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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Gravatai</span><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> is a bit bigger than Feitoria, for certain. All the references
here are by bus stop and our ward seems to go for a lot of bus stops. We´re
working in the 5 stops closest to the church, so it isn´t that bad. We started
with nothing this past week, and tried alot and ended up teaching a decent
amount of people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However none of them
went to church this Sunday, so a bit good, a bit bad. The ward has a good
amount of older people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Their </span><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">voices are very calming so it is
very difficult to not fall asleep </span><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">😊</span><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">. Second hour was rather odd for us as a missionary; we don´t
have the manual to study at home or in the class, so we just sat there for an
hour. </span><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I´m worried about how the
classes second hour will be for investigators who don´t have the manual as
well, but at least this year is the New Testament so things are good with that
when investigators come. We do indeed study the Bible</span>.</span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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so I´ve bought a lot of Xis Baicons- a hamburger that is a bit wider, with egg,
cheese, and bacon.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I have them make it
without the salad, tomato, green peas, and corn. Yeah, it is a weird thing,
they put a lot of salad stuff on it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We played basketball and stuff with some YM this
morning. Living with 5 others is very different, living with English speakers
is weird. With Elder Banda, we only slipped a word or two in English when I
didn´t understand or if it wouldn´t make sense in Portuguese, so it was like I
was living with a Brazilian who knew English. </span><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I already slip into Portuguese when I try to speak
English, so I don´t think I´ll get used to speaking English until after a bit
at home. I hope my accent gets better. </span></span></div>
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started using it again. I have splits on Thursday and I´ll go to their area and
teach with an American who is almost done with his training, Elder Owens. We
are also going to have a FHE with an RM who has a reference for us who he´ll
bring. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So much has<span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> happened over the past week since we talked on Christmas. After lunch, we visited with each other,
ate watermelon, then went to go pass dinner in the house of another member. Dinner ended up getting cancelled so we passed the night of Christmas at home eating pizza. Then
Thursday, the 27th, we had interviews with President for Zone Conference. Long story
short, emergency transfer for me to Gravatai to switch with an American with 3
weeks on the mission who is having health problems with the sun and could only
work an hour a day (and with a Brazilian companion who wants to work hard but
can´t as much as he´d like and doesn´t fully understand). Thursday night we had
an FHE with Pedro and the Cunha family where Elder Banda made tacos. Then we
went home and I packed up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We woke up the next morning, went to Zone Conference, ate lunch, then went to Porto Alegre to switch companionships, then to Gravatai with Elder Souza from Sao
Paulo Capital. We arrived in time for me to only unpack my backs and hit the super
market really quick. We live with 2 other companionships, Elder Pereira
(Brazilian) and Elder Glasgow (the one American in my group who went to the
Provo MTC, from Arkansas), Elder Burobano (from Ecuador, and our DL) and Elder
Owens (in his 2nd transfer, from Arizona), which is a bit wild. The same night
that I arrived, December 28, was the birthday of Elder Owens, so we made a cake
and had terere, and was able to bond with everyone my first night here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Saturday we visited a lot of people, or rather tried to, but
everyone travels to the beach because it is so hot here and only ended up
entering into the homes of recent converts. There we taught a super spiritual
lesson to someone nonactive with a RC. Now Elder Souza tells everyone I´m
fluent and a spiritual powerhouse. He is funny, a bit wild, but likes to work
hard. We ended up eating lunch in the house of Bishop Andre Saturday
and Sunday because of so many people travelling. A t the end of Saturday, I
shared apparently a rather powerful message using the first verse of the BoM
about how we learn about the kindness of God during our many afflictions. I
learned that their story is similar to the story of Lehi, that two years back,
they were doing great in a strong ward, strongest in the stake, and stake
president comes up and says the Lord needs you to move to Parque Dos Anjos (our
area) and only that. They do so and about a month or two later he was called as
Bishop. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyways, Sunday, we had church at 8:30, but sacrament meeting is
the last hour. Bishop during lunch the day before told me not to worry about a
talk this week, but that next week I´d be giving one. Fine by me. Mid way
through second hour, with about half an hour left until sacrament meeting,
secretary comes in and says we need you to give a 10 minute talk today, thanks.
People said it was good, but I´m not so sure. A recently returned missionary,
Vagner gave a great talk, and in part of it he talked about how when we don´t
use the Lord´s name to talk about his church, we are taking his name in vain.
Bishop also gave a great talk on forgiveness and not judging. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">P-Day was on the 31<sup>st</sup> and we had a P-Day with the
whole zone of Gravatai, a churrasco for Novo Ano. Then we get back and we go to
Bishop´s for dinner and a meeting on missionary work which was great, took a
picture with his family that I´ll send later. Then as we´re leaving and Bishop
is giving us a ride home, the other elders call us and invite us to come over
to their bishop´s house for a churrasco and stuff so Bishop Andre takes us over
there. We eat more, use basically sparklers, and then go home. We´re joking
around, using the elevator and only the 3 Americans are inside, I feel an urge
to hit to close door button and Elder Owen laughs and says ‘Only Americans’ and
as the door is closing by itself, Souza sticks his leg through and it opens
back up and all six of us get inside, hit the button, starts to go and breaks
and begins to move down in chunks. People freaked out, hit buttons, elevator
stopped, we said a prayer, tried to call emergency number but it didn´t go
through but somehow managed to call their bishop for him to call the people and
somehow we use a Book of Mormon and brute strength to open the elevator door,
but we were in between floors and somehow Elder Pereira knew how to open the
doors on the floors from the inside so we managed to get out and we took happy
celebration pictures. We called President and told him because we weren´t sure
if we broke the elevator door and if it would cause problems and he laughed and
said if it caused problems with stuff, he´d call us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New Year´s Day was an impossible day of work, same with the 31st,
everything closed and no one answers because everyone is either on the beach or
with a bunch of family, but today we finally were able to go to a LAN House and
send email and after this we can finally get to work, working hard. It will be
a bit difficult because we are essentially starting from scratch, but we´re
gonna get things done. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fireworks are always crazy here. Between that and the fact the
fan in our room is broken made it near impossible to sleep the first night of
the New Year. It feels like it has been forever since Skype. </span></span></div>
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Skyping with Elder Mangum Christmas Morning was the best!</div>
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<span style="color: #212121; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things are going great here in Feitoria. Keila and her family
right now generally travel at the end of the week to visit Dad working on the
beach. Things with Gustavo this week went great. Gustavo is the son of member
who was baptized in Cruz Alta, Robison. A couple months back, them and
Robison´s brothers, went to our church for a couple of weeks but nothing
happened. We ran into Gustavo a week or two back in the street and he tells us,
“I´m about to turn nine”. We have him lead us to his house and his birthday was
Dec 9 and he was baptized Dec 17. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People in the ward definitely remember Elder Banda. He is the
only child, first generation American, his family lives in Laredo Texas right
by the border of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Mexico. He passed
Christmas here last year, was here in total 4.5 months last year. This week was
a fun week with him. I´m eating a lot with Elder Banda, everyone loves him and
he loves to buy food for us both. He is a great guy.</span></span></div>
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and started things back up with them and President let us go to the sealing of
a companion of Elder Banda, his first companion in Feitoria, Oilguin (I have no
idea how it is spelled). </span></span></div>
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stuff at the temple store, attend the sealing, and it is pouring rain when we
get out. We also lost power inside the temple for a couple times for just a
little bit which was a bit odd. Anyways, we take pictures under the cover in
front of the temple in the rain (whole time I´m thinking how this happened for
y’all too, nearly 25 years ago). Then someone gives us a ride to the bus stop
that we take to get near the train station to take back to Feitoria. However,
once we were on the bus, we didn´t know where exactly to get off or how to get
from the stop to the train station. Luckily, at the stop after we got on, an RM
who got off his mission 5 months ago got on, sat with us and talked.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He got off with us, bought us milkshakes at
Bob´s, and guided us to the train station. We got back in Feitoria late for the
activity only to learn that the activity was postponed to start later because
Feitoria lost power for a while and a bunch of trees fell, and the activity ended
up started right as we had to go home for the night. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a bit weird to hear the youth age changes the church
announced.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>First the guy on the bus told
us and I didn´t believe him because he was pulling a lot of jokes, but it
turned out to be true. Doesn´t particularly matter, Noah was ordained to the
Melchezidek Priesthood when he was 10 years old, I believe. Priesthood doesn´t
really have an age. I keep reading the quote by Elder Anderson about the
fellowship being challenged in interesting ways. Someone also said something
really profound the other day about the church’s changes, how the restoration
is still occurring, and how the law is still being revealed/changed for law of Moses
to the higher law. Very cool to be living at a time like this! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only a week until Christmas and Skype! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Today is transfers. I am staying put, my new companion is Elder Banda, a
missionary who already passed through Feitoria who will end the mission with me
this transfer (which means I´ll be able to go to the temple at the end of this
transfer!) </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Turns out
Elder Banda is from Texas, on the border of Mexico, his parents are
both from Mexico, I think. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Not much happened this week, people traveled this weekend so no
baptisms.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We did some service moving
wood that was a house I think.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We had an
activity at the church, a birthday celebration for one of Bruna´s kids, Léo.
