tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35780969576358979512024-03-20T21:40:55.441-07:00Elder Kade Pachner MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-4473686594922594822015-09-13T15:28:00.000-07:002015-09-13T15:28:03.483-07:00This is the end...or is it??<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -9.35pt; margin-top: 0in;">
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fantastic yet again. I want to thank all of you guys for your love and support
during this last transfer and all of your prayers over these past two years! I don’t
know what I would have done without them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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super strange. I bore my testimony in my last District meeting... It still hasn’t
hit me yet that I am going home in a few days...I guess when I finally get off
the airplane and see you guys I will finally understand that everything has
ended. Sorry if I look a little shell
shocked when I get home....culture shock!! :P <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wanted to do in this last email is try to express some of the things that have
happened here on the mission. From the first experience of hearing that I wouldn’t
be going to CTM in Brazil but going instead to the Provo MTC to the elation of receiving
the call that I would be able to go to Brazil but would pass through Provo, I
can see the hand of God more clearly in my life. I can see now how much I
needed that one week to prepare, to see Madison for the last time, and then
head off to start my adventure in another part of the same world. I can see
much more clearly now how God plays a super important part of our lives on a
daily basis. The other day we were conversing with a child and her mother about
prayer. We asked the girl (She is about 14) if she believes that God answers
her prayers. She said “No.” She said that she hadn’t ever received an answer to
a prayer. It was difficult to try to explain to her and to make sure that she
understood but in the end the most powerful thing that we did was we said...” I
know that God answers prayers because he has answered mine.” I have come to
realize Heavenly Father is ever present and ever willing to help us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What I have learned here
in these 2 wonderful, hard, and extremely happy two years I would never
exchange nor trade. I have learned so much and yet I realize how much I have
yet to come to know\remember. This is why this is not really the end, but the
beginning. My time here on the mission has just been the training for real life
or as Jeffrey R. Holland said that the mission is just the MTC for Life. Now I
look forward with the firm hope and faith that I will be able to be better; a
better son, a better brother, a better servant of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is true. I know it with all my heart. I know it not because I have been
teaching it for two years, (that has given me some great insights but it is not
the center of the matter) I know it because like Alma I have received a
testimony given by a member of the Godhead. I love these two verses and often
used them to help our investigators: Alma 5: 45-46<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ye not suppose that I know these things of myself? Behold,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>I testify unto you that I do
know that the things whereof I have spoke are true.</u> And how do ye suppose
that I know of their surety?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that they are made known unto me by the Holy Spirit of God.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Behold, I have fasted and prayed
many days that I might know these things<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">of myself.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">And now I know of myself
that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by his
holy spirit; and this is the spirit of revelation which is in me.</span></i></b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I know that Joseph Smith
was a prophet of God and that he restored Christ´s church here on the earth. I
know that the priesthood was restored and with that we were sealed in a temple
of God to be a family for all eternity. There is nothing more precious in the
world to me than you guys. I love you with all my heart and I am so eternally
grateful that Heavenly Father allowed me to have a family like you guys. I
cannot wait to see you guys in the airport at 11h40!!</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I know that OUR Savoir
lives! I have started to learn about him here on the mission and I hope to one
day I will be able to behold his presence side by side with each and every one
of you and say that We have done the best we knew how and he will just smile
and give us a hug and welcome us home! I pray for that! I know that one day it
can happen but it will all depend on us! I love you guys so much!! </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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because we are being very blessed here!! This week has been an amazing week :)
Honestly I am very glad that my last weeks on the mission could be ended like
this :) I am very grateful for all of you who are praying for our success
because it is truly being seen in our daily lives here. Where about 3 months
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coolest things happened on Thursday. We hunting down the less actives on the
ward list in some of the humbler neighborhoods (and by humble I mean ghetto).
Some of those places where I just look at my companions and we say to each
other....if my mom could see me now....I think she would die ;P hahahahaha
(just kidding mom it wasn’t that bad! the worst thing was that they hadn’t cut
their grass in a long time ;) ) well we were walking and we found the number
where the family should have lived but then a little girl came out of the house
and told us that the family actually lived in the side alley. Then she pointed to this guy talking on the
phone walking up the alley and said that he was one of the people that we were
trying to find. We started to follow him
but we didn’t want to seem creepy our anything...so finally he looked back at
us and asked us who we were and what we wanted. We told him that we were
missionaries and that we were searching for a couple people and actually the
people that we were searching for turned out to be his parents! He said he had
been baptized in the church about 15 years ago. So we went to his house and
talked to him and his family. They were pretty nice and then Elder Betts asked
if there was anyone that they knew who was looking for the gospel and they
indicated their neighbors who lived two doors down. They were like; “there is
no door to the corridor that leads to their house so just walk in and then call
them”. So that is what we did. We walked up and just walked right in and I
clapped...and there were these two dogs that started barking a lot and I just
kept waiting and then this guy walked out of the house. He yelled at the
dogs! Then he looked at us and asked us
what we wanted....by this point I was a little startled so I was like...we are
the missionaries and your friend said you could use a visit our something like
that and we just were passing by....and then he was like ummm OK you can come
in if you want and so we went in and we went into the main room but the light
was burned out so we three sat down on the couch in the dark and the guy said “so
I am going to go call the whole family just wait here”....and so we waited and
waited for like 4 min and then I looked over at the others and I did my best to
break the tension and said "It’s a trap!! Like Starwars when they come out
of warp speed “;P kkkkk but then everyone came and it turns out that there were
15 people living in that house!!! We are now teaching two different families in
that house! They were extremely interested in the Book of Mormon and told us
that it would change their lives to know if the church of God was here on the
earth! We are going to visit them again on Monday!!!! Super excited :) so in
the end everything turned out okay :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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awesome! We have a man who is preparing to be baptized and he is coming to the
party the ward is having tonight! :) Festa!!! It should be really fun!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I know that the church
is true! I feel the spirit testify to my soul as we teach about it and as I do
my best to live it. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that
Thomas S. Monson is the prophet of God, call to lead the only living and true
church on the face of the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the prayers that you guys are saying in my behalf and in behalf of all those
who are in the office. We have had an amazing week this week :) This past Sunday
we said goodbye to one of our investigators because she was moving back to Ecuador.
She actually asked to be baptized the Saturday before she went but because of
the complications with sending the papers in between countries President
decided that it would be better to wait until she got to Ecuador. She is such
an amazing person and she really showed me how to be strong in face of really
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blessed to find 5 new investigators!! That is how we are seeing your prayers
bless the office! We are working really hard to prepare these new people to be
baptized soon :) President gave us a new tactic, he told us that we needed to
keep our lessons to like 20 min and then leave so that we could come back to
visit the people in two days and they wouldn’t think it was too time consuming.
