tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75825714117593065122024-03-13T09:00:21.277-07:00Elder Justin BearyJess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-79979699764127795532014-08-04T10:22:00.002-07:002014-08-04T10:22:46.058-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-64466577145904789092014-07-14T09:30:00.001-07:002014-07-14T09:30:51.894-07:001 month! That´s pretty weird, isn´t it...<br />
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Well, as everyone knows Brasil was... beat to say the least, though until now there hasn´t been any problems. I assume that this week or next week will have some protests, but I don´t expect it to be too bad. We´re just lucky that Argentina didn´t win, that would have made everything much worse!!!!!<br />
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From Friday-Sunday I had the worst soar throat of my mission (Maybe life) Today it finally is starting to feel better, I hope it keeps getting that way so I don´t have to get a shot in my... you know! Though I kind of like getting shots, so I don´t care either way. It´d be fun to try it out because all the people say that this one hurts a lot and basically makes you stay in bed all day because of the pain in the leg area.<br />
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Thanks everyone for the B-day cards! I´ve started getting lots of mail in the last couple of days! haha. I got my last mission hair cut! And, putting it nicely, it was a disaster, good thing I didn´t pay for it, haha.... I am currently completely without side burns, good thing it´ll grow back fastish....<br />
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Work update, this week we were able to mark the baptisms of a family (Jussara and Ana) Mom and daughter The moms boyfriend is an inactive member. They were supposed to go to church yesterday but he had to work. Tomorrow we´ll go back, I hope they´re okay!<br />
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Also, we were able to visit a recent convert named Deisy after about 1 month of slacking and not passing by, she´s a really great person in a really difficult situation. Her house is terrible and her whole family (nephews and ``sons``) Are involved in drugs. Well, for the 3rd time in the last 2 years someone in her family was murdered becuase of drug things. She´s doing okay, just needs to be visited more. Now that we got the list done, we´ll be better about visiting her. It´s good becuase she lives close to Jussara... Which is bad because they both live at the VERY top of the biggest hill in the area. Oh well, At least I´ll come back with big calves!<br />
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-21308023751087090492014-07-07T09:35:00.001-07:002014-07-07T09:35:19.074-07:00Well, my biggest news for the week is that my work here will finally go back to normal!!!! It´s about time! We finished updating the ward list, and now I can be a missionary again!!! It's not that I didn't like doing it, it´s just that, it wasn´t exactly what I expected when I thought about being a missionary, though like grandma said to me in a card that I just got. It was a big help in strengthining the Lords kingdom here in Porto Alegre. I know it was necessary to go about 7 weeks doing this work, just... Glad it´s over now. ;) Also, if you guys remember Carol from my last area (the 13 year old that we baptized) I finally found her grandpa´s information. I know where is papers are!!!! WE couldn´t find them in Pelotas and they were never registered on the internet but... As we were cleaning the ward list here, imagine who´s name and address I ran into!!!! Exactly Moacir Borges (carols g-pa) We will now put his info online and send it off to Pelotas!!!! Strange (not really, definitely was planned) how the Lord puts the right people in our paths. I think I now understand why for over a year nobody was able to baptize or really even teach Carol. Becuase the Lord needed me to get to know her family so that his papers could be found!!! (that´s what I think at least. ) :)<br />
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Also, news from Dom Pedrito! Another fruit from my work!!!! You guys remember Leticia (and Joao and Fatima) Well, while we (Elder Carlos and I) There teaching them we met one of Leticia´s friends (Alex, it´s a boy) And we tried to teach him but he never was interested in going to church, he listened to our lessons but never gave us his address to visit him and his family... I don´t exactly know what happened over this time but, I got a letter a couple of weeks ago saying that he finally went to church, and yesterday I got a phone call saying that he was baptized on Saturday, that´s pretty neat isn´t it!!!!!<br />
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Mom, thanks for the Portuguese card, Google translate isn´t perfect my any means, but it was definitely understandable! :D<br />
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On Saturday we had a meeting (party) and lunch with the Stake presidency and President and Sister Castro. It was just my stake (Partenon) Which for right now includes zones Partenon and Viamo. It was nice, though, I think it was more of an excuse to just have a party with the missionaries. haha. I was able to see Elder Gagnon and elder Galdino again! :D<br />
