tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765612711206489382024-03-14T05:03:07.938-07:00The Life of Elder Ty Missionary experiences in the Brazil Fortaleza missionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-3017197572025616282015-10-05T13:18:00.000-07:002015-10-05T13:22:31.349-07:00Does the hotel have hot water??<div class="MsoNormal">
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answer your questions first because if I don’t I’ll probably forget. You can
bring some shorts and shirts. I have some but I think I’ll leave them with some
Brazilians because they don’t have basketball shorts here in Brazil. As for
socks I have plenty but I don’t have any shoes to wear with basketball shorts,
just some flip flops that I bought. Everyone really likes American food (candy
and maple syrup). Peanut butter as well. I can’t really think of other things
but I know there’s a ton. If you ask Jackson maybe he can remember some things
that the US has that they don’t have here. Also, anything that is from BYU the
members and missionaries like a lot as well. So I’ll be in the mission office
that is like 2 streets from your hotel. 9 o’clock. Do you know if the hotel has
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">So this week conference was great. <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2015/10?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2015/10?lang=eng</a> I liked the talk about mothers
as well, how their love for their children is the closest humans come to the
love that Christ feels for us, and I liked that story he told about the mom and
her son that had returned from the mission and how his mom had prayed and
prayed for him for years until he went back out which made me think about how
Christ must work even more for each of us. I also liked the talks from Elder
Anderson about faith and President Uchtdorf telling the story of Daniel when he
went to Babylon and explaining how it must have been rough for him but he had
faith. I realized throughout the conference that they talked a lot about faith,
keeping the Sabbath day holy, and keeping the commandments (President Monson in
the priesthood session). Also I wrote my scripture to "ponderizar" as
we say in Portugues which is Alma 34:38 on a sticky note to put in my planner
and move it from day to day this week. Alma 34:38 reads…</span> <span style="font-family: Times;">That ye</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><sup><span style="font-family: Times;">a</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://classic.scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/34/38a">contend</a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">no more against the Holy Ghost, but that ye receive it,
and take upon you the</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><sup><span style="font-family: Times;">b</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://classic.scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/34/38b">name</a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">of Christ; that ye humble yourselves even to the dust, and</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><sup><span style="font-family: Times;">c</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://classic.scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/34/38c">worship</a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">God, in whatsoever place ye may be in, in spirit and in
truth; and that ye live in</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><sup><span style="font-family: Times;">d</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://classic.scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/34/38d">thanksgiving</a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">daily, for the many</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> <sup>e</sup><a href="http://classic.scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/34/38e">mercies</a> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">and blessings which he doth bestow upon you.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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guys next week. This week was crazy. We are working with this 17 year who is a 16 year old member’s boyfriend, his baptism is this week. It was a
crazy week. My new companion Elder Ribeiro é muito bom (very good). He’s from
São Paulo and has a lot of faith. I wish I could have been his companion for
more time because he’s teaching me a lot. This week we’re going go all out
because it’s all I have left. I’m excited to see you guys and the members are
excited to meet you guys as well. Can’t wait to see you guys! Have a good week
and get excited to get to know the povo cearense (people of Ceara)! Have a
great week! Love you guys and can’t wait to see you!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-48700717638601031432015-09-28T10:28:00.001-07:002015-09-28T10:28:18.465-07:00I can't believe you'll be here in 2 weeks!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Como vai? I can’t believe
you guys are going to be here in 2 weeks! I still have trouble imagining how
life must be for people who aren’t missionaries. My last companion will be
Elder Ribeiro, I forgot where he’s from but I think it’s São Paulo. He has about 10 months on the mission or something like that and he’ll be a new zone leader,
so we’re pretty excited. We´ll
be working in a three-some until Elder Freeman goes home later this week.
I liked the photos you sent of the BYU football fireside. Sounds like the game was
rough, but I liked the picture of the Slippery Rock score they showed at the game haha. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So this week didn’t exactly go as
planned, but I learned a lot. This week we were teaching 2 families (7 people
in all) who had all accepted to be baptized on the 4th of October, and they had
said every day of the week that they were going to go to church Sunday. I had
prayed so much for these 2 families, especially Saturday night. After pondering
on some scriptures that say if we don’t doubt, God will bless us according to
what we ask, (Mormon 9:21, Mark 9:23) <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/9.21">https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/9.21</a> and <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/images/meme-bible-mark-believe-possible-1342064?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/media-library/images/meme-bible-mark-believe-possible-1342064?lang=eng</a> I was certain that God was going to bless
us so that these 2 families would be able to go to church and be baptized
next week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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one family’s door Sunday morning they said that the 2 year old was super sick
and the grandma had to take care of her and the mom had
been called to work (she was unemployed and the first day they called her was
this Sunday). When we went to get the other family they had reasons equally
convincing and upsetting. I was convinced that they were going to be baptized
on the 4th. We had taught them so diligently about the commandments and
obedience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">As I walked to church with Elder
Freeman and quietly pondered, Why didn’t this work out? Did I not follow what
the scripture says, ask, doubting nothing, and you shall receive. Doesn’t God
have power over sickness? So then why did the girl get sick Saturday night
right before church if God knew that would stop them from going to church. Then
I thought that anything can happen, but what’s more important is that I follow
Nephi’s example never murmuring and never doubting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">As we walked into the church with our
heads down, after only 30 seconds someone from the other ward came over to us
and said, Are you the Elders from Tancredo Neves? There’s a boy here who is 17
and I’m trying to figure out how he can get baptized. He’s been coming for 3 months and he
goes to seminary every week day. She then called him and we talked a little and
scheduled his interview for today and baptism for Tuesday before Elder Freeman
leaves the area. So maybe I won’t end up baptizing 2 families this week, but I
learned a lot about how if we ask, doubting nothing, God blesses us according
to our will, but His will as well. But this is my last week to find people to
be baptized during my mission, so I’ll be praying and working a lot to find a family this week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">I hope everyone’s doing well at home,
sounds like all is well. I hope you guys have a good week, don’t forget to
study the Book of Mormon every day personally and as a family. Have a great
week! Love you guys<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-36176319630548246522015-09-21T12:48:00.001-07:002015-09-21T12:49:56.136-07:00It's not how we start, but how we finish that matters<div class="yiv7101511217" id="yiv7101511217yui_3_16_0_1_1442863489155_10677" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-55053804932785477552015-09-14T12:51:00.000-07:002015-09-14T12:54:30.299-07:00Elder Pinho from the Seventy taught us all kinds of things<div class="yiv6937793855" id="yiv6937793855yui_3_16_0_1_1442257915453_4842" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
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<span class="yiv6937793855" id="yiv6937793855yui_3_16_0_1_1442257915453_4858" style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">This week was great. We had a visit from Elder Pinho from the 70. He taught us all kinds of things. The general authorities sure know how to teach the missionaries. One thing I learned with him is how to get referrals. Usually when a missionary asks the members for a referral he just asks after the meal if the family knows anyone they could teach. Elder Pinho taught us to turn this into a spiritual experience, asking the family if we can say a pray on our knees with everyone and promising them that as we pray names will appear in their minds of people that have been prepared to receive the gospel. And after the prayer asking them who appeared in their mind. </span></div>
