I have hardly had time to breath. Monday and Tuesday we
spent running back in forth from the office and working trying to
prepare for the zone leader council we had here on Wednesday while at
the same time trying to not kill our investigators. Thats something
really tough here, the people we teach need to be fed and not always we
have time to do so. But the training went really well on Wendesday, one
of the best i´ve ever seen. Me and Elder Baker gave a trainiing on
qualities of a true leader: We highlighted in the scriptures the
differences between Moroni and Ammalickah. We suggested two ways that we
can become true leaders: First, be an example in all things, including
the numbers. Seoncd, consecrate your mission. We passed the short new
church film. "Treasure from the Heaven." (Or something like that, not
sure how you translate it.) If you haven´t seen it, watch it, its about
the Story of John Tanner.
The minute the training ended we had to sprint to
change out of our suits and clean up all the computer stuff so we could
catch a taxi to the rodiviáiria to take us to Caxias!! The division
there was fantastic. We sat down with the LZ´s there and disucssed their
plans and some ways we could improve their zone. Caio found out i was
coming and arranged for them to spend the night with us, that was so
much fun. We visited a few of my old baptisms. We had one of the most
powerful lessons ever with Diego and Marcia and their family. They are
having a lot of problems, and Caio thought them seeing me could help a
lot. It was such a fun reuinion. Marcia started crying when she saw me
and unfortunately just layed out all her and Diego´s problems to me in
front of the kids. I thought i had already seen those kids cry for the
last time. It broke my heart. But i felt a strong impression that i
needed to read the story of abraham and issac, and highlight the love
the boy had for his father, and the father had for the boy, how willing
they were to do ANYTHING because of that love, something that i had
never done before. I honestly told them how much i loved their family,
and that it was Marcias responsibility to get her two boys on a mission
so they could have a better life that she did, with or without her
husband. It was one of those visits, everyone was crying, the spirit was
so strong you could have cut it with a knife. Its incredible how the
Lord puts the right people in the right place at the right time to bless
lives. Im so thankful to be able to be one of those people every once
in a while. We closed the night doing a baptismal interview for them,
which was cool cause its been a while since i´ve done a baptismal
interview!! Then we closed the night with Pizza Hut... I love Pizza
Hut.
Today was crazy. It was President´s birthday on
Monday and since we can´t really do anything cool on a work day we
pretended like we forgot but planned a huge Churrasco for him at our
house!! We got Sister in on it to pretend like she had to stop by to
grab some clothes and we surprised him! It was so funny, it was way fun
to do something nice for our beloved leader. He was so surprised and
impressed at our grilling ability! It was a lot of fun, i attached some
pictures, and i have a bunch more. If I can ill send the video, its
funny.
This week will be crazy, we have a division with the
secrateries tomorrow, Monday we have a divison with Novo Hamburgo,
Tuesday and Wednesday we will be in PASSO FUNDO!! And then Friday Im
going back to GRAVATAÍ!! So... basically we will have Thursday here in
our area... and we will probably have stuff to do in the office...
yikes. Only with prayer. I love you all very much, don´t forget about me
and stay super classy.
Oh yeah and you guys can officially start on the
"wife hunt." I want a 5'4 inch Brasilian dark skin blue eyes preferrably
dark hair that speaks fluent english and porteguese has parents sealed
in the temple and knows how to make "torta de bolacha," She has to love
American Football and coka cola. (DIET, of course.) She likes to hike
but hates snakes and will probably want me help her when she has to
climb something. (that´s cute.) She kills spiders in the house and THEN
cleans up the residue. I have a few other requirements but ill probably
give them to one of my brothers n laws later. THANKS!