It was actually a really inspired counsel because it is working :) We are
teaching a man who is literally someone who is searching for the truth but didn’t
know where to find it. He was talking to us about how he was going to a bunch
of different churches to find the truth and one day he found the missionaries
in Itajaí. Then he moved and came to our
ward. We started teaching him and he is already reading the Book of Mormon. He
makes very intelligent questions which is great! “How can I know if someone is a prophet or
not? Is a pastor in this church an apostle
or just an inspired man?” GOLD for the missionaries :) :) Seriously!
I love teaching people like that
with all those questions!! He is super cool and he has accepted the invite to
be baptized!!! He has already been to church once and we are going to pass by
his house this Sunday to walk with him to church! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all your prayers for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spirit as I studied! I read my new favorite talk by Elder Eyring called Going
Home....and no it isn’t about trunkiness :P It is about finding our way home to
Heavenly Father. It was amazing. I felt the spirit so strongly as I read
it. Then I got to read a talk by
President Ezra Taft Benson about President Kimball’s vision of missionary work!
It just all clicked when I read that talk! I realized what I had to do, how I
could become a better missionary even in this last month that I have here! I
know that this church is true! I know that the spirit speaks with us and helps
us to know the truth of all things!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well this week was
special! We had a visit from a 70. Elder Leal (faithful in English). It was a
super cool experience! We talked a lot about pondering the scriptures and about
the spirit. We talked about how we are the tools that the spirit uses to help the
other people that God wants for them. It was super cool because Elder Leal
asked us to do some practices and then he would do the practice with Pres.
Ramilfo as his companion! It was super cool just to see how the spirit worked
so well with him. It was interesting to see how comfortable he was speaking
with the spirit and how natural it seemed. He always spoke so lovingly to the
people in the practices! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Then we had a special meeting with him afterwards as
the staff. He started off asking each of us what our functions were in the
staff and when it was my turn I talked and said that I was training Elder Betts
to take my place in the office. The president’s
wife was like “yeah cause he is going home now!!” :P Elder Leal just laughed
and then we got down to business. He started to talk to us and it seemed as
though that loving manner disappeared!!!! He was like I am going to be tough
with you guys because you are the people that president trusts the most or else
you wouldn’t be here. You guys need to be the example. You guys are the ones
that will take away all the excuses from the other missionaries. Your president
has given you guys a goal to baptize one person per month per missionary. You
must do that. You are capable. If you aren’t on the road to that now Pray for
the spirit to give you inspiration to be able to accomplish it. God hath given
no commandment unto the children of men without before preparing a way by which
they might accomplish the thing he asked them to do. He said that we are the
tone setters, if we can do it everyone else will be able to do it as well. It
was a lot of responsibility and is going to require a lot of SPRINTING ;p but I
am going to do my very best and a little bit more :) Please pray for us!(Elder
Sánez, Elder Sierras, Elder Fernandez, Elder Collett, Elder Betts, Elder Jopia,
and I) (that is the whole staff) that we may be able to have the spirit with us
and that we can recognize the people who are ready to come unto Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prayers that you are already giving for us! They really do strengthen and help
us to continue in this important work :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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happened this week, we were teaching a less active family about the Holy Ghost
and there was an impression that came to my mind. I felt that I should teach a
little about how the Holy Ghost prepares us for the second coming. I felt the
spirit really strong as We talked about how if we follow the spirit we will be
prepared and sanctified spiritually so that one day we will be able to see our
Savior, Jesus Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with an investigator! She was just saying thank you for all the help that we
have given her. It was a really good feeling to just feel that appreciation :)
It was a very cool moment because it is kind of hard for me to communicate to
her because she speaks Spanish and so sometimes I don’t understand everything
that she says but it was just a cool experience :) Remind me about it when I get home and I will
tell you guys the full story :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love you guys and I
know that Jesus Christ Lives and the he loves each and every one of us. I know
that he qualifies us, through his atonement and that is what should comfort us
on our lowest days. We will never be alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-16288586816048445862015-07-19T16:58:00.002-07:002015-07-19T16:58:36.990-07:00Extremely Blessed<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -9.35pt; margin-top: 0in;">
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have you all as a family. Blessed to feel my Savior’s love, blessed to be his
son. This week I have learned a little bit about how blessed we have been to be
born in this last dispensation where there are more temples, missionaries,
members, and blessings than any of the other dispensations. I read a couple
talks about the times we live in and their great blessings and I realize that truly
Heavenly Father trusts in us a lot to put us in this last dispensation where
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This week we talked a
little with a couple less actives about the importance of reading the
scriptures and how it blesses our lives. We read a talk called The power of the
Word by Presidente Ezra Taft Benson. It talks about diving into the scriptures,
(actually in Portuguese it uses the word mergulhar which means to submerge or
like scuba dive in the scriptures ;P) it just showed me that it was never about
quantity but about quality! What we get from the scriptures and how we apply it
to our lives in much more important that if we read a whole chapter or not :P I
honestly have never finished the Book of Mormon in Portuguese (I’m in Alma) but
I feel as though I am understanding a whole lot more than I would have got if I
just read it fast. I love the scriptures and I love the feeling of excitement
as I learn something new and just want to share it with my companions :) The
spirit of god is real and it truly with teach us everything through study and
through faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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name is Elder Betts! He is from Grand Rapids Michigan. We welcomed him to the
staff by having an epic water gun battle in the house....we cleaned really well
today ;P It was fun and it helped everyone relax after the audit! Everything
went fine with the audit! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is true and I know that God loves you and I know that He loves me. I know that
God reveals his truth to us today through scripture study, modern day prophets and personal revelation! I
love you all so much!! Can’t wait to see you! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-24139323608640140082015-07-11T17:06:00.002-07:002015-07-11T17:06:27.616-07:00What’s UP?!?!?!?!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 9.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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really good week :P hahahaha I proctored the English test this week and I
realized that maybe I am going to need to take the English test before I go
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week of prayer at our house and so I wanted share an experience that I had as
well. We have been preparing to teach some of the recent converts about the
importance of the family. I was studying the Liahona from this past
conference...you know they talked a lot about the family!!! We used the Proclamation to the World! It was
a really good study and as I was praying in the end I just thanked Heavenly Father
for the privilege that I have to be sealed to you guys. You are so very special
to me and I am so thank full that you guys are my family forever! I think it
was the first time I have shed some tears in a long time but it was the good
type :) I am just grateful for the temples and the power of the priesthood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I had to buy more that 90 bus tickets for the transfer!! We have been preparing for the audit and I am
just kind of anxious to get my new computer!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is going well :) We are working with more less actives here. We have been working
with this one family for awhile and last week the mother came again to the
church! That means out of 3 weeks she has been 2!! It is all going good :) It
is like a whole extended family that we are trying to get them to come back and
everyone promised to com this week so we will see how it goes tomorrow :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We were able to give a blessing to a cousin of one of the people we are teaching.
