Happy 2017!

We were walking up this GIANT hill to arrive in our favorite neighborhood and we saw people carrying a lot of heavy stuff and we stopped and offered to help. Karina, 22, immediately accepted and asked me if we were from a church. I told her that we were missionaries. She said, I want you to talk to me about God today. I'm sad. I told her we would leave her a message about God and a prayer and when we got to their very humble home, we did just that. She felt the Spirit and she went to church this sunday. I'm grateful for the unplanned opportunities to serve and share the gospel.

This week we worked really hard and hit a lot of our goals and that makes me happy.

I cant believe its 2017!

Lets make ourselves better this year!

Lets focus on Jesus Christ and learn more about Him.

Love you!

(fotos in front of our investigators house waiting for him to get home. Our reactions when we realized that 2016 is over)

Sister Penni

Waterfalls!

The waterfalls were amazing!!!

This week was super busy but it was wonderful too!!

Our investigator José is progressing so well. He wants so badly to be baptized and quit smoking and we marked his baptism for this friday. Please pray for him to be able to quit smoking. He is amazing.

Also, a member introduced us to his friend, Ruben. He is progressing so well and is going to church every sunday now. We taught him about the Book of Mormon and he said, ´´Wow! that makes so much sense. I have always thought that Christ would preach His gospel in the whole world, not just in Jerusalem.´´ He is gaining a really strong testimony.

I love being a missionary. Its hard but also absolutely wonderful.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Surprise!

Ok- so I know ive been promising lots of updates for a few weeks but this week is super busy again. Our apartment has a big problem and all of the dirty water from our apartment block is rising in our kitchen and our house flooded. So we caught a taxi and are sleeping at the apartment of other sisters. Such a blessing lol. Dont worry, we are fine and we will all laugh about it much much later :)

I am currently in Foz de Iguaçu. We traveled all night on a bus, me and my companion, and are going on splits this week as Sister Training leaders. The surprise is that our president authorized me and my companion to go to the famous waterfalls today because it is pday and im freaking out im so excited! I will send pictures and postcards next week.

We found a man this week who almost was baptized with other sisters but is having trouble quitting to smoke, and we found him by some miracle and are starting to teach him and help him come back again. Huge miracle.

This week was definitely not easy, but I feel the Lord blessing us and protecting us. So many more things could have gone wrong and when my companion and I started to count our blessings during our hard times, everything became much easier.

I love my Savior Jesus Christ and I know that He lives. I know that when we pray, Heavenly Father hears us.

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Please forgive me for not responding individually. SKype is coming up! It will be 1 hour and a half this year!

Another Busy Week

We had a mission tour with Elder and Sister Bassett and were so spiritually filled.

One thing I loved that Sister Bassett said was that we need to see ourselves in the Joseph Smith story. We all have or had the same doubts that he had. If we will see things from his perspective and ask God if these things are true, we will feel the truth of them through the Spirit.

The fact that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God is clear to me. I dont have doubts about that.

but if you do, ask God. He always sees us.

Quebec is my new area and I am loving it. Here are a few photos from this week.

Love you!

Happy 4th of Ju...wait. It's Thanksgiving!

Its just so stinkin´ hot, that i forgot its november!

This week was wonderful.

We had so many neat experiences teaching our investigators this week.

Vinicius is 17 years old. He wants to know Christ bette. We helped him and his dad stop smoking this week and stop drinking coffee. Vinicius smoked more or less 20 cigarettes everyday and hasnt smoked even one this week. He is progressing towards baptism which is exciting. He has a really sweet experience when he prayed about The Book of Mormon. He said he felt this peace and relief come over him and he knows that it is true. That is a miracle.

We are teaching another woman named Alaid. She studies the Bible everyday and has grown up catholic but is very receptive in learning more about Jesus Christ. We taught her about the gospel and repentance and baptism. We focused on the Atonement of Jesus Christ and then taught about the Restoration is His gospel. His church is truly on the earth today and The Book of Mormon is evidence of that. We introduced it to her and she is just feasting on it. She studies and marks her questions and is loving it. She is truly investigating and feeling the Spirit when she reads. It is truly fun to teach her.

There are two more families from this week that i really want to share about but my time is limited. I will try to write it all down and explain it when i have more time.

Summarizing, this week I had lots of experiences with the Spirit. People asked me questions that I, Megan, do not even know how to answer. But when the moment came, the Spirit whispered how to explain that certain thing and it was really cool because I felt like a true instrument. I did not know how to teach, but the Spirit taught through me. I love that.

This week I was studying part of a Brad Wilcox talk called The Law of the Gospel. It talks a lot about grace and the Atonement, and what it means to become. Im loving it. Here are some quotes to ponder on.

´´ Trying and slipping and trying again is not mocking God as much as it is honoring Him by using the gift of the Atonement that He and His son so lovingly have provided.´´

´´We don´t partake of the sacrament because we´re worthy, we partake of the sacrament because we are willing to become worthy. We dont go to church because we are perfect, we go because we are willing to be perfected. and we certainly dont go on a mission or go to the temple because we have ´´made it´´ in our mormon culture...we go to these sacred environments becxause it is there where the Lord is making us.´´

´´Enduring to the end does not mean living without errors, it means living in the covenant despite errors.´´

´´We often feel we have to qualify for the very ordinance and grace that makes us worthy.´´ (talking about the sacrament)

I love the scripture in Ether 12:27. I have come to understand it more and more on my mission.

The miracle of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can change! He lived, bled, suffered, and died, so that we could apply His grace in our lives and change. We can become.

I love my Savior. I am so grateful for His mercy and His Atonement and the miracle of repentance. It is a privilege and a true honor to serve as a missionary for Him and to see Him change people´s lives. I am a living testimony that Jesus Christ lives and that He loves us. How could we ever doubt that? I love this gospel and testify that this is His restored church on the earth today that is led by a true prophet of God, Thomas S. Monson. The fact that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that He saw God and Jesus Christ and translated The Book of Mormon by the power of God is clear to me. I know these things by the power of the Holy Ghost. If you are not sure today, kneel down and ask God. Know for YOURSELF these truths.

Sister Penni

(some pictures from our zone pday and from this week)