tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73124272902892733762024-03-21T09:33:07.466-07:00Elder Smith - Juiz de Fora MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01093890159237745757noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312427290289273376.post-66682057949659695582018-06-25T13:10:00.000-07:002018-06-25T13:10:00.390-07:00The end...06.25.2018<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey everyone,</span><br />
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This week was really good and I didn't even see it go by. We are working a lot with the members and are passing in their houses for 5-10 min to share a quick message when we are close by and it is helping us with references and gaining their confidence. This week we will have 3 FHE with the members to help integrate some investigators and hopefully encounter with others. </div>
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This week we encountered with a women called Alice who had gone to church a few years ago and liked it a lot. We talked with her and she said that all that she wants in life is peace and we explained how the gospel can give her that peace. She is liking the messages a lot, but sadly didn't go to church because she was in the hospital. </div>
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We are teaching a young couple called Helen and Rafael that went to church this week. Helen is pregnant 8 months and liked the church but said she would have paid more attention if the baby wasn't kicking so much. They are really open for the gospel and are liking the church a lot. </div>
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This Sunday we talked about how to be an effective minister for those around us and the new style of being a discussion instead of teacher just talking is really effective. You get to see everyone's ideas and in the end we come to a consensus. </div>
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The mission life is great, even with everyone teasing me about how the end has come. There are no words to say how the mission has changed my life and how it can change anyone. These are 2 years that I will never forget. I am ready for the next chapter. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01093890159237745757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312427290289273376.post-61474334650475628142018-06-23T15:17:00.002-07:002018-06-23T15:17:36.809-07:00World cup starting...I'm finishing strong...06.18.23<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey everyone, .</span><br />
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This week was a good one. It was full of appointments and we met with lots of new people. We were renewing our teaching group and trying out a new neighborhood called Nossa Senhor Aparacida. One person we met with was a reference of a member and is called Diana that lives with her husband and daughter. She is really sympathetic and says that she is needing to get closer to God. We also started teaching a woman named Vivian that lives with just her infant son, and lives behind the church and said that she always had a desire to enter and see what happens there. </div>
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In the middle of the week we got a call from some college students that were working on a project for religion class and they found our number on the church site and called us to see if they could have an interview. We marked to meet them Friday afternoon at the church and we had the interview and they took pictures of the church building and will present their project about the church at the college this week. It was a cool experience. </div>
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Sunday had a surprise when a man called Pedro entered the church and said that he had gone to the church many times before and that he likes it and we got his address and will visit him this week. Sunday was also the Brazil game and we were sent to our house until the game and ended and the people had left a little bit from the bars. Brazil definitely likes to party and the whole city stops when the game starts. We were able to leave the house after and make some visits so the whole day wasn't lost. </div>
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This week started off well with Mission Leadership Council and Zone conference. We talked about how we can live a "full experience" as a missionary and see the miracles and have lots of spiritual moments to share. The key for this to happen is working with the members in the area that you are serving. There were lots of practices and debates on how to better acomplish this. They were two great meetings. Sadly I said some goodyes to Elder Gale, Elder Conceição, Elder Crandall, and some others as i wont see them again...</div>
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There was an emergency transfer and Elder Ogden was transferred to Teresópolis and Elder Ribeiro was sent here. Yes there are now 2 Elder Ribeiros in the house and it is confusing, but they are chill. Just 3 weeks to benefit from the mission and they are going to be great. </div>
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Yes, and you are trying to kill me off with those poems that you sent. I opened the package but I saved that letter that is individually packaged for the flight home. I am a very patient person, but you know that on the mission I have to opén everything when I get it. No all jokes aside I am fine. I am glad that I opened the package and could eat the Resses. Thoses Recses crunches or whatever they are called are really good.<br />
