Hey yeah I am doing well here. Soccer has been super fun. Last week the other elders came down so that was fun to play with them. The week was pretty good. We had a stake conference last week and so that was really good. It was on the process of sanctification. Talking about how its an ongoing process and sometimes we can be really close but let others bring us down. This happens in a lot of areas in our lives. We get far in our business or in school or whatever and we let someone else decide what we will do and sometimes it brings down.
But I didn't go on the division with the other elder. They were super busy I guess and so it didn't go as planned. But the English lessons are super fun. They are a little wild at times but its still cool.
But yeah things are changing everyday and I will be super far behind when I get back to school. LOL But it will be fun to try to catch up. In the netbook do they have cd drives and everything or do you need external?
I think we will play soccer today, but we are going to pass by Andre´s house to make sure. He doesn't get home from school until 12 and I have been up since 6:30. So we decided to leave the house. We played soccer golf this morning. It was fun. Soccer golf is just like golf but with a soccer ball. You have different obstacles to go around and you kick the ball to get there. We played in our house. It was loud. We are on the 3rd floor. I hope they didn't get mad lol. We played at 9 in the morning. My new companion was going to play professional soccer but he has a low immunity so they didn't want to pay someone who was going to be sick all the time. He is pretty good. He is excited to play today and so I hope we will. The other elders are doing some other things so I think we will play with them next week or something.
My new companions name is Elder B Fernandes and he is from São Paulo. He plays soccer and went to school for administration but will change it to Odontology when he goes back. He's been on the mission for 10 months and he just became senior last transfer. I like him a lot. He is smart and he is a hard worker. He is a chick magnet so we have to watch out lol. Also this guy tried to kiss him lol so we have to watch out for that too. But I think the next 6 weeks will be great. Last transfer, he was robbed, he got the swine flu, and these girls & guys tried to kiss him lol. He had a difficult last 6 weeks.
IDK when I'll post more pictures. There is one lanhouse that I use that has a memory card reader there so thats when I usually update but its so far away lol. And so I just kinda wait until we have something to do close to there. Because with my camera you need the program or something if you plug it in with the usb cable or something. I dont know.
But miss you too. Hope all is well. Well my time is running short. My computer will turn off in 40 seconds. I hope all is well at home and have a great week. Tell everyone to look at the new site. You can get to it on lds.org/topic/hope . I think that is it. But its super good.
Bye!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Letter home 09/18
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
09/09/09 Email
Hey everyone,
Things here have been going pretty well. We didn’t have much success this week and it was a little hard but something happened yesterday that was pretty cool. We were walking on the main road here called Francisco Derosso and usually there are a lot of people on this road but it was pretty empty because of the holidays and the fact that it was raining didn’t help at all. But we ran into this guy who was just broken down. Telling us that he has lost everything and how Jesus doesn’t love him. We had the opportunity to share the 1st lesson about how much God loves us and all the things that he has given us. He loves us so much that he has called another prophet to guide us in these days. We could see a difference that this made for him. He told us all the work that we are doing is not in vain. And that God sent us to him. He doesn’t live in our area but it was a blessing to run into this man. At this point in the day we were kind of down and didn’t have anything planned for the day and we just thought that the day was just a waste. But we got a little boost with this guy. Well that was just one cool thing that happened this week.
Yeah I usually send more than one when I send via missionties. Like to bishop and what not. But I guess in the box, I have a vest in my room somewhere in the armario that is black but has red and white in it as well. Ummm, reeses, pretzels almond bark, ritz cheese, hamburger helper. Whatever else you want to send would be cool.
What was the new movie called that you went to see? Was it good?
Only 3 months left for Jordan? Is he pretty excited? He doesn’t know whether he wants school or a job?
Well hope everything is going well with everyone back home. Things here are going, its been raining the last 3 days and its supposed to rain until Saturday. We have some different activities going on this week, a fireside on Sunday that should be really good. We have the mission president attending, so hopefully it will spark some fire with the references here.
Take care everyone, have a great week!