While we were there, Elder Favoretti felt a sensation to go check what was
going on outside.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We saw a person in the
entrance of the parking lot and went to talk with her.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We gave her a tour of the church and
introduced her to Bishop and she wants to be baptized, so we´ll see how things
go this week. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Also this week, we learned that Pedro received a personal
response that the church is true. He started off by saying, I know that God
won´t strike down a tree to show me that the church is true, but I prayed for
him to show me through something that would not happen without the influence of
God and it happened. He explained and essentially, his dad hates religion and
is always bashing religion and people who participate, and he prayed that when
he told his dad he was going to church last Sunday, that his dad wouldn´t care.
His dad just went OK. And that was it. He says he knows the church is true,
just has to work through some things so I plan on working with him this week to
help him be baptized this Sunday, so we´ll see how things go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I´m feeling really great.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The rest of P-Day last week was great, we went to Parque Imperatriz
which I´ll send the pictures in a little bit. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sunday was the sacrament meeting of the Primary which was super
good. We have our ward Christmas party this Friday night. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We had several churrascos this week for lunch from families
saying goodbye to Elder Favoretti, but he´s still in the same zone so I´ll see
him every week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I´ll have to travel to Novo Hamburgo in not too long to meet up
with my companion at 3 and Elder Favoretti to meet up with his companion. Have
a good week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Life is<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> going great here, although I woke up at five in the morning, went
to the bathroom, threw up, brushed my teeth, and went back to bed, so I
probably ate something that didn´t set well yesterday so we´ll see how the rest
of P-Day goes.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This week we didn´t have a baptism, with the family of Keila and
Julia both traveling on Sunday. We´re sitting there in sacrament as it´s
starting and Julia walks in with the family of her member friend, Camila. We
look at each other, run home to grab her form for Bishop to sign after her
confirmation, and I performed my first confirmation in Portuguese which was
exciting but also stressful, but all went well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This week we really wanted to run into Robson or his son Gustavo
because a week or two back, we ran into Gustavo who said he was about to turn
nine. Robson is a member who´s inactive and apparently came to church before I
arrived in Feitoria when Elder Favoretti was still here and asked for his son to
be baptized but nothing happened. Ana, Roseli´s daughter told us where she
thought their house was. She was mistaken, and we wandered around for a while.
We´re walking and I say a silent prayer in my mind to please please let us find
them. Elder Favoretti says we´ll go to where Gustavo gave directions to the
other week and as we´re walking there, a random person stops us and says she is
a member from Sao Leopaldo who moved here and went inactive for a while and
wants to return, but is moving to another house here in Feitoria and will call
us this week after the move to schedule an appointment. Then we´re walking, Elder
Favoretti goes "you remember what Gustavo looks like right", and I go
"Yeah…Actually no I don´t." Then we walk two or three steps I glance
to the right down a street and go "Wait isn´t that him" and there was
Gustavo, had him lead us directly to his house and visited his father another
day and Gustavo´s birthday is this upcoming Sunday, my last day with Elder Favoretti
is the first day that we can baptize him because we can´t baptize the children
of members that are only 8 years old. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Next week, Sunday night December 9th we´ll receive a call and
next Monday we´ll travel for transfers. Elder Favoretti thinks I´ll stay here
in Feitoria and he´ll leave, but there´s also the possibility of both of us
leaving, so we´ll see next week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It is great to be in December! I think I´ll be passing Christmas
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px;">This week was amazing. There is a girl Julia (who I thought was
a member) who comes with a family that is a member to church like every week.
We ate lunch with the family on Sunday and they were like, no go visit her and
her family this week, they aren´t members. The missionaries met with them some time
ago & nobody knows why they weren´t baptized. Long story short, the whole family
came to church, Julia was baptized this Sunday and her brother Matteus will be
baptized next Sunday. The parents have to marry first. </span></div>
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returned home this week, we learned on Tuesday and visited Wednesday and the
dad talked with us. They are such a great family. U<span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">nfortunately, a poisonous caterpillar burned Edinai this
Saturday and he was having an allergic reaction so they had to go to the
hospital for him and the rest went to a cousins house so no one came to church
this Sunday. This week we also <span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">painted the outside of a members mom´s house which was
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;">One family we work with is having a lot of financial and health struggles and just going through a really rough patch right now with everything. We visited with them one day this week and found out they didn't have any food. Elder Favoretti says, "Don´t worry, we´ll be back by 8 tonight and we´ll have food for y’all to eat".
As we leave, Elder Favoretti says to me, "I´ve got a crazy idea". We knocked the
doors of members nearby, asking for a little bit of food like rice or beans or
something and also passed by in our own house because members always give us
food and we cleaned it all out and returned with a good deal of food for them.
It was amazing. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It reminded me of how we are often answers to others prayers when we are in the right place, doing the right thing and listening to the Spirit. Anyways, <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">doing that for this family was really touching.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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church yesterday. I started off with Revelation 12:11, that we overcame Satan by the
Atonement of Christ and the word of our testimonies then in the Premortal life
and that we came overcome him again here in the same way, that I already had
talking about the importance of using the Atonement in our lives and that I´d
be focusing on by the word of our testimonies, talking about gaining a
testimony of Christ by reading and studying the Book of Mormon every day, but
that the scripture didn´t say by the power of the testimonies that we had, but
by the word of our testimonies, that we have to share. Then I read in 3 Nephi
18 how Christ says let your light shine, that He is the light within us, and
that we let it shine through us when we do the things which He did. Then I
talked about Light the World and invited everyone to participate this year. That is cool that you have the ability to talk with people in my ward
and had already heard that I had spoken in church!</span></span></span><br />
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zone conference, I remember that Presidente talking about improving our
acompanhamentos, to not only visit daily but have them feel the Spirit that is
with you every day. In my interview, he gave me some tips for improving my
accent that the vast majority of Americans mess up with. I´m feeling great. </span></span></div>
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Elder Favoretti and I both got sick this week, but several days apart, so we
lost two days visiting Oban, the public clinic right behind our house. Elder
Favoretti´s was the beginning of the week, on Tuesday, and he had gotten food
poisoning and that´s why he almost passed out last Saturday and again Tuesday,
something he ate. Then this past Thursday we had a ward activity at a park for
lunch, apparently it was a holiday, so everyone was off work and school.
