Monday, April 30, 2012

30 April 2012


Well hello!                                                                                                    
It´s been another week here in the mission field in the Brazil Salvador South Mission. And a crazy week at that. My new Companion is a great missionary, he is really eager to be here and he knows how to work. I am really grateful because i can be a really hard working missionary. The Elder who was with me those 2 ish weeks for training, said that i was the hardest working missionary he´d ever been companions with, but i mentioned this because my companion is a hard worker too. He doesn´t complain or waste time, but he just goes.

Sunday we grabbed a bus with the branch and went up to Porto Seguro for the District conference. District conference is the equivalent to Stake conference, but with our little district of branches. It was great. I am so used to travelling by bus now. Haha 4 hours in the bus doesn´t phase me anymore. One of the pictures i am sending is of a cool mountain that i see every time i leave Teixeira.

This week we are praying for a miracle. We have been teaching this boy Alef for a long time! He always comes to church each week and wants to be baptized. His mom already said no when she was traveling. Well the Lord blessed us with this week. Alef´s mom will return to Itabuna on the 7th, which gives us this week to teach her a little and get authorization to baptize Alef. I know that with the Lord´s help, this is possible. We just got to have the spirit with us and pray and do all we can.
Other than that, not much is new. I lost my ´swim and dive´ basketball shorts, i think that Elder J. took them. Hah i´m kidding, i have no idea where they went, but i am sad cause i loved those shorts. Another missionary probably took them by accident. Maybe.

Other than all this. I am trying to do my best. My faith is really growing and i really want to have more success. I am trying to find all the things i am doing wrong or the things that i can better so that we can baptize everybody here in teixeira. It is amazing how the Lord uses our difficulties to help us grow. Well i really want to grow cause i am sick of difficulties!!! Haha :)
The church is true. Christ lives and guides this church. I know this is true. It is the only way to return to our Father in happiness and it is one of the reasons that we are here in the first place. I invite you to give a reference this week to the missionaries. Someone that they can teach that is a friend. Someone that you can go to the lessons and support them. The Lord will prepare for friends for the Elders. So just do it :)