Hey there everybody!! Happy April Fool´s day. Yeah I remembered about
it because it exists here in Brazil too, so you don’t need to send me
some crazy news that’s happening up there because I wont believe you.
Haha even if its true, just wait and till
me the next week :)
I had a fun Easter here, and ate way to many
chocolates and other junk. All of the ward members love to give food to
us missionaries, so don’t worry I didn’t miss out on the sweets. Things
are going well here, although this week was really
hot. Just when it seemed like it was about to become winter time. But
we still had another good and productive week, and are having a lot of investigators that are progressing. The biggest news is that we
currently have 3 couples that we are teaching who
are planning to get married soon. There is Vagner and Marcia who I
talked about the last week, Leandro and Flavia, and Michelle and Paulo.
Vanger and Marcia both came to church again and are really excited to
get baptized. Vagner is an awesome guy and is
reading all of the passages we leave for them, and I can already
imagine him as a great priesthood holder that will help out the ward.
Flavia is a recent convert and we have started visiting her boyfriend
Leandro. Leandro is a cool guy and is interested
in the church. We have only been able to visit him a couple of times,
but they also are wanting to get married. We have been helping them out
with the information and getting the process started. Leandro also has
twins that are 8 years old, so its another
family that could all be baptized.
Then there is Michelle and Paulo
who were ex-investigators, but this week one of the members told us that
they are really wanting us to come back and visit them. I met them
yesterday and they are a super cool family! They
have 3 sons (2 over 8:)) and Paulo told us that he has been studying a
lot of literature from the church recently. Haha I was really surprised
when we went there and saw that he had a trips, and Principles of the
Gospel Manual. I was even more surprised
when he told us that he read the entire manual and then asked us to
give a lesson about eternal marriages and families. The lesson was very
special I could tell that everyone there felt the spirit! We are both
really excited about these families because
all of them are progressing and have potential to be baptized soon..
This week we focused a lot on these families and this week they should
all start process and the 30 day countdown that people need to wait
before the wedding.Then there is one of our other investigators, Jussie who has been progressing a lot recently. This
week we taught him the Word of Wisdom which we knew he had a problem
with. We taught the lesson with one of the members of the ward, and it
ended up being a great lesson. Jussie promised to
live the Word of Wisdom and give up smoking and drinking coffee. We
also traded his coffee that he had in his house for a package of Cevada
which is similar, but not against the Word of Wisdom. He is doing really
well and is excitedly preparing for his baptism
on the 13th of April. I think that just about sums up our week here in
Bento Gonçalves.
I hope you are all doing well there and I am very
jealous that you guys are going to be in Disneyland this week, (if its
not an April Fool´s joke :P) I sent a couple
pics this week so send me some back from the trip. Also,
Congratulations on the job offer Ryan!! It sounds like that was a great
birthday present for you. But anyways, have an awesome spring break in
Cali! I love you all! See ya later,
Elder Gee
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