Now this email is for this week, let's get into it, and there's a lot.
Wonderful new week to y'all, I pray that all is going in your lives. It certainly mostly is here in Brasil.
News:📰
You may be thinking, "Elder Hyatt, how is it that you're having a transfer?" That, my friend, is a wonderful question. ✨️Emergency transfers✨️! Yay! Soooo basically I'm leaving Asa Sul for Jardim Ingá (eu vou ter saudades de Asa Sul) because some other companionship of missionaries had a problem and so our mission President always changes up a few so that no one knows who had a problem. (But it wasn't França and I) And I was chosen to leave, but that means that I'm meant to be there. (And I won't have to trade houses here in Asa Sul). And I'm going from one Elder França to the other Elder França.
Baptism:🌊🤗
We had another baptism! Maria Eduarda got baptized, and it was kinda out of no where. So her mom is a member of the church but isn't very active (I only ever saw her at church once). The time she did go, someone talked to her about her kid and then she decided that she'd let her get baptized. It was the cutest thing ever because the Primary President made a whole little party for her and it was just adorable. Her uncle was able to come from São Sebastião (about an hour away) and baptize her.
Translations:🤟📜
There was another American at church on Sunday! But he doesn't speak anything of Portuguese. Nothing at all. So I had the privilege of translating the talks during Sacrament meeting and Sunday School.
Although I did have the opportunity to give a talk during sacrament meeting so the spirit just had to translate for him after that.
People and the Work:
Soooo we'll see how the new area goes seeing as how I haven't met anyone yet. But I shall, and it shall be, in short, awesome. The work here in Jardim Ingá is going incredibly well and, of course, shall continue.
Menu:
First day here in Jardim Ingá and we, the three other Elders in Jardim Ingá and the elders from Ocidental (wooohoooo), went to eat at a churrascaria, which is pretty much just a BBQ place. It was good y'all, it was good. (Although I may miss that sushi, but im not serving a mission for sushi so faz parte).
Spiritual thought:
With the sudden transfer, it got me thinking of a certain hymn, hymn number 270: I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go. The whole point of the song is just as the title reads, I'll go where the Lord needs me, because He knows where I need to be. I particularly love all three verses, but just to pick one I'll go with thr first to share:
"It may not be on the mountain height
Or over the stormy sea,
It may not be at the battle’s front
My Lord will have need of me.
But if, by a still, small voice he calls
To paths that I do not know,
I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in thine:
I’ll go where you want me to go.
I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord,
Over mountain or plain or sea;
I’ll say what you want me to say, dear Lord;
I’ll be what you want me to be." Truly our Lord God knows best, and wants to best for us. Because of this, He will put us in situations so that we can become our best or do our best. Nephi, when commanded to travel three days back to Jerusalem he so responded saying: "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." (1 Nephi 3:7) God will never give us trials, send us places, without preparing a way that we will be able to accomplish all that He has asked of us. Because He loves us! And I love y'all too! Y'all got this!
-Elder Hyatt
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