Hello everyone! How are you? I hope this e-mail finds you well, healthy and abounding in the joy of the Restored Gospel! It truly is amazing to have the opportunity to have Prophets and Apostles on the earth in these days, especially when conditions are much less than favorable.
It is also a privilege to be here and performing the work of the Lord in this part of His vineyard and helping to move along this amazing work. We're seeing miracles in our own ways, and the Lord has been blessing us with much needed strength and revelation to help move forward here. This last week, we were able to meet with the Izumi family and we invited them to be baptized in the end of July. Well, they accepted, and I really prayed about it and we're gonna pray with them tonight to set in stone the 25th of July. It was amazing. I've been feeling the Spirit work so much more through me now as I truly try to align my will with the Lord's. They just accepted it and they had to check the calender to make sure it was ok hehe. They're awesome!
We got a new investigator, his name is Bobo (nickname actually) and this last week's lesson was amazing! He said he felt really peaceful as we talked and prayed and he really wants to find out if God is there or not. So we give him the Book of Mormon and tell to read and pray! That simple! It's amazing! He is so nice and we're excited to teach him - he's Chinese.
We've recently been able to have really powerful lessons and the Spirit has just been so strong and guiding me to be more bold. It's been a great journey, and I'm sad that it's at the halfway point now - time is just too fast.
I wish you all well, and I will continue to pray for you guys. I know God lives and guides this work. Jesus is the Christ, and He is our Redeemer from the darkness of sin and disbelief. I love this Gospel and I hope that you may have opportunities to have your won testimony strengthened this week.
Love,
Elder Victor M. S. Mourao
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Called to serve the Lord as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hiroshima, Japan
Map of Japan (for a complete map of where he's been, look at the bottom of this page)
Elder Victor M.S. Mourao
Called to serve the Lord as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima, Japan
Map of Japan (for a complete map of where he's been, look at the bottom of this page)
Our Elder's address:
Elder Victor Mourao
Japan Hiroshima Mission
Tottori-ken Yonago-shi
Nishifukubara 3-6-27
Mezon Pineru 201
683-0805
JAPAN
Japan Hiroshima Mission
Tottori-ken Yonago-shi
Nishifukubara 3-6-27
Mezon Pineru 201
683-0805
JAPAN
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Elder Mourao's favorite scripture: Alma 32:42
"And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst."
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Dramatic Growth
"Under the inspiration of the Lord and the courageous action of Joseph Smith, the first Latter-day Saint missionaries ever to serve beyond North America brought the restored gospel to the British Isles in 1837. Heading that first group of elders was Heber C. Kimball, who set a great example for all newly called missionaries. Humbled by the responsibility and fully aware of his limitations, he poured out his heart in prayer."
'O, Lord,' he cried, 'I am a man of stammering tongue, and altogether unfit for such a work; how can I go to preach in that land, which is so famed throughout Christendom for learning, knowledge and piety; the nursery of religion; and to a people whose intelligence is proverbial!'
"But rising from his knees and accepting his duty, he said, 'The moment I understood the will of my Heavenly Father, I felt a determination to go at all hazards, believing that He would support me by His almighty power, and endow me with every qualification that I needed' (Life of Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945, p. 104). Surely God responded to the faith of that young elder, because Brother Kimball and his companions were endowed, 'with every qualification' they needed."
-Jeffrey R. Holland
'O, Lord,' he cried, 'I am a man of stammering tongue, and altogether unfit for such a work; how can I go to preach in that land, which is so famed throughout Christendom for learning, knowledge and piety; the nursery of religion; and to a people whose intelligence is proverbial!'
"But rising from his knees and accepting his duty, he said, 'The moment I understood the will of my Heavenly Father, I felt a determination to go at all hazards, believing that He would support me by His almighty power, and endow me with every qualification that I needed' (Life of Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945, p. 104). Surely God responded to the faith of that young elder, because Brother Kimball and his companions were endowed, 'with every qualification' they needed."
-Jeffrey R. Holland