hi there. i am cold.
hey everyone. so it has been a long, short, sad, happy, awesome, and awful week.
meaning that it has been one more week in the mission field.
let´s get started...
favorite scripture: 2 Nephi 32:9 i love the book of mormon
alright so what happened this week. this last monday we had our first zone conference
with the new president. president and sister tavares.
they are pretty cool. i liked the conference a lot. he is way excited and he is running fresh out of the gates from the CTM. he learned some new techniques to put into place in the mission. so we are learning a lot and changing a lot. he put a lot of focus on overcoming our pride and becoming humble and meek before god. it is definitely something that i need to do. it is crazy, we are all prideful. no one realizes it, but we are all very prideful. so we have to become better.
elder hardyman and i had the record last week for lessons. we had 41 lessons last week. we were busting butt. i am hoping to see some results. the good and the bad now... we are teaching a couple - Osvaldo and Benedita - and they were progressing amazingly, but now they are way full of doubt and scared and stuff. they are older, so it is tough for them to get to
church and one won´t go without the other. it is sad. we are trying so hard to help them,
but we can´t force anyone to do anything. so we are doing our best, but they have to choose to walk the path. we are teaching this 85-year-old lady and her less-active son, as well. her name is Anézia. she is hilarious. she is way excited and she went to church with her son. she loved it. she said she is looking for a house closer to the church just so she can live closer. she is crazy, but we love her. she wants to get baptized on the 23rd of this month. so we will have to help her out haha. we are also teaching a lady named Antônia. her daughter is a member but she isn´t and her other daughter isn´t either. so we are helping them, as well. she went to church and said that it was the first time in a church that she actually felt like she belonged there and that she liked it. amazing. we are teaching several great people who are really wanting to learn a lot and go to church. there are 2 Antônio's that we are teaching. they are both way cool and are reading a lot in the Book of Mormon. they have lots of questions, but they want to go to church this sunday even though they work until 6 or 7 AM on sunday morning.
the 4 Americans in one house has been quite an experience. it has been so much fun. we are all very dedicated to be completely honest, so you would think it would be kinda boring.
and a lot of the time it is because we don´t have lots of time to mess around. but we laugh a lot and we are all good friends. we have all started working out in the mornings. so we don´t have lots of things to use. but i bought a jump rope in foz do iguaçu. and elder sorenson has these resistance bands.
and elder hardyman likes to run in place. so it has been quite an experience. we wanted to do something cool for P-day, but elders crosbie and sorenson have to go to londrina to do an exam for elder sorenson. i paid out of pocket the first time because the mission will reimburse me.
i just have to send the letter. i was going to give it to the assistants at zone conference but they weren´t there. but we are praying for him and he will be able to find out what is going on tomorrow probably. elder hardyman and i are just working our butts off.
i haven´t had lots of contact with the other elders in the world. we don´t have lots of time. but i have talked with a few of them. i did send a letter back to jake. and i sent one to the house. have you got it?? i don´t know why it has to take so long. i didn´t get any of my letters or my package at this last zone conference. so it will probably be 3 and a half weeks before i get it.
unless we have interviews or something. how annoying.
it has rained for 3 days and it is cold. for the first time here, i really needed my jacket to go work. mom, i don´t think you will ever need to worry about me moving here.
dad, i have given a few priesthood blessings to comps and a couple to members and to an investigator. they were all good. we had one kid who had a disease in his leg, so we gave him a blessing and he went to the doctor and the doctor told him that the disease was receding (if this is spelled right?) and that he had a medicine that could probably heal it perfectly. that was cool. it was in ourinhos. so far here, i have only annointed with the oil.
so how is everything else at home?? who is blake dating? who is lauren dating? where are they working? morgan and stuart found a house yet?
is the baby getting fatter? i bet. lol. i love you guys.
i will be using internet right about 10:30 here which is 6:30 your time i think.
so i would advise you all to write on tuesday night. thank you for the support and the letters. keep reading the Book of Mormon. i love it. i love 3 nephi. we read that so much with investigators. and 2 nephi, too. love those books.
anywho. time to go. any other advice that any one has for me? i am pretty healthy i think. so that is good news. i think i am good overall. love you guys all so much. hope you are loving summer!
tchau!