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This week was really busy. This week every companionship in the mission had to talk with 500 people in the street. So had a bunch of people that we had to visit as well and so we didn't get much rest. This week was great because we got to meet with lots of new families. One of which was a reference from a recent convert that she met in the park. The family is of Renan, Casia and their son Victor Hugo. We talked about eternal families and they like it a lot. Renan works in the oil industry and had to work <span class="gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> so they didn't go to church, but this week they should go. </div>
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So I am now here in Juiz de Fora with Elder Ribeira, Elder Ogden, and Elder de Sousa. Interestingly, Elder Ogden is from Draper as well and even went to Summit for 2 years. I found out that we know a lot of the same people. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Ribeiro is from Fortaleza and has 9 months in the mission field. I am the oldest by a long shot. Elder De Sousa also has 9 months in the mission field and is from Curitiba. Elder Ogden has 7 months that he is in the mission field.</span> It<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> is weird being the oldest one in the mission. But it is cool to see the things that I have learned and help the people that are starting their mission right now learn faster. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We saw the guys from the mission home home today. Probably we will see them every p-day. There are 12 sisters and 10 elders in the zone. I don't know about how many houses for missionaries there are, but the mission home is 40 minutes walking from here. </span></span></div>
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Juiz de Fora is a big city and there is a lot of people here and a lot of hills. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There isn't much different about being here in Juiz de Fora. It is good that I don't have to make conferences to talk with everybody in the Zone. The city center is huge as well so whatever I need it is easy to get. </span> I visited a lot of the area with Elder Ribeira going after people that had already gone to the church before. We are starting to make a teaching group but there isn't much to tell yet. T<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">he area is lacking a little bit of people to teach. To be honest, there are 2 duplas here but they were in tri for 2 weeks and so when I arrived to complete the second dupla they divided who they had and so we are fighting to get more people to teach. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">It is different than Lafaiete in lots of ways. I am sad that I don't know everyone yet and in Lafaiete I had the confidence of the members and got lots of references but now I have to gain the confidence of the members again. </span></span><br /></div>
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Today we played basketball with the missionaries from the other district Elder Arruda and Elder Azvedo. It was a good change in the p-day. However i am dead tired now and will just relax. The mission life as always is great. Until next week!</div>
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The vibe is friendly/funny. I am liking this house. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">It is different than the old apartment from my 2 weeks in JDF last time. When I passed here it used to be 2 wards, but they combined them to form a bigger ward and closed one of the apartments.</span></div>
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The wedding was of Raone and Juslaine who are 2 members here of our ward that are fantastic. They help us out a lot and we got to be at their wedding at the church. They did the wedding outside and 1 hour before it started the rain came and soaked everything, but it stopped and the wedding went on after a short delay of an hour and a half. Directly after the wedding was the baptism of Jailton. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01093890159237745757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312427290289273376.post-89646917899357755762018-05-14T10:03:00.001-07:002018-05-14T10:03:45.738-07:00Mother's Day #2 and last transfer coming up...05.14.2018<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey everyone,</span><br />
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This week went by so fast. We had to travel to Soão Joãl Del Rei again, Barbacena, and Ouro Branco. The week started off well with a division with Elder Baron from Ouro Branco. He is in his first transfer here on the mission. He is really humble and is loving the mission experience. Although we weren't able to teach many people at home we made some good contacts and had a killer activity at the church. The sisters gave the message and we topped it off with "Show do Mormão" which is basically Mormon jeopardy.</div>
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After the division it was pretty much travel and resolve problems. But at the end of it all we were able to baptize Thiago and Lécia in a combined baptismal reunion with the sisters where 5 people were baptized! It would have been 6 but Jailton arrived 2.5 hours late and so he will be baptized <span class="gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Saturday</span></span>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01093890159237745757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312427290289273376.post-64585447966992730092018-05-08T08:35:00.001-07:002018-05-08T08:35:10.962-07:00Buses and ministering....05.07.2018<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey everyone,</span><br />