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Other than these things, not much happened. We finished the list yesterday so over the week we just worked with that... There were a LOT of members! There still are, but. we were able to take a couple of names of the list!Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-34396939639829773332014-06-30T09:56:00.001-07:002014-06-30T09:56:24.593-07:00<div class="MsoPlainText">
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my 2nd and last transfer gere in the Cefer Ward and I couldn't be happier!!!<br />
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Last Monday we had to leave the LAN house early to get home before the Brasil
game started (G-MA said to me in a letter last week that, seeing as how I am in a poor area that maybe the cup
excitement isn't as bad.... well, to answer that question, it might be worse
because nobody has anything better to do than drink and watch futbal!)<br />
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On Tuesday we had district meeting that ran late so we cancelled our lunch and
ate at a restaurant with the Elders from Intercap (they have basically infinite
credit at a restaurant by the church) We
then used our list of members the whole day to help divide the stake! (we had
to finish this week!)<br />
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Wednesday lunch with Irma Suzete before using the list until we went to Ana
Paula's house.<br />
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Thursday, lunch with Celia (she didn't know about it even though we talked to
her daughter on the phone the night before. Though I won't complain because I
was able to see a good part of the USA vs. Germany game while we waited (USA
USA USA!!!!!) we then used the list
until we got lost in the vila and went to visit members to have them help us.
(asking them if they knew anyone)<br />
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Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-10014854703695844452014-06-16T07:29:00.001-07:002014-06-16T07:29:45.643-07:00Well, here we go!!!! week 1/2 of the world cup!!!<br />
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On Tuesday everything was normal because the cup hadn´t started yet, we had lunch with our ward mission leader (even though he wasn´t home, it was just with his wife) We taught Maria and Milo and spent the day cleaning up the ward list (We have a job to divide the stake here in Partenon/Viamo. The only problem now is that the Partenon side (Where I´m at) that the preisthood to member ratio is too low. So to help with that every ward on this side of the stake is going to everyones house on the ward list and seeing if they still really live there and haven´t moved or died. So, that´s what we´ve been doing for about 2 weeks now.<br />
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Wednesday we had lunch with Eliane again, same as on Sunday, (I do like her, she is very nice)<br />
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Thursday... Here comes the problems, we worked until 3:30 then we had to be off the streets studying until 1 hour after the game ended (Rule all through out Brasil, kind of sad isn´t it) So, that was our day. For some reason today was REALLY hot...<br />
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Friday: I thought that it was just going to be hard to work on the days of Brasil games but boy was I wrong. Starting at 1 is the first game, then games go basically non stop until about 10, and everyone that´s home stays inside glued to the tv... It´s even worse than I thought it was going to be. It doesn´t help that it rained a TON today.<br />
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Saturday, different day same story... Lots of rain, lots of games. We had a ward activity in the morning but it got cancelled because of the rain, which we didn´t find out until we got there.<br />
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Sunday! We got a new phone, now we can talk to people again!!!! I got a cup cake from Elder Melo (He got them for his bday.) At night we went to the Stake President´s house becuase his wife (Rosangela) Had some grocerys for us. As we were there getting our snack on President Suffert (Stake president) And President Castro walked in... haha, oops. They were visiting people in the stake. But luckily Rosangela new that it was possible that P. Castro would go over so she invited some friends for us to teach. She saved our skin!Â<br />
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GO USA!!!!<br />
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-15544052848322686622014-06-09T15:23:00.004-07:002014-06-09T15:23:57.337-07:00on tuesday (sorry the shift button isn´t working) we had lunch with natalina then we had a normal day of making new investigators<br />