She is pregnant and had a stroke. She
asked us to go to the hospital and give her a blessing. We got there after
visiting hours by like 4 min but they still let us in. She was still in the ICU
but we were able to shut the curtains around her bed and give her a blessing. I
was thinking in my head....this is really super important....I have never given
anyone a blessing in this type of situation and I started to pray in my head
that we would be able to be inspired and give her the blessing that she would
need. It was a very sweet experience and the blessing was one full of spirit
and hope. I know that the priesthood is real and that it is the way that God
blesses all of his children. I know that prayer is real and like you guys I
know that God cares about even the seemingly inconsequential things in our
lives! I love you all and am so glad that you guys are part of my life and that
God allowed me to be born into our family!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-32961863014352636152015-07-04T11:47:00.000-07:002015-07-04T11:47:04.463-07:00D&C 29:34-35<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -9.35pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; tab-stops: 125.3pt;">
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district meeting this week! It made me feel a lot better about everything that
we do here in the office. The other day we were studying about what it means to
be a missionary of success. I realized that in the office, sure we don’t really
get much of a chance to go out and teach, but if we are diligent and most of
all Patient with the other missionaries we become missionaries of success :P</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cookies!!! They were super good!! We went out with the members and took them to
their neighbors. So far we now have all of the members addicted to peanut
butter cookies :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stuff in the office. I am going to receive a new computer and so I was making a
digital copy of all the passports and all the other important stuff that I have
here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. One of the ladies that we have been teaching told us how hard her
life has been and how she always asks for God to show her a light. We talked to
her once again about keeping the commandments and how this will bless her and
how she will be able to see how this truly is the best thing. The thing is that when we ask her if she is
going to go church and she is like “I don’t know...maybe” and we were like COME
PLEASE!! You ask God to show you a way to receive blessings and then you don’t
follow when we show you!! Please just come with us and see how it betters your
life!!! Unfortunately she still didn’t make any firm decision. We are going to go to her house tomorrow at
08h30 to walk with her to church. I am hopeful but it just goes to show how
everyone has their agency and is able to choose what they want. We even used
that scripture with her. It goes to show
how we must take the first steps of faith!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. I know that Christ lives, and that this church is true. I know that
the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was and is a prophet of God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-59563618788715769512015-06-27T11:34:00.004-07:002015-06-27T11:34:22.705-07:00Giant book of Mormon!<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -9.35pt; margin-top: 0in;">
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now....super early?... not really cause it´s like 9h30!!! Still that could be a little early :P</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This week was awesome!!!
This past Sunday was a super cool experience at the church!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> A man walked into
the chapel who I didn’t know and I started talking to him in Portuguese and he
said “ I don’t speak Portuguese” so I switched to English and started talking
to him. He was here in Florianopolis to
do business with the government. He owns his own software company. Guess where
he lives...that is right, Provo, Utah. He asked me to translate for him so I
did the best that I could translating Portuguese to English. In the end he gave
me his name, his number, his email, and his company site. That just doesn’t
happen out of the blue. I was actually talking to Sister Silva about it the
other day and I felt the spirit while talking about my plans for after the
mission so I hope that is a good sign :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The coolest awesome
thing that happened was with a giant Book of Mormon. Yesterday we set up in the
Praça 15! (look it up on google!) and we had two exhibits about the Book of Mormon!
We set up 10 banners in two different places and then we called the whole zone!
26 missionaries to come and help us out! It was awesome!! It started at 08h00
and it went until 11h15. Dad asked in his email about our finding group...well
now we have over 100 names that we have to go search for :) Not just in our
area, but all over Florianopolis. It was super fun but my throat is a little
bit sore today from talking so much! We divided up into 2 groups and then into
3 sub groups in each group...finders, teachers, and writers. The finders would talk to the people all over
the park and bring them the to exhibit and then the teachers would teach about
the Book of Mormon and where it came from.
Then the writers would write down everyone’s address who wanted another
visit. It was super fun! My companion and I were in the finder group first. We
started out and at the beginning....I don’t think I have received more no’s in
my entire life. Within 30 min I think we
received 50 no´s but then we talked to this one guy and we took him to go be
taught by the teachers!! I don’t think I have ever been happier to receive a
yes on a contact in my life :) It was super awesome! Then everything just
started rolling :) In the end just my companion and I talked to about 300
people :) It was super fun! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A different experience
that we had this week was during the emergency transfer because two new Americans
arrived here in Floripa. I was trying to get everything done for them and it
was super stressful and by 18h00 I was super stressed and just done with the
day. We had some lessons that we had to give. Elder Jopia and I have this goal,
to pray before we leave the office everyday so that we can leave behind all the
stress. We prayed and then went to teach. We taught some recent converts who
have not been to church for like 3 weeks so we got there and talked about how
we need to overcome our doubts and fears. It was a very spiritual lesson and we
left there feeling really good :) They promised to come to church tomorrow so
pray for them :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to another one of our investigators. We tried to do our best to help her. She
is in a really rough situation and we are trying our very best to help her out.
I could just feel part of the Lords love for her and tried to help the best way
I knew how. Please pray for her. She is in great need of prayer and divine
help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sums up the highlights in a week in the life of Elder Pachner II ;p </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> I know that this church is true! I know that
the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that truly if one wants to become
closer to Christ, all he has to do is read this book! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love you all with all
my heart :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-45267093508917974982015-06-27T11:28:00.002-07:002015-06-27T11:28:53.514-07:00Ears, Balloon popping, and Pie<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 9.35pt; vertical-align: top;">
<span class="date"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6/20/15</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://snt147.mail.live.com/ol/" title="Show header details"><span style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div>
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undivided attention! :)</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Let’s start with the
ears. Well this week I went to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>otorrinolaringologista</u>. Try
saying that five times fast!!! It actually means...ear doctor....yeah I don’t
think we have a super fancy word for them in English but maybe I just forgot
:P I went there because I haven’t been
able to hear very well out of my ear for a little while. We went and it turns
out that I had an ear infection. Now I am on antibiotics, but with this next
week all should return to normal :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I got my hair cut :) I
will be talking to Chase today so I didn’t include a picture. Now I even look like a Brazilian :) Even if
it is just for the fact that it is like 55 degrees outside and I am all bundled
up with a scarf, jacket, and gloves. I
am so going to die in the snow of Utah!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Balloon popping!!! We
had a really cool ward activity that the ward mission leader and we put on. We
started off the activity talking/singing because <u>I have been given much</u>
and then we went and started a little dynamic learning by making a circle. We gave one of the other missionaries a
tennis ball and what you had to do is throw the tennis ball to the assigned
person. Then that person would throw it
to their assigned partner and so on until it got back to the first person. As people got better at catching and then
throwing it to their assigned partners we started adding tennis balls into the circle
and then it got difficult. What we wanted them to see was you have to focus on
receiving and then passing along what you received, while never taking your
eyes off the ball. If you got distracted
you would drop the ball. Then we talked about the work as missionaries. I
shared the story that mom sent to me in an email about how our great
grandparents received lessons from the missionaries while in Oklahoma and then I
told them that is why I was there. Because a member decided to open his mouth
and share what the missionaries had one time shared with someone in his family.
