Hey things are going well here. I am really doing great, I am on this process of forgetting myself. The last 2 interviews were about how I can be a better missionary.
It's not going to be winter until March or April. But we have electrical heat. And most of the time we just get 3 blankets to use lol because we pay the electric bill and it'll be like 200 if we keep it on at night.
The baptisms were good, but we didn't make our goal. We only got 5 for the last month but we hope to see an increase this next month. We are teaching some extraordinary families that are just waiting for us to show them the truth. It's going great. I am in the same area with the same companion and everything. We will be together for the next 6 weeks and then I will definitely head out.
The kite flying was different, I lost all 4 of my kites. Everyone cut mine lol. But it's okay it was fun watching people yelling and stuff.
And yeah if I were those soldiers I would go to the singles ward as well. Its kinda lonely going to family ward without a family lol. But its okay I guess.
Umm what else to put in the box? IDK what you already put in there. You can send the cookie mix and stuff like that. Like brownies where you just have to add eggs and milk. But umm. Just surprise me. You know what I like. If not ask Jnett cuz she does :)
Well we are running late. We cooked breakfast for this member whose birthday was today and we played soccer in another church with a bunch of people. It was fun but it was super hot lol.
Have a great week. Love ya lots. Take care!!
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas from Brazil
Here is a Christmas message from Justin
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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
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
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
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
11-25-09 Email
Hey everyone. This week was really good for me and I hope that it was great for all of you. I have received a lot of your letters and I appreciate all the time that you have given me with your thoughts and your words.
This new area is great. I love being here. The people here are so awesome and we have already some great things here. We have already done 2 service projects moving dirt and stuff for our members. We have played soccer with the guys from the different wards and we have taught so much.
We had the ward olympics the past week and it went pretty well actually. We had only about 30 people there but it was still fun. We called it Dia Das Galinhas(Day of the chickens). We had 3 different games that all involved eggs. The 1st was the egg walk where they could only use a spoon to carry it and pass it. Then we had the egg toss. But the last one was the best. All of the rm´s should remember that when we get in the MTC we receive plastic exercise bands. Well we don't ever use them for exercising but we ended up using them as a way to shoot the eggs onto 4 targets that we put out on the court. It was so funny. Our bishop went first and shot the egg out of the court.
The rest of the week went pretty well. We ran into some really good contacts and so we should have a pretty good week this week. We have some divisions marked with Tebas and they are supposed to be the ones closed down. But they are working super hard. Its awesome.
Thanksgiving would be good. But they don't celebrate it here lol. I think I will make peach cobbler. They have a super easy recipe. Just put cake mix in a thing of peaches and you are set to go. lol. Do you remember that thing thing you did with the pickles and ham I believe. And you put cream cheese around it:??
That sucks that Jordan isn't going to get home for Christmas, but better later than never.
Dad is going to California? Really what part? I know a lot of people from Cali. Just let me know and I will tell them to tell their parents to go out with y'all lol.
I don't need more SD cards. I will send this one back when it fills then you can send another lol. I am good for now.
The packages already arrived. I already opened the box because we didnt have room so I put everything in my bag to take it home. I didn't open anything so no worries. I think we are going to go buy a tree or something lol
But I have to go. Talk to you later mom. Thanks for everything. Love ya lots. I think I will put up some new pictures next week. We have interviews next Tuesday!
Love ya.
Justin
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Hey,
Things here are going well. I like this new area a lot. The new companion is cool. I am staying healthy but at night I'm getting bit up lol so gotta figure something out here shortly. It has been a while out on the mission. Idk what's changed lol I guess we will see when I get back what has really changed. I'm glad that you like the photos last week.
But I haven't really heard about anything that has to do with visas. We are kinda short on missionaries too. If we don't get any soon I'm sure we will be closing a lot of areas or having missionaries taking care of many areas like we are doing here.
Tebas Ward here is the one that is shut down but for some reason they are helping a lot more than the ward that we are supposed to be taking care of lol. We have like 7 dates marked in Tebas. Hopefully we can get this ward up and active. They have a new bishop that got here 3 weeks ago and he is on fire. He is bringing a lot of encouragement to the ward. Im sure things will change there this transfer. We should get a lot done and hope that pres. puts some missionaries there.
They didn't approve Jordan's leave? O my, that would suck. What day will they HAVE to let him go??
Where are you going to watch the double feature? Sounds like some fun. You and a couple of friends are going?? That sucks that you cant take the next day off. But that's good you will get time to spend with Jeannette. Is dad going to be home for a while??
Steve is running for judge? That's awesome. It takes a lot to do that I have heard.
Thanks for the advice from the rev lol. Its good.
But here we have been definitely working hard. My companion got sick on Thursday when we were moving some dirt into this lady's house for her foundation. He about fainted out there. He was throwing up and had a bad case of diarrhea. But He is all good now. We hadda take that day off and so Friday and Saturday we taught 11 lessons which was great. We have been doing a lot here. I have been doing a lot of divisions in Tebas. Its cool there. I like it a lot. I hope that I can be the missionary there to open up the area. The members are awesome!!! We have an activity this Saturday. It should be awesome. Will be the ward olympics. Will tell you more about it when I know more about it lol. I am still hammering out the details.
Well not much new is going on here. A new area which is humongous because of the 2 wards but its cool. People say its really dangerous here but don't worry. The missionaries haven't been really effected by it. We have a good friend on our side :)
Have a great week. Take care,
Love ya lots.
Elder Mitchell
Things here are going well. I like this new area a lot. The new companion is cool. I am staying healthy but at night I'm getting bit up lol so gotta figure something out here shortly. It has been a while out on the mission. Idk what's changed lol I guess we will see when I get back what has really changed. I'm glad that you like the photos last week.
But I haven't really heard about anything that has to do with visas. We are kinda short on missionaries too. If we don't get any soon I'm sure we will be closing a lot of areas or having missionaries taking care of many areas like we are doing here.
Tebas Ward here is the one that is shut down but for some reason they are helping a lot more than the ward that we are supposed to be taking care of lol. We have like 7 dates marked in Tebas. Hopefully we can get this ward up and active. They have a new bishop that got here 3 weeks ago and he is on fire. He is bringing a lot of encouragement to the ward. Im sure things will change there this transfer. We should get a lot done and hope that pres. puts some missionaries there.
They didn't approve Jordan's leave? O my, that would suck. What day will they HAVE to let him go??
Where are you going to watch the double feature? Sounds like some fun. You and a couple of friends are going?? That sucks that you cant take the next day off. But that's good you will get time to spend with Jeannette. Is dad going to be home for a while??
Steve is running for judge? That's awesome. It takes a lot to do that I have heard.
Thanks for the advice from the rev lol. Its good.
But here we have been definitely working hard. My companion got sick on Thursday when we were moving some dirt into this lady's house for her foundation. He about fainted out there. He was throwing up and had a bad case of diarrhea. But He is all good now. We hadda take that day off and so Friday and Saturday we taught 11 lessons which was great. We have been doing a lot here. I have been doing a lot of divisions in Tebas. Its cool there. I like it a lot. I hope that I can be the missionary there to open up the area. The members are awesome!!! We have an activity this Saturday. It should be awesome. Will be the ward olympics. Will tell you more about it when I know more about it lol. I am still hammering out the details.
Well not much new is going on here. A new area which is humongous because of the 2 wards but its cool. People say its really dangerous here but don't worry. The missionaries haven't been really effected by it. We have a good friend on our side :)
Have a great week. Take care,
Love ya lots.
Elder Mitchell
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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