The Brasilian Apostle!

April 2, 2018

Hello Everyone!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter, and a very incredible Conference. It really was a Conference to remember, wasn't it?! I am so grateful to have gotten to be part of such a memorable moment in history! (Also, we have a Brasilian Apostle now!!! Woohoo!!!)

This week has gone really well!! We've been visiting Lais, our investigator that is going to be baptized this week, and she is just progressing SO MUCH! I always am a little bit nervous that someone will get baptized without actually having a testimony of the church, but this week Lais really showed her real intent by making a sacrifice to take the bus at night with her baby to get to the stake center and watch General Conference. She is an incredible woman, and I just feel so grateful to be able to help her in her conversion. Keep Lais in your prayers this week as she prepares to get baptized!

Well, I honestly don't have a whole lot more to tell. The Lord sure is blessing me and my area right now though, and I don't even know how to describe it. I feel such a difference in me as a person. I have more patience, I love more deeply, and I know that I am part of a bigger plan. God is working through me, and I am so incredibly grateful. A mission isn't an easy thing, but I wouldn't give up this time for anything.

I just have one little thing to ask of you all. I don't normally ask for things like this in my emails, but I would really appreciate your prayers to strengthen my ankle. A lot of you know that I had a lot of problems with my ankle before the mission, and once here in the mission. For the most part it's been miracle after miracle, and I've been able to work without pain of any kind. But these last few weeks have been a little bit harder, and my ankle has been struggling a little bit. If you could please pray for my ankle to be strengthened, I would really appreciate it!

Sorry for not sending pictures in so long. I really am trying to figure out how... It's a process. hahaha.

Have a wonderful week everyone!!! 

Love,

Sister Shelton

Jacob 4:6-10 (I LOVE this chapter in the Book of Mormon!)

6 Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these 

witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.

7 Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our weaknessthat we may know that it is by his grace, and his great 

condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things.

8 Behold, great and marvelous are the works of the Lord. How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man knoweth of his ways save it be revealed unto him; 

wherefore, brethren, despise not the revelations of God.

9 For behold, by the power of his word man came upon the face of the earth, which earth was created by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able 

to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure?

10 Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know 

that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.