It was cool because we talked about how it doesn’t matter if you are a recent
convert or were born into a sealed family, at some point in time someone decided
to share with your family what made them happy and so extremely blessed. So we
made a challenge. We told them that we were going to mark with them and then go
to their houses with plates of brownies and eat with them and then take some to
their neighbors so that we can help the other people who so desperately need
the gospel in their lives :) It was a success :) we have 3 companionships in
the ward and so we got everyone marked down for a day :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That is where we get
into pie!! Yesterday was the first day doing the neighborhood visits with the
members! Elder Jopia and I went to our ward mission leader’s house and we
brought a pie with us :) Then we went
around and started talking with his neighbors. The first door.....I think the
guy thought we were trying to sell him drugs or something like that because he
said he didn’t want the pie or the Book of Mormon...but everyone else after
that accepted us and now we have a couple new families to visit :) That is
going to be really cool because we need to teach families!!! I mean everyone
needs the gospel but there is nothing as cool as seeing a whole family baptized
and know that in a year they will be able to be sealed together for time and
all eternity!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We also had a cool
experience while tracting this week. We were trying to visit some of our
investigators and everyone was not at home...so as the backup plan we had chosen
to stay on the same street and do some contacts. We were going without much
success until we reached this old wooden house.
We clapped 3 times before a women opened the door and so we started
talking to her about the who we were and about why we were there. She said she had already seen the missionaries
before and then she said that we had come at just the right time and so we told
her where the church was and invited her to come. She told us she would go and then said that
she was passing though some rough times and that it seemed as though when she
was talking to us she felt a feeling of peace! It was awesome and both Jopia and I bore our
testimonies about how much God wanted to help her and that was why we were there.
I love these types of experiences because you can really see Gods hand in the
work. I know that God does truly prepare people for us to teach, because he
loves them and wants them to come unto him and be healed. I know this gospel is
true and I know that Christ lives, this is his church!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">LOOVVVEEEE,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Elder Pachner II<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the first, I am the second, and you will be the third. The first was awesome, the second was more or
less and the third will be the best...until the fourth comes ;P <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-78478203074318674372015-06-27T10:43:00.000-07:002015-06-27T10:43:04.563-07:00my week<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well this week was good!! It was a little bit stressful with all
the office work but all in all it keeps going...the only bad thing that
happened is that this week was the mission counsel.....and unfortunately that
brought with it a new rule....we are not allowed to play sports on the mission
now. No basketball, volleyball, or ultimate frisbee...I was rather disappointed
but then I realized that in murmuring I was being like Lamen and Lemuel and
just decided to go and do it like Nephi. Besides, its only 9 more weeks ;P
hahahahahahaha but no I’m not trunky....I’m prepared :P At least that is what I told president and he
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It was interesting in
the fact that now I have like a social security number here in Brazil!!! I am a
citizen...except not :P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We were teaching the little
ones again this week :) It is always a really cool experience because they
understand so much and are so pure. It was interesting because as we were
talking about the Book of Mormon and how you have to pray to receive the answer
the 10 year old was like. ``but how will I feel??´´ It was interesting because
she was so interested in what she would feel when so many of our investigators
don’t ask any questions like the little kids!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We are teaching the
Ecuadorians still and that is interesting. My companion teaches in Spanish
because they understand it better....and that is when I realized that Spanish
and Portuguese aren’t as close as I thought they were. But it was still good.
It was one of the few moments when I was dying not really knowing what to say
but it worked out fine in the end. It was interesting because I felt that I
should speak a little bit stronger to the husband. The wife is truly a saint!
She pays her tithing, studies the scriptures, prays very well, and is trying to
become more like Christ. He does nothing. So we talked about the change that
the gospel makes in us. We asked him what he would lose if he started reading,
going to church, and practicing the gospel? He said nothing, and then we told
him that he would lose a lot if he didn’t start practicing the gospel now! It was
a good moment and the spirit was strong :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I know that this gospel
is true! That the spirit is the teacher!
What we are here to do as missionaries is invite the spirit into the
homes of people so that they can feel the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>true<span class="apple-converted-space"><u> </u></span> happiness that comes from
following our savior Jesus Christ!! He lives and Loves each and every one of us
:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-69165930876370132702015-06-27T10:41:00.003-07:002015-06-27T10:41:33.994-07:00My week<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well my week has been a little (really) crazy ;P It
was Transfer week!! Which means craziness week :P</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We had 4 Americans who
got here straight from the United States....which meant that I had to do
everything to get them registered. I
learned a bit more and now I am learning how to work with paperwork....it makes
me realize that I really don’t want my job to be in front of a computer all
day! I am so going for a science degree!! :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When I took all the Americans
who were going home to the airport we ran into some other Americans who were
going home after the iron man that took place here on the island. It was super weird
to hear them speak in English and it was funny because they thought I was Brazilian
(it looks like a got my tan back ;P) and they started talking about us. Super strange, but now I know, I am so
teaching all of you Portuguese :) It is way prettier than English ;P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Our investigators are
getting close to baptism :) we have been helping one of our investigators stop
smoking! She is now down to 4 cigarettes per day!! yahoo!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We had a really cool experience
this past Sunday. Elder Jopia and I were running around trying to get all of
our investigators to church. We were walking really fast trying get there on
time to take our investigator by bus to church but as we were walking we saw
this woman sitting outside and we said “good morning” and she looked back at us, smiled, and said “good
morning”. we past still talking but I had a thought, ´´Why didn’t you talk to
her?´´ I thought about being late and
not wanting to be weird walking back, but I felt the need to talk to her even
stronger so I looked at Elder Jopia and he looked at me and we both knew we had
to go back. We walked back and we said
hi but she had her eyes closed with ear phones in. We called her like 4 times and she never
seemed to hear...and it was kind of awkward but finally I walked up and touched
her shoulder and she looked up at us startled.
