Dear Family,
Yes my investigator accepted baptism! We just finished some last fine tuning on the Word of wisdom and law of chastity. We were very sure she had problems with both, because people in our district told us she had, and we pushed and pried and made sure she was completely worthy because everyone else[s companionship had problems with here and the law of chastity. But nope, for us, Marcella was clean. AWESOME! So she is getting baptized three days before I go to the feild. February 25. I actually used to not really like the teacher that acted as Marcella. She is very serious and I try to joke with her along with Elder Hanna to make her laugh. I think we finally made her day by just saying stupid things and Elder Hanna wrote her the dumbest poem in portuguese about how much we will miss her.
Also on the investigator front, we had an awesome meeting with a new investigator. He[d been taught by a bunch of other missionaries and we were following up from a transfering group of missionaries. He was getting prepared for baptism but had unfortunately broken the law of chastity and it was a week be3fore his baptism so we had to see if he had to talk to the mission president. We told him he probably did but that we would follow up with him next week. We also gave him a blessing and we had him pray for strength. His prayer made me cry. He was acting but gosh, it was so sad to think of how someone would feel if they were so close and had to possibly reschedule their baptism. We wont teach him again, it was a one time scenario, but it was a good one.
We had another investigator who wanted to know if he could pay more than just the one tenth of the tithing. They wanted to give one half!!! We kind of sat there for a minute and just were like... why...? We could explain that the lord didnt need the money, he could obtain it himself if he wanted to. But we wanted them to know scripturally why they shouldnt. Anyway, so I opened to this scripture about the widows mite. I told them, look, we love you want to pay more. but really, the lord doesnt want you to pay more than is necessary. All he really wants is your heart, thats the only thing he needs from you. That widow couldnt give much, but she was willing to give her entire heart and thats all that mattered. And that solved it! It was awesome! They comitted to the law of tithing and to pay one tenth. We told them they could donate fast offerings and money to other funds if they wanted.
I am for sure glad to here you were able to see family this week. Dad, you mentioned that they tried to be gracious and considerate? How well did they succeed?
Oh my goodness! Paul is a mission president in Argentina???? How cool! THAT REMINDS ME! DAD! Did you get my letter last week about how my Mission President, President Degne served in the MTC with an Elder Lovell. Did any of your brothers go to Brazil? That would be so cool! If not thats cool too.
Ryan I am sorry I said nothing about your birthday! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! EU DEJAJO ESTAVA BEM!
Speaking of portuguese. All these south american and european languages, such as spanish, protuguese, italian. ALL make more sense than english. They conjugate their verbs until their exausted so that you can be very specific in one word, not two. I.E. "voce vai ganhar?" A. "Vou" In english. "Will you win?" A. "Yes, I will." Look at how much time that saves! Its beautiful.
Ok I have five minutes. So mom and dad, I activated my card. Thank you for the cinamon rolls and the stamps you are saints. I was wondering if you wanted to try something I thought you would like. On Facebook there is this group you can join called missionary moms. You can go to my specific mission, Porto Alegre Sul, in Brazil, I think, and you can find all the moms of that mission. I personally think it would be cool because the coolest missionaries are going to that mission.
Also, Kameron Campbell sent me a letter! It made my week. I sent one back to him via cheney[s and I also sent one to Erik, and I sent a letter to Dallin last week. I hope everyone in the family got the letters from the plane. Rachel and Ryan, I have one for you as well and Im starting on Jeremy[s today. James I have not forgotten you, I hope you had a great birthday and I am so waiting to here more updates on your job. You are all wonderful and I have felt your prayers.
There was something I else I desperately wanted to tell, but I cant remember!
Well, tchau ama voces
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