hey what up
scripture: 2 Nephi 9. yes, the whole chapter. that was what i spent
basically all of my personal study on last friday. it was tight.
ummmm so what is new?? morgan i loved your description of
the...uh...maternal changes that you are going through. i am sorry
that you are buying fat clothes lol. my guess is...a boy or a girl.
but there is one thing that i am sure of...i will be an UNCLE. not an
aunt. that will be blake and lauren. um but if i have to guess i will
go with girl. i won´t meet this baby for a long time.
dad - on p days we aren´t allowed to play soccer competitively.
whatever that means. but i am pretty sure we will next p day with the
elders quorum. so ummmmm i dunno haha. today we went to a place called
FAPI. it is where all the concerts and parties and such are in
ourinhos. but there weren´t any parties. or any concerts. i am quite
positive that there were lots of bugs there. but that is all. it
wasn´t too exciting. we also taught rafael today. it is our p day but
we went there at 8 and taught him. that was nice. we are getting him
prepared for baptism. so hopefully the 25th he will be baptized. we
didn´t have easter dinner. we had easter lunch. that was...nothing
special. rice. beans. spaghetti. anything outside the usual? when i
get grandma´s card, i will buy something good to eat. when i get
it...but yeah there are places called casa de carne where you can just
go buy a nice big slab of meat. but the problem is that we don´t have
any way or any time to cook it. we are in the house to study, take
showers, and sleep. i bet blake was able to do that because he was in
an area where there weren´t lots of lunches with the members. and
thanks for the sports updates. so i guess tiger isn´t gunna be moving
towards the top of the leaderboard anytime soon? in the golf world or
the public eye? congrats to him.
mom - you probably don´t need to send a sweater. if i need to, i will
buy one. as for the ingrown nails, i dunno if you need to worry about
it. i mean if you could put one of those things in a package, cool.
but you don´t need to send a package right away with that stuff i
don´t think. it is expensive to send packages. so if you are going to
send a package, you can just stick those in with it. i hope you are
excited for your new calling :) that should be...fun. and the things
with the business are great. shows you the power of prayer huh? and
thanks for the advice, too. i know that what you said is true...it is
just tough. i am just trying to make it through this transfer. i will
just work. and forget about the negativity.
lauren - i love that you learned to love reading, lol. it is about
time :P um as for the sleep - or in your case, the lack of - i have a
little advice....SLEEP. alright? kay good. and the Fellowship of the
Unashamed is cool. i like it, yes. the next time you have fast and
testimony meeting, bear your testimony. you won´t be so nervous if you
just get into the habit now. and then you will be able to teach your
kids and such. :)
blake - tenho um amigo que está servindo em porto alegre norte. ele
quer saber quais áreas você passou! e também se você é por grêmio ou
internacional?? e também, eu quero saber se você está TÃO ocupado que
você não pode mandar um email para mim :) haha mas eu não vou te
quemar, não. te amo, cara. escreva meu mano :)
we are waiting on some investigators. rafael is pretty strong.
cleverson is, too. he is way cool. but he didn´t go to church because
he had another commitment (i don´t know if this word choice is right,
but it is the translation that i can remember). i tried to mark a
baptismal date with him, but he got spooked. he wasn´t ever very
religious, so he is learning a lot. but he is still a great
investigator. cibele, cleiton, vitor, and igor are one family. cibele
- the mom - said she wasn´t ready to be baptized. so, she changed her
mind. but she is still...investigating. juliano and ana paula and
their daughter eduarda are my favorites right about now. they are
elects. they want to be baptized, but they have to get married. and
juliano travels a LOT for his work. he is a truck driver. so it tough.
but they have already gone to church a bunch and ana paula and eduarda
go even when juliano is traveling. so that is great. we have to teach
the law of chastity and then ask them if they are willing to get
married or live in spearate houses. i am NOT excited for that. i am
praying a lot. please pray that they will be able to accept the
commitment and convenant. this week has been lots of knocking doors
and making contacts because we don´t have a lot of good references. we
have a lot of people who are just way lazy and don´t want to change.
we taught this lady and she said she believed everything we said and
that she prayed and received an answer. then she asked if we believed
in "saints." we explained that saints just meant the members of the
church and that the other churches distorted the meaning of "saint."
