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This week wasn't
nearly as interesting. So this email will probably be much shorter... Sorry!
So here in the new area, the culture is like sunrise and noon. Not
completely different but you can tell the difference. The people here are less
inclined to listen to you and aren't very polite about not listening. So that’s
different. Rejection feels a bit worse. But that’s life. It’s Carnivale this week. It doesn’t
really affect us because it’s really just on beaches. But everyone in the city
left to go to the beach so not many people are here. People go like 3-5 hours
away or farther. In like Rio and São Paulo it last like a month. Officially it
ends this Thursday here.
Before today's haircut......
I don’t know if I
have gained weight! I put on some jeans and they were SUPER Tight. I didn’t
remember them being that tight... So I have no idea. Everything else fits.
Thank goodness. I don’t wanna buy stuff here... BUT one of my pairs of shoes is
already falling apart! Super annoying. I'm still gonna keep the beat up ones to
show at the end when I get home :) They aren’t horrible right now but the
surface is starting to peel.
Ropa Normal
Being companions
with a district leader is different. We have to go on splits with the zone
leaders once per transfer so that’s fun... We actually have our split with them
today. So I'll let you know how that went. Also he has to have district
meetings to train the district every week. So he spends time preparing for that
a bit. But other than that it’s the same.
Investigators are
a little crazy right now. We still don't have them locked in really. But, we may have also found an investigator that
wants the lessons in English! SUPER COOL! I wonder if I'll be able to do
that.... :} We have a reference system on lds.org that the mission office sends references to! So
they sent it to us.
I do have one
person we are teaching that I would really like you guys to pray for. His name
is L. He is 18 and he is the son of a non-active returned missionary. He
doesn’t believe that there is a god and needs to know what's out there. So you
guys could keep him in mind that would be great.
Lessons are hard
to describe really. But we had one with L. He speaks English and Portuguese
but his wife doesn’t speak English so he doesn’t have a chance to speak English
so for part of the lesson I taught in English. It was good! I liked it. And I
KNOW he felt the Spirit. I was like drowning in it so I know he felt it. We
just taught about how it makes sense that something else is out there. HE
seemed to understand and feel it so that was awesome.
One really
awesome thing last week was getting my scriptures ordered! I'm super pumped to
really study the scriptures in Portuguese. For the past while I haven’t really
been able to because my scriptures got soaked. So having these will make all
the difference. So that was good!
Well, one
scripture that really stood out to me this week was Matthew 26:22. This is when
Christ says to the apostles," One of you will betray me." They were
each exceedingly sorrowful and began to ask the Master," Lord, is it
I?"
This inspired me
to ask that more often to find out what I need to improve on. What I may not be
doing as well as I could. So I think we should each look at ourselves and ask
if we are doing everything as best as we can so that we "may stand
blameless before God at the last day." I know that if we do this we will
have a more happy life and a more Christ-like life. I know this is the Church
of Jesus Christ on the earth today. I love you all and wish you the best of
weeks! I thank you all for you prayers on my behalf and know that I'm praying
for every one of you.
Love you guys,
Elder George
PS----
#popcornselfieswag ;)
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