Anyways, we had churrasco and something you always have with churrasco here is
"Mayonese" which is like potato salad. Let´s just say it was very hot
on Thursday and apparently I should´ve avoided the Mayonese. However, all the
workers at the clinic loved talking to an American and they stuck something in
my vein and let it drip in me and I felt better, prescribed some medicine to
help with stomach pain and while we were at the clinic waiting for me, we
received a phone call to come do service, so while Elder Favoretti helped
Brother Jacobs make a cement drive way, I got to sit in the shade, Sister
Jacobs brought out their amazing grape juice and happened to have the medicine
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think. Irasema as well, along with her deaf sister that she cares for, also got
sick, theirs was Saturday, vomiting and stuff and said if they were better
she´d go to church the next day, but didn´t end up going. We also met her
daughter that works in Sao Leopaldo this week. Anyways, Irasema is doing great.
Church was good, final speaker was the stake YW president who had another great
talk about all sorts of stuff, but part was about uniting and uplifting other
members, investigators, and recent converts. </span></div>
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to, Pedro, who is the boyfriend of an RM came to church and he brought a
friend, Murilo. They both really enjoyed it. Pedro has already been to
institute and liked that a lot too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I don´t know how Thanksgiving works, like yesterday at lunch I
saw something about Black Friday and asked if they have Thanksgiving and they
said yes so well, we´ll see. We do have zone conference this week again. As
long as I don´t get poisoned again and get to eat some good meat, I´ll be
alright. I think this Thursday we actually have lunch at Roseli´s based on the
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<br />The Mangumshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11873309965110526904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509482586175697128.post-41016027186171935112018-11-12T20:26:00.000-08:002018-11-23T09:23:05.969-08:00Irasema's Baptism and an American Lunch!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Keila had to go to the hospital in Porto Alegre Sunday
night/Monday for the pains from anemia false form. She had to take morphine and
have blood transfusions, stays in the hospital for like 15 days I think. Her
brothers stay at a relatives house while the parents deal with stuff at the
hospital and dad works, so we haven´t had physical contact with anyone except
the Grandpa on Monday night who told us this, but we´ve called Cintia, and
Keila is doing fine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Irasema has progressed very well. We visited her Monday and talked with
her about her baptism for Saturday but she said she wouldn't give a for certain
yes until Wednesday, that she needed to pray and ask if she needed to be
baptized now. We come back on Wednesday and she starts talking with us about
how she´s so worried for her daughter, like Tuesday or Wednesday she had a
dream about her dying and just has been thinking about her daughter nonstop.
Elder Favoretti pulls out Ether 12:27( through 29 I think, stopping where it
says something about The Lord´s will be done or something) and applies it to
her, that she prayed drawing near to God about whether she needs to be baptized
and God showed her weakness, her daughter, that she really does need to be baptized
this Saturday, set an example for her daughter. She´s crying and goes I will. I
will be baptized this Saturday. His will be done. We leave, I say something to
Elder Favoretti about like what on earth, how´d you connect that, have that
scripture ready. He said something like yeah, it just popped into my head when
she was talking about her daughter, I didn´t prepare it at all, all the work of
the Lord, but we are happy to be His instruments. The Relief Society President
visited her Friday because she knew she´d be working during the baptism.
Irasema was baptized and confirmed the next day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sunday we had a member of the stake presidency who talked about
how the ward needs to help more with missionary work, how every member is
a missionary, how while they don´t wear a name tag like us, people still know
they are members and thus they have to act in a certain way and can´t do
certain things, needing to be accepting politically because just because you received
personal revelation that a candidate is right for you doesn´t mean that is the
right candidate for someone else and stuff like that. Apparently, our ward has
had a hard time with politics and several people have stopped coming to church
for this reason. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We had two teaching miracles happen this week. One was we were
trying to find a contact and knocked a door to ask where the street was and we
happened to knock on the door of his brother.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>He and his wife have seen us walking and wanted us to teach them. They
told us that they wouldn´t be able to make it church this Sunday but next Sunday
that they would. Then, one time when we were visiting Roberto, two boys, 12 and
11, friends who live by Roberto walked in and we taught them. Not sure why they
didn´t come to church, one of them even ran up to us as we were walking back to
our house after (and scared us) saying that he checked with his grandparents
and he would come to church. In answer to your question from the pictures from
last week - The pizza here from this place is so good, I get one half bacon,
the other half chocolate and strawberry. We are not allowed to play
soccer, so no. I haven´t played any sports out in the field.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Roseli said if I ever visit with my parents (or without) that we
can stay at their house to save money by not paying for a hotel. That really
touched me. Also, this Sunday for lunch, we had it at the Alves family who have
two sons on missionaries right now in Brazil and they made a special American
themed lunch for me, with French fries and hamburgers. It was so awesome! They're a fun group,
have a son a little younger than me and a daughter younger than him and a son
who's married. Also, if you or dad receive friend requests, it is from
Brazilians who are feeding us and have taken a picture most likely and would
like to send it to you.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Anyways, have a
good, birthday packed adventure this week!</span></div>
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Keila was baptized this Sunday, but the whole family minus grandpa came to
Sacrament, but only Keila and Wellington (14 yr old brother) stayed all three
hours because they had a visitor come into town. We baptized Keila after church
and her dad pulled up as we were taking pictures beforehand and he really liked
her baptism. Really, the whole family wants to be baptized, everyone likes us a
lot.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We usually read a bit in the Book
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and that takes quite a while once that process actually starts. Irasema´s baptism is marked for this Saturday
and she´s progressing well. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We had my
first ward council here, started at 4 in the afternoon.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It happens on the first Sunday of every
month, but not when there is General Conference, and thus this was my first
one. We were just a part of it for the first thirty minutes, talking about
recent converts, people progressing, and whatnot and then Bispo Warken
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council. Sergio at some point while we were visiting together said, “Thank you
very much” in English. Certainly startled me! Apparently some years ago he took
like a basics of English course or something. People do want an English class
but I’m not sure about teaching one. Elder Favoretti said he´ll make up excuses
for the rest of the transfer, but after that (because he´ll leave and I won´t)
"Boa sorte, meu amigo!" Elder Favoretti and I have some fun together.
