Ola!

Óla! 

Man, we had a really good hard week. New Years Eve we taught a less active member Vitor, about The Restoration, it was way good, we used a lot of scriptures that Elder Ewer has found lately and shared with me. Man, can I tell everyone again how much I love my comp, he is awesome! 

Our apartment has a few problems with leaks, it rained buckets that night and it was dripping water all over until Thursday, we are going to have to talk with someone about that. 

We have been working really hard, talking to lots of people and planning how to work better with the members. We went on splits on Tuesday. It was way good, we taugt a lot ( I was with Elder M Nascimento from Simões Lopes) He does a great job talking to people on the street and really being excited to talk to them. At the end we talked about things to do better and what we did really right. We have been having a lot of holidays and conferences, but The Lord has blessed us that, even with all of our coming and going we have managed to teach a lot and contact. 

Luis Fernando hasn´t come back from the holidays yet, we are planning on how to invite him to be baptized this month when he gets back, he is more than ready. 

Matteus e Rejane are really well. We had a family night with our first counciler and his family that are way great. We had a really spiritual lesson with Rejane about The Book of Mormon the following day and then we taught them about The Plan of Salvation and Chastity on Saturday. They accept our invitation to marry and to continue going to church. The next day a member went to acompany them to church and they didn´t answer, we went there later and they also didn´t answer. I was a little bummed because we had worked really hard all week and nobody was going to come. During the Sacrament meeting I was praying really hard trying to understand and be taught what we could do differently, I won´t really go into details, but it was a very reverent moment with The Lord. When it all finished, we got a phone call, we went outside to see who it was (never know right?) it was Matteus and Rejane, they said they had accidently slept in and wanted to know if they could still come to church! What a blessing it was, we also ended up having 3 less active members we have been teaching come to church this week!

 

Carlos and Edna, man, broke my heart, Carlos is gung ho and full of The Spirit and is excited to hear us, but Edna poor thing, is already old and tired and doesn´t want to make any life changes, so they chose not to participate, but we are going to pass by every now and then and try to teach him and get The Spirit working in him again, please pray for them.

 

Eliane´s parents won´t let her go to church, they said it is too early in the morning and it is dangerous to be on the street at first. ( she lives on block away from the church, it starts at nine, and there is a family that they know really well that could pass by) Then the father talked to us alone. Ha poor guy, he is worried that if Eliane goes to church, someday she will want to be a missionary and go far away. Iago´s mom still won't let him be baptized and he is getting really discouraged and it is getting hard for us to teach him.

 

We got some weird news the other day. Turns out that two local members will be serving as short term full time missionaries and will be on splits with me and Elder Ewer for the next TWO WEEKS. Honestly it is not that exciting to me because I love Elder Ewer and I want to keep working with him, but we will see each other at night and in the morning. I hope we stay another transfer together too.

Well that is all folks. Loves!

 

Elder David F Morgan