With an a less-active member we're trying to help.
A street I walk past every day.
Presidente,
Eu gostei muito a conferência da zona esta semana. Eu aprendi muito e eu estou aplicando muitas destas coisas em meu ensino. Especialmente a parte sobre usando perguntas. Sempre foi um ponto fraco meu, mas agora, sabendo esta três tipos de perguntas, esta ajudando muito em nosso ensino.
Nos encontramos nosso dois batismos por esta mês. Angelo, e Magida.
Angelo é um rapaz, e foi para igreja ontem. Eles tem muito interesse, cumprem com os compromissos, e basicamente, são pesquisadores de ouro.
Nós vamos levar mais membros lá hoje.
Nosso trabalho com membros da igreja não está indo bem ainda. Nos tetamos marcar com membros para sair, mas está caindo muito. Estamos trabalhando bem com os missionários da ala. Eles estão saindo conosco.
Esta semana nós vamos focalizar em levando membros específicos para nosso pesquisadores para ajudar mais na integração.
Estamos marcando muitas datas, mas muitas também estão caindo. O maioria das vezes é porque eles não estão indo para igreja. Eu acho que a integração que nos vamos fazer com os membros vai ajudar com isto. Esta semana tivemos até 7 datas, mas não estávamos consiguindo acompanhar com eles, ou levar eles para igreja. Nós vamos tentar remarcar estes datas mais algumas com familiares destas datas que nós tivemos esta semana.
Obrigado por tudo presidente.
And that's what I sent to President this week. I talk about the work, what we did well this week, and what we can work on. I really like my Mission President. We don't have interviews with him all that often, but he is really spiritual, really funny and laid back also. Basically, if we're doing our work, he's happy.
We had Zone Conference this week, and it was awesome. I love these conferences. Mostly because the spirit is awesome, and because I learn a lot it this time also. I like hearing president speak too. He said something interesting about Satan this time. He talked about how he wasn't cast out because of sin, but because he rebelled against god, and how rebellion against the commandments/gospel is worse then committing sin. Pretty cool. Anyway, I also learned a lot about teaching skills, and how to use questions better to invite the spirit to our teaching. I applied what I learned this week and the spirit was definitely better in our lessons. Oh, and something else interesting. The mission has a goal to have 100 baptisms this month, which means each companionship has to baptize two people this month. Something else interesting, is that the prophet has asked that each missionary baptize one person per month. I was thinking about it. And if the prophet wants me to baptize every month, the only reason why I wouldn't be able to is because of a lack of our own faith. Like Nephi 3:7- The Lord never gives commandments unto his children unless he prepared a way. So, if the prophet is asking, if I try my hardest, and have faith, I will be able to reach this goal.
So this week was pretty good. We found our baptisms for this month also. Angelo and Magida are their names. Angelo is 15 and is Magida's son. She also has a 4-year-old. She is a single mother, who puts a lot of importance on the things of God, and just wants a happy family. We taught them twice this week, and Angleo went to church yesterday, and he went without complaint. He was dressed ready to go when we got there Sunday morning. Awesome. Magida didn't go because she had to work. But we're going to teach them tonight. I'm pretty excited for that.
We had some good lessons with Bruno and Iago, but they didn't go to church today, because he's a DJ, and he had a party Saturday night, and got home late, and didn't want to come with us. Lame. So, we'll see if they still want to progress.
We have another awesome investigator, Leia, when every time that we mark with her, when we show up she has the table and chairs out and ready, and is really liking the lessons. The other day we went there and were able to teach her two daughters also. And that was a really spiritual lesson. Her daughters, Natalia and Thayná, are really intelligent too. One is 25, is a manager, and has a business degree, and the other is 23 and is studying engineering or something like that. They understood our message really well, but they didn't accept a baptismal date, but we'll work on that. Natailia said that she would follow the answer that she got, but she didn't want to accept the date at the moment. Thayná did want to commit to anything because she's still trying to figure some things out in her life, but wants to meet with us again to learn more. They are great investigators.
We have been marking a lot of baptismal dates, but we have been having trouble following up with them and getting them to church. But I'm excited to keep working. It really is amazing to think about how much I actually care about my investigators and how much I want them to progress.
I'm glad that my little message helped the kids. I do regret not spending more time with the family at home. Only after I leave do I realize how much I was missing.
Well I love you guys, keep us the good work fam. =) Keep trying to love one another. Try to have more love at home. Btw, have you guys seen 17 Miracles yet? That movie is amazing. I would watch that every p-day if I wasn't playing soccer.
Yeah so sometimes I feel sick of working here in Campos, sometimes I don't. I walk the same streets basically every day, and have been for 5 months. I do feel like I've knocked every door, especially because our area is pretty small. The language is great. I actually don't study much in Portuguese for personal study because the Portuguese scriptures don't have all the footnotes and study helps that the English ones have. The church doesn't have its own Bible [in Portuguese] either, so the Bible doesn't have any footnotes, but I use PMG in Portuguese. With 2 other Americans at home, I've been using English a lot more, especially because my companion is almost begging me to help him learn English.
Well, that's about it, the picture is with a less active that I have been working with almost since I got to Campos.
Well, Love you all, good luck with school! Summer is over there, but its starting to get hot again here! Lots of love!
Elder Woodmansee. =)
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