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them was one of the Sister Trainers for our mission while I arrived. Our new
zone leader is Elder Romero, don´t know where he´s from. We also received
another Elder, Elder Rush from Nashville. This Sunday was also weird because it
was "Horário do Verão", day light savings, so we jumped forward an
hour which made getting up rough. So we are now 4 hours difference in time from
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but she didn´t, but we visited her and she told us how she had to housesit for
her son William who went out of town. I figured it was because of time change,
because the time change happened automatically on people´s phones last week but
this year it was changed to the first week in November or something. This week we’re
going to start teaching the boyfriend of a returned missionary sister, we´ll
see how that goes. I think he might be atheist or something, but she´s brought
him to Institute, gave him a Book of Mormon, and talked about her mission with
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things cool, so I can´t complain too much. Apparently the only thing that is
done for Halloween here is you can have a Halloween party at school where you
dress up and stuff. Also school here is very different, there are three
different sessions, morning, afternoon, and evening, and you pick one and go to
that. Also, their summer break is in like December/January to February/March or
so. Milkshakes here are amazing, there is this ice cream/milkshake stand not
too far from us that we hit up sometimes, I love me some chocolate ice cream,
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chimarrão before passing it (which I´ve done every time and talked with my
companion and he said yeah you have to otherwise it is really rude) and
finishing my plate every time (although one time a few weeks back I left some
sauce, was like a cheese whatever on my plate because it was seconds that I was
forced to get and the mom apparently tried to make me feel guilty with a I
don´t care, but ,,, and her kids got embarrassed and said mom stop he doesn´t
understand. This was near my beginning so Elder Favoretti did explain what
happened/how she was trying to make me feel guilty afterwards to me. Now I make
sure and look at the plates of the people who’s house we are in to see if my
plate must be literally spotless or if I can leave some grains of rice). I do
like looking at all the advice of everyone in my journal, it really helps!</span></div>
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trips to Porto Alegre.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Both trips to
Porto Alegre were very different. On Wednesday, for my training as a new missionary,
we took an early bus to the train station, rode the train with another dupla
training in my zone, took a bus and then ate at a buffet with them and other
duplas arrived and ate with us too (apparently all the trainers had eaten there
the day when we arrived). Then we walked to the mission office, had a little
thing without our companions where we filled out some little paper about how
well you and your companion do certain stuff, and then we talked about the
joyful and difficult experiences we´ve had and stuff, had some training and
talks all together and then a roleplay or two. The second trip was different
because we took the train to Novo Hamburgo and met up with our zone and took a
rented bus from there to Porto Alegre to the Porto Alegre Sul grounds and
chapel where we heard from <a href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/cristina-b-franco?lang=eng">Sister Franco</a>, 2nd Counselor in the Primary General
Presidency and her husband. Her talk was better, but they were both really
good. They talked in Spanish (from Argentina but lived in SLC for a long time
and knew English) and we had a translator translating in Portuguese next to
them. It was broadcasted to everyone in our mission, Porto Alegre Sul, and
probably some ones in Spanish speaking countries too, I´d assume. </span><br />
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Alegre and most of the day Saturday in Porto Alegre as well. Keila and Ednai
were not baptized this weekend, but we have a for certain next weekend. Their Dad
came back in town and they had to go visit his mother who they hadn´t visited
in over a month and her birthday had passed in that time. Sunday was also
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/brazil-elections-2018-181004120523851.html">elections</a> again, so it was very difficult getting anyone to church.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The election stuff was less crazy this time
around, and justifying for Elder Favoretti was even quicker. Got to see the
cafeteria of a school in Brasil! </span></div>
<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Our ward is good, this week we had 82 people in Sacrament
meeting and Elder Favoretti gave a talk that encouraged more help from the
members in missionary work (received a call from bishop to give this talk night
before at 10).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After Sacrament meeting,
we received our first member reference that I´ve gotten in this area, someone
that an RM sister is dating who she has brought to institute, he has the Book
of Mormon. We´ll visit him this week and see how that goes. Our church starts
at 8:30. I´ve passed the sacrament, never blessed. We had 2 investigators attend
church this week, only 1 that we have been teaching (Irasema/Ilasama, I´m not
really sure...), the other was a 9 or 10 year old that was brought by a friend whose
parents might be members.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Elder
Favoretti always thought she was a member but she isn´t or something. Not
really sure I understand the whole story, only that she is not a member. Roseli’s
family is good, they like our company a lot. </span><br />
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(people move areas today). Apparently if you are transferred you don´t get
P-Day. Lucky Elder Favoretti and I weren´t transfered. A decent amount of
people in our zone got transfered, including our zone leader who was in my
district, Elder Walters who is from Texas (I think Dallas) and he is now the
new assistant which Favoretti is excited about.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They were trained and spent time in houses together and are pretty
close. Also, apparently one of the Sisters from Brazil in my group and is my
zone, is now training, after only 1 transfer in the field, not even finishing
full training, which Elder Favoretti has never heard of. </span></div>
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less pain or I´m used to it. Gotta build my leg muscles. It´s nothing with my
shoes, although I think we forgot to factor in the Trevor factor when we
decided how many shoes to bring. They aren´t near breaking, for certain, but
they definitely look well used already, so we´ll see how things go. Things are
hard, for certain, but teaching brings me joy every day.</span></div>
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was good. Roseli and her family didn´t make it, still working with them, but
Elder Favoretti said missionaries have been working for a very long time to
reactivate them and he´s fairly certain we´ll be able to do it. Sergio is doing
great, perfect elect. Every time we visit him he says something like ‘I´m on
the path of God, everything is perfect’. He was confirmed yesterday. </span></div>
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don´t remember if I´ve explained or not, but her "husband" is a
member nonactive who is married to another woman who left him for a woman and
the divorce is finally underway. She comes to church almost every week.), and
then a family: Keila (12), Ednai (9), and the mom Cinthia. The dad and older
son are out of town right now, I think he´s the equivalent of a trucker. Their
life has been super hard, I´ve almost cried a couple times during lessons, but
it has been great getting to know them. For instance, Keila has this disease
that is essentially reverse anemia, too much iron forms in the blood and so she
sometimes has super painful attacks and has to go to the hospital in Porto
Alegre for I think transfusions. Medical/science terms are somewhat easy to
understand because they´re the same with different pronunciations, I
think. They also had a son die at 3 years old many years ago from this
same disease. However, the <a href="https://www.mormon.org/beliefs/plan-of-salvation">Plan of Salvation</a> finally satisfied/filled Cinthia.
She said she´s had dozens of Pastors teach them and preach about her son but
none filled her or left her with a desire to go to church until us. We taught
them once with the dad but the rest has been without. Keila and Ednai are
set to be baptized after church on Sunday, but the parents, like just about
everyone, are not married and need to be married before they can be baptized.
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responsibility on to me, like now I start off our first lesson with people with
the questions on finding out their needs and what not which is a bit hard at
times, but like the small silences as I think and form questions and whatnot
aren´t anywhere near as bad or awkward as I thought it would be. I think my
communication skills are coming, slowly. My understanding is coming a lot
faster than speaking. While I can´t understand a lot of words, in context I
generally can understand the phrase, although there are also a good deal of
times where I´ve thought I´ve understand on context clues and answered a
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so so good. Reminds me of the times in Will´s backyard, only they cook things
differently, on like those smore sticks, can´t remember what they´re called in
English, and pretty slowly. We eat a lot of meat here which is great cause I
love it. I also had tererê this week which is like chimarrão/mate, only cold
and with juice. It was with lemonade/lemon juice and tasted exactly like frozen
lemonade and those drinks, it was so so good, especially since spring has
started and things are definitely starting to heat up. </span></div>
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starting my sixth week here in the field. Also, already developed an insane
amount of gratitude for a loving family and parents. Elder Favoretti was raised
by his grandparents and has had a lot of crazy experiences. He is amazing
though, 21, has a fiancee in Minas, been a member for 3 years, super funny and
has great stories.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Sergio was baptized
yesterday after church, it went great. Alex and his family is the opposite, was
very sad for me on Tuesday when we went to go visit them and were told that
their mom doesn´t want us teaching Alex anymore because she doesn´t want him confused
or something. It left me very sad, but Favoretti said it isn´t Alex´s fault, he´ll get another chance down the road. We´ve taught a couple of different
families who all need to be married which is annoying because despite living
together for years and years and having kids together and raising them, they still
aren´t married and some of them don´t want to get married. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Thursday morning I had my
interview with Presidente Jones which was awesome. Said he loves my letters to
him because they´re always positive. I said yeah, that days are hard, but there
is a bit of good in every one and he said keep up that thinking, that
missionaries at the beginning don´t generally have that attitude (particularly Americans)
and thus struggle. The main struggle is walking, Elder Favoretti walks so fast
that I have to run a little bit every day to catch up with him, my legs are
always dead at the end of the day. Also, Presidente told me straight up that I
have one of the best trainers in the mission, so learn well and feel fortunate
and grateful. He also said that we´ll have received 75 new missionaries from
July 1 to the end of the year, nearly half the mission (which would be 88).
