Wednesday, January 20, 2010
01-20-10 Email
Hey everyone,
So this past week as everyone has heard many have died in the disaster in Haiti. 17 Brazilians died as well as this famous lady idk who. A lot of people have been talking about it and it gives us a chance to really teach that we never know the day of tomorrow. We should really live our lives the best we can. The best child, parent, friend, the best everything so we can really give more value to the things that we have. Those people weren’t prepared to die that day, but they don’t get to go back and do the things that they always wished. Don’t get to kiss their wives and tell them they love them, don’t get to re-do things that they have messed up or forgive someone who had wronged them. But we do, we have a chance to go back and to re-do what was done to do better than what we have and to strive to be the best that we can do. I love everyone and I hope that you know this.
These 2 weeks have been really good for us here. There has been a lot of success here in the area and we hope to see the fruit of it as well. We found a family that had lost the dad 3 months ago in a car accident and we have been teaching them for the past week and a half. The mom is kind of in a mood that she doesn’t want anything to do with God and that she doesn’t believe but we are working hard to help her climb out of the hole she was thrown in. Her kids (Jackie and Jason) already want to be baptized but we just have to wait and see her response.
Today we will go fly kites. Here everyone flies from kids to men with kids and wives. It’s funny to see the son asking to fly the kite and the dad doesn’t let him. Here they actually have air battles lol. They put some special glue on the kite string and they try to cut the other lines of the other kites. Its crazy. I hope my kite will survive the battle today. We are going with Jonas, Jonaton, Jason, Marcelo and Rubens. It should be really fun!!
Last Saturday I had the opportunity to meet a Brasilian singer. Ellen something lol (Hélen Lyu) She went on Brasil Idol and she got 2nd place. She has cds out and everything. She wanted me to teach her English but didn’t have much time you know? But I guess it was cool. Everyone was treating her all special and I didn’t know who it was so I was like whatever lol.
This Friday we have interviews with the president and I'm planning to send everyone their letters so be ready! Sorry it has taken so long. We don’t leave our area and when we do we go to High Neighborhood (Bairro Alto) and they don’t have post office in their area as well. So it sucks. But we are going to go. Thanks for everything for the emails, letters and gifts. I really appreciate it.
Love ya lots.
Elder Mitchell
So this past week as everyone has heard many have died in the disaster in Haiti. 17 Brazilians died as well as this famous lady idk who. A lot of people have been talking about it and it gives us a chance to really teach that we never know the day of tomorrow. We should really live our lives the best we can. The best child, parent, friend, the best everything so we can really give more value to the things that we have. Those people weren’t prepared to die that day, but they don’t get to go back and do the things that they always wished. Don’t get to kiss their wives and tell them they love them, don’t get to re-do things that they have messed up or forgive someone who had wronged them. But we do, we have a chance to go back and to re-do what was done to do better than what we have and to strive to be the best that we can do. I love everyone and I hope that you know this.
These 2 weeks have been really good for us here. There has been a lot of success here in the area and we hope to see the fruit of it as well. We found a family that had lost the dad 3 months ago in a car accident and we have been teaching them for the past week and a half. The mom is kind of in a mood that she doesn’t want anything to do with God and that she doesn’t believe but we are working hard to help her climb out of the hole she was thrown in. Her kids (Jackie and Jason) already want to be baptized but we just have to wait and see her response.
Today we will go fly kites. Here everyone flies from kids to men with kids and wives. It’s funny to see the son asking to fly the kite and the dad doesn’t let him. Here they actually have air battles lol. They put some special glue on the kite string and they try to cut the other lines of the other kites. Its crazy. I hope my kite will survive the battle today. We are going with Jonas, Jonaton, Jason, Marcelo and Rubens. It should be really fun!!
Last Saturday I had the opportunity to meet a Brasilian singer. Ellen something lol (Hélen Lyu) She went on Brasil Idol and she got 2nd place. She has cds out and everything. She wanted me to teach her English but didn’t have much time you know? But I guess it was cool. Everyone was treating her all special and I didn’t know who it was so I was like whatever lol.
