Re: Good one.

pictures: antonia at the bus stop 

and missionary selfie (this is Sister Brundage´s cute cute dress.)

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Eliza Shumway <eliza.shumway@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hello! 

Wow this week flew by!! 

Our baptism fell through after he showed up as a drunken sailor to a ward activity the day before he was supposed to be baptized. Sad but funny at the same time. He was doing so well! But dang it SATAN has a big hold on him with the alcoholic beverage and smoking too. I felt at peace about him all week though, so I know with whatever happens all will turn out right. 

 We´ve been having a great time calling people to repentance this week. So now it´s your turn.  

 27 But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for awful is his state!

So yeah. If you´re not living your life as you KNOW you should, don´t postpone your true happiness anymore. I KNOW that living the gospel of Jesus Christ is the way we are guaranteed to have pure happiness. It´s sad how so many people here (Portugal) and there (U.S. and everywhere) think they need to find their own way to happiness. Humble yourself and get back on the only track that has already been proven and prophesied to bring happiness. Give up something bad or even something okay/good for something BETTER: The peace that Christ can give you in knowing He has forgiven you and that you are trying your best.  Ask Heavenly Father for forgiveness for whatever it is that you have done or are doing or are NOT doing and then LIVE ACCORDINGLY. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1989/04/beware-of-pride?lang=eng

On a happy note, we had a fun ward activity on Friday! On a sad note, i tripped on a little INVISIBLE step during it and bruised my foot and pulled a muscle in my calf. On a happy note, I am almost better now and it didn´t really take much time out of our work to rest. 

Update on Luis: He is not too gun-ho on the whole "other testament of Jesus Christ" idea. He said he´d read it that one day but he hasn´t yet, because he says he doesn´t feel a "pull" or "force" or "flame" coming from the book. He´s a weirdie. He thinks he´s being open-minded but he´s not. We love him anyway. His mom said that she wouldn´t go to another church even if God Himself appeared to her telling her to go somewhere else. Haha. At least Luis understood and said he would. But he´s not acknowledging the Spirit he felt when he met us or when we went back the first time before we mentioned the Book of Mormon. We´re going to bring a member that he liked when he went to church to teach with us.

 

K well this is my mind ___________________________

so I love you all! Keep the Commandments! Read the General Conference Talks Again! Do It! 

Sister Eliza Shumway

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Re: Espirito, Verdade, e Luz oh my!

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Eliza Shumway <eliza.shumway@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hey everyone! 

Wow! Probably the most spiritual lesson on my mission this week! We found this awesome 30 year old evangelical dude, Luis, on the street on Wednesday. As we were walking past he stopped and talked to us and we talked for a good 20 minutes there. At the end my comp asked him why he stopped to talk to us. He said that as we were passing he felt a "flame" on his whole side and he knew we were servants of God. Wow. Then we went back on Friday and his mom was there and she started crying even before we said the opening prayer. We asked her what she was feeling and she said "a happiness". Luis said he felt it then too, the "flame" again in their house. We told them that was the Spirit of God telling them that what we were about to say was true. We gave our lesson with an overwhelming dose of the Spirit and when we got to Joseph Smith´s first vision my beautiful comp bore her testimony saying that she knew Joseph saw God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ and she said she knew that more than she knew she was there in that room with them. WOW Bowling ball of Spirit punched me in the gut. loved it. She is such a righteous warrior. But anyway they totally felt it too and when we got to the Book of Mormon, Luis was a little apprehensive, because evangelicals teach that there can ONLY AND WILL EVER ONLY be the Bible, (which is dumb. present subjunctive.) But {miracle} he said he would be willing to read and pray about it. (which is a lot more than what most evangelicals are willing to do). We reminded them of the spirit they felt at the beginning and we reminded them how we all felt it and we could not deny the feeling and so God was telling them they needed to read and pray about it. Wow. So needless to say they accepted the "convite suave" which is when they know these things to be true will they be baptized and then Luis came to church yesterday! For some reason his mom couldn´t come but she´ll probably come next week we hope. 

Can I just say how THANKFUL i am for Sister Brundage? She has helped me so much. She is the most patient person ever, good thing cuz all my comps have really had to have that quality while serving with me. I know I´m not a super good missionary and I have so many weaknesses but she´s helped me appreciate the little miracles and have so much fun along the way. She wanted me to make a list which i still haven´t made of the reasons why I know Heavenly Father loves me, and i will make this list soon, and the first thing i´ll put on there is "I know HF loves me because He let me serve with Sister B." Hoping for two transfers is all haha. 

K well i sincerely love you all. And miss you. 

Sister Shoomay.

Espirito, Verdade, e Luz oh my!

Hey everyone! 