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This week lots of things happened but at the same time not much happened. We had splits with the APs which was cool because I went with Elder Ricks, my CTM companion. It was good to work side by side with him and see the progress that we both have gone through. After that we had to go to São Joã Del Rei for a baptismal interview of Max. He is 25 and is liking the church a lot. Because of these travels we didn't have much time to work in our area.</div>
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This Sunday we visited Thiago and Lécia with Pres. Santos and he called them to be baptized <span class="m_6108256498768544555gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="m_6108256498768544555gmail-aQJ">this Saturday</span></span> and they accepted. We will go there every day to help them achieve this goal. </div>
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This week went by way fast. It started off with a FHE with Helemã and his family. They talked about how some things seem impossible but God knows how to solve the problem. The theme of this week has been about revelations. We had a surprise Mission Leadership Council. We talked about how 100% obedience unlocks the powers of Heaven. That God is willing to take away the veil from our eyes so that we can contemplate the mysteries of heaven. That we have to learn how to rely on God to give us the information necessary to resolve our problems. Then we did some practices on learning how to better analyze the zones numbers and offer solutions to the missionaries. </div>
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I have learned to cook stroganoff, rice, and I have made pão de queijo. I think that the U.S. has everything required to make them.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This week was transfers and I am happy to announce that I will be staying here in Lafaiete with Elder Pereira! We have lots of plans and people that are preparing to enter the waters of baptism. The zone changed a little bit, and I am ready to work with the new missionaries. This week we said goodbye to Sister Silva and Sister Gonçales that faithfully ended their missions here. They were great missionaries.</span></div>
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This week we met with a teen called Jailton. He went to the church last Sunday night, returned W<span class="m_6859168861324865699gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="m_6859168861324865699gmail-aQJ">ednesday</span></span> for English class, went to Institute <span class="m_6859168861324865699gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="m_6859168861324865699gmail-aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> and S<span class="m_6859168861324865699gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="m_6859168861324865699gmail-aQJ">unday</span></span> morning was back at the church. He is 19 years old and is loving the church. He will be baptized very soon. I can feel it. </div>
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I learned about a miracle this week as well. Samuel, the kid that we baptized 4 weeks ago has a rough life. Last week he was assaulted and the thief took his phone. A women posted about him on Facebook and the public started to send him clothes, an oven, a tv, and a bed for him and his mom. His house is the size of a small living room and people donated materials to help build a bathroom for them as well. All of this started happening after his baptism when we promised his mom that if she let Samuel be baptized their lives would change. The power that we have to promis blessings is real. The mission is great. </div>
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This week we had our divisions with the APs and it was good to see everyone again. I went with Elder Carneiro and we had lots of people to visit, but many weren't home. It was good though because we never had to stop and think of what to do because there were always more people that we could visit. </div>
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This week we met Helena who had already been to the church 5 times before and had only stopped because she didn't have the means to pay the bus fee to go to church. She is really excited and she wants to start a family again and said that she wants to find a man of god. She went to church this week and loved it. She has a baptismal date for the week after General Conference. We also met with Eduardo who is open to new ideas and we shared the Restoration with him. When we returned we talked about how a living prophet could help him in his personal life. He said that this Sunday wouldn't work, but that the next week he would go. </div>
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<br />After a long day I was able to make the cheesecake from my birthday package and celebrate with Elder Pereira. It was delicious...even if it was almost 2 months late due to the slow mail.</div>
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This week was full of good experiences including the baptism of Samuel! He is 11 years old and his life is really rough, but he is a relative of a member that brought him to church and he is loving it. This Sunday the two wards in Lafaiete divided and formed a 3rd ward here. It was great to see that the work is going forward, and our district baptized 4 people this week. Every week my vision of the Lord's work and our purpose here on the earth is increasing. Lots of things change on the mission and i am loving the whole experience. The church is true and miracles happen. </div>