she looked a little perplexed and asked about santa maria (mary).
yeah...that was great. we explained that we only worship god and
christ and that mary was just...a good woman that happened to be the
mother of jesus christ and we respect her for that. the lady freaked,
recited/screamed the catholic prayer to mary at us, and then told us
to leave. when we passed there again, she had thrown the book of
mormon out. we picked it up and saw that she had glued pictures of
mary and written the prayer all over the book and inside it. what an
awesome experience.
um we have zone conference tomorrow. it is odd to have it in the
beginning of the second week of the transfer. but whatev. elder da
silva will bear his testimony for the last time during a zone
conference. he already called the secretaries because they are
arranging his flight home. he was talking about airports, times,
flights, etc. yeah, that didn´t make me think about home at all. haha.
i don´t really have anything cool to say really. i had that
interesting experience, but it was more just a spiritual thing to me
that testified of the power of prayer to me. it has been tough,
because we have so many catholics and evangelicals in our area so we
are rejected a ton. i was very discouraged and i was feeling very
dejected...almost thinking that what we are doing every day was
pointless. i prayed that night and i felt comforted a little bit and i
felt the holy ghost...kinda telling me to calm down because god was
listening. then just kinda outta no where the scripture from doctrine
and convenants when joseph was in liberty jail (i think it is 122 or
123) came into my head. so i laid down and when i was sleeping i had a
dream. you know that poem "footsteps in the sand?" basically that same
thing happened. i just kept seeing things and people from my mission
and remembering feelings and i felt that everything was going to be
okay and i just heard a voice tell me to just calm down and relax and
that everything would happen in the time that god needs it to happen.
it just showed me the power of prayer and that we aren´t just talking
to ourselves but that there really is someone listening.
anyway. that´s what it is this week. sorry if it wasn´t too exciting.
i hope that you guys are all great and that you are all feeling and
following the spirit. i will uh...keep trying to make you guys proud.
sound good? i love all you guys! hoep you all have a great week. till
next wednesday! PAZ
elder scott ghormley
scripture: 2 Nephi 9. yes, the whole chapter. that was what i spent
basically all of my personal study on last friday. it was tight.
ummmm so what is new?? morgan i loved your description of
the...uh...maternal changes that you are going through. i am sorry
that you are buying fat clothes lol. my guess is...a boy or a girl.
but there is one thing that i am sure of...i will be an UNCLE. not an
aunt. that will be blake and lauren. um but if i have to guess i will
go with girl. i won´t meet this baby for a long time.
dad - on p days we aren´t allowed to play soccer competitively.
whatever that means. but i am pretty sure we will next p day with the
elders quorum. so ummmmm i dunno haha. today we went to a place called
FAPI. it is where all the concerts and parties and such are in
ourinhos. but there weren´t any parties. or any concerts. i am quite
positive that there were lots of bugs there. but that is all. it
wasn´t too exciting. we also taught rafael today. it is our p day but
we went there at 8 and taught him. that was nice. we are getting him
prepared for baptism. so hopefully the 25th he will be baptized. we
didn´t have easter dinner. we had easter lunch. that was...nothing
special. rice. beans. spaghetti. anything outside the usual? when i
get grandma´s card, i will buy something good to eat. when i get
it...but yeah there are places called casa de carne where you can just
go buy a nice big slab of meat. but the problem is that we don´t have
any way or any time to cook it. we are in the house to study, take
showers, and sleep. i bet blake was able to do that because he was in
an area where there weren´t lots of lunches with the members. and
thanks for the sports updates. so i guess tiger isn´t gunna be moving
towards the top of the leaderboard anytime soon? in the golf world or
the public eye? congrats to him.
mom - you probably don´t need to send a sweater. if i need to, i will
buy one. as for the ingrown nails, i dunno if you need to worry about
it. i mean if you could put one of those things in a package, cool.
but you don´t need to send a package right away with that stuff i
don´t think. it is expensive to send packages. so if you are going to
send a package, you can just stick those in with it. i hope you are
excited for your new calling :) that should be...fun. and the things
with the business are great. shows you the power of prayer huh? and
thanks for the advice, too. i know that what you said is true...it is
just tough. i am just trying to make it through this transfer. i will
just work. and forget about the negativity.