Wow! Probably the most spiritual lesson on my mission this week! We found this awesome 30 year old evangelical dude, Luis, on the street on Wednesday. As we were walking past he stopped and talked to us and we talked for a good 20 minutes there. At the end my comp asked him why he stopped to talk to us. He said that as we were passing he felt a "flame" on his whole side and he knew we were servants of God. Wow. Then we went back on Friday and his mom was there and she started crying even before we said the opening prayer. We asked her what she was feeling and she said "a happiness". Luis said he felt it then too, the "flame" again in their house. We told them that was the Spirit of God telling them that what we were about to say was true. We gave our lesson with an overwhelming dose of the Spirit and when we got to Joseph Smith´s first vision my beautiful comp bore her testimony saying that she knew Joseph saw God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ and she said she knew that more than she knew she was there in that room with them. WOW Bowling ball of Spirit punched me in the gut. loved it. She is such a righteous warrior. But anyway they totally felt it too and when we got to the Book of Mormon, Luis was a little apprehensive, because evangelicals teach that there can ONLY AND WILL EVER ONLY be the Bible, (which is dumb. present subjunctive.) But {miracle} he said he would be willing to read and pray about it. (which is a lot more than what most evangelicals are willing to do). We reminded them of the spirit they felt at the beginning and we reminded them how we all felt it and we could not deny the feeling and so God was telling them they needed to read and pray about it. Wow. So needless to say they accepted the "convite suave" which is when they know these things to be true will they be baptized and then Luis came to church yesterday! For some reason his mom couldn´t come but she´ll probably come next week we hope. 

Can I just say how THANKFUL i am for Sister Brundage? She has helped me so much. She is the most patient person ever, good thing cuz all my comps have really had to have that quality while serving with me. I know I´m not a super good missionary and I have so many weaknesses but she´s helped me appreciate the little miracles and have so much fun along the way. She wanted me to make a list which i still haven´t made of the reasons why I know Heavenly Father loves me, and i will make this list soon, and the first thing i´ll put on there is "I know HF loves me because He let me serve with Sister B." Hoping for two transfers is all haha. 

K well i sincerely love you all. And miss you. 

Sister Shoomay.

this week.

​gah. here is my beautiful hollister model comp from california! hah well she could be a hollister model. 

we had a great week! lots of inviting people to be baptized and people have accepted! We have to help lots of people stop smoking and drinking but they´ll make it! we´ll fast and pray for them. hehe. 

we went to the beach today for p-day! pictures maybe next week. 

sorry i suck at writing emails! gah. i feel bad for yall but i can never think of things to say when i´m actually sitting at the computer. haha. 

i love this gospel! i KNOW it´s true. duh. it only makes sense and the Spirit reenforces it into my soul every day. it´s like this feeling that overcomes my whole body and almost paralyzes me. i feel it especially strong like that during the sacrament of weeks that i am fasting. it´s so so wonderful. reenergizes and refocuses me. 

we got a reference for a lady that had just moved back to portugal from Germany. She said she didn´t want elders so we went over to see her. I got transfered into this area just barely and we went to go see her when i first got here. It doesn´t always happen like this but we have the email of the sisters in Germany who passed her to us and one of the Sisters is my good friend from High school, Natalie Motto! Shout out! small world! we´ll take good care of Maria Teixeira, Natalie! don´t worry! and she said you speak great german!! we talked to her in portuguese though of course haha. 

love you all!! 

sis shummms

Re: well...

Keep up the good work Sister

On Monday, July 7, 2014 8:27 AM, Eliza Shumway <eliza.shumway@myldsmail.net> wrote:

That was fast. 

After one very short yet very long transfer (6 weeks) in Seixal, I am out and up to Porto! Yay! I´ll be serving where my dear old companion Sister Lybbert has been serving for the last two transfers with her MTC companion, Sister Brundage! She´s stinkin cute and super funny and from California! I´m excited to serve with her :)

I´m thankful for the opportunity I had to serve in Seixal. I know exactly why I was sent there: to serve with Sister Fuller. She taught me so much about myself and let me know what things I need to change and work on to be a more humble person and disciple of Jesus Christ.  I know I have so much to work on and I hope I can each day become a more broken hearted and contrite spirit daughter of Heavenly Father to better serve Him and give all I have to Him. 

Well I´ll let you know how this area is next week! It´s beautiful so far!! Look up Porto on google images probably some gorgeous pictures on there. 

Sister Shumway

well...

That was fast. 

After one very short yet very long transfer (6 weeks) in Seixal, I am out and up to Porto! Yay! I´ll be serving where my dear old companion Sister Lybbert has been serving for the last two transfers with her MTC companion, Sister Brundage! She´s stinkin cute and super funny and from California! I´m excited to serve with her :)

I´m thankful for the opportunity I had to serve in Seixal. I know exactly why I was sent there: to serve with Sister Fuller. She taught me so much about myself and let me know what things I need to change and work on to be a more humble person and disciple of Jesus Christ.  I know I have so much to work on and I hope I can each day become a more broken hearted and contrite spirit daughter of Heavenly Father to better serve Him and give all I have to Him. 

Well I´ll let you know how this area is next week! It´s beautiful so far!! Look up Porto on google images probably some gorgeous pictures on there. 

Sister Shumway