This Friday we have interviews with the president and I'm planning to send everyone their letters so be ready! Sorry it has taken so long. We don’t leave our area and when we do we go to High Neighborhood (Bairro Alto) and they don’t have post office in their area as well. So it sucks. But we are going to go. Thanks for everything for the emails, letters and gifts. I really appreciate it.
Love ya lots.
Elder Mitchell
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
01-06-10 Email
Hey everyone!!
This past couple of weeks have been pretty good really. We have had a lot of trials but we ended up helping out 2 people (Guilherme, Claudia) this week and we hope to have the other one (Rojerio) this Sunday. A lot of things were going wrong but we ended up coming out of it good. Saturday was supposed to be the 3 baptisms and ended up only having 1. Rojerio didn’t talk to his parents so we have to wait for him to talk to them and Guilherme´s grandpa got called into work Saturday so we had to move the baptism to Sunday. But it was still good.
For the New Years we spent the night in Wevington and Isis´s house. It was fun. Had 4 families there and we ended up playing monopoly lol. It was a crazy game and we ended up leaving before it was too late because of the time. Idk if its really different here than there. A big fest until midnight and they just have fireworks. I guess the difference here is anyone can buy fireworks and they are super cheap so everyone has them and everyone is shooting them off. And most of the people are dumb lol they shoot them off and they end up hitting houses and stuff. But whatever lol.
Its been raining the last 4 days and its not very fun walking in it. But this week we helped paint a member’s house. A month ago she fell of her roof or something and hit her head and so now we are trying to brighten everything up in her house so she isn’t scared. We painted it light green and white. It was only 4 of us and they was a lot of weight to move. It sucked lol. But its okay, its for a good cause.
Today we went to Autodromo and played soccer with Elder B Fernandes and Cox and they are doing great in their area nowadays. Its awesome to see. But it was fun, they had a lot of guys there to play. There was 3 teams. And then afterwards we played a game called monopoly deal. It’s a cool game. Its monopoly but with cards, its actually hard to explain but take my word for it. It’s good :)
Well that's all for me this week. I have a lot of letters to send out but still haven't gone downtown yet to send them. But thanks for everything!! Have a great new year and a great week!
Elder Mitchell
This past couple of weeks have been pretty good really. We have had a lot of trials but we ended up helping out 2 people (Guilherme, Claudia) this week and we hope to have the other one (Rojerio) this Sunday. A lot of things were going wrong but we ended up coming out of it good. Saturday was supposed to be the 3 baptisms and ended up only having 1. Rojerio didn’t talk to his parents so we have to wait for him to talk to them and Guilherme´s grandpa got called into work Saturday so we had to move the baptism to Sunday. But it was still good.
For the New Years we spent the night in Wevington and Isis´s house. It was fun. Had 4 families there and we ended up playing monopoly lol. It was a crazy game and we ended up leaving before it was too late because of the time. Idk if its really different here than there. A big fest until midnight and they just have fireworks. I guess the difference here is anyone can buy fireworks and they are super cheap so everyone has them and everyone is shooting them off. And most of the people are dumb lol they shoot them off and they end up hitting houses and stuff. But whatever lol.
Its been raining the last 4 days and its not very fun walking in it. But this week we helped paint a member’s house. A month ago she fell of her roof or something and hit her head and so now we are trying to brighten everything up in her house so she isn’t scared. We painted it light green and white. It was only 4 of us and they was a lot of weight to move. It sucked lol. But its okay, its for a good cause.
Today we went to Autodromo and played soccer with Elder B Fernandes and Cox and they are doing great in their area nowadays. Its awesome to see. But it was fun, they had a lot of guys there to play. There was 3 teams. And then afterwards we played a game called monopoly deal. It’s a cool game. Its monopoly but with cards, its actually hard to explain but take my word for it. It’s good :)
Well that's all for me this week. I have a lot of letters to send out but still haven't gone downtown yet to send them. But thanks for everything!! Have a great new year and a great week!
Elder Mitchell
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