How
was your week?
Really... interesting. Just busy
work and lots of organizing activities to animate the members.
Are
your baptisms still on schedule for next week?
Maybe 1... We´re teaching her
tomorrow to see if it´s all good to go. Her name is Leticia, 33 years old and extremely
intelligent. She knows the bible stories really well. She came to church with
us yesterday and had some brilliant questions during the classes. I hope she
accepts to be baptized this Saturday.
We´re also teaching her aunt and her grandma.
How
is the teaching going?
It´s going well. We are planting new
ideas in our area so we´re doing more of the finding people, and they passing
them to the other companionship in our area to teach them.
Did
you get a lot of response to your radio program?
Yeah, I believe that we´re going to
do it again this week. I´ll have a member send dad a message on FB to let you
know the day and the time. We got 22 references and all of them are receiving
the missionaries now. The sisters have marked dates for some of them already! It
was for sure a success and will continue to be.
Are
you still eating with others quite a bit?
Well we eat lunch with them every
day. We eat lunch on p day with all the missionaries in our zone in the chapel.
My comp makes it, he´s a great cook. Then we play games and sports til it´s
time to go home to shower and go back out to work.
What
is your standard meal for breakfast?
Usually like a bologna and cheese
sandwich. Something really simple, some crackers too. And usually just some
juice.
Hello Family!
So, my Mission President emailed you
huh? Yes, this last week I was put in as a special assignment, to be the Traveling
Assistant along with continuing as a Zone Leader. So I´ll basically be
traveling every week and I´ll never be here anymore. When I´m in a different
zone, the other zone leader will come here to work with my companion in my area
to learn how we are working with the members. The members here are so excited
about the missionary work. We have been getting so many references, and there
are still lots of people calling to the radio every day. They LOVED our
program. We sang lots of songs, and then also answered a lot of questions about
the Church. We had 24 young men who came out to play soccer this week. Almost
all of them are staying for seminary afterwards, and then accepting us, or the
sisters, to go to their homes and teach their families.
Every single companionship in our
zone had at least 1 investigator at church yesterday and all of us have dates
marked to be baptized... except for us ahhh. We´re generally just passing our investigators
to the other companionship in our branch though. With all of the activities
that we´re doing we never have enough time to go to all of our appointments as
well. We want to try to have a baptism with 30 young men and young women by the
end of December. I think that´d be so cool because I love working with the
youth. With all of the youth participating in everything, all of the older
members are starting to get excited about the work.
It´s interesting how I have changed
since the start of the mission. It seems like the things that were really my
focus before the mission aren´t anything in the vision anymore. Like I still
love my family and my buddies and stuff, but my vision on what´s really
important in life has changed so much. I love the mission more than anything.
This has been the greatest experience that I´ve ever had. It´s been humbling to
see how much we are blessed with living where we live, and how great of a
difference the gospel does in our lives when we live it to our fullest. I love
it here so much. The Brazilian people are MY people. I may have to come live
here and work here or something one day when I´m still young
Next week I dunno what time I´ll be
online. My pday will start to be more and more busy... oh joy. It´s really hectic and we spend a lot of time
at the chapel meeting with members and doing trainings with the missionaries.
We generally have a big family night each night in which we invite all of our
teaching group and the other dupla and their teaching group and we all meet at
a members´ home. It´s been a success in re-activating people. I just love
making friends with all of them. We always bring the guitar with us as well to
sing a little before the spiritual part.
Well family, I love you very much.
Thank you for all of your prayers and all that you´ve done for me. Have a great
week! Be safe.
Love,
Elder Shepherd
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