This week has been pretty good. There were two things awesome that happened. The first one was an activity that we planned for 3 weeks. It was called "Testemunho Alado" which is Winged Testimony. In this activity, we did a play with some of the members that was really funny about our daily life and how the members can help us. We interacted with the audience and everyone laughed a lot. Then we got ballons filled with helium and we gave everyone one with a note attached. They had to write their testimonies on these note cards and then we went outside and had a ceremony to release the balloons to spread the testimonies all around the city. It was a great activity.
The other thing was the stake conference. It was the best stake conference that I have been a part of in my life. To be honest it was more spiritual than any other meeting that I have been to. The first talk was about virtue, and how the simple act of defining our standards when we are young has a great impact. It was the "worst" talk, but was still great. Next was our Ward Mission Leader called Daniel. He returned from his mission 4 years ago, married, and has a daughter. He talked about why we as members joined the church of Jesus Christ, and pretty much taught the restoration with lots of scriptures and challenged all investigators to be baptized. Next was Sister Lacerda, the mission president's wife who pretty much told her conversion story and it was really spiritual. After that Pres. Lacerda gave his talk. He talked a lot about how we can be the miracle in the ward. How we have to make changes in our lives and go forward. How we choose to either enter the church doors and make them doors of transformation, or a veil of forgetfulness. We need to hear and then apply the things we learn in our lives. If we just sit on the benches than we will never improve. He also gave a great analogy asking us if we missed our own baptism. Then compare that to missing the sacrament. That sacrament is us baptizing again and we need to understand the importance of that. Then the stake president closed with a really spiritual talk about where do we want ourselves to be. It seems like I have written a lot about this meeting, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. But yeah that is what happened this week.
Questions:
How are you making your video logs? I thought your camera only recorded 30 seconds at a time and those are 2-3 minutes (I love them!!)
I can only send 30sec low-quality video logs frfom my camera using wifi, but I can record high-quality videos and send them when I link my camera with the computer. The lan house here that I use is safe so I can hook up my camera here to send them.
How often can the members in your area go to the temple? Which temple do they attend?
It seems that this ward has a caravan (I don't know the word in English) 8 times each year. There are x spots available for each ward because it is a bus for the whole stake maybe 2 and they sign up and go. They go to Campinas.
Did you finally get packages? Or do you have to wait until zone conference?
I will have to wait for the zone conference to get the packages...
What do you call a sea full of spaghetti? The Apostacy!!
Just no...
Until next week.
Elder Smith
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