Hello Persons!!
This week we did something that I honestly think was one of the most gratifying things that has happened on my mission.
Miracle:
- We
have been thinking for a long time about how we can help the people in
this area. It is a very interesting area because the member that lives
closest to the chapel lives about 30 minutes away walking, and at about
the middle it is almost 1 hour walking. So we wanted to help the people
here have more access to the sacrament and the spiritual experience of
sacrament meeting. So there is something called a group. Obviously,
there is a ward and a branch, but even smaller than that is a group.
What happens is that you just have sacrament meeting, usually in some
members house and gather all of the people that live really far away. It
has already been done in other areas and I even got to participate in
one for one day when I was in Bagé. Anyway, so on Wednesday we had been
praying a lot to figure out how to help the ward and stake grow. This
idea then popped into our head, and very long story short, we got
approval and support from the mission president, stake president, elders
quorum president, bishop, we got a space that we cleaned out and got
chairs and lighting and hymn books and everything. Literally everything.
All before Sunday. And we had the very first meeting of the Groupo Cidade Lisboa on November
3rd, 2019. And there were 21 people there on the very first meeting. As
we were in that tiny group in a members garage, I remembered about the
restoration of the Gospel that started in a members home with 6 people. I
had that same feeling that this small group would someday grow to be a
branch, then a ward and that many people would be blessed. I will not
stay long enough to see all of it, but I am so grateful and humbled to be
a part of the start of this.
I know that by
small and simple things are great things brought to pass and that as we
pray for inspiration, God is already planning and organizing everything
so that it can be done in His time and in His way. I love this Gospel,
that reminds us that because of the simple fact of trying, we can live
with our families for eternity!
I love you all!!
Love,
Elder Allen
