December 2, 2008

This is a story posted by Emma Fristoe - one that Kami wrote to her about, sharing many details about one man she and her companion contacted and gave a Book of Mormon to on the street. Kami references this experience in a couple other letters, and we felt that this one gave more information and details about the actual day she had the first contact with him, so I am posting it here for all of us to enjoy.

"I love it here in Brasil. My heart has been here for so long i think. We get to go to the temple every week and it is a great experience.
We were able to go for the first time proselyting on Friday. WE went to a really busy place and it was a little, okay more than a little scary at first, but it was really great too.
It is really weird being in a country with so many homeless, people and such. I am not sure I was really, or could really have been prepared for this, but it is great, and just new, it hasn´t bothered me mostly except that it makes me feel really blessed and feel bad for those who don´t have what I have. Why am i so lucky? I guess so i can share with others how they too can be so blessed as i am. But anyway... WE gave out all our pass along cards and two Os livros de Mormon. Really great story too that one is. I saw this guy and he was pushing a stroller, and that means family information card to give out.. so we approached him, and gave our shpill in Portuguese and he acted really interested. I was excited. So after committing him to call and such, I turned back around, and he was still there looking at the card, and I knew that he needed a Book of Mormon, i went back and gave the Book of Mormon short lesson, and basically said everything i know in Portuguese, which took about 30 seconds, no i am kidding, but it was awesome, he was asking how he could learn more, and we showed him where to call to have missionaries come and tell him more, and bore our testimonies in Portuguese about the book of mormon, and how it could bless his life. It was awesome and we committed him to read and pray, and call the missionaries to come. Then we left, and he said God bless you and good luck. It was awesome. I know that things ARE going to be great. We were only rejected probably five times, which i don´t think was normal, or at least not with the elders who said that for every card they gave out they were rejected at least once."