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wednesday the zone leaders came to our house early in the morning to give us big news (becuase we don´t have a phone at the moment) Elder bispo and i will be training wait, what? Well, we went to the mission home at 3 after lunch with the stake president to meet our children haha, we will be working with couple missionaries and helping them learn the area and the ward. elder and sister dornelles from santa maria, rs, brasil. after the meeting with president we went with them in the car to show them a little bit of the area. i think i could like this, they´re super funny,. and it´s nice to have a ride places. haha.<br />
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Thursday the zone leaders went to our house to do weekly planning with us, then to start our division. i went with elder menezes to their area and elder bispo stayed in cefer with elder thiago.<br />
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friday; we had zone conference in the morning, then after lunch it was my first day of work with the couple well, now the bad news.;( looks like elder bipo worked them too hard on thursday becuase only elder dornelles came, and he just came to tell us that they weren´t going to stay with us because the area is too difficult for them... (we were ready for that because we knew it isn´t a good area for them) elder dornelles went with us though to visit one family before he went home to be with his sore wife. haha.<br />
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satrday i went on a division with elder melo (in my district) to help him out because he´s not doing so well.<br />
he´s supposed to get hernia surgery, but it´s taking too long, there´s problems at the hospital. it was a goodish day.<br />
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sunday we had church, lunch with eliana then our weekly fhe with ana paula and her family.<br />
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-10926623312787473322014-05-26T17:58:00.001-07:002014-05-26T17:58:05.282-07:00well, Another week another dollar!<br />
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On Tuesday we had our district meeting, I felt like it was one of the better ones that I´ve given. Then we had lunch at the restaurant that we eat at p´retty much every week. It´s... Okay, no complaints.<br />
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Wednesday we had lunch with the stake president and his family, they´re a very nice family. They gave us some groceries to take home, for the 2nd time since I´ve been here. At Night we contacted a reference at Irmã Nely´s house and taught Loecil. We´ll see how he goes.<br />
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Thursday: Â Lunch with Suzete, we got and contacted a reference then we started our first day of work in the winter weather! it was, very cold and rainy,. So, at night we went for a night run to the temple and back!!!! (it was more of a walk, but oh well.)<br />
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Friday: We ate lunch at the restaurant again then we had distrito amigo<br />
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saturday We had lunch with our Ward Mission Leader before we visited some MA´s and went to Nely´s house for her sons birthday churrasco!<br />
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Sunday; I gave my first talk here in Cefer, gave my first class ( I really don´t like giving classes, but, oh well.) We visited The Godoy family and Irmã Deisi that is a really poor sister that the stake wants to buy a new house for her. @ night we went to Ana Paula´s house and watched the Other Side of Heaven!<br />
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First off, congrats little bro! Too bad my team is gonna have to beat yours in the World Cup next month!!! :D</div>
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Tuesday my companion and I went to McDonalds for lunch before heading off to Porto Alegre for my toe apointment! He has also passed in Jardim Vila Nova so we visited a family there that night and it was a lot of fun. I saw Cândida, Henrique and Beatriz for the first time after their baptism. (Elder Machado and I were teaching them before I left then Elder Walkennedy took my spot 2 weeks before their baptism) On the way to POA we took a fancy bus. And boy was it fancy, and comfy!!! It made the bus a lot more enjoyable!!! :D</div>
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Saturday we went to Camaquã to do 3 baptism interviews for the sisters... Paulo and Andrea moved to Camaquã a couple of months ago to live with his dad so...We marked a lunch with them and stayed there until 6 before going back to Pelotas for the ZL´s baptism!</div>
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Sunday we had a good lunch... Went to João Pedro´s house and the rain started falling!!! Wow, it rained a ton. We went to our WML house to try and get our of the rain but... He wasn´t home. Ç( So we went to |Carol´s early but she wasn´t home either. Luckily her mom was home and let us in. While we waited for Carol we watched a special on the news about Dubai... I now have a dream to go there one day! haha. We watched ``Finding faith in Christ`with Carol because her friend was there too (Her friend also went to church with Carol on Sunday) So we did that to break the ice. We then got her baptism invited ready and prepared the program for Sunday. We answered some questions that her friend (claudia) had about baptism and if it´s possible to be baptized again if you were already baptized as a catholic..We have lots of hope with her!!!!   </div>