Also, based off his interview with Elder Favoretti, there is a decent shot I´ll
be training immediately after right here in Feitoria. Gotta learn it all well
enough to teach it all. Got 8 more weeks to prep. I also finally had my little
interview (or part of it at least) with Sister Jones that I didn´t get to do
the first day with lack of time, and that was fun too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/youth/article/mission-life?lang=eng">Zone Conference</a> on Friday
was good, Presidente taught about the <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/atonement-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng">Atonement</a>, Sister Jones about <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/charity?lang=eng">charity</a>,
the assistants about always teaching people, making conversations, and about
improving our baptism invites. The zone leaders then had us do practices of
baptism invitations where we roleplayed as a real person in our mission that a
dupla is teaching right now. It was really good. I also had divisão again in
Sao Leopaldo on Thursday after my interview until zone conference on Friday. We
did service Saturday and my back is a little sore. Lots of buckets of dirt that
I moved to fill in cracks and holes, I think we like filled in his foundation
under his house and stairs with dirt. Fasting on the mission is only hard
because of thirst and your desire to drink. We did have fast and testimony
meeting yesterday.</span></div>
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visit this less active/not active family and just talk and eat with them, Irmã
Roseli, her husband, and their 14 year old daughter Ana. I kind of had been
growing a bit impatient that we kept visiting them because it seemed like
nothing was happening although I always enjoyed spending time with them, super
fun and nice. Anyways, Roseli has been having serious problems with health
recently, like possibly has cancer and shared with us last night that she knows
the church is true, that the <a href="https://www.mormon.org/beliefs/book-of-mormon">Book of Mormon</a> is true, but just doesn´t know why
she doesn´t come to church (they did have issues with a person) and I´m fairly
certain that they´re going start coming to sacrament meeting again. It made me
realize that what is meant by teaching people is talking with people, being
their friends, sharing your experiences, like the assistants were talking
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week I forgot to write about the elections for President here in Brazil.
It was wild stuff leading up to it, people driving around honking so much
with flags, they litter the streets so much with all these little papers of the
candidates, we had to go on the Sunday morning of General Conference for Elder
Favoretti to register as nonvoting, went to a school by us and I got to go
inside, first school in Brazil. We´ll have to this same thing in a couple of
weeks for the runoff election of something. Also, you should look up what I
think in English is called <a href="https://annathemissionary.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/lawrence-corbridge-the-fourth-missionary.pdf">The Fourth Missionary</a>, By Lawrence E. Corbridge,
June 22, 2002. Haven´t read all of it yet because it is in Portuguese for me,
but what I´ve read is really good, I think you´d like it. </span></div>
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some lows, but we´ll start at the beginning. On P-Day’s we don´t really do that
much, not much to do in Feitoria. We may go to a park or something today which
is like the one thing we can do. I just studied a lot last week, which made me
remember how much I enjoy learning. Tuesday we had another district meeting
where we ate breakfast as a zone, every companionship bringing a little
something. Some of the sisters made some cake with frosting, it was a good
little thing. We have the zone leaders in our district, Elder Walters from
McKinney Texas and Elder Nobre from Mozambique. They seem really cool and gave
a good training to our zone about being on the Lord's team bringing people to
Christ. We made a goal as a companionship to have three baptisms this month. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We have
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I´m not sure if I´ve talked about them before, but we´ve got a
couple good progressing investigators. One is Daniel, who is 25, who is so into
what we´re teaching and to learning. His mom is Evangelist but is encouraging
of us because he´s never been baptized and also is okay with us teaching her
whole family. Another set is Alex, 10, and his sister, Angela, 15. We were
knocking doors and trying to visit the houses of contacts but things weren’t
working out, so we were a bit sad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But then
I saw this boy sitting on the sidewalk in front of a house and smiled and waved
to him.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We made contact, taught a lesson
to him, his sister, and his sister´s boyfriend. Gabriel, Alex, and his sister
have baptismal dates for the 21 because conference was only broadcast at the
stake center which is not our building, so we have to take a bus and therein
much more difficult to bring people. But they´re all enthused for baptism, and
it warmed my soul to hear 10 year old Alex say "I want to be
baptized". In similar circumstances of knocking and contacting, we came
across Sergio, a man of 72 years old who is fairly receptive and came to
conference with us Sunday afternoon and has a baptismal date for this
upcoming Sunday after church. </span></div>
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sessions to bring him to conference to watch and then be baptized. He isn´t
home, so his family calls him and he comes back home and we talk and he makes
up the excuse that his mom doesn´t want him to be baptized again, that she
doesn´t feel he is ready, etc. We tried to talk with him like you’re 19 and
quell fears and whatnot but to no avail. His parents are also super tranquilo
and we´ve even taught his dad the Restoration. Another low was that I was
feeling under the weather Friday and Saturday and a little Thursday which made
my first splits on Friday a bit difficult, but Elder Silva (Fortaleza) and I
still worked hard and did well in their area with 4 lessons, 7 novos, and 5 datas.
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since during the gaps you can hear a bit of the English. I was surprised by how
much I understood. I took notes Sunday during both sessions, writing in
English, but I understand a good chunk of everything being said. I really
enjoyed all the choir stuff in English, especially Saturday morning with some
of those more Primary hymns, really good. I think people are pretty happy about
2 hour church. I´m glad I´ll be able to say to my children, back in my day, we
had three hour church, we had Sunday school and Young Men´s/Young Women´s every
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">You asked about buying food here. I usually just buy biscuits,
cookies, and stick them in the freezer. They don´t really have much variety,
decently similar to Oreos. The stores are a bit different and weird. Still
weird with the prices. The weirdest thing I´ve been fed was yesterday for
"dessert" and they called it dessert, we were fed by members straight
up boiled sweet potatoes that they cut off a piece right there in front of us
and gave it to us. This isn´t like a Brazilian thing, maybe a Rio Grande do Sul
thing, because Elder Favoretti eats boiled sweet potatoes for breakfast all the
time and we talked about it after. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I
have the equivalent of frosted flakes for breakfast every morning, so I buy
that and milk too.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Any of the desserts that are actually desserts are pretty good,
especially when it has some sort of chocolate in it, like once we had this warm
chocolate pudding, another this chocolate sorvete with, I don´t know how to
describe it, like if you put crushed up animal crackers in ice cream, really
good. </span></div>
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Monday and taught the Restoration again. The parents had read and discussed the
first 5 chapters in the <a href="https://www.mormon.org/beliefs/book-of-mormon">Book of Mormon</a> that day, taking an hour. It was fun
talking with them and their kids. I actually got to be a part of it. We even talked
about Marvel which is somewhat difficult with the different names, but they
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day. He used to be this hard drinker who kept trying to quit who met the
missionaries, I think got a blessing, and hasn´t drunk since. Apparently, he´s
also a lot mellower now than he was which is crazy to think about because he
seems pretty much like a crazy old man to me. I´ve met some interesting
characters who come by and visit him, some of his bad influence friends, but Elder Favoretti said I haven´t seen anything yet. One of them was shaking from the
drugs they were on which freaked me out a lot. But I talked with Elder Favoretti
right after and he brought it up with like everyone we had lunch with the rest
of the week, and apparently I have got to get used to that because it´s normal in
Brasil. Also another crazy experience that happened this week: two police on
motos flew by us with sirens then a little bit later an ambulance. We keep
walking and we walk up to a crime scene where a guy was shot in the head a
couple times. Apparently had a problem with drugs. </span></div>
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people. Gabriel is probably going to get baptized this Saturday after
conference. He is 19 and we met him while knocking doors my first day. He came
to church last week but not yesterday because he just started a job where he
works every morning, but luckily General conference counts as a sacrament
meeting and he can get baptized after that. We also met someone who we thought
was elect, Sandoval, this 72 year old man, because our first lesson, the
Restoration, was great, he brought up some points of error in the Catholic
church which he had grown up in too. Then we get to the second lesson where we
start off by teaching the BoM and he goes "Wait, y’all are those Mormons?