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I got it this week! I still haven tmade the cheesecake but it will eb made soon. Thanks a lot!</div>
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I think it will be Elder Nichols, siser griffin, sister mckenna, and sister Faupula. I learned this week that these sisters will be returning with us.</div>
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To be honest the best things to send are candy and sweets that i cant get here. Missionaries with food, letters and baptisms are happy. I would say send more razers, but i think i will buy an other razer here because mine is black...</div>
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To end Elder Gale´s time in Lafeiete we had a FHE at Monica and Fernando´s house. Their son made homemade pizza and lets just say he used to work at a pizza place. I ate pizza until I was sick....it was so good!</div>
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This week was full of great lessons a families. First off I had the most spiritual lesson of my mission with Elison and Michele. We had left the pamphlet about the Restoration with them and they had studied it completely! When we arrived there they already knew everything. Michele´s mom that lives next door also participated and Elison explained everything to her without us needing to do anything. They said that our message was opening their vision and that they are praying for a confirmation, but believe it to be true. The only sad thing is that they will be moving to Belo Horizonte because Elison doesn't have a job and there was an offer in Belo Herizon... At the end of the lesson there was a guitar and I asked if I could see it and I started playing "Peça a Deus" and Elder Gale and I sang it. Then Elison took the guitar and played "Hallelujah" in Portuguese and the spirit was so strong. We said goodbye and might have one last meeting with them depending on when they will move, but as we left their house I felt very light. We had lots of things to resolve, but I wasn't worried at all. At least they said that they would look for the church in Belo Horizon and there are lots there. </div>
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This week was a week full of problem solving. I don't think that there was one day that went as planed in our daily planning. It was full of good problems though because all the areas in the zone were calling to mark baptismal interviews. We had to go to Ouro Branco, São João del Rei, and do 3 interviews on the other side of the city for the sisters. I will admit that lots of walking was involved and today I am just resting. </div>
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President Lacerda gave the promise that every companionship of faith would baptize this week and I was a little worried because of the time spent away from our area, but I know that when we are on the Lord's errand He cares for our sheep. We were only able to meet with Nathália one time this week, but we worked with members to pass by her house, we called her as well and at the end of the week she was baptized!!! It was a great baptism and had a choir of the Institute students. In the 3 weeks that we know Nathália it is cool to see the happiness in her countenance. You can see the light of Christ in her eyes now, and now we are working with her mom and brother to be baptized as well. </div>
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Another week has flown by on the mission. Everything goes by so fast and we are racing to follow up with all of our investigators. This week we were able to visit a few friends of Brother Douglas and we met with 2 families. They didn't have much time so we just said a prayer with them and marked a return visit.</div>
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This week I don't know what happened but we were able to teach lots of families. Two of these families have had a child less than 30 days ago. One of them is Michele and Elison. They have two kids, one is 5 years and the other was only 25 days old, João Rafael and Angelina. We were able to teach about the plan of salvation and eternal families and they loved it. Elison is a Geologist and when we taught about the creation and Adam and Eve he said that what we explained answered his long question about the creation of the earth not really being 7 days but 7 creative periods. At the end we left a spoiler about what is the Book of Mormon and what is the power of God to bind things on earth bound in heaven. The other family is of Rafael and Samela. They also have 2 kids, one of which was born 18 days ago and they said that they are looking to be more religious and find a church so we taught a little about the restoration and they liked it a lot. We had made a contact with them and showed the church site <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://mormon.org/&source=gmail&ust=1519269663112000&usg=AFQjCNFN1zXOd5js6_J0l9Q4pJsMo7zUsQ" href="http://mormon.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">mormon.org</a> and they went there and learned a bit about the church. It was great. </div>
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First off thanks for the Happy Birthday wishes. It was a pretty good birhtday this year, with a sweet American flag cake and a baptism to top it off. It will be one to remember. It is kinda hard to celebrate during proselyting so the celebrations will continue on today as well!</div>
