Óla!
Well, we had a different week.
On Tuesday after the wedding we went to the public health post because Elder Alencar was feeling really bad, there wasn´t going to be any space to attend us, and we didn´t want to past the whole night there so we just went home and slept, we left early on Wednesday to go to the hospital, the hospital was also ultra full so we had to head to a different place across town. We spent about 6 and a half hours there, it seemed like everybody in Porto Alegre got sick at the same time. I had the chance to talk to a man about The Book of Mormon in the waiting room and gave him a copy, he was really interested and I gave him the Assistants number to call and find the area that would be where his house is. Turns out that Elder Alencar was having reactions to his untreated Athsma (how do you spell that?)
I went on companionship exchanges with Elder Gull again, but this time I went to his area. Amazingly enough, this is my 5th transfer as a zone leader and this was the first time I left my area when going on exchanges. It was good, we taught a members Grandma about The Restoration, and she understood, it was a lesson where The Spirit really guided us and was strong. She had some ideas about religion and about the prophet Joseph Smith that she didn´t understand/believe in, and it was a neat experience of letting The Lord take over and He just used us to explain. We also found another guy who has been taught and goes to church has never prayed to know if what he was taught is true, so we challenged him to do so and he accepted.
It was nice to talk to Elder Gull, and I can tell he enjoys it, ha, I remember what it was like to feel trapped in a wall of portuguese. If he was my companion, I would probably mostly speak portuguese with him, but since we are on exhanges I tried to give him a nice break, but also explain things that he didn´t understand.
We ate pizza, and we bought stuff to make chocolate peanut butter milkshakes, but we didn´t have time to make it, so Elder Soares got a nice suprise when he got back.
Josiane was baptized on Saturday, and it was just really neat, it was at a hard time to have people there in the middle of the day, but there was a suprisingly good turnout and a very sweet spirit. Yesterday at church she mentioned an experience where some people came over to her house wanting to aruge with her etc, and she was feeling really angry (the class was about charity and love) and she mentioned that she became really angry but then decided to say a prayer, and an amazing relief came over her. I don´t know why but it just touched me and made me very happy to know she was putting the principles of The Gospel in practice in her life.
Lastly, I taught the primary ´the wise man built his house upon the rock´´ (primary hymn) in English and two daughters from a family that we are good friends with came up to me yesterday (two weeks later) to thank me and to tell me they can sing the whole song now. Ha, also dunno why, but it was a neat moment, and it is nice to be thanked.
Wrapping up, we are needing to step it up a bit still here, we have some great new people and we are going to pass the whole week just looking for new people to teach. We have a lot of member referals to contact.
I can NOT believe that Shaun, is at college, and I won´t even talk too much about it because it will really really really really really really really really really really freak me out!!!!
Gotta roll.
All my love, thanks for your prayers, ha I could use them.
Elder David Fransico (new knick name in the mission) Morgan
Monday, August 27, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Hospital and Baptism
Óla!
Well, we had a different week.
On Tuesday after the wedding we went to the public health post because Elder Alencar was feeling really bad, there wasn´t going to be any space to attend us, and we didn´t want to past the whole night there so we just went home and slept, we left early on Wednesday to go to the hospital, the hospital was also ultra full so we had to head to a different place across town. We spent about 6 and a half hours there, it seemed like everybody in Porto Alegre got sick at the same time. I had the chance to talk to a man about The Book of Mormon in the waiting room and gave him a copy, he was really interested and I gave him the Assistants number to call and find the area that would be where his house is. Turns out that Elder Alencar was having reactions to his untreated Athsma (how do you spell that?)
I went on companionship exchanges with Elder Gull again, but this time I went to his area. Amazingly enough, this is my 5th transfer as a zone leader and this was the first time I left my area when going on exchanges. It was good, we taught a members Grandma about The Restoration, and she understood, it was a lesson where The Spirit really guided us and was strong. She had some ideas about religion and about the prophet Joseph Smith that she didn´t understand/believe in, and it was a neat experience of letting The Lord take over and He just used us to explain. We also found another guy who has been taught and goes to church has never prayed to know if what he was taught is true, so we challenged him to do so and he accepted.
It was nice to talk to Elder Gull, and I can tell he enjoys it, ha, I remember what it was like to feel trapped in a wall of portuguese. If he was my companion, I would probably mostly speak portuguese with him, but since we are on exhanges I tried to give him a nice break, but also explain things that he didn´t understand.
