hey what´s up everybodyyyy?!
hmm ok favorite scripture. Romans 8: 18, 24 - 25, 31 - 39. it is pretty cool. just found it sometime during personal study. liked it.
alright so not much to report on investigator-wise. we had like 16 or so people promise to go to church on sunday. it sprinkled from 6 till 8:30. church starts at 9. já feito. we had 1 investigator come. and that was because we went to her house to pick her up. so much for all the work we did during the week. oh well. we´ll see what will happen this week. i think we have one lady who is going to be baptized next week. maybe. but other than that, basically everyone else fell through.
ummm so we went on a trade with another companionship in our district. elder gibbons from my ctm district and his comp. so i was senior comp for a day because gibbons and i stayed in my area. yeah. that was great. two americans who have been in brasil for 6 months. lol but i managed to guide us through the maze of streets and crap here and we taught a bunch. the highlight was this guy that we ended up teaching at the end of the day. we were trying to contact a reference but she wasn´t in her apartment so when we were about to leave, the guy was like hey...so what is it that you guys preach? so i kinda explained the 30 second restoration. and then he said that he had just separated with his wife and that he was having a really tough time. so the two 19 year old americans who have been in brasil for 6 months became therapists? or something along that line. basically, we taught the atonement of jesus christ to him and all kinds of jazz. he ended up crying and giving me a big hug and thanking us. we gave him a book of mormon and he said that he would read it all and that he would see us in church on sunday. to me, it would be great if he went to church. awesome. but in all reality, i am just gald i was there to help him. but if something more comes from it, how great.
um let me see. it isn´t cooling down, no. the toes are hurting. but no big. i am using neosporin. i am hoping you enjoyed that irish dinner. it sounded splendid. i am looking forward to some more rice and beans! yeah, who is luckier? i hope wendy and bob will have the chance to hear more about this gospel now. that would be so great. i will be looking for bug bombs now. i will see if they have any here. i haven´t heard from jackson, connor, or hyrum. i dunno if they have my email address. i included it in my letter to connor i think. have you gotten that yet?
we are working our butts off to reactivate members but most of them know that we are wanting to do that, so they just lie and say they don´t have time when we go to their houses. i went to an inactive lady´s house on sunday with a priest in the ward. we taught her and her son. it was good, but i need to see them in church to believe that it made any kind of effect. we also taught two other inactive ladies who stopped going to church because their visiting teacher told them the bible wasn´t true. GREAT! we have visiting teachers that aren´t aware that we believe the bible. how cool!
yes, i know brian hatfield! haha they live in our ward now?? how cool. we had seminary together. we were way tight. he told me that he got his call a few days before i left. that is awesome. and no. i am still waiting on packages and letters. they are supposed to bring them every transfer AT LEAST. and then generally in the middle of transfers at interviews with president or zone conferences. but they just don´t do it because...well i dunno. they work in the office. so they get their packages and letters the day they arrive. they don´t really care if the other missionaries get their stuff on time. so they "forgot" this transfer and now a bunch of stuff is in Marília in the zone leaders´ house.
i am looking forward to those packages and letters...if they ever get here. i am not quite sure if they will. but i will keep my hopes up and let you guys know. thank you all for the love and support and updates and such. who is super psyched for conference?! i am! even though i will probably be forced to watch in portuguese. i think i will go to a different zone or something to watch it in english. because you learn so much more and feel the spirit so much more if you hear it in your own native language. otherwise, you have to struggle to understand some big words or some examples and such. so i will have to find a way to watch in english.
anywho. love you guys so much! till next week!
tchau!
elder scott ghormley
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