Here is a Christmas message from Justin
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Friday, December 25, 2009
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
11-11-09 email
Hi everyone,
Its good here. I am in a new area. Amiliana Pernetta. Its in a city called Pinhais. We are taking care of 2 wards here. It looks like a good area. We will just see what happens. I have a new companion as well. His name is Elder Games. He is from Utah but he was born in New York. He is Latin. His dad's Mexican and his mom is from Ecuador. Its pretty cool. He said its hard for him to speak Spanish now because all he has been speaking lately is Portuguese and English. But its pretty cool here.
I got here about 10 hours ago lol. We were late there too because the traffic was bad and B Fernandes needed to pick up his new companion from the bus station.
Yeah they usually do the transfers on pday. But I found out on Monday that I was leaving. They call everyone Monday night and tell them to either meet in Barigui or go to the Bus station. If you are staying in Curitiba you don't find out where you are going until Wednesday. If you are leaving the city and going far away they tell you where you gonna go and what time the bus will leave. Its pretty stressing. Because you never know where you are going to go. lol
Ah I C. Yeah Our power didn't go out. It just blinked I thought it was just natural. LOL. Our power blinks a lot. Well it did in the old house. Now we live behind a LAN house lol. Its pretty nice here.
Yeah I was still in Derosso for my birthday. It was alright I guess. Didn't really do much. We had a division and so it was pretty cool. We celebrated with the kids from my English class. They are awesome lol. We also ate pizza with these two kids from our apartment. They aren't members but they are really cool. We talked with Igor´s dad for a little bit. But not about the church just about life. It was good.
Yes, I had heard about Fort Hood, crazy. I just put pictures up and you have some in the mail. And no, now im not in Curitiba. But its just like Arlington and Dallas. Basically the same thing but different. I had to buy a new bag because C Williams broke my other one so I had to take money out. I bought some other things as well.
I still haven't gotten the package from dear elder yet. IDK where it is. Maybe next week.
Jnett just sent some pics for me. YEAH!! I will let you know when I get those.
Well, I have to go now. Have a great week.
Justin
Its good here. I am in a new area. Amiliana Pernetta. Its in a city called Pinhais. We are taking care of 2 wards here. It looks like a good area. We will just see what happens. I have a new companion as well. His name is Elder Games. He is from Utah but he was born in New York. He is Latin. His dad's Mexican and his mom is from Ecuador. Its pretty cool. He said its hard for him to speak Spanish now because all he has been speaking lately is Portuguese and English. But its pretty cool here.
I got here about 10 hours ago lol. We were late there too because the traffic was bad and B Fernandes needed to pick up his new companion from the bus station.
Yeah they usually do the transfers on pday. But I found out on Monday that I was leaving. They call everyone Monday night and tell them to either meet in Barigui or go to the Bus station. If you are staying in Curitiba you don't find out where you are going until Wednesday. If you are leaving the city and going far away they tell you where you gonna go and what time the bus will leave. Its pretty stressing. Because you never know where you are going to go. lol
Ah I C. Yeah Our power didn't go out. It just blinked I thought it was just natural. LOL. Our power blinks a lot. Well it did in the old house. Now we live behind a LAN house lol. Its pretty nice here.
Yeah I was still in Derosso for my birthday. It was alright I guess. Didn't really do much. We had a division and so it was pretty cool. We celebrated with the kids from my English class. They are awesome lol. We also ate pizza with these two kids from our apartment. They aren't members but they are really cool. We talked with Igor´s dad for a little bit. But not about the church just about life. It was good.
Yes, I had heard about Fort Hood, crazy. I just put pictures up and you have some in the mail. And no, now im not in Curitiba. But its just like Arlington and Dallas. Basically the same thing but different. I had to buy a new bag because C Williams broke my other one so I had to take money out. I bought some other things as well.
I still haven't gotten the package from dear elder yet. IDK where it is. Maybe next week.
Jnett just sent some pics for me. YEAH!! I will let you know when I get those.
Well, I have to go now. Have a great week.
Justin
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