Saturday, March 24, 2012

Viva La Vida

This week was fantastic. We got our butts worked, but those are the weeks where you learn the most.
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!



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