Did you watch the broadcast to mission presidents
& missionaries at BYU last night?
If so, what did you think of the changes?
Nope we
didn´t watch it. I didn´t even know about it, other than you asking about it
last week. We´ll probably hear something about it this week.
Hi Family!
We had 2 more baptisms this week!
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| Baptisms Saturday Cristieli and Kauã |
So it
was another successful week. I´m on early today because of the transfer. We
have to get our bags ready and say bye to people if we´re transferred, so we
came early. Hopefully I get to stay here. I don´t want to be transferred
because I love this ward. I guess we’ll see what happens. Our 2 baptisms this
week went smoothly. I baptized the girl and elder lopes baptized the boy.
They´re brother and sister of the baptisms from last week. The mom, Luciana, is
basically already a member. She has accepted everything. It´s really hard for
us to talk to her husband because he is never home. . Maybe he´ll see the
difference in his kids and he´ll accept shortly. I really hope so
In reality this week went by really slow. I
worked as hard as possible though, and we had 8 investigators at church with
us. So that was sweet! There were so so many people at church this week, it was
awesome! I think it´s cuz the ward knows that there will be some changes in the
missionaries, and they love my companionship. We get tons of references, and
always are inviting them to do visits with us.
The names
of the baptisms last week are Larissa and Suelen, and the 2 from this week were
Cristieli and Kauã. The first picture is of the baptism, and the second is
right by a huge lake on the backside of our area.
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| Huge Lake in our Area |
Our area is divided by some
mountains, so we´ve got a lot of hill-climbing to do. That´s not too fun when
we´re running from appointment to appointment. I am half-way done reading the
Book of Mormon in Spanish right now. I read at least one chapter every morning
out loud. I have already read it in Portuguese and English. President Hinckley
made a promise that if you read the Book of Mormon out loud and study the
language at the same time, you will speak and comprehend the language
afterwards. I speak Spanish with Elder Cuadra every day. It´d be awesome to be
fluent in all three of them when I get home.
Tay, go
try and get the job at Lagoon that I had!! Talk to Shane and tell him that
you´re my brother. It sounds like Trek was a great time. I´ll never forget the
time I went. It was a blast, and it really brings you down to earth about the
sacrifices that the pioneers made. Watching 17 miracles just makes you think a
lot about all that we are blessed with to live where we live and have the
blessings of the gospel that we have. Poor little Sammie is just too chubby. I
can just imagine her waddling up the hills. At least she didn´t have a heart
attack.
It´s too bad we weren´t able to watch the BYU
broadcast. We´ll see how our next president is with all of these kinds of
things. I really hope that he liberates us to play sports!! The trade happens tomorrow.
President Ribeiro and Sister go to the airport with the mission car, give the
keys to President and Sister Parrela, and that´s that. They make a 5 minute
conversation in the airport, and that´s all they get to talk. It´ll be
interesting. They´re going to start by coming around to all of the houses and
getting to know all of the missionaries. Now all
of my buddies are going to be coming home. Jake Gibbs and Matt Grayston come
home pretty quick. It´s crazy. I love you all very much! Have a great week! I´ll
let you know all of the news of the tranfer next Monday!
Love,
Elder
Shepherd
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