We just started talking to her and we found out that she had already
seen the missionaries and invited them to her house in Curitiba but she had
moved. We told her that we needed to talk to her about eternal families and she
started to get choked up and told us about her recent divorce and how she wasn’t
sure if she would see her children again but we testified again and now we will
be teaching her :) I left that contact feeling the spirit very strong. I knew
that God had put one of his choice spirits in our way so that she could receive
another chance to return to him one day :)
It was a good experience, a kind of experience that makes you super
happy :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all of his children and I know that he really wants every single one of his
children to return to him and that is why we are here, to find the elect that
are still out there :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-54806655050938407872015-06-27T10:38:00.002-07:002015-06-27T12:05:10.835-07:00my steller week :)<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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word wrong but I think I said it right so that is all that counts ;P</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This week has been
really good! It was not a too terribly stressful week and I only had to call
president one time to tell him about something that I had done wrong with the
transfer :P...We are going to be receiving a bunch of visa waiters this week 4
of them and then in another 3 weeks 2 more. I was planning on these 4
missionaries getting here on June 16 but it turns out that they are going to
get here on 2nd of June....yeah but pres was cool and he didn’t get super
frustrated with me. Now this next week
is going to be super crazy because I have to take them all to the Federal
Police to register them! That will be interesting ;P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This week we were
teaching the children again and they said something really funny! We were talking about the restoration and
about the life of Jesus Christ! We asked
them what Jesus did when he was here on the earth and the older one, she has 10
years old, said “he saved us from sin
and death”. We were like, wow that is
correct very good and my companion asked and what would have happened if he
didn’t come. She said....we would be slaves of the devil! I was super impressed
and it was super funny but it just goes to show how simple the gospel is and
how simple the Book of Mormon is so that even the children can understand it :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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referral for a member this week. This woman´s story is really sad. Both her
parents and her daughter recently died so we went there to teach about the plan
of salvation. However when we went there the first time we discovered that she
is an espiritista....she believes in reincarnation and in calling spirits from
the dead and stuff like that. So that kind of was difficult to teach the plan
of salvation. So this next time we taught about the restoration! It was great!
She said she goes to a bunch of different churches but doesn’t really want to
choose any one of them because they all lead to God.......but we taught and at
the end she was like so I am like Joseph Smith trying to figure out which
church is correct? We were like
yes!!! She promised to come to church
this week and read the Book of Mormon!!! Success! Well it is not our success
but the spirit’s because if it weren’t for the spirit we would be toast! I
really like talking about the restoration and the apostasy because I always
feel the spirit really strong :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tried to fix a sink of our investigator...it reminded me of home because I was
the flash light holder for a couple minutes. Then I gave it my shot but there
was nothing that we could do without tools! It was funny because I looked at
his son Dylan (he is 2) and I said this will be your job in a couple years ;P<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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love you and I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. That Christ
restored his church though the prophet Joseph Smith and that as we read the Book of Mormon
we can come to have that sure testimony that Joseph Smith was a prophet called
of God and that Christ lives and speaks to us still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-56548133499648393122015-06-27T10:22:00.003-07:002015-06-27T12:10:26.472-07:00Mosiah 3:19 become as a child<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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this week we were focusing on the children :P We stared teaching these kids who
had recently been adopted by a family in our ward. Neither Elder Jopia nor I
had had much experience teaching children 8-10 years old. We deiced to do something really easy first
to talk about prayer and the spirit. When we went to teach the girls they knew
everything about prayer :P One just kept asking if we were going to read more
scriptures and the other knew the answer for everything. It was cool because we
asked them what can you pray for and they started off with a list: for mom,
dad, grandma, our younger brother, for the food, for the doorman...etc. Then we
asked when they should pray and they said in the morning before breakfast,
before lunch, before dinner, at night, at family home evening. It was amazing
:) I really liked it because it just shows us how much influence parents have!
They were recently adopted but they are already familiar with all those ways to
pray and family home evening. It was just something that I want in my life as
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The next thing that
happened was that I actually felt like what we do in the office is very
helpful. Some of our investigators are
from Ecuador and they had to go to the federal police to ask for residency. They came into the office and I got all the
papers sorted out for them and it was really cool :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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:) I now have another year of time in which I can stay in Brazil....mom how
would you feel if I extended my mission??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wanted to mess a little bit :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We had a cool lesson
about faith and Alma 32! We talked about a little word, the ´´if´´. I counted 13 ifs. It just shows us that our
faith is in our actions. The way we act shows our faith and our commitment with
God. It was a really good lesson and it
helped the woman who we are teaching so hopefully she will just put it into
action :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Let me think about other
stuff....yeah I think that is about it :P we have had a good week this week and
I am really learning a lot about discipline, something that I wasn’t so good at
before. I think God saved the hardest attribute for my mission for last) but
that means that it will be really good when finally get it down ;P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I know that this church
is true. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that little kids are
the kingdom of God and as we become like them we will become more like Christ
:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love you guys with all
my heart!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-19622449568717572822015-06-27T10:20:00.003-07:002015-06-27T10:20:41.199-07:00My week!<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well this week went pretty well :) Yes I got a little
trunky after talking to you guys but it was the last thing that I did that day
so it was all good because we went home, planned and slept and the next day I
was all fine again :)</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Monday I wrote in my
journal!!!! :) That was a huge accomplishment because that is the first time in
a long time that I have actually written. We went to one of our investigators
house. Their toddler, Dylan, was a little sick so we gave him a blessing :) I
love Dylan! He is two years old and he loves the missionaries! He always wants
us to play with him but that day we was acting all sick just laying on the bed
watching Rio. We would start messing with him and he would just try to look past
us to watch the movie. The best part was my companion started pretending to hit
his stomach and he just broke up into laughter :) There just isn’t anything
that can make you smile like little kids laughing :) It was really funny! Then we gave him the blessing. We went back
there on Thursday and he was doing just fine :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Also these investigators
are from Ecuador so they speak in portãnol. hahaha It is fun to try and listen
close so that I can understand them :) Actually my companion and I have started
a new goal to learn each other’s native languages. So every night after we plan
he is reading 5 verses of the Book of Mormon in English and I am reading 5
verses in Spanish and then we have to explain what we read in that language...
