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.
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 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.
We visited some people that he was close to baptizing a year ago
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).
On Friday we went to Porto Alegre for the sealings, bought some
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. 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.
It was a bit weird to hear the youth age changes the church
announced. 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!
Only a week until Christmas and Skype!
Love you!
Elder Trevor Mangum
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