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<span class="yiv6937793855" id="yiv6937793855yui_3_16_0_1_1442257915453_4864" style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So on Sunday we put this into action. We had lunch with a family who is non-member and their son is on the mission. He’s one of the elders that slept in the room next to me in the MTC! Anyways, his mom loves the missionaries and always invites a bunch of members over to eat on the missionary’s lunch day. So there were about 15 members there eating with us, and when it got time for the message we talked about the members and missionaries working together and said a prayer with everyone on our knees and then everyone gave us referrals! And, along with the referrals, the members started to love us and say how happy they were for us to be in their ward. This is exactly what Elder Pinho said would happen.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-38174146667673797092015-09-07T16:00:00.002-07:002015-09-07T16:00:42.725-07:00The members help a lot<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">:0000 sounds like BYU made the Sports Center top 10 this week haha. I can’t believe Taysom Hill got hurt already!!! He always gets hurt! Hopefully the other quarterback is good for the rest of the season too. Sounds like Cole had some fun with the jeep problems this week haha. And it sounds like you guys are getting things ready for Brazil. Elder Ballard told me you guys sent him the email. He’s in my zone. I can’t believe it’s getting so close!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1">This week I was kind of lost with Elder Freeman because we are both new here, but we’re getting to know things a little better now. </span>Here in the ward the members help a lot. On the first day when we got in the area a returned missionary came to our house to take us to lunch because he knew we wouldn’t know how to get to our lunch appointment. It’s great to see when someone thinks about the missionaries enough to know their necessities and be there to help with out being asked. Our area here in Tancredo Neves is a lot smaller than Aerolandia, which is great because in Aerolandia we had to walk 45 minutes to get to lunch half the days of the week haha. I’m excited to show you guys the streets and houses of the people here. Pray for me this week so that my companion and I can find a family that will be baptized by the time you guys get here, and you’ll be able to say to them that they were an answer to your prayers. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t have much time to write today because it’s Independence Day here in Brazil. I can’t believe you already bought me a season pass to Park City and the Canyons!!! The blessings from the mission are real haha. So this week I’ll talk with my President about the ecclesiastical endorsement, I’ll have to discover how to say that in Portuguese first haha. Have a good week! Love you guys! </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-43412231480237633522015-08-31T12:45:00.000-07:002015-08-31T12:45:35.998-07:00The higher our goals in life, the more success we will have in the end<div class="MsoNormal">
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only 7 arrived. 28 went home and 3 went to the mission home to be trained as
secretaries. So our zone and another zone were put together to form a mega zona
haha. So now our zone went from 14 missionaries to 27 missionaries!. So my new
companion is Elder Freeman. And he’s going home in 4 weeks. So that means I’ll
be sending another one home! So I’ll still have 2 more companions! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s going home early to see his brother’s
wedding or something like that. Anyways, the zone leaders area here was
whitewashed and will now be a district leader area so I’m being transferred to
Tancredo Neves which is pretty close by. (Hopefully the house is better haha)
So I’m pretty excited to be able to get to know a new area. Elder Freeman as
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activity in the area going to member’s houses with our bishop’s counselor
and asking them if we could teach their neighbors and such, and we got to know a
couple last week, A and F. We taught them for the first time and told them
about the importance of having faith in Jesus Christ and following Him (using
Ether 12). F said he really needed to follow God and do what’s right. 2 weeks
later after lots of ups and downs they were baptized. F will be a great help in
the church. He already went on visits with us before his baptism testifying to
everyone about the truthfulness of the church and saying how he was going to be
baptized Sunday. Usually we don’t think about taking investigators with us to
go on visits or splits (I don’t know what it’s called anymore haha), but he
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another house because Elder Vasquez went to the mission home yesterday so I was
in a trio with our district leader. We were talking a little bit this morning
about how sometimes people set low goals so that they can feel better about
themselves knowing that they will reach their goal. For example, a
companionship that sets a goal to baptize 4 people in 6 weeks maybe will reach
their goal, and if they do they will be excited that they reached their
predetermined amount of success. Perhaps they didn’t want to set a goal to
baptize 30 people because they were afraid they would fail. However, if the
companionship had set a goal of 30 and only baptized 15, they would have baptized
3 times as many people. The goal has to be high, because it’s the performance
and outcome that matter, not just the satisfaction of reaching a humble
achievable goal. The higher our goals in life, the harder we will work to get
there, and the more success we will have in the end. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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week! Sounds like Cole is busy with school and Dad’s having lots of work to do
these days. Hope all is well! Now I will be a little bit further from the
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-58570058403156637582015-08-24T17:27:00.004-07:002015-08-24T17:27:49.925-07:00We live in Aerolandia: "Land of the Airport and Airplanes"<div class="yiv0362726380" id="yiv0362726380yui_3_16_0_1_1440442920554_2962" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
<span class="yiv0362726380" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">August 24, 2015</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv0362726380" id="yiv0362726380yui_3_16_0_1_1440442920554_2963" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Sounds like you guys had a busy week. We did as well. I’m sure Grandpa and the rest of the family must be sad, but it’s the trials that bring us closer to God in the end. I sure miss everyone. Everyone in the family looks so old and different now. </span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv0362726380" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">We found some families this week that went to church and have baptismal dates. Its really sad to see someone pass away, but when we see a family coming to know and live the gospel it brings so much happiness because you know, and they know, that they will be able to be together forever if they remain faithful. The Joy is incomparable as you see this change that happens in a family that you’ve known for just 2 or 3 weeks, that could affect generations of families; kids and grandkids, just like our family. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span class="yiv0362726380">This week I got to thinking a little about the scripture in D&C 4:7 and Matthew 7:7 that says “ask and it shall be given, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” This promise is repeated so many times in the scriptures and yet sometimes we ask for things and we don’t receive them, so I started to think about it. I found another scripture in D&C 8:9 (I think) that says we can ask for knowledge on what to do in any circumstance and God will let us know. So instead of asking for free blessings without<span class="yiv0362726380" id="yiv0362726380yui_3_16_0_1_1440442920554_2970"> </span>exercising my faith and works, I decided to ask the Lord exactly what I needed to do to be able to find people who want to be baptized in the next week, and then write down the revelations. As I sincerely asked Him, ideas and thoughts came to my mind about what I needed to do. As they came, I wrote them down knowing that if I followed these revelations I would be able to baptize people in the following week. </span>Well we didn’t end up having as many people to baptize for this coming Sunday that I had hoped for because I didn’t follow exactly what the Lord revealed to me. However, we did have 7 people at church and 5 of them have a baptismal date for this Sunday, and we baptized 2 people Sunday, M and his son, and soon his wife will be baptized too. I didn’t follow exactly as the Lord instructed me. If I had, we would have been more blessed, but I did give an honest and conscious effort and the Lord blessed us for it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span class="yiv0362726380" id="yiv0362726380yui_3_16_0_1_1440442920554_2960">So maybe when you come </span>we can go see the sights of Ceara like Jericoacoara and after see the sights of the Amazons, but I don’t really know what they have there to see, so you guys can decide or we can go to Iguazu or Rio. What looks the best to you guys works for me :) </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-23340108355942634982015-08-19T23:42:00.002-07:002015-08-19T23:57:29.029-07:00Life's like taking an 80 year long test<div class="MsoNormal">