elder scott ghormley
hey everyone. so it has been a long, short, sad, happy, awesome, and awful week.
meaning that it has been one more week in the mission field.
let´s get started...
favorite scripture: 2 Nephi 32:9 i love the book of mormon
alright so what happened this week. this last monday we had our first zone conference
with the new president. president and sister tavares.
they are pretty cool. i liked the conference a lot. he is way excited and he is running fresh out of the gates from the CTM. he learned some new techniques to put into place in the mission. so we are learning a lot and changing a lot. he put a lot of focus on overcoming our pride and becoming humble and meek before god. it is definitely something that i need to do. it is crazy, we are all prideful. no one realizes it, but we are all very prideful. so we have to become better.
elder hardyman and i had the record last week for lessons. we had 41 lessons last week. we were busting butt. i am hoping to see some results. the good and the bad now... we are teaching a couple - Osvaldo and Benedita - and they were progressing amazingly, but now they are way full of doubt and scared and stuff. they are older, so it is tough for them to get to
church and one won´t go without the other. it is sad. we are trying so hard to help them,
but we can´t force anyone to do anything. so we are doing our best, but they have to choose to walk the path. we are teaching this 85-year-old lady and her less-active son, as well. her name is Anézia. she is hilarious. she is way excited and she went to church with her son. she loved it. she said she is looking for a house closer to the church just so she can live closer. she is crazy, but we love her. she wants to get baptized on the 23rd of this month. so we will have to help her out haha. we are also teaching a lady named Antônia. her daughter is a member but she isn´t and her other daughter isn´t either. so we are helping them, as well. she went to church and said that it was the first time in a church that she actually felt like she belonged there and that she liked it. amazing. we are teaching several great people who are really wanting to learn a lot and go to church. there are 2 Antônio's that we are teaching. they are both way cool and are reading a lot in the Book of Mormon. they have lots of questions, but they want to go to church this sunday even though they work until 6 or 7 AM on sunday morning.
the 4 Americans in one house has been quite an experience. it has been so much fun. we are all very dedicated to be completely honest, so you would think it would be kinda boring.
and a lot of the time it is because we don´t have lots of time to mess around. but we laugh a lot and we are all good friends. we have all started working out in the mornings. so we don´t have lots of things to use. but i bought a jump rope in foz do iguaçu. and elder sorenson has these resistance bands.
and elder hardyman likes to run in place. so it has been quite an experience. we wanted to do something cool for P-day, but elders crosbie and sorenson have to go to londrina to do an exam for elder sorenson. i paid out of pocket the first time because the mission will reimburse me.
i just have to send the letter. i was going to give it to the assistants at zone conference but they weren´t there. but we are praying for him and he will be able to find out what is going on tomorrow probably. elder hardyman and i are just working our butts off.
i haven´t had lots of contact with the other elders in the world. we don´t have lots of time. but i have talked with a few of them. i did send a letter back to jake. and i sent one to the house. have you got it?? i don´t know why it has to take so long. i didn´t get any of my letters or my package at this last zone conference. so it will probably be 3 and a half weeks before i get it.
unless we have interviews or something. how annoying.
it has rained for 3 days and it is cold. for the first time here, i really needed my jacket to go work. mom, i don´t think you will ever need to worry about me moving here.
dad, i have given a few priesthood blessings to comps and a couple to members and to an investigator. they were all good. we had one kid who had a disease in his leg, so we gave him a blessing and he went to the doctor and the doctor told him that the disease was receding (if this is spelled right?) and that he had a medicine that could probably heal it perfectly. that was cool. it was in ourinhos. so far here, i have only annointed with the oil.
so how is everything else at home?? who is blake dating? who is lauren dating? where are they working? morgan and stuart found a house yet?
is the baby getting fatter? i bet. lol. i love you guys.
i will be using internet right about 10:30 here which is 6:30 your time i think.
so i would advise you all to write on tuesday night. thank you for the support and the letters. keep reading the Book of Mormon. i love it. i love 3 nephi. we read that so much with investigators. and 2 nephi, too. love those books.
anywho. time to go. any other advice that any one has for me? i am pretty healthy i think. so that is good news. i think i am good overall. love you guys all so much. hope you are loving summer!
tchau!
elder scott ghormley
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