Tuesday, August 14, 2012

This weeks big letter

Óla!
Yay, I actually have time to write today. :)
This whole week was super weird, we baptized on Monday night which just threw my whole internal sense of time and what day it is off. Ione is a lady that I met a few weeks ago. She had been investigating the church for who knows how long now. Her son is a member and served a mission in Vitoria. She always wanted to be baptized but was afraid of the commitment and also was not able to keep a few of the Lord´s commandments. We started working with her, and her son, Eleandro helped so much, and she was able to find the courage to do commit to be baptized and realize that baptism is not to condemn but to save. She has made some changes in her life and now after more that 20 years of church attendance and everything, she was baptized, and then confirmed yesterday :)
We are having a lot of success working with the members here, receiving referals of people we can teach and working with the members to teach these people and get them to church. One such is Rogerio that we taught last night, he works as a salesman here and really wants to change his life and his family, a member that he sells to talked to him about The Gospel and the family and we taught the whole family last night, that was really great and will be coming to church on Sunday :) Tip for ALL members of the church, talk to your friends about The Gospel and invite them to meet with the missionaires :)
We have a wedding to go to today as well :) We have been teaching Josiane since I got here, and a little before too. She is living with a less active member of the church, Jeferson, they are going to get married today so that she can be baptized this Saturday and he is going to be coming to church! They are reallly excited and great people. She has made a lot of sacrifices to be able to be baptized.
Also, we helped the youth prepare to sing ´Que manhã maravilhosa´ (Joseph Smith´s First Prayer´) translated it is , ´What a wonderful Morning´ for the Fathers day presentation yesterday. It was SOOOOO good, on our first practice I thought that we would just have to pray a lot during the song; but with practice and tips it turned out REALLY great. Also, two of the young men in the ward invited their parents to come,and we talked to them before the meeting, they are really interested in knowing more about the church and have seen the positive influence it has had on their son's life and we are going to have a family night with them and another family in the ward this week! Alex and Adriane are their names.
  I can´t believe that Shaun is going off to college this next week. Where does the time go? The Morgan´s will be empty nesters, sitting alone at the church bench, and no more Morgans are at South Medford High School.
Well, I hope you all are doing great, enjoying life and happy.
I love you very very much
Elder David F Morgan

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