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was going to pass away this week. It must be hard for Grandpa to not have her
around anymore, but the separation is only temporary. In the spirit world life
must be far more happy and with much less stress. Just think, life’s like
taking an 80 year long test. I feel really relieved after just 3 hours in the
BYU testing center, imagine how we must feel after 80 years! I’ll miss her, but
in a few short years we´ll see her again.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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at home this week haha. I wish I had someone to buy me Tru-moo. Without my
debit card from the "estates" life is sometimes rough, haha. I didn’t
even use it very much before it expired, but here in the area we are using lots
of busses and that means we have less money for food. However, just as our
money was running out and our food as well haha (our lunch appointment fell
through one day and we had to eat everything that was left in our house haha) a
member gave us 50 reais for lunch on Thursday. We then told her that we didn’t
need the money because on Thursday we are going to have a leadership council
with a seventy (#hype). But then she told us to keep the money and use it to
buy something some other time. The Lord really does take care of us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Tell Cole to get the breakfast ready
so he can serve me too in about 8 weeks :) haha. Elder Vasquez is getting near
the end, but we´re still giving our all. This week there was a lady that was
going to get baptized in the Aldeota Ward... which is the richest ward in
Fortaleza I think. (You should see the cars they have in their parking lot
during sacrament meeting!) but anyways... when she was interviewed for baptism
by the district leader she almost passed, but in the end she didn’t want to
commit herself to go to church and endure to the end. So Sunday morning during
their ward we went over there to interview her and it turns out that she wants
to go to church she just doesn’t know where the church is in her state where
she lives half the time. But we planned so the sisters would help her know
where it is and then she said that she would always go. So after the interview,
there was only 1 hour and 30 minutes until the baptism, and the font takes 3
hours to fill up. So we grabbed the buckets from the closet and started to fill
the font with a bunch of members. It was great to see everyone excited for the
baptism that the ward was going to have, because generally this ward doesn’t
have many baptisms, but thanks to the hard working sisters the ward gained one
more member and a lot of unity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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already home! I must really be getting close to the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">end #tranqueza haha. It'll be great to see him again.</span></span></div>
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church this week :) you never know, maybe you’ll be the difference for someone
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Bom dia! Sounds like a crazy week. I ate eggs this morning, and I was thinking about Grandma’s eggs that were always so good, but it’s tough to try and make them in Brazil because the cheese here is different and it’s not the same taste. I’ll remember to keep praying for you guys.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>So the other day our bishop told us that our lunch appointment wasn’t going to work out so we could just pass by the restaurant to eat there and he would pay the lady afterwards. So we went to the restaurant that is like a buffet, but you only get one plate, and you just put as much food on the plate as you can. So of course we loaded our plates and just as we were finishing our meal we got a phone call from one of the members saying that they were waiting for us to eat with them. We had just eaten a mountain of food and now we had another lunch. So Elder Vasquez being the good person that he is told them that we would be right over, haha, but we could hardly manage to walk, let alone eat anything. Good thing the house was 45 minutes away, it gave us time to digest a little bit, and when we got there it was rough because the members always want us to eat more, except we weren’t really able to eat at all. So we put just a little rice and beans and chicken on the plate at a time and we kept putting a little more and little more making it look like we were going for seconds and thirds so no one really noticed, but I think if I had eaten one more spoon full of rice I would have thrown up, haha. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>So this week at church just about all the members decided to not go. I don’t remember if I told you guys or not but for about 6 weeks we are going to a different church building because ours is being remodeled, and we are meeting 3 o’clock - 6 o’clock in another neighborhood. And the number of people that the ward has in sacrament meeting has been cut in half since it was moved to the new building. So after church we went to visit some recent convert families that usually always go to church but didn’t this week and some last week as well. I began to think a lot about what’s written in Mosiah 5:15 <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/5.15">www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/5.15</a>. Especially the beginning that talks about being firm and unmovable (at least I think that’s what it says in English) When I think about someone firm and immovable I think about Captain Moroni when Alma left the church in the hands of Helaman and his brothers. In Alma 46 <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/46">www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/46</a> it talks about how Captain Moroni reacted when he discovered that Amalickiah was turing everyone less active. He was firm and unmovable, and made others act the same way. And we as members should be like him as well, firm and immovable.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Also this week we were having some difficulties finding people to teach. So we searched and taught and searched, and we weren’t able to find anyone that said they would go to church with us and would read the Book of Mormon. I was getting frustrated a little bit and becoming less believing that we would be able to find people to baptize in the next week. There’s a principle in Ether 12:30 that I read this week, the last phrase says "wherefore thou workest after men have faith" which was exactly what I need this week. Elder Vasquez and I need to show our faith to the Lord, not just asking but acting. So as we continued we found a man that was standing on the side of the road who has a family of 5. We taught him the next day and the day after his 2 daughters and on Sunday he went to church with his son, and him and his son are going to be baptized this week, and the rest of the family is going to go to church this Sunday. The Lord really does hear our prayers and acts according to our faith. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-48079496901764806522015-08-03T08:59:00.001-07:002015-08-03T08:59:26.678-07:00The Spirit teaches people what words can't teach<div class="yiv6068381356" id="yiv6068381356yui_3_16_0_1_1438613428125_27479" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"> And also I’ve bought terere to remember Jackson,
it’s actually really good if you put lemonade in it instead of water, so that’s
what I’ve been doing and I feel like a true Brazilian, even though no one in
Fortaleza drinks terere and most of the people don’t even know what it is,
haha. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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but it paid off. Here in my new area we have a huuuggee ward, and we are also
right next to the airport haha. But to get to some of the lunches we have to
walk 50ish minutes and then to get back to the neighborhood where we work it’s
50 minutes again. It’s really big. Well at least it’s really big for me because
I’m used to small areas, so we’re pretty poor these days because sometimes we
have to use the bus because there’s just not enough time to walk, haha. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So this week we started our
week planning our goals and what we wanted to accomplish in the week, then we
presented our goals to God and told him what we would like Him to do for us
(which was prepare 3 people to be baptized next week). We then promised Him
that we would do our part (our goals... lessons taught and new investigators
found).. so as the week went on we couldn’t seem to manage to enter in anyone’s
house to teach. Everyone was rejecting us, which is pretty rare because we are
in Fortaleza and here everyone likes to hear "the word of God". So we
had a goal to find 15 new investigators and it was Friday night and we had only
found 4. We had promised God that we would find 15 so we continued searching
diligently. About 8 o’clock on Friday night we contacted a lady that was
friendly and told us we could go to her house to teach her family. When we
arrived there was a family of 6, 5 of which were at least 8 years old and thus
we found 5 new investigators in the last minutes of our day on Friday. Saturday
came around and the same thing happened again only now we needed to find 6 new
investigators in order to fulfill our promise to God and we had to interview
someone for the other elders in our zone at the church at 6 o’clock and we
still hadn’t found any new investigators, so we got back to the area about
7:20. We started to contact some people and look for our 6 new investigators.