We ate pizza, and we bought stuff to make chocolate peanut butter milkshakes, but we didn´t have time to make it, so Elder Soares got a nice suprise when he got back.
Josiane was baptized on Saturday, and it was just really neat, it was at a hard time to have people there in the middle of the day, but there was a suprisingly good turnout and a very sweet spirit. Yesterday at church she mentioned an experience where some people came over to her house wanting to aruge with her etc, and she was feeling really angry (the class was about charity and love) and she mentioned that she became really angry but then decided to say a prayer, and an amazing relief came over her. I don´t know why but it just touched me and made me very happy to know she was putting the principles of The Gospel in practice in her life.
Lastly, I taught the primary ´the wise man built his house upon the rock´´ (primary hymn) in English and two daughters from a family that we are good friends with came up to me yesterday (two weeks later) to thank me and to tell me they can sing the whole song now. Ha, also dunno why, but it was a neat moment, and it is nice to be thanked.
Wrapping up, we are needing to step it up a bit still here, we have some great new people and we are going to pass the whole week just looking for new people to teach. We have a lot of member referals to contact.
I can NOT believe that Shaun, is at college, and I won´t even talk too much about it because it will really really really really really really really really really really freak me out!!!!
Gotta roll.
All my love, thanks for your prayers, ha I could use them.
Elder David Fransico (new knick name in the mission) Morgan
Well, we had a different week.
On Tuesday after the wedding we went to the public health post because Elder Alencar was feeling really bad, there wasn´t going to be any space to attend us, and we didn´t want to past the whole night there so we just went home and slept, we left early on Wednesday to go to the hospital, the hospital was also ultra full so we had to head to a different place across town. We spent about 6 and a half hours there, it seemed like everybody in Porto Alegre got sick at the same time. I had the chance to talk to a man about The Book of Mormon in the waiting room and gave him a copy, he was really interested and I gave him the Assistants number to call and find the area that would be where his house is. Turns out that Elder Alencar was having reactions to his untreated Athsma (how do you spell that?)
I went on companionship exchanges with Elder Gull again, but this time I went to his area. Amazingly enough, this is my 5th transfer as a zone leader and this was the first time I left my area when going on exchanges. It was good, we taught a members Grandma about The Restoration, and she understood, it was a lesson where The Spirit really guided us and was strong. She had some ideas about religion and about the prophet Joseph Smith that she didn´t understand/believe in, and it was a neat experience of letting The Lord take over and He just used us to explain. We also found another guy who has been taught and goes to church has never prayed to know if what he was taught is true, so we challenged him to do so and he accepted.
It was nice to talk to Elder Gull, and I can tell he enjoys it, ha, I remember what it was like to feel trapped in a wall of portuguese. If he was my companion, I would probably mostly speak portuguese with him, but since we are on exhanges I tried to give him a nice break, but also explain things that he didn´t understand.
We ate pizza, and we bought stuff to make chocolate peanut butter milkshakes, but we didn´t have time to make it, so Elder Soares got a nice suprise when he got back.
Josiane was baptized on Saturday, and it was just really neat, it was at a hard time to have people there in the middle of the day, but there was a suprisingly good turnout and a very sweet spirit. Yesterday at church she mentioned an experience where some people came over to her house wanting to aruge with her etc, and she was feeling really angry (the class was about charity and love) and she mentioned that she became really angry but then decided to say a prayer, and an amazing relief came over her. I don´t know why but it just touched me and made me very happy to know she was putting the principles of The Gospel in practice in her life.
Lastly, I taught the primary ´the wise man built his house upon the rock´´ (primary hymn) in English and two daughters from a family that we are good friends with came up to me yesterday (two weeks later) to thank me and to tell me they can sing the whole song now. Ha, also dunno why, but it was a neat moment, and it is nice to be thanked.
Wrapping up, we are needing to step it up a bit still here, we have some great new people and we are going to pass the whole week just looking for new people to teach. We have a lot of member referals to contact.
I can NOT believe that Shaun, is at college, and I won´t even talk too much about it because it will really really really really really really really really really really freak me out!!!!
Gotta roll.
All my love, thanks for your prayers, ha I could use them.
Elder David Fransico (new knick name in the mission) Morgan
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
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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