So now that our house is clean and neat our work was very good this week :p
Our first task has been to build some sort of a teaching group, nothing happens in missionary work until you find somebody to teach. We started the week in fasting and asked The Lord to send us to people prepared to hear our message and promised that we would do our best to find these people, The Lord is too good to us. We started looking up all the contacts that we have in the area book, and asking all the members for referals, marking appointments with people on the street etc. It is neat how The Lord guides us, almost without us knowing. One night we were just about to leave a certain area, and we just decided to go after a few more adresses right where we had just passed, one of the these was Rudiele. He is 18, and is pro Soccer player here in Pelotas. ( a B team, but hey, it´s my team too.) We felt that we should talk to him about The Plan of Salvation, and he had lots of questions and we talked, and he really paid attention, and The Spirit was really strong. We invited him to pray to confirm in his heart that everything we had taught him was true, which he accepted and we also invited him to be baptized, which he also accepted! It might be a little tricky at first, cause of his game schedule, but there has got to be a way I´m sure. We went home really happy that night.
Also, who would have thought that two missionaries rocking out ´Johnny B Goode´ could be so inspired to help unite a ward? Elder de Almeida had planned a ´time tunnel´ activity ( oldies music, dance etc.) before I got here and we were REALLY praying that is went right, to try to gain some confidence with the members and leadership, and to just unite everyone and have a good time. It was a HIT! We sang, I played Great Balls of Fire of course, and then we both ripped up an awesome Johnny B Goode. Some other members presented dance and songs, and it was just an all around good time. Sunday all the members were still talking about it, and the bishop was very pleased, he had told us that he wanted to get the ward excited, but he is a very calm man and that is not really his strong point, and that the previous Elders had always done lots of ward activites and that seemed to help. So at least the members here really like the missionaries now. :) Like I had said too, Elder de Almeida reminds me A LOT of Shaun, so goofing off and singing with him felt natural and we had a great time too.
Sunday we didn´t have any investigators at church again :( we are hoping/praying that we can bring somebody to General Conference this weekend. I LOVE General Conference!
Well, we are going to travel to Porto Alegre today, zone council tomorrow. This time it will be in the mission home, so after a year and six months almost, I will finally go there. Woohoo! But it means that p day will be spent on a bus ha. Letter time, I am behind. ALSO! reminds me, the mail company is on strike, its been awhile now, and so if you sent a letter, I won´t be getting it for a while. The bank workers are all on strike too.
Okay, gonna run now.
I love ya, please pray for us,pray for the missionaries in our zone, and pray for our investigators please.
Seriously, I love you all.
Elder David F Morgan
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