We found a couple that accepted us well and we taught them in about 20 minutes
to have time to find other new investigators in order that we could keep our
promise that we made to God. We finished the lesson which went very well and
went to a man’s house that we had contacted earlier that week. We still needed
4 new investigators. When we got there, he invited us in right away. We started
to small talk with him a little and then asked if his family wanted to sit down
with us as well. He said no (of course), as almost all people do haha, so then
we asked if we could invite them. We went over and invited everyone that was
sitting inside the house watching tv and what naught. They told us to enter and
sit down on the sofa. All of a sudden there were 8 people in the room sitting
down to hear what we had to say! In the last minutes of Saturday night God
helped us find the new investigators!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So then we started to wait for these 3
people that we had asked God to help us find that would be baptized the next
week. We had been inviting everyone to be baptized in the next week but almost
all of the new investigators (I think all but 1) were unmarried couples, so
they would only be able to be baptized after getting married which usually
takes 3-4 weeks. So after meeting all of our goals, we were confident that the
Lord would bless us according to our promise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Sunday morning came around, we
had planned on visiting a couple that had been going to church for a while but
never had accepted to be baptized. They always loved the missionaries though.
We went to teach them and with confidence in the promise we had made with the
Lord told them that they would be prepared to be baptized this week. They
didn’t accept with certainty but they said they would prepare themselves
praying to know if they should be baptized this week and that when they know
they will follow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">And the third person that God
prepared for us to baptize... one of the ladies that was baptized this week
called us Sunday afternoon because she was having a lot of stomach pain and
said she wouldn’t be able to go to church or her baptism on that day. Elder
Vasquez looked at me for a second and said to her, all right I’ll call you back
in 2 minutes. And when he hung up the phone the Bishop’s counselor came over to
us and said what is it? By the way this member of the bishopric (é o CARA).
Elder Vasquez told him that she was sick and couldn’t get up off the bed. This
member said, no way, so let’s go get her and give her a blessing because she IS
GOING TO BE BAPTIZED TODAY. So he went over and borrowed the keys to someone’s
car and went with us to this investigator’s house. When we got there we said
that she would be better and that today was her baptism. The confidence that
she felt in us that she would be better and baptized made her get up and we
told her about blessings and she said that she had already received one in the
past. We blessed her that she would be better and would be able to be baptized
and she got up and got ready and came with us to church.... so here’s the part where
the 3rd person that the Lord was preparing for us comes in. As we were waiting
outside for the investigator to get ready a lady passed by and said, Lei’s
baptism is today isn’t it? And the member that was with us said, yes, do you
want to go? Go get ready and we’ll wait here, and she said you’ll wait?? And
the member said, of course! So we waited and she came to church with us, and
she loved it. She came out of nowhere and the Lord made it possible that
through this ride that we gave to the investigator going to her house and through
the invitation to go to church with us from the member, we had one more person
at church that God will prepare to be baptized. He heard our prayers and did His
part because we did ours. We set goals that were difficult for us and acted
with faith. We asked the Lord specifically what we wanted and he heard us and
answered because of our faith that was in Him. It was a miracle that she was at
church. God heard us and answered. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So that’s about all I got time
to write this week, I also had to give a talk for 30 minutes and was given the
topic about an hour and a half before church, haha but it went well. Hope you
guys have a good week!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love you
guys!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">So this week was great. We had lots of things that happened and I don’t even know what all to write in this email because there’s not much time. So I’ll start with the baptisms that we had this week, We baptized a mom and daughter. Next week is going to be the baptism of her other daughter that is 14 years old, but I’m being transferred to Zona Aldeota, and I’ll be Zone leader of the secretaries and the sisters, haha. It’s the down town super chique zone, so I’m pretty excited. My companion will be Élder Vasquez who was my zone leader the transfer before I came to Beira Rio. I’m really excited because he’s my good friend. So this week I saw a lot of progress in the woman we baptized as she progressed for baptism. She said that in the past she had never had much desire to go to church because the churches all teach things that contend against the others. She said that one time she said a prayer on her knees in her house asking God to show her which was the church that she should go to, but since that day, it’s been a long time, and she had pretty much given up. When we started to teach her we established her baptismal date and told her that God would prepare her for the 19th of July. We then told her that she needed to ask God if the church was true and if Joseph Smith was a true prophet. She asked just as we had invited her, but she hadn’t received an immediate answer. We continued promising her that God would prepare her to be baptized on the 19th and that she would know that the church is true. After she went to church for the first time last week, she said she liked it a lot and that she would continue going. She continued to say that she had never had the desire or feeling to go to church before, until she went to the Church of Jesus Christ. We shared Ether 4:11 with her and told her that she had received her answer. In the lessons with her, she accepted everything we taught her... She has a lot of faith. She was able to leave behind her addictions in that same moment to be able to be baptized and enter into God’s kingdom, and to help her daughters do the same. </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">Also, this week was my birthday and I have never eaten so much cake in my life. You know how it is here with the people when it comes to eating, they always want you to eat more, haha. "M" (recent convert of 3 weeks) made me a 2 layer cake that I sent you in a picture, it was with that kind of frosting that you like, Mom. Then everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to me. They tried to make it a surprise but I already knew because none of them are very good at hiding anything haha. They are a great family. </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So this week was really good. Sounds like for you guys it was too. It must be fun to go on vacation, here we don’t do much vacationing, however, sometimes we get to ride on the bus to go on splits and to some district meetings, haha. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So this week we had 2 baptisms here in the ward. I’ll send you the pictures. One was a lady, that we baptized that is 30 years old, she is the sister of one of those kids that received the priesthood the other week, and the other was a 15 year old girl, who is another recent convert’s sister. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So I’m 98 percent sure that my camera was robbed the other day when I was on the bus and it was in my bag and the zipper was open. So now I’m just asking everyone to send me their pictures. The camera was good while it lasted, but I’ll still be able to send pictures, so it will all be fine. So this week for my birthday everyone’s inviting us over, haha. All of the recent converts and investigators. So I’m sure it’ll be nice. It’s good to have you birthday in an area where you’ve been for 4 months instead of an area where you’ve only been there for a week like last year. So I’m sure I’ll have some pictures to send this week. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So these days Elder Menezes and I have been challenging everyone who doesn’t have a marriage problem <i>(meaning those who aren't living together without being married)</i> to be baptized in 2 Sundays. We teach people about how God loves us and about how his gospel was restored and how important it is that they are baptized, and how blessed they will be. What really makes the difference is when we testify sincerely that the gospel is true and really was restored, and that they really will be blessed if they are baptized and keep their covenants with God. We are also singing hymns in every lesson to bring the Spirit. It really is the Spirit that converts people, not time or any other method. We leave our house set to return to our house at night with at least one new baptismal date. I only have 3 minutes, but this week we found a family, mom and 2 daughters, that was extremely prepared and open to hear us. The mom and daughter went to church Sunday and will be baptized this coming Sunday. The Lord is blessing us a lot and increasing our faith. </span></span></div>
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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
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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
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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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! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-66119950412638984392015-06-29T19:18:00.000-07:002015-06-29T19:19:04.008-07:00I have more certainty than I've ever had that God lives and answers all our prayers<div class="MsoNormal">
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Cole got such a good deal! Who was it that interviewed him?? I knew there were
better jobs in life than working at Oakview for minimum wage, however Cole will
be folding clothes instead of doing man’s work. I’m sure he´ll like it there.