I won´t go to that Mormon Church" He also has horrible memory, like he
brings up faults in the Catholic church and then two minutes later ask a
question where the answer is the fault that he brought up earlier. We´re still
teaching him, he is somewhat mellowing, I don´t know to be honest. He didn´t
come to church, his response was probably not. We are also teaching Daniela and
her family (sister and nieces) and she wants to be baptized but her
"husband" (father of her child who is like 4 and who lives with her)
is married to another woman so he has to divorce this other person and then
marry her before she can get baptized. Also, the rest of the family doesn´t
want to come to church anymore because apparently a member of the bishopric
asked for money from them at the cultural potluck whatever thing last week
because they weren´t members and didn´t bring any food. Come on dude. We´ve
taught a couple of other good families, but only the first lesson, so we´ll see
how things go with them this week. </span></div>
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power this week, although there isn´t AC, only fans, so we have all the windows
open and since it´s day time, the lights being on doesn´t really change that
much. Our congregation had about 60 people this week, so to me it feels tiny.
It was not Fast Sunday, apparently they still do fast Sunday during <a href="http://www.lds.org/">general conference</a>. Not sure how that works- if it´s just fasting, I assume. Singing in
Portuguese is fun, I´m used to it by now cause the CTM with choir practice and
district favorites there. We sing a lot of hymns I´m familiar with. Also, no
one plays the piano during sacrament, the chorister (switches between YW) sings
the prelude/first line alone and then we sing starting from the very beginning.
Also during 5th Sunday here it is a bit different- sacrament all the members of
the bishopric spoke. Second hour gospel principles which Elder Favoretti taught
for some reason which it happened to be the week of the <a href="https://www.mormon.org/beliefs/apostasy">Restoration</a> so no
problem. Last week the Bishop´s wife taught but she wasn´t here this week. Then
3rd hour was all combined like normal, and it was all about fellowshipping and
being welcoming and about this youth event coming up for 16-25, Meet Up, on
October 12th, all of Brasil meets up in various cities and has like this one
day EFY type big event. I wonder why we don´t have this in the US. Apparently,
this is the second year doing it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Things with my companion are good. I don´t remember if I said
this or not, but he´s only been a member since he was 17, and he´s 21 now, he
played some pro soccer from 14-16 or 17, a bit shorter than me but more
athletic so his walking speed tires me out. He is really funny and really good
at teaching people and using stories/examples to help people understand. He
also knows the Bible really well which helps at times. I´m not really sure how
big my district/zone is because some of them got to visit the temple last week.
Apparently, our area, Feitoria, is one of the only ones in our zone that
doesn´t get to go to the temple cause we´re too far. That was annoying to find
out, but we went to a buffet for lunch after our meeting using the money that
the person who we helped move gave us to buy lunch so a great lunch for free. </span><br />
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get fed lunch every day except for P-Day apparently, and that´s the biggest
meal of the day here, so I´m surviving. The people here look out for the
missionaries too. We stopped by on Saturday night, the church, because it was
Moças Standard´s/Values night. Moças is YW. We wanted to see if Daniela´s nieces
(Camila and another girl) came because we invited them, but nope. However,
they gave us the rest of the cake and make us some like hotdog sandwiches or
something. I only ate the cake, not that hungry. The YW leader is funny, I
think you´d like her. She reminds me of Sister Hunter. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We´ve got a washing machine attached to our apartment that we
can use throughout the week, but only one so we´ve got to use it throughout the
week. It´s just for us two though so that´s good. We just hang stuff up to dry
on something by our room, you can see it in the pictures. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Playing in the rain is a lot of fun.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> It isn´t flooding or anything. The blisters are
healing, no longer a constant low pain while walking, only the pain in my legs
now.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> The days where it rains is the best because clouds and the days
are cooler. I can definitely tell that spring is starting, it is starting to
warm up. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This past week flew by. I´m sure I´ll be skyping y’all in no
time.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Have a fun week, love y’all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">My first area, Feitoria, is pretty amazing. Second day in the
field, we had a marriage and then their baptism and I baptized Bruna, the wife,
while Elder Favoretti baptized Renan, the husband. They have three children, only one
that is over 8- Edwardo who is 12, but already baptized. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">My companion Elder Favoretti is from Brasil, I can´t remember
where right now, somewhere somewhat near Sao Paulo. He only got baptized a
couple years ago & is just over halfway through his mission. He has a goal
of baptizing 70 people on his mission and has baptized almost 40. Apparently
I´m already at 2. Elder Favoretti doesn´t speak any English which is hard but good
for me because all I wanna do is speak English. I think Favoretti likes me a
lot. Apparently we’ve already obtained more contacts than he did in two
transfers in this same area. I like Favoretti too. He
played professional soccer from 14-17 but his mom didn´t like him being away so
much so she didn´t renew his contract. He is the only member in his family. Our
apartment is over this pharmacy, I like it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We took a train from the mission home and then a bus to our
area, we are close enough to Porto Alegre that we get to go to the temple
whenever that is. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Also, we didn´t get a
night at the mission home. After some training/meeting Elder Favoretti, we
travelled home, unpacked, and went to bed because it was time. Then I got right
to work. Already have some serious blisters on my feet, but no pain no gain am I right? <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">September 20 is like this sort of Independence day for Rio
Grande do Sul, the state I´m in, when they tried to leave Brasil but failed,
but they celebrate it every year, so Friday and Saturday we had activities at
the church for this which was pretty fun. Met a lot of people whose names I
don´t remember. We eat lunch at a different member´s house everyday. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Lots of investigators/nonmembers were at the activities that we
went to, so Bishop Varken (maybe Warken but they all say Varken) is pretty
happy with us. He also made me give a talk on Sunday, I´m glad he told me
Thursday so I was able to prepare. I talked about How the Atonement isn´t just
for sins, but also for our weaknesses, using Alma 7:11-13 and Ether 12:27. Feitoria
is the name of our ward too. Anyways, we brought an investigator (Gabriel) to
church that we met knocking on doors my very first day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I think the language is coming. I understood the less actives
who we ate dinner with last night a lot better than I understood the member who
we ate lunch with my first day. I enjoy talking with kids more than adults
because kids like to try and teach me Portuguese and test me. </span><span style="border: 1pt; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;">Sunday</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> <span style="color: #212121; margin: 0px;">after
church (which starts at 8:30 here and for some reason there was no power in the
whole church) we ate lunch with this family. Lasagna, but not as good as yours.