so far it is going good. We have finished the first chapter of Nephi and we
have started the second chapter :P It is going good and I am sure learning a
lot :) I do like Spanish but still I think that Portuguese wins out by just a
little (sorry Chase and Rachel ;p)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The other day I went on
division with one of the assistants. That was interesting. We went to their
area and were planning on teaching this one family about the plan of salvation
but we ended up teaching about 3 Nephi 11. It was a really good lesson because
it was really just a conversation! They were talking and asking questions and
we were responding! It is so much better that way because it allows the spirit
to testify much stronger because they are obviously interested in what you have
to say. I love how it is the simple things that make all the difference. We were talking about the Book of Mormon and
how it was written by the prophets here and the woman said it just never made
sense to me that God would only talk to the people over in Jerusalem. We had the opportunity to testify and say God
talks to everyone. He talks to men, women, and children, he loves each and
every one of us. We are his children and he wants us to communicate with him as
well so that we can return to him. That is the stuff that I like, that is when I
can feel the spirit the most, when we share the simple truths of the gospel in
a very clear form that nobody can deny. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We did some street contacts
and we actually got invited to go back to this rich families house :) It was
pretty awesome because usually the people in the big houses just talk to us
through the intercom and don’t accept. But this guy came out of his house talked
to us and offered us some water! It was super cool and now this next Thursday
we are going back at 18h00 so wish us luck :) (By wish us luck I mean pray for
us and him ;p)</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I love you all and I know
that this gospel is true! I know that faith is in the action and this gospel is
all about that :) I love you all :)</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-60684149265970545192015-06-27T09:38:00.003-07:002015-06-27T09:38:31.165-07:00Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That is about how I felt this week :P This was my
first week alone taking care of the office. It was super hard. Well actually
the first day wasn’t too hard but the second was really stressful. It was when all of the new missionaries got
here and when all the old missionaries were leaving! That was a really strange
day. I was running around making copies of all the documents of the new
missionaries and doing all the stuff to renew their visas. It was really
difficult and then at 5 o´clock i had to go and take all the missionaries
leaving to the airport!!!!!!!! That was pretty trunky ;P The only crazy thing was that when we got
there, a problem came up and it looked like the Americans would have to only
take 23 kilos instead of 63 kilos. That was a scare! I started to panic a
little and I called São Paulo to try and get it all figured out and then in the
end one of the workers turned out to be a member and allowed all the Americans
to take all their baggage. But it was
really stressful. But this week was more about adapting to life alone in the
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The other day we had to
use the skype because the firewall on one of the computers wasn’t working so we
had to call Salt Lake and then they turned on the firewall but also turned on a
safe guard that encrypted all of the files on the computer and made it so that
we couldn’t log on. We waited like the
whole week to get all that worked out and finally we had to use skype so that
the techs could see the computer screen. What is cool is this thing called team
viewer that lets others control your computer. It was interesting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But this week doing
everything was super stressful but I learned something. Dad sent me an email
about the iron rod and how we need to hold on to it and we know that the iron
rod is the word of god, so as we were teaching I was thinking that really that is
what we need. We all need to STUDY the
scriptures every day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There is something cool
in the Portuguese translation of the Book of Mormon. in 1 Nephi 8:24 , 30 it
talks about the people that we going to the tree of life and it talks about 3
different ways the people gripped the rod, there are those who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>segurar</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(hold), those who are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>apegados (</i>clinging), and those
who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>agarravam-se<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(caught hold). As we read we see
those who just held the rod got the tree but they fell away and the same thing happened
to those who were just clinging to the rod but those who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>caught hold</i> of the rod continued
until the tree of life and never left it. It shows us that we cannot just read
the Book of Mormon or that we can be content with just understanding the same
things over and over again, but that we must study the Book of Mormon! This is a
test for eternal life and we have all the guide books we need but we will never
get a good grade if we just read the guide books but we have to study them so
that we come out victorious from this test. It was just something that I
learned this past week and I thought was interesting and wanted to share it
with you guys :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love you guys so much!
I know that families can be eternal, if we endure till the end. I know that the
Book of Mormon blesses our life. The way
we learn to study the Book of Mormon we will come to learn more about Christ
and as we come to learn more about Him we will come to know Him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-29720196312321246672015-06-27T09:28:00.002-07:002015-06-27T09:28:39.871-07:00My Week<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This week we have been running around a lot!!! In the
office everything is going good. This was the last week of the transfer so it
was super hectic here in the office. It is super strange because we did a bunch
of stuff but I cant remember all the things that we did :P </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Officially everyone in
the house is addicted to playing ninja. I
don’t really remember how it started but everyone plays so that we can go and
play ninja as a huge group. Well now in the apartment we have 7 elders. It
started with 5 at the beginning of the transfer but because two missionaries
had to go home we have picked up the other two. They are cool and it actually
makes everything a lot easier to clean because there are a lot more people to
do the work. This week was Elder Hardman´s last week here in Brazil! Elder
Jopia and I will be taking him to the airport on Tuesday! Yup, I get to take all the Americans to the
airport every transfer :P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well this week something
funny happened. I had to call the USA because of some boxes left by a missionary
here in Brazil. I had to talk with the missionary’s mom in English. The conversation started off all wrong
because I said, oí boa tarde, tudo bem? and his mom was like “what??” and then I
realized I was talking in Portuguese. Then I tried to explain to her about the
postal service here in Brazil and everything. In the end we understood each
other but I realized that my English is super, super bad and that I will
probably end up talking to you guys in sign language on mother´s day ;P I
cannot believe that we are already at the end of April!! The time seems to be
flying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love you guys!! Thank
you for all the emails that you guys send me :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-8822593062173274622015-06-27T09:21:00.003-07:002015-06-27T09:21:29.819-07:00Frisbee and Grandchildren<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well this week has been really good actually :) It
started off a little strange but now everything is back on track! </span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The coolest thing that
has happened is that my grandson is serving with us here in the office (that’s
right mom and dad, I had grandchildren before you guys did ;P)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Elder Muniz! He is from
Espirito Santo (holy ghost) (I love the name of the states here when you
translate them. The river of January {rio de janeiro}, thick weeds {mato
grosso}, big river of the north {rio grande do norte}, big river of the south
{Rio grande do sul}.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But the best thing is
that he is really funny! He had to come here because his companion was going
home early and he couldn’t stay where he was so we took him in. But at first he
was all sad and discouraged but after a couple days he was back up and happy :)
It was cool to watch that happen and to be with him now :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well this week we marked
one of our investigators for baptism :) :) She is marked for the 25 of April!!
Pray for her so that she can be ready for this day :) During the lesson Elder
Muniz and I were talking to her and Elder Muniz asked her “What do you want
from God?” and she was like “I want peace and to resolve all the problems I´m
having.” and then he asked her ´´and what do you think God wants from you?´´
and she was like ´´I don’t know......keep the commandments?´´ and then we used
Mosiah 2:41 to tell her about how that is exactly how God works and then we turned
to 3 Nephi 27:20 hahahha it was super perfect and the spirit was really strong
:) It was a great experience and she
accepted the invite that Elder Muniz made :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love the scriptures!! They
have the answer to everything!!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I know this church is
true. I know that God loves all of us. This is why He sent His son and why His
son lives again, so that we can be together FOREVER!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432321794786044623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578096957635897951.post-65444929461592323872015-04-21T18:19:00.001-07:002015-04-21T18:19:39.211-07:00smiles, sheep and excel sheets<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: -9.35pt; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">smiles, sheep, and excel sheets<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span class="date"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4/11/15</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I think that is like the
definition of our week this week :P <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We have been having a
bunch of fun there in the office this week. It has been a bunch of running
around and solving a bunch of problems. We had to authenticate a bunch of
documents for São Paulo and send it to them. But everything turned okay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Now we are making an
excel sheet to help out all the people that are learning English here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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yesterday I was taking care of some elders that were here for interviews with
President. So one of the elders was sleeping in our room and I had just got in
there to go to sleep and he said something to me....and it didn’t make any
sense. And he repeated it like 3 times and I was like ummmmm that isn’t even
close to any word that I know in Portuguese. Then I got up and left to brush my
teeth and when I got back he was just sitting in bed laughing! I asked him what was up and he said that when
I had kneeled down to pray I had looked exactly like a sheep during his
sleep.....it was super strange but really funny at the same time :P <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had the baptism of our two investigators this week! That was pretty awesome
:) Nothing beats a general conference where in the break between sessions you
get to see two baptisms :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talks during the conference but that ones that I most liked were: a cookie and
a kiss, President Uchtdorfs about grace, and the sister from the relief society
presidency who gave the questions and then said if you are feeling guilty you
should repent. It was a really good talk and I really like it when people are
honest and frank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with that. We were teaching this one woman who said that she believed the Book
of Mormon to be true. We said awesome,
but how do you know and she said...why would I doubt it if you guys told me. Why
would you lie to me? Then we told her that she needed to pray and a bunch of
stuff and then we explained about what you know if you believe that the Book of
Mormon is true. I used 1 Nephi 14:10 to explain that there is no other church
other than the church if you know the Book of Mormon is true....she seemed a
little taken a back but still in the end she promised to go to church
this Sunday and learn a little bit more and really understand it :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and I hope that everything went really well!! I am sorry about the wisdom
teeth....now you guys need to study the scriptures a lot more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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address!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love general conference!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well this week was wonderful and stressful at the same
time. Wonderful because we have some amazing investigators that we are teaching
and I felt the spirit strongly this week.