It’ll be nice to buy clothes from him at the Nike outlet, haha. Is Cole
excited to be moving? Probably not.. but he´ll be going on his mission soon and
off to college anyway</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">. Sounds like Jackson and May are enjoying the married life and
finding fun things to do in Utah. I still want to know if Jackson’s going to
sell his car to me when I get home :) I liked the picture of Ben’s daughter in
the Mustang too, haha. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a little blonde girl
like her haha. Hopefully you get better from you black eye, Mom. I was remembering
the other day when I hit Cole in the eye with that stick and he went to school,
I think it was the first day of school, with a black eye haha. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: large;">So this week was really great. Israel
and his less active friend that’s been going to church with him for 6
weeks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>received the priesthood, and
I had the opportunity to give the priesthood to Israel which was cool because
I’ve never done that before. This week they’re going to get some church clothes
so he will be able to pass the sacrament next week. It’s great to see the
progress of the recent converts. Also, this last week we decided to have a fast
on Tuesday to find some golden investigators. So we started looking and talking
to everyone and after teaching one lady who just about punched us when we told
he about the first vision, we found a 19 year old guy that was sitting on his
door step reading the Bible. We went over to him and started talking to him
about what he was reading. He said he wanted to read because he worries about
his salvation, and then we started to teach him about salvation. We soon
entered and discovered that in his house lives a family of 6 people. After
teaching them for one week, 3 of them went to church this week, J (19 years
old), M (23 years old) and D (13 years old) and they’re getting ready to be
baptized this Sunday. D was really ready to be taught. Before we even taught
him his Mom told us how D had told her that he wants to be baptized, before we
even taught him! We hope to see the whole family at church this week and to
start working on the parent’s marriage so they can be baptized as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: large;">So to help them feel welcome in the
ward we organized with all the organizations (Elders Quorum, Relief Society,
and YM) to pass by their house this week to visit them/ invite them to mutual
or what not. All the members were excited to help and to see the ward grow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: large;">... Satan really is the father of
lies as it says in 2 Nephi 2:18. He makes people, especially youth, believe in
various theories about the existence of God and the truthfulness of the church.
I´ve already seen multiple friends of mine from BYU fall away from the church
because of doubts that turn into barriers for their spiritual growth, and I
remember a talk that Jeffery R Holland gave <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/lord-i-believe?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/lord-i-believe?lang=eng</a>, I think its called "Lord I Believe"
when he says that we should always recognize what we already do know to help us
discover what we don’t know yet. He says leading with our unbelief is like
stuffing a turkey through the beak, haha. Everyone has doubts and everyone
falls down every once in a while, but this must be one of the reasons that we
have families in this life. To help us get back up and reach exaltation. This
week on my mission I have more certainty than I have ever had that God lives
and hears all of our prayers and that the Atonement is very real. I saw it this
week change a family in 5 days from breaking all kinds of commandments to being
ready to be baptized. No normal worldly influence could have made them change
if not the Spirit made possible through the Atonement. I feel the power of God
as I study and teach. It is all so real to me this week. Satan wants to trick
everyone, but we have our families to help us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: large;">Well I don’t have much more time, but
I hope you guys have a good week. Don’t forget to buy pizza for the
missionaries :) haha Love you guys and hope your eye gets better!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-39078959880639045292015-06-22T20:00:00.000-07:002015-06-22T20:14:22.380-07:00Crazy how small the world can be<div class="MsoNormal">
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haha. Even here in Brazil where phones are about 6 times more expensive,
everyone has smart phones, haha. Sounds like Dad’s really living the life there
without a job, haha, it’s like a mini retirement, so has it been decided where
he’s going to work?? Is it going to be in Washington for sure?? The Cavs
lost??? Everyone here was telling me they won?? But then again no one in Brazil
even watches the NBA haha at least not here in the north western part of
Brazil. I met a guy this week who is less active, he is 19, who plays like semi
professional travel basketball here.. I don’t really understand the system, but
he travels all over the state, and we were going to plan at church to play
today during our p-day... however he didn’t go to church -_- so the plans didn’t go too well,
haha. But one of these days it’ll work out. I can’t believe the Cabin has a
toilet now! Chique! I miss the good ol cabin. I feel like I haven’t been there
for 5 years. </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Leadership Council which is always quite the experience. We talked more about
following up and after the council this Sunday I was seeing how these things
that we learn on the mission apply in all parts of life. While we were at leadership
council we talked about faith and miracles. Then while we were talking, someone
entered into the church and Sister Bonini and one of the Assistants went to
talk to him as we continued the training in the chapel. When they came back
they told us what happened. A man was there and he said that he had always
wanted to enter into this church, but it was always closed so he never entered.
