a powerful reminder for me. Our faith has to be tested in order to grow and sometimes all we can do in those moments is have hope for the future and trust that our faith will be made stronger! I know and have seen this to be true in my life! I know that God loves and cares about each one of us! I love you all! Sorry my emails are all over the place but hopefully they make sense Até a próxima semana!!

Tchau tchau,

Sister Howard

Sister Howard and Sister Barbosa