Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas from Brazil

Here is a Christmas message from Justin
http://www.zshare.net/audio/7037551830f1a61f/

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

12-09-09 Email

Hey everyone!
Hope everything is going well for all of you. Here it is great. I just got done with a division with a missionary from a place called Piriquata. Its here close but my companion had to go get his new Brasilian ID so he wouldn’t get sent back to the states lol. The bad thing is its been like 4 months that his other one expired so good thing the cops didn’t stop anyone. But things here are good. This week we have found a great family. They live really far from the church but they are awesome. The 1st night we taught them they were asking a whole bunch of questions and we ended up staying there longer than expected lol but it was worth it. I was actually on a division with our District leader when we met them.
This week we have stake conference in church so we are going to be going to the chapel in Pinhais Central. Its only like 30 min away so not too bad. We hope to have a bunch of people there from our 2 wards. This week I asked President about the other ward that we are taking care of because the members there are super excited and are working hard. They have called a new Mission leader of the ward and it should help the work there.
But its been good here. Not much going on here new. Have a great week, take care.
Elder Mitchell

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

12-02-09 Email

Hey everyone.

This week was pretty good, we have been working hard but we didn't have much success. We will try to do a thing we call a school project, where we go to a school and do a service like an English class, talk about US culture or something like that and just show that we are more than just robots walking around lol. Today was crazy. We were playing soccer and one of the Elders passed out and we had to call the ambulance to come pick him up. Idk what happened with him but it was crazy.

We met some pretty cool people this week and we hope to continue talking with them and helping them change their lives. There's this guy named Marcio and he is a big skater kind of guy lol. He has big holes in his ears, tattoos and what not. And he is super cool. We met him yesterday. It was the 1st gate that we clapped at that night and he came home early from work. They moved there a week earlier. Its crazy how things work out lol. It was actually really cool.

Other than that, I think we will have a division with the Elders from Bairro Alto. But we have a lot of divisions with Tebas as well. This Sunday I was on this division with a kid named Jonatas. It was super good. We taught a lesson and he told me that he had never shared his testimony like that before. And then we talked a little bit about life and I'm glad that I had an opportunity to talk to him. I hope he continues doing what he's doing. Other than that everything else has been pretty good. We should have a couple of dates marked here in the next couple of weeks and hope to help some people out before the new year comes so they can start fresh in a new life for 2010.

We had interviews with the President yesterday and also had training. It was good. Taught about how to become a better professor and stuff. Well, that's all for this week. Hope everythings going well on the home front. I have gotten a few letters and so if you sent one don't worry I will write you back as soon as possible. But we don't have a post office in our area so I have to wait until the 18th when we have mission conference to send everything so everyone's Christmas cards will be a little late but I hope they get to your houses before you go back to school and what not.. Well have a good week.

Elder Mitchell