Wednesday, May 19, 2010

boy oh boy, do I love acre!

how goes it? any news on the baby?
well this week was cool and passed super fast again haha. when we were in porto velho we saw a new ferrari. it was way nice haha. i was like there is no way im in porto velho and seeing this. the translation of porto velho in english is, old door. i was amazed to see that car haha.
about the trip! my comp ended up taking a 8 hour bus ride to porto velho cause another elder in the zone didn't have a ticket for the plane cause the secretary forgot to buy it cause he was new haha. so ya, my comp ended up getting bus with him. we had the conf and all, it was good, but on the way back they had forgotten to buy my comps plane ticket so he had to get bus on the way back also. poor kid!
but ya, um sunday we had a baptism. it was way good. her name is daniela. she has such a strong testimony. like she goes around telling everyone that the church is true. one of her neighbors was talking to her about her baptism and she was saying how amazing it was then the neighbor was like o ya i will be baptised in my chruch this week also. and she was like really, that is sad casue you will just go swimming cause your chruch doesnt have authority. i was like oh no. it is funny.
its her mom who is "in love" with me. so sunday was totally weird cause she just sat at chruch allllll day crying cause she can't have me. but then monday we talked to her and she understands now. she said she is always dreaming with me but she knows it is satan putting the thoughts in her mind cause she knows she cant have me. im always talking about how i have a girlfreind and how she is waiting for me. like in the movie "the other side of heaven" the girl totally offers herself to the elder and he explains how he has someone waiting for him, we had her watch the movie and i kinda pulled the same lines.
but we marked her baptism for sunday now and she wants me to baptise her. this could be weird. but ya, we are also teaching a cool fam that was referals from daniela and her mom and we marked their date for the 6th of june. their names are antonio, francisca, and bahiano.
this sunday will be stake conf so im excited to see members from the other wards i worked in last year. i got to go to the ward rio branco and do baptismal interviews for them and while i was there the ward was doing an activity so we went, it was sooo cool to see ppl i taught, families and etc.. that were and are still active at the activity. it was fun!!! i talked to the members and my RC and everything. it was sweet.
boy o boy do i love acre! i love it. i will really miss it after the mission.
last night we did a FHE and we asked the members to talk about how they met the elders and if they could say something to the elder that taught them now what would it be. and wow, it touched me to think how much we can touch the lives of ppl. i thought back to the ppl that i taught and thought how much i mean to them. because of me they were able to receive the key to the celestial door. it was humbling to see how little i recognize the Lord using me to bring salvation unto his children. im like his biggest tool in fulfilling his work and glory. well i love you family. i hope all is well. i only have 8 more pdays after this one. weird huh. well love you.

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