On the other hand it was super stressful because there was zone
conference and that is when absolutely everyone calls me to buy bus
tickets!!!!! Talk about a headache! I was away from the office for one hour
teaching a lesson and when I turned back on my phone I had 12 lost calls!!! That
was after 1 hour!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">…but getting away from the stress of the work place let
me talk about my wonderful experiences :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This week we have be preparing 2 of our young
investigators for baptism! They are going to be baptized tomorrow during the
interval of conference! Their parents (who aren’t members) were super excited
because they wanted them to be baptized while ´´our prophet´´ talks!! They are
only non members for now! Just wait like 1 month and you will get the pictures
of them getting baptized as well :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well we taught them about the restoration and that was something
really cool! But as almost always, as soon as we got through the first vision
they got distracted by people passing by...but still the spirit was there and
they understood everything. Then the next day we taught them at a member’s
house. While we were there the other children came to listen to the lesson as
well. It was cool because we taught about the plan of salvation. We taught them
using little laminated paper circles that have everything in pictures on them.
All the children, their ages were 13, 10, 9, and 8, liked to ask a lot of questions
as we taught...some relevant others....not so much :P but it was really good
because we got to teach everything really simple!! Holy smokes I learned that
is it really hard to teach a bunch of children. Mom props to you for the primary children :) (You
too Rachel, I know you have been teaching a bunch of children :) ) I need tips
from all of you guys to help me out. But it was interesting....the one with 8
years old said that she would like to go the terrestrial world because she
likes the moon so I was like alright let’s forget the moon it is like in the Telestial
world you will eat charcoal, and in the Terrestrial world you will eat beets,
and in the Celestial world you will chocolate....the moms didn’t like the
example to much ;P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The other day we were teaching the parents and they had
a question about the apostasy. It was a good question. They started talking
about how the bible was gathered together in 400 AD and how the successors of
the apostles were there and I was like, nope not exactly. They were like What? and I was like, well see this so the first
pope he claimed to have received the right from Peter to be their first pope or
´´father´´ i.e. leader of the church right...and they were like, Yes and then I
was like but why would he have become the leader of the church when John, an
original apostle, who walked, and talked with Jesus, was still alive? Wouldn’t
it have made more sense for John to be the leader??? They were like uhhh that makes sense, and
then we shared in 1 timothy and in 2 Thessalonians about the apostasy! It was
really good and I was able to bear my testimony! :) I love being a missionary
and feeling the spirit so strong!!! I don’t ever want to loose it :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well I really like conference! My favorite was by Elder
Packer! It was about eternal marriage....trunky!!!! I really did like his talk it was awesome :)
It made me think about how truly important it is that we are for all eternity
not something that will be a short term decision. Your spouse needs to be a decision
that you have thought about for a long time and that you have prayed and fasted
and gone to the temple and done everything until you receive that confirmation
that you are doing the right thing! But don’t worry I will wait until after my mission
to start that whole thing ;P hahaha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love you all!!! I know that this gospel is true and I
know that Jesus Christ lives!!! He is the head of this church and he has chosen
our prophet, Thomas S. Monson and every one of the twelve apostles. They hold
all the keys of the priesthood! That is
where this church becomes different from all others. The authority was restored
and because it was we all, men, women and children, have been, are being, and
will forever be blessed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="date"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3/28/15</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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funny errors that I made so at least I know that I have not yet reached perfection
;P ahhahaa just means that I am going to have to keep working on that :P But
hopefully I have about 80 years to work on that ;p</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So first error....this
is the worst....we live in this apartment complex here in Floripa! We live on
the 12th floor and below us there is just the sidewalk and the street. What happened....Elder Jopia and I were
playing catch with a soccer ball and we were just throwing it back and forth
and then I threw the ball kind of wrong....and it hit Elder Jopia in the
knees.....then went out the window!!!!!!
I got really white and really scared! I didn’t even believe it! It took
about 5 years for the ball to hit the ground!! I was just waiting for the sound
of it hitting someone on the head or a car! I was just about crying! but (I am
sure by a blessing of God) it didn’t hit anyone or anything and when went down
to the street and talked to the doorman and asked sorry and told him what
happened!! Now it is funny but in the moment I wanted to die!!! but now I know
I am never going to play with a ball with the window open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This is one of the best
things in the world!!! Because we live on an island there is a super cool
running path right next to the beach!!! The other day elder Jopia and I went
running right by the ocean!! It was super cool!! Today we all got together and played ultimate
Frisbee!! It has been so long since I have played and it was 2v3 so that was
difficult but it was super fun!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">People that we teach!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well there were two
lessons that were really special this week. One we were teaching this family of
less active members. We taught them about our purpose here on this earth and
elder Jopia asked everyone to say the thing that they want most. She said that she wanted to get married in the
temple! We talked a little about that and then I had a different impression
than I had ever had... I told them that it was a warning...to not forget what
we had talked about or how they had felt. The spirit was really strong and it
was just an interesting experience. This has never happened before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The other was really
cute! We are teaching these two kids who are 13 and 10 so that they can be
baptized on the day of general conference!
