July 6, 2015
So I received the email
from the secretary today asking me which airport I’m going to return to #Trunky
So I told him Pittsburgh International, but I just wanted to make sure with you
that it’s right. And as for the debit card, I think it would just be easier to
withdraw some money I have now on my card and you can just keep the other card
until I get back home because I don’t think I can activate it here, although
maybe I can, but every time a Brazilian looks at that debit card I have, they
ask all kinds of questions and immediately lose confidence that my American
debit card will work on the Brazilian credit card readers. But if you think
it’s better to do it another way, let me know.
So sounds like things were
pretty busy this week. I still think the old high adventures were better. I
remember when we went on the canoe high adventure, Joel and I would sneak up on
ducks in our canoe and try and shoot them with the bow and arrow we had. Now
the kids just eat funnel cakes and play on the merry-go-round for high
adventure, haha. But I’m sure it was fun at Cedar Point and playing laser tag
as well. Hopefully vacation’s fun. What all are you guys going to do again?
Hopefully Bandit manages to survive this time haha. He must have really gotten
old while I’ve been gone.
This week things went
great. I sent a picture of the baptism of M, J, and D. It was
quite the preparation, but it ended up going well.
Sunday morning when there’s
rain in Pennsylvania it’s just another rainy day. However, Sunday morning when
there’s rain here no one wants to leave their house because no one seems to own
an umbrella, haha. But there were still quite a few investigators at church
including "Ja" who is going to be baptized this week. She is one of our recent convert's older
sister. The first time we went to teach her brother and friend, she just pulled up a
chair and started listening as well. Last week we challenged her to be baptized
and she accepted. She’s already been to watch 2 baptisms and goes to church every
week and is excited to be baptized this week.
Here things are going
great. The Lord is blessing us a lot and helping us find people to baptize
every week. We found a woman this week who is a single
mom with 3 daughters 8, 6, and 4. She was working every Sunday selling fruit downtown,
but when we taught her she said that she felt so good and loved everything we
said. We challenged her to change her work so that she could be baptized, and
she talked with her boss and she said this Sunday she has to work, but after
this Sunday she won’t have to. She said her daughter was asking her the other
day why we hadn’t passed by yet because we had passed by the 2 days before and
her daughter wanted to talk to us again haha. So we’re going to prepare the mom and her daughter to be baptized on the 19th.
This week I was pondering about how we can strengthen our testimony
to be able to touch others and I started to think about the spiritual
experiences I’ve had in the past. I learned that when we ponder on the sacred
experiences we’ve had in the past, we can be touched with that same spirit that
we felt in the past, and in the same way that the experience strengthened us in
the past, it can strengthen our testimony again and again.
That’s about all I got for
this week, but I hope you guys have a good vacation! Nothin’ like the good ol 3
week vacations that always interrupted summer basketball, haha. Love you guys,
have a good week!
Elder Udy
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