We also played a lot of Uno which it took me a while to start winning, but I
won like 5 times. The only person who didn´t win was Favoretti. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Also at church we had 3 confirmations - Renan and Bruna who were
baptized Thursday, and Roberto who was baptized last Saturday, before my time.
I didn´t even try to do that, I definitely don´t have the vocabulary for that. During
the other two hours of church and really the other speakers I only got very
tiny bits, but I still felt the Spirit. I have to focus with all of my mind and
strength to even understand a little and I can’t not focus for a bit so I’m
exhausted and tired of Portuguese by the end of every day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This mission is hard, but also not that hard because it is so
good. There is a lot of pain and aches, but the strength of the Spirit that I
felt after I pulled Bruna out of the water was like I had just been baptized
again. I think we both had tears in our eyes, she actually started crying. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The most challenging thing is definitely Portuguese, because
like, I can think the word but it won´t come out of my mouth
correctly/smoothly, like I know how it supposed to be said but for whatever
reason my mouth fails to move that way. It is way more naisly than English, Portuguese
is. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I think we´re about to give service. Favoretti can´t get too in-depth
with me, or at least, I don´t understand what he is saying when he is
explaining, but I think we´re going to help a member move apartments. Also it
rains a lot here. It´s raining right now. I think this is a good summary of my
week, very nonchronological. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">PS: Everyone complemented me on my talk and my firm voice- there
was no microphone because there was no power in the church. After my talk, I felt
the Spirit strongly testify that don´t worry, it´ll come. Your weaknesses will
become strengths. I may have started tearing up a bit. Love y’all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've made it to Porto Alegre. The mission home is like an apartment inside this nice building. We had a really delicious lunch there that a chef made with a good strawberry chocolate dessert. I don't know where I'll be sent yet, we find out in a couple of hours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The President and his wife, The Jones, seem really cool. I got to ride in the back of the President's car from the mission home to the office with Elder Houser, Sister Jones driving and 3 sisters, 2 Brazilian and 1 from Mexico. I got to ride in the trunk. The van for everyone was running late so I was a part of the lucky elite few that didn't have to wait outside in the heat for it; instead I got to ride in the trunk of a car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past week was a good one. We had another set of divisions and I was with a Brazilian from Porto Alegre, Elder Samersla and a 3 weeker American going to Manouse (the Amazons) named Elder Taylor. That was fun. We also had a lot of end of MTC activities. It was pretty good. We get an hour of email time out here. I realized that I don't know how to send photos from my camera, if you could find out, that would be good. My last Wednesday/P-Day in the CTM I sent a letter home, y'all should get it in a couple weeks. It has my schedule at the CTM and the description of people in my district. Anyways, I love y'all and am pumped for the field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My trainer:Elder Favoretti in Novo Hamburgo!</span>The Mangumshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11873309965110526904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509482586175697128.post-40210097167073423952018-09-19T11:36:00.000-07:002018-09-24T11:39:02.053-07:00Travel Corespondance from Mission
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have enough English headphones for us, so while I was fortune enough to have
them, other did not. However, I was listening half on and half off and by the
end had them completely off. I can understand church Portuguese pretty decent.
We had to do the veil in Portuguese without a card which was a bit difficult,
but also good. I listened to the speakers at the devotionals Wednesday and
Sunday without headphones and while I don´t understand all of it, I understand
the big picture and stuff. I don´t remember who spoke Wednesday, but Sunday was
a young mission president in Sao Paulo.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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member where we talked a lot and taught a little message and we´ll watch the
recording of that today. I have splits again this week, I´m in another trio
with a third weeker American and a Brasilian. We wash our clothes for the last
time at the MTC Friday I think. Maybe it´s Saturday. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We only get to go proselyting once at the CTM, so that was it
the other week. This week went by fast. P-Day was pretty fun, my district and I
toured the entire edge of the boundaries and got pastels. I´m not really sure
how to describe pastels, it is like a fried salty dough on the outside on then
whatever on the inside. I got a breakfast one, like a bacon, ham, and egg. It
was decent. If we go again this week, though, I´m definitely grabbing a dessert
one with chocolate inside. </span></div>
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Independence Day, so they dressed up the cafeteria, gave us a really nice lunch
with steak with cheese on it and french fries and gave us sorvete after. I love
chocolate sorvete. </span></div>
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think about that the next time I´ll be emailing you, I´ll be in my mission
because we leave super early next Tuesday morning. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I think
we fly. Elder Houser was talking to someone who was leaving to Porto Alegre
South and they left at 5:45 in the morning to the airport and left at like 8. The
days are definitely long but the weeks are going by fast now!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We went to the Sao Paulo temple this past week and did another
endowment session, but they made us use headphones because the session was in
Portuguese. The Sao Paulo temple is a lot smaller and is surrounded by city. I
like Campinas more, but the inside of Sao Paulo has some cool window glass
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">P-Day I got some good food, an açai ice cream bowl and some meat
kabobs. Tomorrow our district plans on walking the perimeter together and
getting pastels which is supposed to be similar to kolaches only it is fried, I
guess. I´ll find out tomorrow. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I didn´t hear about the museum in </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Rio
de Janeiro</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> burning, that is sad. The street that we went proselyting on
had a museum on it, someone said the street was like the Time Square of Sao
Paulo. My companion and I got five referrals. We made sure to talk to a lot of
people. I understood the gist of what people were saying most of the time,
although I was wishing that I couldn´t when this old dude was trying to tell us
that we didn´t believe in God. It was filling me with raiva, some anger. But it
is amazing how much I already understand, the good and the bad, haha.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We had a devotional Wednesday night by a guy named <a href="https://nathanpacheco.com/about"><b><span style="color: blue;">Nathan Pacheco</span></b></a> which was different because he was a singer and so he sang some
and talked some, in English! He is from Virginia and served in Brazil. Then
Thursday we had a special devotional during the day. I was so stoked because I
thought it was gonna be an apostle, but nope, it was only the Area Seventy,
which was still great. He talked about like mission culture and making sure to
be a part of the culture of miracles, of loving the people and having high
expectations. Sunday Devotional was the Mission President of one of the Sao
Paulo missions and I listened to him <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">without</b>
the headphones to translate and understood basically everything he said. He
talked about how the people are prepared to meet us and had some cool stories. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Caroline is the real MVP in our family, making sure people don´t
steal my spot and carrying out my legacy of always winning. It is great to hear
how she defends me even after being gone a month. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Feels like I´ve been here
forever and am super close to my district, but it also doesn´t seem like it has
been that long since when I said bye at the airport. Yet two weeks from today
I´ll be in Porto Alegre. Only one more email day at the MTC after today! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Anyway, I love y’all,<span style="color: #b00000; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Boa sorte!</span></div>
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<br />The Mangumshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11873309965110526904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509482586175697128.post-77177439215641610632018-08-28T20:29:00.000-07:002018-09-07T06:41:32.817-07:00MTC Splits<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px;">We went to the Campinas temple again this past week. Bought
myself the scriptures in Portuguese and a hymn book. My district is doing fine.
I think we´re singing this song called Um a Um tomorrow for the equivalent of Brazil
David Archeleta. </span></span></span><br />
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quicker. All of the Brazilians that arrived with us left this past night so we
got some goodbye photos and stuff last night. This week we had 2 devotionals.
