Octoiber 27, 2014
Dear Family and Friends,
You
know those Sunday nights when you lay down in your bed watching the lightning
and rain outside and you think back on the whole week that you just had and you
are just happy because of how everything just seemed to work out in the end?
That was my night last night, and my week last week. Elder Call and I are
rockin it together. We are doing everything that we can to improve our area and
get our baptisms confirmed and strong for these next 3 weeks. We are already in
November and half way through our transfer, but this last week was a turning
point in our area. Not that things were bad, or that we had nothing to do
before, but this last week we went non-stop everyday and we managed to hit all
of our goals for the week, except for the baptism that we were going to find
somehow. We noticed how well we were really doing on Saturday, when everything
that we had planned to do and teach happened on the times that we planned to do
them (A miracle in itself). We had several opportunities to teach investigators
with members present and help them come closer unto Christ by reading the Book
of Mormon, and accepting baptismal dates, and going to church.
I am
getting more and more excited every day to be a missionary, and to get out of
my junky bed and go walk on the streets and invite people to be baptized. It's
been on my head for months now. Invite everyone that you talk to to be
baptized. Why not? It's what we elders want to do anyways. Why not invite them?
Anyways, we now have about 7 people preparing to be baptized within the next 3
weeks. And you can bet that Elder Call and I are going to be there with them every
moment to help them feel the truthfulness and to really help them with what
they need.
Most
of these 7 is an awesome family that we started teaching this week. S- and
her 4 kids. S- and 3 of the kids are some of our students in our weekly english
class that we teach on Wednesday nights at the Church. Two weeks ago I had
finished the class and reminded all the students that as missionaries we would
like to visit them in their homes and share the message of the Restored Gospel
with their families. This Wednesday S- came to us after the class and
expressed that she wanted us to visit her and her family and share our message.
We taught them on Saturday for the first time. They live in a very humble
house. The walls are just brick, with holes all over, the floor is just dirt
and concrete, they dont have running water, just a well and a cistern outside.
And surely not enough beds for the six of them that live there. But they are
all intelligent and great people. S- has had some challenges. In
Brasil there is no such thing as child support. Finishing up, they loved
the message, they went to church yesterday, we visited again and taught a very
powerful lesson of the Plan of Salvation, and are going to be baptized on the
8th.
God
is there to help us. He loves us. His plan is perfect. I know that what He
really wants is to see us happy, living with Him for eternity. That's why I'm
here.
Love
Elder
Evans
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Me
and my new Official Grêmio soccer jersey that a less active member just decided
to give to me at our lunch with them. It's legit. And expensive here in Brasil.
I'm honored.
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| The best type of Godam Juice. Straight up Passion Fruit. |
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My
breakfast on Saturday. It's called a "dream". It's way too good to be
real.
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The
view of the Rio farm land in front of Simone's house.
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Me
and Elder A. Santos. One of our DLs. on an exchange.
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