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The week started off really well with a leadership council where we debated every key indicador and suggested ways to improve in all of them. Lots of good tips and hints were given and as always meetings with Pres. Lacerda are really great. They also sang happy birthday to me there. Even after 20 years of life I don't know how I am supposed to act when people sing. Do you sing along, or just stare everyone down? It is one of life's mysteries. </div>
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Well another transfer has gone by and I will be staying here in Lafaiete with Elder Gale. The American duo was not separated.!! We have made our plans and we have lots of people that will be entering the waters of baptism here soon. There were lots of changes in the zone and we even opened another area for sisters in Lafaiete. This district is just us and 3 companionships of sisters. They all work hard so it is great.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01093890159237745757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312427290289273376.post-78336784406470818372018-01-15T11:58:00.001-08:002018-01-15T11:58:54.602-08:00Setting goals, working hard, and having faith....01.15.2018<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey everyone,</span><br />
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This week has been a really busy week. <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0">Tuesday</span> we started off with a special combined meeting of the Queluz and São João del Rei districts. We talked about the things that were discussed in the Leadership meeting about our purpose, how to work, and how to have more results. It was a great meeting and then we had a division with Elder Cordeiro and Elder Lopes. I went with Elder Lopes and we had a ton of appointments, but the afternoon appointments fell through. Luckily there were tons of people to visit and we met a man called William Dias. He was an ex-investigator that was almost baptized. As we arrived there he started telling us about priesthood power and that when he went to the church the first time he felt the difference. We marked a baptism date with him and invited him to church. Then that night we had a Family Home Evening with the Stake President. We showed the old Good Samaritan video and then how it would be in our days. It went really well. </div>
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This week has been full of work and miracles. I participated in my first mission leadership council and it was a great experience. We discussed about how we can be better leaders and help the missionaries in our zones be successful. We set the standard of excellence as well. I learned a lot and got to see a lot of old friends. It was great.</div>
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There were lots of other miracles that happened because of our obedience. In the leadership council we made a pact, as leaders, to be 100% obedient in all moments. And we are already starting to see the fruits of this obedience. Ask with all faith, not doubting and it will be given unto you. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01093890159237745757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312427290289273376.post-10662656849338518792018-01-08T07:16:00.001-08:002018-01-08T07:40:41.032-08:00Happy New Year 2018...01.02.2018<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey everyone,</span><br />
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Christmas has passed and so has 2017. I had a great Christmas and Christmas eve. We got a little lost trying to find the Raul´s house to eat dinner with them and we gave in the towel. but as we were going back home they called and helped us find the address. We had to eat fast to be able to get home by <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0">9:30</span> but it was good. Raul is the "founder" of the church here in Lafaiete. He helped open the first branch and has lots of stories. Then on Christmas day it was great to talk with my family again and then we had a family night with Raone, Jul, Jaosinho and a few others. It was great. </div>
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New years was alright. We worked a lot on New years eve and then when we got home I was so tired and so I just slept. Not the most exciting of New Years, but I woke up relaxed at least. Because of New Years they changed our p-day to today.</div>
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Yesterday was the baptism of Efigenia. She was prepared by the Lord to be baptized. Literally we met her in the hospital to give her a blessing because she burned her feet really bad making hot coffee. Then she said every time that she wanted to make coffee her feet burned and so she stopped immediately. There were lots of others miracles the happened for her to be baptized but I don't have time to count them all. At the baptism Elder Gale and I played the primary song "When I am Baptized" on the violin and the ukulele and it was really spiritual. </div>
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Tomorrow we are off to Juiz de Fora for a meeting and then Thursday we get back to get to work. We are having lots of Family Night evenings that are helping us a ton. We had one last night that we talked about union. We used a block with one thick nail in it. And we told the people there to stack 14 nails on top of the one in the wood. After many attempts we showed them how it is possible and talked about how our families have to be united. It was a great lesson. However it was meant for 2 investigators Kauani and Isabella, but their mom is being really hesitant against the church. So she didn't let them go, but we are praying and will not give up on them yet. </div>
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