December

How´s everybody doing on this fine Monday morning, or at least i think that it´s morning there right now. Everything is going great out here from Porto.... Oh wait I´m not in Porto Alegre anymore, I got transfered to Bagé! here is a little update on how things are here in Bagé, it´s a small little town and the farthest one from our MP, our 8 hours on bus, so last monday I spent my whole P-Day taking a trip on a bus seeing things out here in Brasil. I broke my streak of American comps and have a new comp, Elder Macedo, from the top part of Brasil, and let´s just say that we are going to kill it out here in Bagé, I´m pumped for this transfer to work because this is the best time of the year to work.

It´s the best time of the year because we are coming up on the end of the year, this week we are going to start the Month of December, the month of our Saviors birth. what a amazing time that we are going to have teaching the restored Gosple to the people that are so ready to hear the Gosple. 

I´m also pumped for this transfer because it will be the first that that i will be in charge of helping out the other missionarys here, my mission president called me to me a Distric Leader here in Bagé so I have the chance to serve 8 other missionarys in my Distric so it will be a great time to be able to serve and learn. 

Lets all make this Christmas season a special one, one of serving others and helping others out, i love how the church is always looking to serve others and this year like last year we are going to have a video everyday in December on how to be a light for the world starting on the first, Look up these videos and look to serve those by you.

A semana

What can I say but that this week was just like the rest, crazy busy, so many things to do and such little time to be able to do it.

Last week was our temple trip week so we had a chance to relax and just feel like you are a whole new person after the temple. The temple is honstly the best place to do able to do and just feel the peace and love that God has for each one of us. 

But what were the high lights of the week. I think the biggest highlight of the week is who we found to teach, we found a American in our area!!! It´s so dope to be able to talk with him because he wants to talk in English and he has so much american stuff in his our, you feel like you are back in the US it´s so nice. He even made us waffles, it was so nice. 

That´s just one thing that happened. 

So pretty much this week we spent the week trying to find new people to teach, it´s one of the hardest things to do as a misisonary is to let someone go that isn´t wanting to accept the Gosple, and pretty much everybody that we were teaching we had to let go for the good of them. So we spent the week doing was missionarys do, and that is go knocking on doors, The worst thing to do when it´s hot and you have nobody to teach, but things turned out really well, we ended us finding new people to teach this week and didn´t spend as much time in the road in the heat but got to spend some time teacing people and doing the fun part of the work, teaching. 

After this week I really started to learn more about the scripute in James, Faith without work is dead, or something like that, it´s been a while since I´ve said it in English. 

As missionarys we are always wanting to baptize and teach the restored Gospel, we alwys say that we have faith to put in the work. But the way we show our faith is how we are doing things, are we really putting in the work to recieve the blessing that we are asking for, when we start to show our faith in the Lord and his plan for us, we will be able to see the things that he is really doing for us, it´s when nothing seems to be going right and we feel like we´ve done everything we could we get the blessing that we need at that exact moment. God is always there for us, but he also wants us to grow and learn. 

The week

I hope that everybody is having a fine day on this fine Wednesday, I´m pumped for this day because today we get to go to the temple and have a good time in the House of the Lord.

This last week was a busy one, we had a ton of stuff to get planned out and one of the highlights of the week was our Halloween activity here in Brasil. Something that isn´t very big her in Brasil is Halloween so they needed a lot of help, and when you are in a house of 4 people with 3 Americans it makes for a good time. Everybody had a blast and made for a fun little night. 

The highlight of the activity was what I learned. I leanred that Brasil are crazy competive, like more then my family I´m pretty sure, we were playing a little kids game and I thought that some peole were going to start throwing punches it was so funny for me.

But all jokes aside lets go to the spirtual part of the week. Just the other day, i don´t remember what day it was i started to think about our first message we normally share with people and about the first two things we teach, in how God is our Heavenly Father, and then how the gospel blesses our family, I started to think about that a lot and one question that I like to ask people on what´s the most important think in our lives, Which is of course our family that we have. 

I started to think a little bit more about that and what is the most important thing for god, it´s of couse of and our happiness, and with that it´s our family that we have. Because our family is the most important thing for him and us he gave us the gospel to bless our family, a way to strenthen our family and hold us steady during all those hard times, because as we know our lifes aren´t always these happy moments. 

But the question is how can we help our familys even more? This is why we have the Book of Mormon in our lives, to bless us in every aspect, some of the greatest moments on the mission is when you see the change in a family because of the Book of Mormon, when we study this as a family we will recieve the blessing from heaven to bless us in every moment. 

That´s one thing our misson is really focusing on right now is to have every member to read the Book of Mormon, we have a challenge to read the whole Book of Mormon before the year ends and i would like to make that same chanllenge with each on of you this day, to really study the Book of Mormon, and gain a testemonhy of it´s truthfullness, and if you have done it before to do it again to help you even more in your life.