When we got there they had gotten their school note books to take notes
on what we said :) It was just super cute and it showed the value that they had
for what we had to say :) I love the kids that we teach! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well I think that is
about it for this week. I love you all so much! I am truly grateful everyday
that we are sealed as a family for all eternity :) I know that this church is
true. It is the only church that offers exaltation and the only one with the
authority to bind families together. When I think about heaven....heaven really
wouldn’t be heaven if my family wasn’t there with me! I love you with all my
heart!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the leadership counsel and then we went to Joaçaba to do the zone meeting!! It
was super long!!! At the leadership conference we had to do a practice...they
got a white board and wrote 1 Timothy 4:11-16 on the two sides and then they
called Sister Gregory and I to come up in the front and study it. That was
super nerve racking, but in the end everything turned out fine and I didn’t
feel bad when I had to explain it in front of the counsel. :) President
actually complimented me :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it was funny the other day we got home late...9:33 and so we had to call
president....it was just funny because It reminded me of a conversation with
dad :P ahahahahah president was like “Elders I always say don’t get home late
and then you get home late. What do you want me to do?” :P It is just the tone
of voice reminded me a lot of dad. Seeing as I have practice of just recognizing
you are wrong and try to minimize the damage everything was okay :p I added a
little joke in at the end and he just laughed and we said good night :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this is the last week of the transfer :) the charity thing isn’t working so far
but I still have hope ;) If it doesn’t work in this next week I will know that
I tried my best to do everything :)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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everyone knows more or less the situation. I had to call Pres. about what has
been going on. That was not fun...as of this week the other elders have not
talked to me. But the other day I understood something...we were teaching about
charity and as we were teaching it really hit me that this is what I needed to
do to help the situation. I tried talking, didn’t work, I tried using higher
authority, ...worked ish, so I decided that if charity NEVER faileth I might as
well give it a try! I was studying about it and I saw in PMG it says charity
like faith leads to action. That was something I had never thought of before. I
had been praying to have charity but less frequently I was acting upon it. If
you look in the GEE (I think it is the topical guide in English) charity and in
see also it says, ´´love, service´´ that was the answer!! Service! So I have
decided to put charity to the test. I am doing one act of service for everyone
that is in the house per day! I sure hope that it works! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pres. said that we need to read the same scripture group 3 times...the first
time read quickly to understand the context and what the prophet thought most
important for the people to know. 2nd then we study each verse more calmly
searching for key words and the verbs. Then 3rd find the things you have
missed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is like eating when we are hungry. The first read is like looking at the food. That
gives you a good idea of what it will probably taste like but it doesn’t stop
you hunger. The second read is like when we are eating the food and it fills us
and we just don’t feel like there is room from anything more....and then comes
desert ;P (3rd read) there is always room for desert!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But
that was my week!! I am doing good! I am just trying to do what is right and be
the best missionary I can be :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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know that the greatest commandment was put God in front of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">EVERYTHING
like In front of our fears, ambitions, appetites, and desires. The second is similar;
love your neighbor like you love yourself (charity) that is the true test. I
know that we need to have these commandments in the right order if we are
to do things the Lords way. I love the Lord and I have come to love my Savior
even more these past couple of week. I know that everything happens according
to the Lords will and that if we do our very best we have the promise that he
will be with us during all of our trials.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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how many weeks I have been on the mission ;P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This week was a good week. I had a
cool experience about the mercy of God. I was reading in Alma 31 and studying
verse 2. I was reading and thinking about the sadness that Alma felt because of
seeing his brothers falling away in disobedience. I started to look at the foot
notes in the bottom and I saw one that went to Moses 7:41 or something like
that as I read I felt like I understood a little bit more what God feels and
how sad he must feel sometimes and how much joy he also feels when we follow
him. I finally understood why it says in Jacob 4:10 great mercy. It was a good
study :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Also the other day there was a
baptism of a man who is truly amazing. He was a drunk and he lived in more of a
cave than a house but after 8 weeks of the missionaries going there he was baptized.
It is amazing to see the transformation of people and realize that I need
to always have faith that all people have the potential to be baptized.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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missionaries!!!!! Please!!! We love them and it is the best thing in the world
to teach with us :) I promise :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ohhh and We had a division with
the assistants this week! It was really fun!! And If elder Stakebake gets in to
BYU I have already found my roommate!! He is awesome! He is from Logan Utah and
super cool!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This next week we are going back
to Floripa to have another counsel! Fun times riding the bus ;P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My investigators are going good. The
two that were marked for baptism fell but we are still teaching....I feel like
they are Jerrys. They are really smart and that makes it a little bit harder
for them to accept. What did you guys do dad to help out Jerry and what are
some of the questions that he had?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The former atheist went to EFY!!!
She loved it and she now has 40% that the church is true.........okay we will
work on that ;P but if everything came easy it wouldn’t be so much fun ;P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I love you all and I hope that you
have a great week!! I know that God loves us. His mercy is infinite so that we
can live with Him, it is enough to live the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week was full of adventure!! It is Carnival here in Brazil so that makes
all the things way more interesting. It is not really that great because
everyone travels to go to the beach cities to party it up so a lot of people aren’t
home. We were still able to talk to some
people. We were talking to one of our investigators the other day. He is having
problems getting over the fear of being baptized. He knows it is true but he
wants more of a confirmation. We talked
about Peter and how even though he was taught by Jesus Christ himself, and he
still wasn’t converted. He was only truly
converted when he received the gift of the Holy Ghost to help him. (Acts
3) When he was converted, he baptized
3000 people. It was a very strong lesson and now his is marked for this week. Still pray for him so that everything can be
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really good. We watched meet the Mormons! It was a super funny movie and I
really liked it! I was a little truncky when they showed Annapolis, Maryland!!
I was like.....home!!!! but then I was
better again :P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">While we were at the conference we had to walk a little
to get to lunch. As soon as we left the chapel it started to pour rain! Then
when we got to the restraint it stopped and then when we got back to on the
road to the church the skies opened up again and we got soaked. I am going to wash my suit now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Then we had Friday the 13!! It was the horrible! :P We
went to Floripa for another conference. When we got there everything went great
until we had to return home. We missed
our bus back. Then we got stuck in Floripa until 11 at night! When we went to
the bus station there was a crazy man that was yelling about the bible and he
started yelling os elders os elders!! So we were forced to go and talk to
him......it wasn’t to fun.....and then my companion Elder Montoya took the cell
phone and acted like we got a phone call so we backed away slowly. It was
really a strange day but in the end everything turned out okay and we returned
to our area at 6 in the morning on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jesus cristo vive que ele restaurou a igreja por meio do Joseph Smith! E sei
que essa obra é verdadeira por que sento tanto felicidade fazendo-a :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigator.... we have a date marked for her to be baptized!!!!! 28 of Feb.! And
this week she is going to EFY! That
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is going great this week! I am just really happy! Sunday I was super tired but
for some reason I just felt really happy! I am very grateful to God for that!
The most important thing is finding joy in the journey! And for me the best way
to find happiness is working my heart out! I love talking to people but funny
thing is that I love talking to the people on the street! It is really fun for
some reason! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week we have been working really hard!!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This
week was really good!! I am trying to remember the experiences from this week
but nothing is coming to mind........!!! Frustration! So this week we have been
teaching a lot of different people. We
have been teaching some great investigators. One of our other investigators is
also preparing to be baptized! It is pretty easy because he is a boyfriend of a
member! Have I ever mentioned how much I love members!! They give amazing
references! So remember to give the missionaries references!!! :)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Love studying!!! It is really energizing to read every day! It is one of the things that I love
the most about the mission :)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am doing great and even better spiritually! ....only problem is mentally I
have hit the point on the mission where I am literally going crazy :P This week
my companion and I acted like knights on the street galloping around :P don’t
ask me why....it just came to mind :P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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