Temple day

How´s everybody doing on this fine Monday??? Oh wait it´s not Monday.. It´s Wesnday here... Today is a specal day because our P-day moved because we are going to the house of the Lord today!! That´s right the beautiful temple here in Porto Alegre.

This week I´ve been thinking a lot about what the best part of the mission is, I´ve heard that question a lot and I started to think about it for the first time before going to bed one night. I came to the concustion of two things, first of all is the Personal Growth that happens here on the mission. You learn so much that you can´t learn back at  home, your focus is always on other people and what they need and you start to study for these people and their needs and when you start to do this everything starts to change in your life and how you see things. It happens just a little bit everyday where if you´re not looking for the change you won´t see it, when you take a time to look back and see what has happened in your life you see that you´re a totally different person. Or at least that´s what´s happned for me during my time here in Brasil. 

And the second is the people that you get to meet here during the mission, you are always talking to people here on the mission and learing more about how people really are, you talk to the richest people in a city and the poorest and learn what makes people happy and what makes people sad, how their life is and how they grew up, you learn about their past and learn about what they truely want for their life, you learn so much and it´s funny what happens with more time during your mission, or at least what I´ve felt during my time here is the love that you are going to have with each person, even if you don´t know anything about them the first time you start to talk to them you love them. 

The people that I´ve meet here during my time here in Brasil have honestly changed my life and the way i see things and the love that you have for people.

Today I want to talk about two people that really have helped me out to grow and learn with them. In Thayronn and Tywai. I started to teach these two in my last area when i first got there, so 4 months ago i started to teach them, and when i first got there they didn´t want anything to do with baptizem or much about the church, but after talking to them for a little bit we started to see some big changes in their lifes, to the point where they just wanted to be baptized, but their mom said that they couldn´t be baptized at that time for reason unknown to us. But they wanted to be baptized so we had to keep working with them. Long story short i ended up leaving the area without anything happing, I have to get going so I´m going to cut this story even shorted now. Last week i got a phone call saying that the mom wants me to baptize thayronn in my old area and that they already called our MP saying that it was alright for me to go back. and when these two got baptized it was one of the best moments on my mission so far to see them during this moment, after all the work that they put in to be converted to the Goseple of Jesus Christ. 

I love the work and I love the people here in Brasil, I woun´t trade anything in the world for this time that I´ve had here in Brasil.