Almost half way

 Song of the week - My life by J. Cole 

Weekly ‍ 

( No Surprise Long email again ) 

  Really felt the gift of tounges STRONG this week! I will be so honest the language is still absolutely kicking my butt, I would be lying if I said its going good, and that I am fluent. 

( im starting a Prayer Go fund me..... @sistertebbs needing extra prayers for gift of tounges) 

    I Had a super powerful ( personal ) experience during a lesson on tuesday! We were teaching a lady about the importance of keeping commitments and excerising / showing our faith, and my comp is amazing at teaching and basically resited the whole preach my gospel lesson, so really not much left for me to say right?? So once it was my turn to talk I literally couldn't think of anything to say, and out of no where the spirit just told me to promise her blessings. So I bore a strong testimony on how I have seen and felt the gospel change my life and promised her blessings that were truly meant for only her, that were the words of the spirit, not mine. It was amazing looking at this sweet lady with tears in her eyes, smiling. 

    The joy I felt was amazing, The spirit was so strong. It was such a sweet blessing for me.  I have felt very useless and less then of a missionary due to my lack of language skills and honestly just embarrassed that I am halfway threw my mission and still struggling this bad, but it was a testimony builder and answer prayer to me that I can still touch the hearts of the people I am teaching!!! God is aware of usss  and seriously guys it was like the little confidence boost I needed, because for the rest of the week I was speaking not so timmed. And this week I was doing a WAYYY better job at understanding!  Very few times did I not know what was being said....So that was a WIN  

   We are also teaching an INCREDIBLY cool family right now there names are Warley, Jaqueline, Talison, and João!! They are católicos , however they have read and prayed about the book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and know it to be true! They love coming to church and they love our messages! We had the opportunity to teach them on Thursday about temples and eternal families and they ABSOLUTELY LOVVEEEED it. Was such a powerful lesson. They asked when they can get there sealing done!!! We explained to them that in order to go threw the temple we first have to be baptized... So We invited them to pray about what we taught them and if going threw the temple and baptism is something they Really want, and that if so we are here to help them get there!!!  I walked out of that lesson filled with so much joy, I love being a missionary.. ( at times  )  even better on sunday, I was conducting the hymns and I was looking out at our small branch sad beacuse none of our people showed up, and so I looked back down at my book for a minute but when I looked back up.. Warley and his family walked in just before sacrament started!!! I was SO HAPPY!! 

EVERYONE PLEASE PRAY FOR THE LIMA PONTES FAMILY  

Just would like to share my testimony really quick about the book for mormon.... Guys im embarrassed but also so proud to say, For the frist time in my life I read the Book of Mormon ALL the way threw front to back. Not only in english but also in português  

I know that the book of Mormon is true, I am so grateful for all the knowledge I have gained, everytime I have opened it up to study it I have had the spirit testify to me of its truthfullness, I know that the book of Mormon was truly meant for our day, for us to learn and receive revelation for our own personal growth and to help guide our lives! This book has truly changed my heart and has strengthen my testimony in ways I never knew it could. I know that the words written are truly words from god. 

In the name of jesus christ amen. 

Highlights // Random // Funny 

☆ Hit 8 months as a missionary on Saturday!!! Literally one month away from being halfway done with my mission ....

☆ was made a cake for national women's day was so pretty.. tasted EVEN better 

☆ Little brothers started baseball! Absolutely love baseball. One of my favorite things has always been watching my brothers play there sports... love you guys! 

Shout out to Ryd for being a stud and killing it in his FIRST big highschool game 

☆ seeing my dad in glasses for the first time in my life on Pday. Was a jump scare lol.... we love you Sherman 

☆ we have to go to lafaiete for district council and afterwards we always go to this juice bar and eat lunch and we are best friends with the owners there and they always let us take Aux so we were playing back to back bangers the whole lunch hour. It was so healing for my soul to listen to vibey music singing with friends again  

I LOVE music 

☆ I slepted walked.... like actually slepted walked but I don't remember a thing but when the sisters woke up the next morning they told me all about it ( email me if you wanna know the details ) 

☆ sister Hancock and sister Naveros were on there death beds so me and sister Montero got to sleep and play games and basically just mess around all day in the house 

LOVE YOU GUYS HAVE AN AMAZING WEEK!!! FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT, ALWAYS LOVE HEARING FROM YOU 

love,  Sister (Hal) Tebbs