Eleanor's Mission

 I  don't have much to say this week but I wanted to send an email to tell yall that I am so happy:)  Working with God is the best. When we turn ourselves over to Him, miracles happen!!!!!!! And we end up with even more than we had before:) Right now we are preparing Taysson, Denilza, Gabriel and Duda to be baptized next month!!! And hopefully we can mark a date with Lopes this week!!  random funny thing to give the email more content  We had a churrasco with some of the Brazilians in our ward and we were stranded there for 5 hours kkkkkk. I love Brazilians. Best food and the wildest conversations. Portugal is the best. Im so grateful to be serving here!  Hope you all have a stellar week! 

The last couple of weeks have been crazy. At the beginning of last week we had 5 baptism dates marked. Now we have one. It has been heartbreaking and so frustrating to watch our friends fall away. Especially after watching them experience the joy and peace that comes from this gospel message. But as we have started from the bottom again, trusting God, we have seen a lot of miracles. That is the gist of the last two weeks so if you are short on time you can skip to the end of this excessively long email!  During all the craziness of these last weeks, I've done a lot of self reflection. The conclusion I came to is that I am an awful person.  On the scale of awfulness I am probably not too much worse than your average human sinner but when I think about where I want to be, the weight of my sins is overwhelming.  It is as C. S. Lewis says,  "No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good."  I've learned enough on my mission to know that God doesn...