Hey Mom and Dad! I feel like I have sucked so
badly at keeping yall up to date on my mission since I have been here.
Sadly without being able to send home letters very quickly, or packages
with my sd card full of pictures and vlogs...it is really hard to keep
yall up to date.
But know i am trying! really quickly I
will tell you about my birthdayday becacause I forgot to talk about it
last Monday. It was really great. I havent received the package yet. I
have heard some missionaries dont get packages for 3-5 months in this
mission,. But I think I will get it soon because I am one of the areas
closer to the mission office, so I have more chances to recieve mail.
But yeah a lot of missionaries say that their parents are already
sending package for chirstmas! But once I get package yall already sent
we will get a better idea of how long it really takes. I got a letter
from Grandpa Landon about 1 or 2 weeks ago, at Zone conference! It was
awesome to still get a letter from him even though Im not sharing his
mission with him anymore. Those letters he sent me will forever be a
treasure to me as we were able to talk of our missions together. I cant
wait to talk more with him when I get home! But oh yeah,...my birthday.
It was sunday so here in this mission if you want investigators at
church you have to walk to each house before church and wake them up/
remind them of church. Im not a fan of getting to church all sweaty
after walking up and down and all over our area for an hour and a half,
but like dad said in his last email, I just need to learn how to use the
"Manaus Super-Sickle 2014" Its going to be tiring at first because I
dont have the rythem down yet, but I will get the hang of it. But yeah,
church was good, still dont understand everything, but the gospel
setting helps me understand more, because that is the majority of my
vocabulary. After church we had a great Almoço with the president of the
Relief Society, and when they found out it was my birthday they invited
us to come back in the evening and have cake! Yeah, they made an
amazing cake and had Fanta too. It was so sweet of them. We also stopped
by another member, and they just happened to invite us back in an hour
or so for cake too,,,,but they didnt even know it was my birthday! haha
It was kind of funny, because once we started eating Elder Fuhriman told
them and they were excited and happy they could share cake with me on
my birthday. Cake is a VERY common desert here. Because they can make it
pretty cheap but its great too! Everyone makes cake here. There are a
lot of bakeries too. you can pretty much buy fresh breads in every store
you see. But yeah the cake was really good. But we also taught. We
taught a family that was a referal from a young women in our branch. It
was our first time teaching them, but we connected with them really
well. and were able to teach them all the restoration and about the book
of mormon. It was just the kids that we taught but their ages ranged
from 11-20 (6 of them) The cool part was I think this was the first time
I have ever really felt the gift of tounges work through me. It was
only for one part of the lesson. My companion finished teaching the
apostasy and left me to teach the Restoration , the first vision. I
struggled for the right words leading up to the exact words of the first
vision, but once I starting to say the words of Joesph that I knew so
well, the spirit came in. I got goosebumps as I finished his words, and
then paused and began to testify that what he saw was true, and that he
was then called to be a prophet to restore Christ's church. As I was
trying to think of the words to say, I was saying the right words before
I could think them. In fact as I thought the words I was simply
confirming what I already said was right. As I spoke I knew the Spirit
was speaking through me, and it was not my words. It was a great
experience! Sadly we have not been able to teach the whole family all
together again, but even if they arent baptized it increased my faith
and testimony of the spirit and the power in the words of Joesph Smith.
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