He lived on the other side of the road. They then told him about how the church was the restored church of Jesus Christ and about how his family should be baptized
and he said he would come back on Sunday, and they invited him to be baptized in
3 weeks and he accepted and said he'll bring his whole family! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Also, this week we learned
about teaching by the Spirit. In D&C 42:14 it says that if we don’t receive
the Spirit we "shall not teach" and many times many members and
missionaries think this means that we aren’t allowed to teach if we aren’t
feeling the Spirit. However, that’s not what it’s saying. It’s saying that we
don’t have the capacity to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">teach</i> the
gospel without the Spirit. We preach the gospel, but never teach. The spirit
teaches. So if we don’t have the Spirit the person WON’T be taught. It’s the Spirit
that changes the person. So our most important role as instructors isn’t to
perfectly explain apostasy and the components of the church, but our most
important role is to make sure the person being taught feels the Spirit and is
moved by the Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">Also this week was Israel’s
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at a bus stop to get on the bus during splits and there was a guy that looked
at me and said, “Elder Udy, I met an Elder Udy in my mission. I think he’s your brother!” His name on the mission, I think, was
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-83885697490017984082015-06-15T10:41:00.001-07:002015-06-15T10:42:47.773-07:00Faith can bring power from heaven<div class="p1">
<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">June 15, 2015</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">So sounds like your week was pretty exciting. Is there anyone in the family that’s not married yet?? haha Seems like everyone’s getting married while I’ve been on the mission. That’s exciting that most of the family was able to go to Heather’s wedding. I miss being in the temple. I’m sure it was great for everyone to be there together.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">Here our week was great. We’re planning Israel’s baptism for next week and finding lots of people to teach. Here in Fortaleza the people are very receptive. Here you can talk to anyone in the street and they’ll be happy to have you visit them in their house and talk about "the Word of God.” My new companion Elder Menezes is great. He´s really dedicated. He’s from São Paulo and arrived from the CTM into the mission with me. He’s really excited to do everything he can to help the zone baptize more. This week we’re planning on having 10 baptism in the zone. 7 of the 9 companionships will have baptisms! </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">This week I read a talk called "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ" by Elder Gene R. Cook of the Seventy. <a href="http://www.lds.org/new-era/1982/10/faith-in-the-lord-jesus-christ?lang=eng">www.lds.org/new-era/1982/10/faith-in-the-lord-jesus-christ?lang=eng</a> It's kind of old. I think he gave it in the 80s but it changed my attitude about what faith really is and how it works. How faith can bring power from heaven into our lives and those of the people around us to help us pursue our righteous desires. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: large;">So I don’t have much time, but I’ll write more about how this talk made a difference in my mission next week. But, I hope you guys have a good week and that Cole has a good birthday! Sounds like he’s been enjoying his time with Dad and his friends. I hope you guys have a good week. Love you guys! I'll send a picture of me and Elder Menezes. Boa Semana!!!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-70005708385389712372015-06-10T15:50:00.000-07:002015-06-10T15:55:23.661-07:00My new companion is Elder Menezes<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">June 8, 2015</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Mom, I hope you had a good birthday! I felt the desire to drink a cold Pepsi on the deck when you said that’s what you were doing... And it sounds like Cole’s feeling my (summer job hunting) pain. Tell him to just create I-phone apps to make a living :) or mow laws, maybe he can go door to door selling his lawn mowing service or do something creative because everyone wants to make more than minimum wage. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">So this week (tomorrow) I’ll get my new companion, Élder Menezes (o cara). Everyone loves him. This is going to be his first area as zone leader. I Think we arrived in the mission on the same day, but I’m not really sure because there were like 40 people that got here on that day, and I was extremely confused the whole day, haha. But I’m really excited to be his companion. It’s going to be a great transfer. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">This morning I was reading the Liahona (conference Ensign) that we got this week. I was reading some of the parts that talk about the family because we are teaching one family about marriage that went to church this week and love the church and have been together for 23 years and still haven’t gotten married!! They want to get married, but he has to get a day off from work to be able to go downtown to schedule the marriage. Also, we are teaching another family, well mostly just their son that’s been to church 3 times now, and while we were talking with the family yesterday they started telling us how hard it is for them to raise their kids. As they were telling us about their problems, I just kept thinking about how the gospel could be an answer to their problems... As we talked to them the other day they started to like what we were saying, and they said that they are going to go to church. As we were walking home I thought about how we could pick some parts from the talks of the living apostles for them to apply in their lives and learn for themselves that these men are true apostles, and that the church is true. I decided on a talk from Quinten L Cook from the conference, The Lord is my Light (see link below).</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Also this week a lady that used to live in our ward came to visit. She moved to another city a few years ago, but she is one of the first members of Fortaleza. She was baptized about 30 years ago, and I was so amazed at how she really lives what it means to be a member missionary. She talks about the gospel wherever she’s at and she does it in a way that people like to hear. Because of her devotion to being a member missionary and being obedient to God, she has the Spirit so strong with her. She taught a lesson with us and her testimony made the investigators really feel the Spirit. Members can make all the difference. I learned that a member can always have the Spirit with him or her if he or she strives with real intent to keep the commandments and share the gospel with anyone that’s receptive. She said she asks people on the bus or in any place, “Are you religious? Would you like to visit a church that is marvelous?” And she just converses with the people. I want to be like her after the mission. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-760996452947405422015-06-01T17:14:00.001-07:002015-06-01T17:16:07.027-07:00With the help of the Lord, all things are possible<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">June 1,
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">So today we
went to downtown Fortaleza for Elder Moroni, so he could buy things for his
family. I had to really focus so that I didn’t get truncky while we were there,
haha. I don’t think my next companion will be in his last transfer, so hopefully
I’ll be able to avoid these problems of tranqueza. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">So this is the last week of this
transfer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is only 5 weeks. The
time goes by so fast! This week this 13 year old kid came to church all by
himself, and he went to play soccer at the church with the young men during the
week too all by himself, and we were pretty happy to see that because usually
no one does these things completely on their own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After he went to church he said to us, “I decided that this
is the church that I’m going to continue going to for sure.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">He was even asking the members at church how baptism works and
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be the 14th this month. This week we’re going to have to talk to eevverrryyy
onnnneeee to find some new investigators to baptize, but with the help of the
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">I’m glad to
hear that Grandma and Grandpa are back at home. I’m sure Grandpa was getting
tired of sleeping in a chair. But anyways, I don’t really have much time
today because we had to go downtown, and it took a while. But I’ll write more
next week :) Have a good week :) Don’t forget to buy pizza for the missionaries
:) One of the members here bought us a chocolate pizza this week, and it was
sooo good :) Have a good week, love you guys! -Élder Udy</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-87480005726727160762015-05-25T09:16:00.002-07:002015-05-25T09:17:33.496-07:00God is aware of all the prayers of His children<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">I can’t believe Jackson and May have
been married for a year already??? It seems like they just got married the
other day. Sounds exciting. Elder Moroni is 2 weeks from going home. He’s all
worried about who he’s going to marry haha. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Sounds like the missionaries in Slippery
Rock found a family! Parabéns! Here we had a baptism this week. Her name is "B" and she has a 2 year old daughter. It was great at the
baptism because a lot of people came to participate and the young single adults
sang a special musical number and made cake. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I was praying and asking what we should do to find more families and men to
teach, and I don’t really remember at what point, but while I was praying it
came to my mind a part of our area that we hadn’t been working that much, and
we had some time the next day without any set appointments, so the next day I
planned with my companion and we decided to go to that part of the area to talk
to all the people in the road and try to find some "elects". Still
not realizing that that had been the answer to my prayer, we went to that part
of the area and started talking to everyone. It seemed like everyone we talked
to was either drunk, getting ready to get drunk, or uninterested. On our way
back from this part of the area to another appointment, we entered into this