On Wednesday it was an Elder Christofferson video from the Provo MTC made the
day as well as a great talk by his wife that I really liked, filled with applicable
stuff for us. Then Sunday, there was a Facebook live event that we tuned into
with Ballard and Soares who are in Sao Paulo and were making the livestream
somewhere, yet they haven´t come and unfortunately aren´t planning on coming to
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fun. I was in a trio with an American, Elder Olsen who lived in Uruguay the
past two years prior to the mission because his parents are mission presidents
there so he knew Spanish fluently when he came here and was on his sixth week
anyways, and a Brasilero named Elder Costa who is the nephew of Soares and can
play the piano really well. He is going to Porto Alegre Sul, so close but not
quite. It was also evident from my splits that I´ve still got a lot to go with
the Portuguese, both speaking and understanding. </span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We do these splits as an
activity in the MTC. We teach a companionship and then they teach us. We did
this Thursday-Saturday midday. We planned our lesson, ate lunch, taught, then
were taught.</span> <span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">But we actually get to proselyte
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I memorized the First Vision (which was a bit of a struggle) and Moroni's Promise (not as difficult) this week. We also had a member of our district go home last week because he couldn't get more than a couple hours of sleep a night and it was just too much with the lack of sleep. He is a great guy and we miss him. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My daily schedule varies from day to day, but we get up<span style="color: black;"> </span><a dir="ltr" href="outlook-data-detector://4/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 114, 198) !important; -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #0072c6;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true"><span style="color: black;">at </span><span style="color: black;">6:30</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (except for temple days when it is <a dir="ltr" href="outlook-data-detector://5/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 114, 198) !important; -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #0072c6;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">5:30</a>) and lights out <a dir="ltr" href="outlook-data-detector://6/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 114, 198) !important; -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #0072c6;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 10:30</a>, with tons of activities in between. Today is actually our 2nd day of doing laundry, they sp</span>ace it out far. We wash again on Friday or Saturday this week, so it varies. Good thing we are washing today, on my last pair of socks and I had to reuse a white shirt yesterday and today. Luckily they've got machines to wash and dry. I am not not looking forward to having to do it by hand later on!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Church is still three hours, but it is broken up, like we have normal sacrament and then the first half of talks are 4 talks in Portuguese- 2 elders and 2 sisters- from the district that is on their last week, and then an intermediate hymn, and then a talk from a member of the branch presidency and their wife in English. Then there is a goal setting in your classroom with your district for the week, then Priesthood which is in English. Then I think we had a little study time and then like a sunday school thing which is also in English. Scattered in here is lunch too. Then in the afternoon they play a film. Thus far it has been Legacy and then a movie about the Americas during Christ´s life (from his birth to right when he visited them). Then that night there is a devotional. The devotionals are always in Portuguese and we have to wear headphones to listen in English and sometimes the translator isn´t that good, like we miss out on jokes and things like Sunday with the Area 70. Luckily, Wednesday they played an old devotional of Elder Holland, the one you actually put a quote from in the journal, about why is it so hard, and what they played through our headphones was Elder Holland which was awesome. I really needed that. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Things are improving, or at least, I'm getting used to them. Tuesday was rough but this whole week has gone by way faster than the eternity that was the first week. And while I don't think I learned as much as I did the first week, or at least I don't feel like I did, I can now pray in Portuguese. Anyway, glad to hear things are going great back at home. </span></span></div>
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The Mangumshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11873309965110526904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509482586175697128.post-9818553579884000002018-08-14T21:18:00.000-07:002018-09-07T06:42:43.694-07:00First Week at the CTM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 17.600000381469727px;">My first week was pretty good.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 17.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 16.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12.79px; line-height: 21.103500366210938px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I'm not gonna lie, the CTM is the hardest thing I've ever done. It is a 16 hour work day doing 18-22 different activities a day. The leaders here don't speak very much English which can be frustrating, but it also helps a lot with Portuguese. I'm surprised by how much Portuguese I've learned in a week, like I already have the missionary purpose, the baptismal invitation and the points of the Restoration in Portuguese memorized and I can pray (poorly) and hold a small conversation in Portuguese. The g<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ift of tongues is very real. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; line-height: 16.5px;"><span style="line-height: 21.103500366210938px;">Our district is so much fun. You get like 2 or 3 times of physical activity a week where you have to run 5 laps then you can play volleyball or basketball or run more or whatever. My companion is fun, Elder Lehmann from Provo Utah. He worked for a year before coming out, got a girlfriend back home, and will be starting his first year at BYU with me. He also got a 35 on his ACT. The food is fine, a bit repetitive. Haven´t eaten any beans yet though! Breakfast is honestly the worst, it is literally cheese, ham, and like a roll and if you´re lucky and early </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #212121; line-height: 16.5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21.103500366210938px;">enough to breakfast, you can use one of the like panini makers and grill it, if not then it stinks. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; line-height: 16.5px;"><span style="line-height: 21.1px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyways, it is so so so much fun here at the CTM (centro de treinamento missionario), sorry for any spelling errors, Brazillian keyboard and all. We´ve had to teach an investigator twice which is really hard when you don´t know the language. They push you really hard here and sometimes it is literally impossible to achieve what they are asking but the effort of trying hard to reach what they set blesses you so much in learning and whatnot. Customs was fine, didn´t like declare anything, they just looked at my passport and sent me through. We can only take pictures on Wednesday which is our actual P-Day, only everyone has to email on Tuesday because there are so many missionaries. <span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; margin: 0px;">They
spread out laundry so I actually did my laundry yesterday. Elder Lehmann,
Houser, and Knebel and I share a room and we combined all our darks into one
and then did our whites separately. Everyone is a part of the choir. We have choir right before the devotional on Wednesdays and Sundays and it is required to come to that. I don't mind, it's fun to sing. The devotionals can be difficult though because we have to listen with headphones because you know, we're in Brazil. I do hope that an Apostle or someone comes and visits during my stay here though, that would be awesome.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; line-height: 16.5px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.103500366210938px;">We go to the temple <span style="color: black;"><a dir="ltr" href="outlook-data-detector://1/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 114, 198) !important; -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #0072c6;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on Wednesday morning</a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span>too and we switch between the Campenas and the Sao Paulo one with the Brazileros, only the Sao Paulo one is closed the next couple of weeks for cleanings so I think we will all go to the Campenas one tomorrow. We´ve got to get up an hour early<span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> <a dir="ltr" href="outlook-data-detector://3/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 114, 198) !important; -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #0072c6;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 5:30 tomorrow</a> </span>to go to the temple. We also can´t upload pictures to the computer at the CTM so you´ll have to wait 6 weeks for any pictures. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; line-height: 16.5px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 21.103500366210938px;">Things are good here, hard, but fun. I love all the people and getting to meet new people and learn Portuguese. I´m very surprised at times by how much I know, Spanish helps definitely with conjugation and some of the cognates, but I have learned a ton in the past week, like it is crazy for me to think that a week ago, I knew no Portuguese. It feels like I´ve been here forever and I love it, although I am ready to get out of this building tomorrow and get to walk around some.</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 17.600000381469727px;"></span><br />
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The Mangumshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11873309965110526904noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509482586175697128.post-10337033195866285852018-08-08T18:04:00.001-07:002018-08-08T18:06:21.653-07:00Safe Arrival<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elder Mangum left Houston at 6 pm last night, flying to Miami, had a short 45 minute layover and caught a connecting overnight flight to São Paulo, Brazil, landing at 8:30 am. He took a shuttle bus to the Brazil Missionary Training Center where he will spend the next 6 weeks studying Portuguese and missionary training before heading to the Porto Alegre area.</span></div>
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