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How was the week?
Good. It passed really fast. Christmas is almost
here!
Will you be staying in Rosario for the next transfer or will you maybe get transferred?
Today is transfer day and none of us
are leaving. Us 4 will be here in the
city still.
Is there anything I should tell Janet Staples to send with Josh that you wish you would have taken with you?
Tell her to send him with deodorant
and lots of socks and garments.
How are you on supplies (deodorant, etc.)?
Good on everything. My candy supply
is running low, I´m using that to compensate with the fact that I´m not
drinking pop anymore.
Hi Family!
Not a super eventful week, just a
lot of running around and teaching. We have a couple marked for baptism on the
22nd, with their wedding set for the 21st. They´re an older couple, Vanderlei
and Mari. Crazy thing is that they have been investigators for 17 years and
never wanted to get married or baptized. They just like the church and it´s
teachings. We gave a really powerful message about the responsibilities in the
temple that they both have as well as Alma 34, which talks about
procrastination with repentance. They quickly changed their minds and
everything is set to go. They have a million teaching records in our area book.
Every set of missionaries for 17 years has passed their house and nothing has
come of it. It really looks like the Lord has prepared a way for us once again.
We also had a baptism marked for this past Saturday. It fell through for a
couple of random reasons, so it´s re-marked for next Saturday. To answer dad´s
question, no we don´t get to go to the Porto Alegre Temple during the mission.
And I have a record of all of my baptisms. I keep a record of their names,
addresses, cool things about them, emails, facebook, and phone numbers. I´ll
for sure keep in touch with all of them. We had a lot of people in church
again, about 70-72 people, and 5 investigators. 3 of them have to be married
first to be baptized, so nothing is really progressing right there. The other
two are Vanderlei and Mari, who will be baptized soon.
Next week we´ll be baptizing a young
woman named Suelen. She´s my height and she´s 13!!!!!!!! She´s part of an
incomplete family who we´ve recently re-activated, so she will help our young
women´s program out a ton. She is Joao Marcelo and Jessica´s cousin. We
baptized those two, two weeks ago. So yeah, sorry this week was just really
boring. I wish I had a lot more to say. My companion is progressing really well
and teaching a lot better. It´s all about confidence and the spirit when we
teach. I told him that we need to go into every house imagining the people all
dressed in white, and that we will do whatever is necessary to get them to that
point. Elder Rodrigues got a box today that is, no joke, like 40 pounds. He´s
from Sao Paulo so obviously it´s a lot cheaper but still.... it´s huge!!!! I´m
jealous of that.
The NFL looks like it´s going really
well. Robert Griffin III is going to be a really good player. But we all know
who the best quarterback in the world is... my man Tom Brady, and he´s dating a
Brazilian super model so everyone here knows who he is as well cuz she´s from
this area of brazil.
On the Christmas stuff... I´ll have
to think about my Skype name and Password... cuz I honestly don´t remember.
I´ll ask Katie what it is cuz she´s a girl and obviously will remember detailed
things like that. Grandma sent my Christmas packages to Santa Maria, so I´ll be
getting those on the 19th during our zone conference. I sent a Christmas card
home to the family on Wednesday, so I hope you get that before Christmas. I
put a couple of pictures in there too. Like I already said to you last week
remember that I want my time to talk to you 4 and Katie. Then I can just talk
to the rest of the family as they wish. I´ll talk to Katie last. Then I´ll just
talk to all of you together before we say goodbye. I attached some pictures of our Christmas
photo day. There are a ton more that you can look at when I send the card. Hopefully
I send it off soon.
This next week should be pretty
good. It has been raining some days lately, so it´s coolin off a little. Only
problem is when it stops raining it gets super humid. It´s just like Florida.
Well I love all of you! Have a great
week! The church is true.
Love,
Elder Shepherd
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