little shortcut alleyway. I don’t remember why we entered there because usually
we don’t, but this time we did without really thinking. While we were walking,
we saw a man that was sitting in his doorway in silence. As missionaries do, we
decided to talk to him. After talking for a few moments we asked if we could
enter to teach him about the gospel and he let us in with great pleasure. He
started to tell us about how he had been in his doorway thinking about God and
how he needed help because he was without a job and had 5 kids and a wife and
he had been feeling that he needed to be more obedient to God. As he talked to
us he started to cry and looked up at us and said, you guys are the answer to
my prayer, and when he said that I thought to myself, "and you are the
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-41959416736902101662015-05-25T09:00:00.000-07:002015-05-25T09:10:27.197-07:00I learned the importance of following the promptings of the Spirit<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background: white; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"> Nothin like some pictures from good ol´Slippery
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and started handing out more to other people. He said the result was amazing
that because of all the books he handed out 7 people were baptized soon after,
and more time down the road some people that had set the book aside initially,
had picked it up again to read and felt the Spirit that comes from reading it
and were baptized and later thanked this faithful member. I thought it was
interesting how simple it can be to make such a big difference in the lives of
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> Today Elder Moroni and I were
sitting in the Super Market eating lunch thinking about all the people that
were around us, and what will be the destination of their souls in 2000 or so
years. No one really knows until judgment. But while I thought about the
salvation of these people, I felt the desire increase inside of me to share
with the people what we have, and what we know. I believe that the process must
be the same for members as well. When we think about those around us in an eternal
perspective, we have more desire to share the restored gospel with them, especially
our closest friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We help our
friends with worldly cares and desires and want to make their lives more
joyful, so why would we not help them with their eternal salvation and make
their eternity more joyful?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> This week we decided that we
would increase our number of contacts each day and we started talking to everybody,
and we found some great new investigators. We found a 19 year old girl who has
a 2-year old daughter. We taught her for the first time Tuesday, and when we
returned on Thursday we marked her baptism for the 30th and she said "I’ve
already had some people asking me if I’m going to be Mormon. I told them that I
am going to go to church and if all goes well, I’ll continue going
always." And soon after she accepted the baptismal date for the 30th. So
we told her that she will be prepared for baptism by reading the Book of Mormon
every day and praying everyday and going to church every Sunday, and receiving
our visits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went to visit her and we talked about how she felt at church. She said that she
felt so good and happy while she was there. She said she tried hard to listen
and to understand everything. So after she said how she had received a testimony
that the church is true, we read Luke 5:1-11 with here about how the apostles
left their old lives to follow Jesus after they had received testimonies. We
then invited her to be baptized this week promising her that using her faith
she could be prepared by Sunday. And she accepted! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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someone exercise their faith to follow Jesus Christ and see how when they keep
little commitments like reading the Book of Mormon every night and saying
heartfelt prayers and going to church, they really do start to feel the power
of the Holy Ghost, that gives them a testimony of the truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> This week I learned about the
importance of following the promptings we feel from the Spirit as we ask God in
prayer for advice and answers. About 5 or 6 weeks ago when we started to teach
one of our investigators, I remember one night I was praying asking what we
could do to help her feel ready to be baptized in the next week. I remember that
I felt an impression to give her a Liahona (Ensign magazine) that has a bunch
of pictures of the temple and talks about temples, and teach her about temple
marriage (she’s 21). However, for some reason, probably because it was
something kind of different to talk about in the second visit, I ended up not
following the prompting. Only this week did I find out that a few days before
we visited her, maybe 1 week, she was having difficulty with a particular
commandment, and when she went to church for the first time the first talk was
a high priest that gave a great talk on keeping that particular commandment.
She said that she felt touched during that talk. However, we didn’t even know
that she was having a problem with that commandment. However, God knew, and he
told me, I just didn’t listen until after. However, I believe if I had done
what the Spirit told me to do that week, she would have been touched even more.
It would have been proof to her that we represent Jesus and that the Spirit
tells us what we need to say. I believe that if we had taught her the about
that particular commandment and temple marriage in the first week, when the Spirit
told me to, she would have been baptized already. I learned a strong lesson on
the importance of trusting in God and in his Spirit. Even when we don’t want do
something out of the ordinary, whatever the Spirit tells us to do, is the will
of God and it should be done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> So this week was pretty
eventful, I don’t really have much more time to write, but sounds like you guys
had a good week too. Today for P-day we are going to go to the shirt store to
make our zone shirts and maybe next week we´ll be able to get the hot water
working in our house :)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope you
have a good week! Love you guys. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">May 11, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">Oi, So I’m pretty excited to see what
Cole gets on the AP History test. It’s possible that he will get a 4 or a 5....
but it’s also possible that he’ll get a 2.. or a 1 ;) haha, we´ll see what
happens. It was great to see you guys on Sunday... but it’s always kinda weird
for me because I never know what to say and it’s hard to converse normally in English.
However, it’s good to just talk a little bit. Here everything is going great.
My new companion, Elder Moroni, is great. One of my best companions. Even
though he only has 4 weeks left on his mission, he still works as if he only
had 1 year out. We’re making lots of changes in the area (finding new investigators) and we’re excited to help the rest of the zone. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">This week we started a sanctifying
process so we feel the Spirit more with us. We had a fast, and during this fast
we wrote down all the things that we feel distance us from the Spirit. After
the fast was over we made a commitment to not do any of the things on the list
for 40 days.. or 35 in our case because the transfer is only 5 weeks. I’ve
already seen a difference it makes in the lessons and in our lives. We feel
closer to God and we feel the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. We
actually feel it all the time. I remember some missionaries saying that we as
missionaries get accustomed to feeling the Spirit so much that we stop
realizing it is always with us. However, when we make a conscious effort to
stop doing any little thing that separates us from the Spirit, we FEEL the constant
influence of the Holy Ghost. It’s not just a thing that accompanies us because
we were ordained Elders. It is with us when we are worthy of His presence, and
when we sanctify ourselves. His presence grows much, much stronger when we are
worthy, and the Spirit makes all the difference in the work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">I don’t really have much time today,
but I will send some pictures to make up for that. I hope you guys have a great
week and I hope Mother’s Day was good. Thanks for all the prayers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">Trying to fix our shower head</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11759348851288184847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776561271120648938.post-47246634740653561792015-05-04T08:22:00.005-07:002015-05-04T08:39:28.923-07:00Elder D. Todd Christofferson came and it was "bom demais."<div class="MsoNormal">
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life. I’m sure he’s enjoying a computer in his office that has a screen 10
inches bigger than the TV he bought me for college ;) haha. I always thought it
would be cool to have one of those giant Macs that you see at Best Buy. So we
didn’t end up having the “Last Supper” for Elder Vallos because every one of
our investigators or recent converts wanted to make dinner for us haha for his
farewell. So yesterday and today I’m in a trio with Elder Benitez and Elder
Alexander, however tomorrow my new companion will arrive, Elder Moroni. I lived
with him in my first area. It’s been a while but we’re good friends. This will
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13.0pt;">When you sit and listen
to an apostle it’s like sitting and listening to Jesus Christ. He came with his
wife and Elder Costa (from the 70) and his wife as well. I really liked what
Elder Costa taught us about reaching our potential. He said that he often thinks
about his heroes and examples in the Book of Mormon of the many missionaries
that had so much success. He said he ponders often about why they had so much
success, and he came to the conclusion that it was because they understood who
they were (children of God). He then went on to read the end of Doctrine and
Covenants 138 with us.. I think verse 55-58.. that talks about who we were in
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told us that we are all included in that scripture
that talks about the great and noble spirits that were prepared to teach the
restored gospel in the last days. (for scripture reference click here) <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.55-56?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.55-56?lang=eng</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">Sister Chistofferson also spoke to us.
