February 19, 2018

So first off we are going to talk about some food. This time however it was not made by an Italian, I think my companion Anziano Trickett has been blessed with Italy powers cause he made an absolutely delicious lasagna and it was good enough to be mentioned In  my weekly email, oh and we had burgers both while we were in a temporary trio with Anz. Stout. 

Also we taught a young guy who was really cool the other day after two concealed appointments in a row we were able to meet with him and I would say it was worth it, he seemed really cool so I'm excited to get to know him better and see if we can help him. 

We played zone Calcio and it was epic as always (soccer) like coming to Italy just gives you powers to cook better and play calcio so I'm pretty happy with that, we had a great time but we're a little destroyed after wards, totally worth it! 

We also ate pizza with a bunch of really old people so that was fun the old women kept being surprised when we described how old we were how we are alone and how long we'll be here and they were just awe struck it was great! 

January 2018 Brazilian converts

We totally got to meet our Brazilian new converts this week and they are super epic, we had a barbecue South Brazilian style and it was delicious, it was so much fun we had some great food I got to play a super nice ukulele of theirs and that was way fun and it was beautiful. We taught them and got them more ready to recieve the priesthood in a few weeks. 

We actually got trapped there since our busses were spread apart enough that we missed the first one and got trapped at there basically Beach side house eating BBQ and teaching the gospel and it was terrible (sarcasm) we couldn't go anywhere we just had to sit back and play the ukulele and sing together such a boring time(flat out sarcasm). 

It was wonderful. 

We met with one guy this week who was super lonely and talked for an hour about everything you can't even imagine. Crazy time. 

We had a nice lunch after church and it was really good and we got to talk to a few more members and the investigator of the sister's that will probably get baptized soon so that is super exciting!

We met Bronzo a member here

September 11 2017

Sept 4 2017 pictures

September 11, 2017

Ok, just like I have read with other missionaries, we too are expanding our resource pool and recieving the ability to use facebook. I thought we would be using our wierd area specific emails for this, but we will be using our old Facebook accounts so that'll be interesting for sure. They asked us to send this out so that if you ever end up seeing that I am on Facebook or messenger I'm not being a scemo missionary​, I should actually be doing good missionary things (I don't really know what yet, since we havent had our training yet, but you'll see.

Ok a cool experience we had during the week was seeing two times we were guided to do certain things or extend certain invites. For example one time during a lesson we brought out the talk to investigators and friends of the church or something like that and in it it referenced a scripture Alma 42 that must have hit this person we were shoeing the video to since she asked for my Book of Mormon and searched it up and read most of the chapter right then and there then asked some great some great thoughts showing she had had her own learning experience in that moment.

Also during that lesson we gave them two chapters to read since we didn't know which to give them in that moment, but when we saw them the next day she asked a question near the end of the lesson and expressed doubt in her faith in Christ and we taked for a little and gently led her back to one of the invite scriptures Mormon 9 which addresses this specifially, so I hope she can once again have her own experience and grow her testimony on the things that she has learned personally through the spirit.

There was also a grand festa in our little city called Santa Maria, this city is usually dead as a doornail but for these last three days it was the place to be. There were games, food, rides, a roller coaster, and a concert stage. There were preformances like a talent showing singing thing the first night, modern dance the second, and a band came and played the third night. These were especially crazy since each of these events went for more than 3-4 hours each. We don't know exactly how long they went but the last night we were awaken by one of the loudest firework shows ever at almost 1 in the morning.

Oh yah transfer calls were this week, I stayed in Catanzaro with Anziano Haws. yeah let's gooo!!