Happy Easter

You know the time is flying by when you sit down at the computor and you don´t know what happened this week. But I´m going to try to remember what happened.

On Wensday we had a interesting day, we got a phone call from a member in the ward where he said he needed our help with his new house. And because us missionarys are just amazing we went to help him, we got there and learned a lot and worked a lot. We spent a good amout of time helping him building a house, making concret and just building a house. By the end of this service activity we just about died. I never thought i would go build a house in brazil before my mission but it was a nice surprise. If anybody needs help with anything just call the missionarys, because we do everything, clean, building things, chop things down just about anything you can think of we can do it. 

But this was the week of Easter and was different then normal, It was more of a time to thinik about the true meaning with our Savior. This is a time we know that our Savior Chirst lives, he knows each of us and can help us with anything.

They are kicking me off so this email is going to be short, Until next week where i have a better email for you guys. 

Just out here in Brazil!

I just wanted to start off saying that I am really gratful to have this chance to serve a mission. Not because a mission is easy but more because a mission is hard, it pushes you to do things that you didn´t think you could do honeslty, you learn more during this time about the light of Christ and the love he has for you during this time you serve. It´s one the greatest blessing one person can do during their life out here. The Lord trust in us, 18,19,20 year olds to preach this amazing goesple with everyone we can.

As far as this week it was a little more of a chalenge to say the least, we had to stop teaching a lot of people because they just didn´t want to message we have, which was honeslty the sadest thing, during those times I didn´t feel mad that they didn´t want the message but more sad because they have a chance to learn about our Savior and our Father and the love they had for us but just didn´t want it any more.

 So we had to find new people to teach, that means we spent the week knocking on doors and talking to everyone about our message, and not having close to any success it weighed on me. Having to train a new missionary how to be a missionary but not having anyone to teach started to take it´s toll on me to say the least, I turned to everything i could think of, studing in the scriptures more, praying more then I have ever had to just find one person to teach, and it seemed like my prayes weren´t getting answered which was hard. 

Then we had General Conferance this week which took about all my stress away, we had a great oportunity to listen to living testimonys of our Savior and to feel his love. There was one talk that hit me really had and i have to say was my favorite talk by Elder S. Mark Palmer to sum up this talk he pretty much talked about love, that´s what struck me the most. In this talk he said one line that hit me hard, He said because Jesus loves us, he ask us to do a little more.

We all have a part to play in the work of teaching the Gospel, weather it´s serving a mission or showing the love of Christ on the streets when you see someone having a hard day. As we serve and look for these oportunities to serve, we don´t only serve others but we will feel more of the Saviors love. 

We didn´t end up finding this one perfect person to teach last week, but we did teach more people about the Saviors love then what i thought we could, not everyone is ready to hear the Gosple at this moment, but we can how the love the savior has for us at every moment. 

I love this work and I love this Gosple, I love the Book of Mormon, our dear President Thomos S. Monson talked about the importance of this book in our lives. This book will bless your life in everything that you need, I invite everyone to read this book for the first time if you haven´t done so, and if you have, read it again, you will always find something new that you need to learn.