"LOOK! I have garments too!"

this week has been crazy! i have an awesome funny story and a spiritual story....

funny story...
yesterday we visited an inactive family. there is an old grandma and her son who is like 50 and has mental problems. we were just there to read a scripture and invite them to church... so we did that and we were getting ready to close the visit with a song and prayer... so as i was pulling out my hymn book the man, carlos, comes and sits by me and says, in english (he likes to speak english... it never makes sense though haha) anyways, he says, "look, I have garments!" i couldnt understand what he said so i turned to him and asked "o que?" as i turned he pulls down his pants to show me!!! oh man... i turned to irma west on the other side of me and gave her a oh man help me look! so she chooses a hymn and we start to sing... well... start to try and sing! every time we would open our mouths we couldnt sing we could only laugh!! i started crying cause we were laughing so hard haha. it was horrible. we decided after trying to sing 5 times that it wasnt gonna happen and so we carlos volunteered to offer the closing prayer. oh man.... the prayer was a story in and of itself... but it was an interesting experience haha...

spiritual story...
remember the family that i talked about last week? with the kid carlos in a wheel chair? well, he is amazing! we marked him for baptism for this mothers day!!! (happy mothers day mom) but i dont even know what to say... i have seen him change over night! its awesome! he is eating the scriptures up and always has tons of questions! the other people in the family are the same so we are going to try and mark them this week. it is so awesome! i dont even know how to explain how i feel!! this work is AMAZING!! and a few scriptures come to mind when i think about how they are being converted not because of anything that we are doing but because of the spirit... look these up... they are awesome! 1 cor. 1:27, Jacob 4:6-7, Alma 26:12.

well, i love you all! thanks for everything! and talk to you next sunday!! have a great week!

com amor
irmã graf

YAYYY PICTURES!

Oi Familia!

so... not a long one this week.... sorry. love you.

my first transfer is OVER ALREADY!!! and i am staying with irma west here in miratejo for another transfer! woo hoo!!! we are so excited because we opened this area and the pace is starting to pick up and we have a few people that we are close to baptizing so we are super excited to be able to see that!! woo hoo!

this week has been super hard, but we have just kept going and we have seen the Lord blessing us for our dilligence. It is so crazy how much more aware of the Lord you become on a mission! This week we taught the second lesson, about the plan of salvation and it just hit me for some odd reason how special that plan really is!

also, there is this lady, ana, a reference from a member and we taught her once at the beginning of the transfer and then she dropped off the face of the earth but this past week she called us and said that she needs God in her life and she needs help so we went to her house and it was CRAZY how prepared she was by the Lord!!! we taught her basically the first lesson about the restoration and then also the second lesson about the plan of salvation. she was EATING IT UP no joke! she kept asking questions and how she could know and how she could learn more... it was crazy! then we taught her about prayer and invited her to pray and ask. the next morning she called and said she recieved an answer. CRAZY!! we had another lesson with her and invited her to baptism this past sunday... she said she needed some time to think and pray some more... we pushed a little but then decided against it. but we are going to teach her this week. shes awesome!

well, anyways, i love you all and thanks so much for your support and prayers... btw... instead of praying for me could you pray for my investigators? not by name or anything... just that they will have comfort and the strength to continue to pray and read and aprender sobre este evangelho? thanks.

com amor

irma graf


ps- the pics... i cant remember what i sent last week... easter package, thanks so much! the one of us at the kitchen table- after conference sunday night we didnt get home until almost 12 because the last session was live and didnt start until like 9pm... and then we were wide awake and hungry so we made pancakes!!! haha. the one with the 2 black girls... i love these two!!! they are two yw in our ward and they are so awesome!!! the one next to me is pretty much my bff in the ward! haha. shes awesome!

pss- mom, with the baptism stuff... i couldnt open it so i just translated the one you copied and pasted... here it is... and w it i was thinking maybe make a bookmark out of it? cute border with colored ribbon at the top and laminated? and a boy version and a girl version... 15 of each? sorry for all this work... they just dont really do anything special for when they get baptized and i thought this would be cool... also, if you have another cute poem that you like just have dad translate it (brazilian is fine... half the people i teach are brazilian or cape verdian or angolian anyways)