Elder Mitchell
Things here have been going pretty well. We didn’t have much success this week and it was a little hard but something happened yesterday that was pretty cool. We were walking on the main road here called Francisco Derosso and usually there are a lot of people on this road but it was pretty empty because of the holidays and the fact that it was raining didn’t help at all. But we ran into this guy who was just broken down. Telling us that he has lost everything and how Jesus doesn’t love him. We had the opportunity to share the 1st lesson about how much God loves us and all the things that he has given us. He loves us so much that he has called another prophet to guide us in these days. We could see a difference that this made for him. He told us all the work that we are doing is not in vain. And that God sent us to him. He doesn’t live in our area but it was a blessing to run into this man. At this point in the day we were kind of down and didn’t have anything planned for the day and we just thought that the day was just a waste. But we got a little boost with this guy. Well that was just one cool thing that happened this week.
Yeah I usually send more than one when I send via missionties. Like to bishop and what not. But I guess in the box, I have a vest in my room somewhere in the armario that is black but has red and white in it as well. Ummm, reeses, pretzels almond bark, ritz cheese, hamburger helper. Whatever else you want to send would be cool.
What was the new movie called that you went to see? Was it good?
Only 3 months left for Jordan? Is he pretty excited? He doesn’t know whether he wants school or a job?
Well hope everything is going well with everyone back home. Things here are going, its been raining the last 3 days and its supposed to rain until Saturday. We have some different activities going on this week, a fireside on Sunday that should be really good. We have the mission president attending, so hopefully it will spark some fire with the references here.
Take care everyone, have a great week!
Elder Mitchell
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
09/02/09 Email
Hey everyone.
So my mom has told me I have been a little skimpy on these emails so I will definitely try to make things better for you all.
Well things here this week were a little weak. We only taught 15 lessons but it was the best in our district so we aren't doing too bad. This week we taught 6 first lessons but none of them really had interest so its been hard to find good investigators. Nothing really new or anything hás been going on these last couple of weeks. Just doing the same old same old. Trying to find some good people but in this área a lot of people are well off so they are hard to come by. When people have money sometimes they just don't want to talk to a lot of people about this type of stuff. We meet a lot of new people but they aren't solid so its just another day in the mission.
This area is about the same as my other area. They have a lot less hills here and the members are a little harder to work with here but other than that things are good. They play soccer every Tuesday here but of course I can't play. The bishop has some good things planned for the ward these next couple of weeks with firesides and activities. Should get them pumped up for some missionary work. We have a new mission leader of the ward and so we are getting to train him and I think it will be a good change.
Other than that its pretty much the same. We have our areas that are better off than the others and we can definitely work harder to get more work done. Just a little difficult some times.
We have 4 lessons that we get to teach the one of them is called Evangelho de Jesus Cristo. (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) I love this lesson. It relates the most to everyone here. Everyone already has this knowledge of Christ but its so awesome to bring more light to them and to help them realize what he did for us and what it really means for all of us.
But anyway things are good. Just working. Hope everything is well there. Take care.
Elder Mitchell
So my mom has told me I have been a little skimpy on these emails so I will definitely try to make things better for you all.
Well things here this week were a little weak. We only taught 15 lessons but it was the best in our district so we aren't doing too bad. This week we taught 6 first lessons but none of them really had interest so its been hard to find good investigators. Nothing really new or anything hás been going on these last couple of weeks. Just doing the same old same old. Trying to find some good people but in this área a lot of people are well off so they are hard to come by. When people have money sometimes they just don't want to talk to a lot of people about this type of stuff. We meet a lot of new people but they aren't solid so its just another day in the mission.
This area is about the same as my other area. They have a lot less hills here and the members are a little harder to work with here but other than that things are good. They play soccer every Tuesday here but of course I can't play. The bishop has some good things planned for the ward these next couple of weeks with firesides and activities. Should get them pumped up for some missionary work. We have a new mission leader of the ward and so we are getting to train him and I think it will be a good change.
Other than that its pretty much the same. We have our areas that are better off than the others and we can definitely work harder to get more work done. Just a little difficult some times.
We have 4 lessons that we get to teach the one of them is called Evangelho de Jesus Cristo. (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) I love this lesson. It relates the most to everyone here. Everyone already has this knowledge of Christ but its so awesome to bring more light to them and to help them realize what he did for us and what it really means for all of us.
But anyway things are good. Just working. Hope everything is well there. Take care.
Elder Mitchell
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