Happy Halloween!!!!!

It´s crazy that it´s already Halloween, time is flying by right now, I still feel like last week just started. Here´s what´s going on right now.

First we work with the AP´s here like everyday, we are trying to open up a new ward here so we have splits or go in a trio all the time. They are crazy good at teaching and such a great example for me. When I was working with Elder Allan this week we had one of our investagtors not show up so we had to move on to our next house, and of course they didn´t answer so we went door to door knocking. After about 5 houses we knocked on a members house that we didn´t know was a member so it was awkard at first and we had to play it off like we just needed a drink. After talking with her for a second she told us to go visit this house across the street for us so of course we did. This was the craziest lesson I´ve ever been a part of. We covered tithing, word of wisdom, and baptizem in 1 hour and after being so confused Elder Allan asked two people to be Baptized this Saturday. After they said yes we had to make some phone calls to make sure we are clear and prepare for it, and had to go back to the house and teach one more lesson. This one was so much different though, It was way calm and the sprit was so strong. After the lesson we found out that the youngest daugter was having really bad health problems so we ended up giving a blessing, and I had to give my first blessing in Portauges, before I was so scared to do it and couldn´t think straight. But druing the it, it was the best I´ve felt and didn´t feel nervous. 

I´m running out of time here so i´ll make this next part quick, if everything goes right we should have two baptizems for this saturday, and two more next week. I love you all, be safe out there are have a great Halloween.

2 Months

It was two months yesterday! It´s crazy how fast time flys out here when you´re serving the lord. This week was honeslty my favorite week so far and so much happened!

First of all we had our first Splits with the AP´s! On Tuesday I went out with a American named Elder Allen who has just over a year and couple of months out in the field and is a amazing teaching and I was able to learn so much in just one day. 

We went into the day with pretty much no plan because the plan was just to get new people to teach, our first lesson when he started teaching he starting comparing it to stuff i would have never thought to, after that lesson we had a good talk just about everything and just letting all the stress go because I was finally able to communicate with someone. I swear after that day I was able to understand more because I didn´t have any stress on my mind. We ended up have 5 people say yes to baptizem in just a couple of hours, after going all these weeks without anyone saying yes was hard. But he´s a hard working and it showed how hard work pays off when you´re in the field. 

Just a couple of days later we got another call saying we had splits one more time which is weird because you normally just go once, this time though I didn´t go with Elder Allen I went with his comp Elder Carvollio, who only has one more transfer after this one, He helped me in so many different ways I can´t even explain. Thoughtout the day he made me talk nonstop and when I said something the wrong way he would correct me, which is hard to have, but right now I just have to be humble and except that I need help with just about everything when i try to talk, which is hard to do. Just as we had nothing to do he turned to me and said I need you to pray right now for a family for us to teach, at first I didn´t think he was serious but he said it again and kept moving. So I said a prayer in my heart and after about 20 minutes of walking around we still had nothing, and it was getting late so we started to head back to the house, just as we were about to leave the area a little girl asked him what was in his hand, so he said it´s a book of mormon, are your parents here so we can talk to them?  Just as we said that a guy yelled out the window for us to come teach them, and the lord didn´t just give us one family to teach but 3!!! It just goes to show that when you work hard and trust in the lord he will help you with all things!

Week 2

This week flew by, it feels like i was just emailing.

First of all we had a member of the 70 come talk to us on a mission tour thing this week with us and another zone, and I got to see my CTM comp Elder Marrow there. It´s weird still not seeing my old distic but also nice to be out of the CTM. Before he started to give his talk we started with our zone giving a musical  preformace, not the whole zone though just me two other Elders and 5 Sisters.. Talk about nerve racking trying to sing to everyone in portagues, It went good though. After the member of the 70 gave his talk in Portagues so it was hard to understand but i was able to pick up part and piece and try to make some since of it. 

Things are going good here,The langue is different but it´s coming a long. As my comp Elder Castro and the rest of the Elders in my house try to teach me Portagues i try to help them learn English. It´s funny to hear them speak in English and then I realize that´s how i sound to them at the Moment.

We have some new investagotrs at the moment,The first one was crazy How we found them,we were trying to find the house for the longest time finally after about a hour of trying to find it and talking to people we saw his neighbor watering his plants and went and talked to them. They let us share a message of the Plan of Salvation and it went so well! Mid way though the lesson their daugeter walked in and we started teaching her the lesson, She kept bringing up all these things in the bible and we did our best to answer and not bible bash so finally we bore our testomonys and gave them a book of mormon to read! we have another lesson set up later this week so hopefully we can commit them to baptizem this week! 

I don´t have time to share the rest so hopefully next week I´ll be able to share more!

First week

This week has been crazy. First I´m no longer at the ctm which is crazy to think about. The ctm was a good time where we got to play basketball every day and eat as much food as we could. The last time was really cool though, we were with all the people leaving for the field the next day and they sat us down and went though everything with us and has us doing little drills thoughout the day for different things you would have to do during your mission. After that we had a group testomony meeting where the spirt was so strong the whole time. The next day we left. Me and 5 other elders left at 6 in the morning to catch our flight. As soon as we arrived there was a huge group of missionaries and the mission presdient who is way cool. He was in the 70 before he was a misison president. He has so much love for us it´s unreal.

We went to his house for lunch and he told us some of the rules for our mission and we aren´t able to have any coke or mate... It sucks but it´s part of the rules. They then had us go to a church and met up with some more missionaries who would be our trainers the next day, they just handed us some books and pass along cards and said get to work. My comp that day helped me so much to learn what to do and what to say to have people better understand the goesple.

After a long first day we went to a way nice hotel here to prepare for the coming day. The next day we found out who are comp was, my comp is named Elder Castro, he´s from Brazil and has been out for 5 months, He´s a way cool guy, He´s helped me learn so much already and just keeps helping me more every day. As he teaches me I try to help him learn some english because he want´s to learn. He´s getting pretty good.

This week was hard because they lost the map of our area so we don´t know where anyone lives so we are always looking for houses and new people to teach. We didn´t have many lessons this week but did find some cool people that we are going to teach this week so that´s good at least. 

It´s hard here but at the same time it´s not that bad, the lord has helped me so much already it´s crazy to think that he will keep beelssing me, the language is slowly coming along, it takes time. The members here try to talk to me and it sounds like a different language, but i do my best to reply and they try to make sense of what i say, But they alwasy try to talk to me because im american and they don´t seem americans to often. Things are good here, Next week hopfully I´ll have some pictures and more news on lessons.