lauren - i love that you learned to love reading, lol. it is about
time :P um as for the sleep - or in your case, the lack of - i have a
little advice....SLEEP. alright? kay good. and the Fellowship of the
Unashamed is cool. i like it, yes. the next time you have fast and
testimony meeting, bear your testimony. you won´t be so nervous if you
just get into the habit now. and then you will be able to teach your
kids and such. :)
blake - tenho um amigo que está servindo em porto alegre norte. ele
quer saber quais áreas você passou! e também se você é por grêmio ou
internacional?? e também, eu quero saber se você está TÃO ocupado que
você não pode mandar um email para mim :) haha mas eu não vou te
quemar, não. te amo, cara. escreva meu mano :)
we are waiting on some investigators. rafael is pretty strong.
cleverson is, too. he is way cool. but he didn´t go to church because
he had another commitment (i don´t know if this word choice is right,
but it is the translation that i can remember). i tried to mark a
baptismal date with him, but he got spooked. he wasn´t ever very
religious, so he is learning a lot. but he is still a great
investigator. cibele, cleiton, vitor, and igor are one family. cibele
- the mom - said she wasn´t ready to be baptized. so, she changed her
mind. but she is still...investigating. juliano and ana paula and
their daughter eduarda are my favorites right about now. they are
elects. they want to be baptized, but they have to get married. and
juliano travels a LOT for his work. he is a truck driver. so it tough.
but they have already gone to church a bunch and ana paula and eduarda
go even when juliano is traveling. so that is great. we have to teach
the law of chastity and then ask them if they are willing to get
married or live in spearate houses. i am NOT excited for that. i am
praying a lot. please pray that they will be able to accept the
commitment and convenant. this week has been lots of knocking doors
and making contacts because we don´t have a lot of good references. we
have a lot of people who are just way lazy and don´t want to change.
we taught this lady and she said she believed everything we said and
that she prayed and received an answer. then she asked if we believed
in "saints." we explained that saints just meant the members of the
church and that the other churches distorted the meaning of "saint."
she looked a little perplexed and asked about santa maria (mary).
yeah...that was great. we explained that we only worship god and
christ and that mary was just...a good woman that happened to be the
mother of jesus christ and we respect her for that. the lady freaked,
recited/screamed the catholic prayer to mary at us, and then told us
to leave. when we passed there again, she had thrown the book of
mormon out. we picked it up and saw that she had glued pictures of
mary and written the prayer all over the book and inside it. what an
awesome experience.
um we have zone conference tomorrow. it is odd to have it in the
beginning of the second week of the transfer. but whatev. elder da
silva will bear his testimony for the last time during a zone
conference. he already called the secretaries because they are
arranging his flight home. he was talking about airports, times,
flights, etc. yeah, that didn´t make me think about home at all. haha.
i don´t really have anything cool to say really. i had that
interesting experience, but it was more just a spiritual thing to me
that testified of the power of prayer to me. it has been tough,
because we have so many catholics and evangelicals in our area so we
are rejected a ton. i was very discouraged and i was feeling very
dejected...almost thinking that what we are doing every day was
pointless. i prayed that night and i felt comforted a little bit and i
felt the holy ghost...kinda telling me to calm down because god was
listening. then just kinda outta no where the scripture from doctrine
and convenants when joseph was in liberty jail (i think it is 122 or
123) came into my head. so i laid down and when i was sleeping i had a
dream. you know that poem "footsteps in the sand?" basically that same
thing happened. i just kept seeing things and people from my mission
and remembering feelings and i felt that everything was going to be
okay and i just heard a voice tell me to just calm down and relax and
that everything would happen in the time that god needs it to happen.
it just showed me the power of prayer and that we aren´t just talking
to ourselves but that there really is someone listening.
anyway. that´s what it is this week. sorry if it wasn´t too exciting.
i hope that you guys are all great and that you are all feeling and
following the spirit. i will uh...keep trying to make you guys proud.
sound good? i love all you guys! hoep you all have a great week. till
next wednesday! PAZ
elder scott ghormley
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