March 9, 2010

Familia,
Mom and Dad,
I think I had a wonderful lesson on Tithing, and offerings yesterday. I have learned much about these things here, but yesterday after I had studied them we went to the home of a recent convert named Maria aparecida she is so awesome, but for some reason hadn´t come to church and I thought, let´s stop by and see what she needs. It was amazing what I learned.
I already knew somethings about her for exemple I know that 5 of her references have been baptised and that a few Sunday´s ago she took 7 men to church. I know that she loves the missionary effort.
SO we went there and sang a hymn for her, Bruna she daughter had told me when we visited some people together that her favorite hymns are israel jesus is calling and count your many blessings. We sang count your many blessings and she started to cry and said that during the song she had an answer to her prayers and then told us a couople of things that when she entered into the church she didn´t have a job, and didn´t have much of anything, but even then she wanted to give to the church and really wanted to make lunch for the Elders she asked how she could do it and was put on the list to give lunch one time a month, but as the day was arriving she didn´t have anything to give just rice, she kept praying for some way and one day before her lunch appointment she took her daughter´s cell phone to sell it to buy the food. The store she went to didn´t want the phone so she sold hers instead and kept the older one. She bought food. The next month she still hadn´t found a job, and said that she cried while she prasyed to be able to pay tithing and give lunch. She found some clothes that she never used and sold them. SHe said she had sold various sthings to be able to feed the missionaries because it was something so important to her. SHe continued to pray to be able to pay tithing and the same week was offered a job, infact a job that paid her one salary before she had even worked giving her the opportunity to pay titihings and buy what she so needed and her family. They are doing a lot bettter now, but i cried as she told a few stories of how she had helped others. SHe is wonderful I don´t think I have ever known someone with such a great heart, but then again my parents are amazing in this respect, I thought wow I need to be so much more grateful for the wonderful irmãs that give us lunch! They are so amazing.
This weekend Leilson was baptised he is awesome and wants to serve a mission! I am proud of him.
Annalyse I love you girl and am excited that perhaps we shall have one morew semester of adventures.
Grandma yes I receive your e-mails and love and treasure them
I do know elder korth he is great he was in my zone before I was transferred I would have talked to him about that if I had known before now I don´t have contact with him, that is really cool.
I love you all! JEnny I still need your measurements please!
Love you all!
Sister Judd