What I remember the most was a story about Elder Christofferson’s mission. She
said that while he was serving in Argentina, there was a new city that the
mission president wanted to start the church in, so he took 4 of the best
missionaries he had in the mission, obedient, diligent, knowledgeable, good
missionaries, and sent them to work in that city to start the church. She went
on to explain how they worked hard for about 3 weeks and they became worried
because they were having no success whatsoever. With the lack of success, they
decided to have a fast to discover what they were doing wrong, and what they needed
to change. During the fast, while they were praying, they all received a strong
impression that the work in that city was not going to progress until they
started to love the people. And surely enough, when they received that
prompting they made the changes necessary and the church began to grow.... It’s
the same thing for us in our mission… if we start to actually love the people,
they will feel a difference. And this week I began to think about who we are as
missionaries and members of the church. As Elder Christofferson put it, we are
saviors to these people, and I started to think about how important I am, or we
are, to the eternal happiness of everyone that is in the road or walking past
me or who I visit, because we were prepared since before the world was created,
until moments before we were born, to bring our brothers and sisters into the
Lord’s restored church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elder Chrstofferson was great. This coming transfer will be the best one yet.
Things are great here on the mission. You guys will love it here when you come
to visit in....5 months! 0: This week I’ll pass the 1 year and 6 month mark
#4thQuarter I forwarded the email that our secretary sent me so hopefully that
helps. Can’t wait to talk to you guys on Sunday. Have a good week! Love You
guys.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">Nooosssaa I can’t believe Dad doesn’t
have a job now.... imagine all the things he´ll be able to do around the house
now! Maybe he´ll even get that model airplane working that he promised me when
I was 3 :) haha I’m sure lots of job opportunities will show up. So we will be
able to Google Hangout on Mother’s Day in a member’s house... so let me know if
3 o’clock my time works for you guys. And yes Elder Ballard is the secretary...
and I actually forgot to call him so that’s my fault, haha, but I won’t forget
again. And yes we are from the same group... and I’m pretty sure our
release date is October 13th. O and my camera still works. I don’t
know why it wasn’t charging, but all is good now :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">However, I think he should sell the car after this summer because I want it :)
haha I already told the other missionaries how I might get a mini cooper after
the mission! haha I’m glad May is starting to like the idea of having a
mini-cooper, but maybe if I can get her on my side, we can get Jackson to sell
the car. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elder Vallo and I have been teaching this 21 year old girl "L" for 3 or so weeks,
she’s our new ward mission leader´s friend. We taught her the first week and
she was really excited to go to church and was sure she was going to receive confirmation from God that it was all true.. but she said she didn’t feel
anything and after that day, she stopped reading the Book of Mormon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Saturday night some of our
appointments started to fall through and Elder Vallo and I were debating if we
should go back to teach her because she seemed like she wasn't interested anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walking to church we turned into the street of the church and we saw in front
of us our ward mission leader.. who was with what looked like "L". She was at
church! We didn’t know how that was possible. Of all of the people we were
teaching, she was one of the last ones we expected to show up at church. Turns
out that she had called our ward mission leader’s sister Saturday night saying
that she wanted to go to church! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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many people that act indifferent and we see so many people who say, "if I can, I’ll show up", that our faith begins to falter and we forget that God has all power
over all things and it is He that is at the head of His work. After seeing the
change that happened in her, I know that the work is God’s and the power is His,
and because of what happened with Lara I will never again not pray for an
investigator that needs to go to church or read the Book of Mormon, falsely
thinking that God won’t help that person because they are not committed enough. Seeing her at church, really was a miracle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13pt;">Cole is looking pretty tall these
days. How tall is he?? We gotta get him in the weight room ;) sounds like you’re
treating the missionaries well there. Here, sometimes the members can’t feed us
(once a week) so they give us money to buy lunch, and we’ve been buying things
that are cheaper to be able to use most of the money for Elder Vallos "Last
Supper" here in the mission haha. This is his last week. Missionaries go crazy
when they’re so close to returning home haha. But anyways, that’s about all I
got. I hope Dad manages to get a job, and that Jackson comes to his senses and
decides to sell me the mini cooper. Have a good week! Love you guys. Let me
know if 3:00 works for Mothers Day, and send me my Google Hangout password and
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Sounds like all is good in good ol Slippery Rock. I kind a figured that the e-mail wouldn’t get to you guys.. the mission secretary is new, and I think he’s still learning lots of things. But I’ll talk to him today. Fred must be pretty fast because I remember the kid that broke the hurdles record was an animal, haha. So that’s pretty exciting. Today I went to see if I had any pictures on my camera to send you guys... but when I went to turn on my camera.. it didn’t turn on. So I thought maybe the battery was dead... so I tried to charge the battery, but it wouldn’t charge... and then we left to send e-mails. So I don’t really know what happened with it, but hopefully I can get it working. So this week “F” didn’t end up being baptized. 2 weeks ago he was all excited for his baptism, and we were planning it. However, when we went to talk to his mom, she said she would be out of town and she really wanted to be able to see the baptism. So we re-scheduled 2 weeks ahead for this past weekend. However, when you delay baptism, the adversary starts to go to work. Felipe and his family are now having some doubts. But we´ll see what happens this week. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">This week our ward mission leader asked to be released, so now we don’t have one. However, I’m sure we´ll get a new ward mission leader soon. I can’t remember if I told you guys or not about how an apostle is coming here again. Everyone says its going to be Elder D Todd Christofferson, but no one really knows because they never said. So it’s going to be next Tuesday with the 2 missions (Fortaleza and Fortaleza East) in the same chapel. This week I can’t really think of much that happened at the moment. Sometimes I write things down in my planner that I want to write about, but this week I forgot. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">This week I learned about the importance of references and the work of members. One of the missionaries that lives with me, Elder Benitez, was telling me about how in the mission.. Salt Lake South, I think.. some of the missionaries baptize around 200 people during their mission. In Pennsylvania I remember like 3 baptisms in 7 years! How can Utah be so different? One of the missionaries here, Elder Bishop, has a brother that served in Salt Lake. And he said the difference is that the missionaries always receive references. If a ward trusts its missionaries, and passes references to the missionaries, and teaches with them, the ward will grow. The members can be the difference in their own ward if they want to be. So here we’ve started thinking about how we can use the ward activities and other means to find more people to teach. I think I wrote the word references, but I think the right word in English is referrals, haha. But anyways, I hope all is well and that Bandit’s still able to walk. <i>(just old age)</i> I’ll write down what I want to write about this week, so I remember more next Monday. Have a good week! Love you guys.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">-Élder Udy</span></span></div>
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