Rain Rain Go Away
Fun Fact: Did you know that for the past FOUR pdays it's rained? And then for the following week it gets so intensely hot that it feels like we're in a pressure cooker?? The weather has just not been my friend lately.
Other fun things that have happened:
-We ate cow heart this week. Super strong flavor, i prefer chicken heart.
-I made a contact with the town's local catholic priest and ended up getting blessed on the street and invited to sing at a mass.
-For Halloween one of our investigator's kids had a crisis about what she wanted to be, so we ended up with vampire teeth and witch makeup in a garden flower costume. Taking notes for my future kids.
-There's a large ditch of water that runs through the center of our town (there's some word for that but i'm forgetting at the moment) and everyone has this rumor that there's an alligator that lives there who eats disobedient children. I was a little doubtful, not gonna lie, but we've been on the watch lately. And this week... WE FOUND IT! Man, this thing is HUGE. So there's high chances that he eats disobedient missionaries as well.
So all in all, it's been an exciting past couple weeks. I've been reflecting lately on how much i love the brazilian and especially the Gaucho culture. (Gaucho is someone from Rio Grande do Sul, the state i'm in. Comparable to Texas.) From the happiness of a lonely widow sharing her steamy rice and beans with us on a rainy day, to the shouts/fireworks of victory and cries of loss throughout the entire town during a soccer game of the two rival teams here, to sitting in a circle conversing while drinking Chimarrão and watching old couples dancing quite lively to classic gaucho music. Man how i love it here, really i can say that i fell in love with Rio Grande do Sul!
The work has been a pretty hard these days and i was feeling a little down. But right when i thought my Father in Heaven was forgetting about me, He showed me that he didn't! I've gotten various calls lately from other missionaries about people that i helped find/teach during exchanges or in past areas that have gotten baptized. I got quite emotional after these calls. Cause sometimes our work feels in vain, like we're pedaling as fast as possible and not getting anywhere. And it gets pretty discouraging. But it's always a good reminder that we're only playing a small part in a big plan. That we shouldn't feel that we haven't done anything, cause it isn't us that causes the change, it's the Lord! So the most that we can do is try to do is His will, and we can then know that we're doing what is right.
In 1 Cor. 3:6-9 it says
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own areward according to his own labour.
Love ya'll lots and lots, have a great week!
Sister Rosenberg
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