How was your week?
Good! But I am completely dead today. We worked hard this week.
We walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and
walked...........etc..............
When is the next
transfer?
Next Monday. So I´ll let you know if I´m going to stay here or
get transferred next week.
Do you have Christmas
decorations up in the city you are in?
Yeah here in the center there are decorations up. It´s really
weird though because they have decorations as if it´s cold and snowy here. Like
they want to make it seem like an American Christmas that you see in the
movies, even though it´s 1000 degrees outside. It´s cool though. We´ve got a
choir presentation all set up to sing in the central park on the 21st. It´ll be
so sweet. The other Americans and I are going to sing some English music, then
we´ve got the members ready to sing several hymns with us.
Where did you travel
to this week?
I stayed here this week and a zone leader from Alegrete came
here, Elder Freires. This was his first area in his mission and he´s going home
next week, so he wanted to visit people that he´d baptized and taught here. It
was cool cuz he also helped us find some people that had been taught almost 2
years ago.
Do you still go over
and play soccer with the teenagers that come to seminary?
Sometimes. We´re leaving that more for the members to organize
and take care of now.
Hello family!
So, like I said above, I am completely worn out this morning. We
had a tiring week. My area has a neighborhood called Bom Fim. It´s a giant
neighborhood with lots of farms, so lots of spacing between houses. We walked
to the END of that neighborhood twice this week. I think I´m in need of some
knee replacements.
The reason why we went there twice is because the first time we
had lunch there, then the next time we went there to teach a man that we´d met
the first time. We were walking down the street after lunch when a man called
out to us from his home. His name is Valmir. Turns out that he´d come to church
several years ago, but was never baptized. He told us he was in a bad
depression and had prayed for help the night before. We are NEVER close to his
home, so it was God who´d put us in the situation. He took it as his answer and
listened to the message.
We´re teaching another couple, Vanessa and William. They´re a
reference from a couple in our branch. We had another sweet family night with
them this last week and they´ve already both received their answers that the
church is true. Vanessa dreamed about seeing the First Vision. It was really
cool teaching them that lesson. I sure hope that we can get their marriage
papers turned in soon. I´ll be in division with the Zone Leaders in Santa Maria
this week. I leave tonight and won´t be back here til Friday.
Thank you for all of your help with that! The number of baptisms
is going up throughout the entire mission as well as the attendance in the
majority of the wards and branches. We are really seeing the difference and it
looks like our trainings are really working out. I´ve been so blessed to help
the missionaries learn to work with the members. The secret of success is with
the members. The Elders in Rosario are going to baptize two men next Saturday
because of the man that we re-activated there. The blessings of re-activations are
FIRM Baptisms.
It is getting really hot here. Like smoking hot. I think I sweat
off all of my fat by now. I´ve lost 7 kilos since I got to this area. I TAKE MY
BRACES OFF A WEEK FROM WEDNESDAY!!! That´s just a great feeling. Got my teeth
all fixed up as a missionary haha.
I love you all very much! Have a great week! Be safe!
Love,
Elder
Shepherd
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