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Congrats again Jordan, see ya´ll on Sunday! :D</div>
Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-44440988526557280792014-04-28T11:46:00.001-07:002014-04-28T11:46:26.604-07:00Well, on Tuesday I took my first step towards becoming a clown!!! I learned the basics to juggling!!!! I don´t know if that´s something to be proud of or not, but hey. Every skill is important! We went to a city called São Lourenço do Sul (It´s very pretty, look it up) to have our district meeting and distrito amigo. We got our lunch from a bar because it was cheap well. We found out why it´s so cheap. While we were waiting a rat ran through the lobby then we went back to the church to eat and there was hair in 2 of them... Though I enjoyed it and it was only 5 R$ So I won´t complain! My campanion and i slept there with Elder Xavier and Elder Holloway and I took a little bit of a beating while we practiced some Jiu Jitsu.<br />
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Wednesday we went back to Pelotas and spent a couple of hours with Diego we saw the ``Beach`` here in Pelotas and saw his boat... Ya, they have a lot of money. We then had our first lesson with Carol. A 13 year old girl that lives with her mom and grandpa who are less active members. Carol went to church a couple of weeks ago so we talked to her and got her address because... She´s not baptized. :) We taught her the Resturation and it was a really good lesson. We invited her to be baptized and she accepted, though we didn´t mark a day. After the lesson her G-PA took us to the door and talked to us. He said that she wanted to be baptized a couple of months ago when her aunt was here from Salvador (Active member) but didn´t because she needed to know more about the church, she hadn´t ever taken the lessons before.<br />
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Thursday we planned our activity for the 10th of May and... I don´t remember what else happened. oops.<br />
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Friday we talked to Diego again. but once again he was getting ready to leave. His dad sends him out of the city every weekend to keep him out of trouble (Alcohol and drugs) So that makes it hard for him to go to church. He´s been once in my time here. Though I forgot to mention on wednesday he gave each of us a chocolate bar for Easter. :D We then went to Carol´s taught here the 3rd lesson (Gospel of Jesus Christ) And marked her baptism for the 10th of May, last week of the transfer!<br />
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Saturday we had a churrasco with The stake President and Izabel again. They´re super nice people. Also we found out that Carol went to the youth activity during the cday that I didn´t even know was happening. Not exactly sure who invited her but also not going to complain!<br />
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Sunday we had church, we got a ride for Carol with the Patriarch but I was pretty sure that we were going to die on the way. He´s old and kinda crazy but, we survived!!!! We had a churrasco with Elton and Patricia... (I need a meat break) (we had one marked for today but, glad it didn´t happen) We went to Carols and talked to her mom and her grandpa about the baptism. They both said that the only thinging faulting were the lessons. They both support the baptism and confirmed their presence there. Her Grandpa wants to give a 2-5 minute talk at it. haha. We then went to Bebeco´s (Ward mission Leader) But the investigator didn´t go, again. But, at least he´s trying, right?<br />
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I`m bummed that Jordans call didn´t come but at the same time happy because I wanted to change my guess for where he´ll go... I´m going with... The deep south, more specifically Alabama... Go ahead and put that one in the books!<br />
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I love you all!!! See ya soon! (kinda)<br />
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-18709253543781167262014-04-21T10:30:00.001-07:002014-04-21T10:30:39.492-07:00<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">Tuesday I went on divisions with Elder Galdino while I was waiting for Elder Walkennedey to get here in Pelotas. It was a good day of findign new investigators and talking to a lot of people on the street. At about 8:30 the stake president gave us a ride to the bus station to pick him up.</span><br />
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Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-10458400467841818252014-04-07T09:53:00.004-07:002014-04-07T09:53:45.088-07:00<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Well, what a busy week without a lot of work but... It was good.!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">On Tuesday we had a normal day until about 6 when we went to the pizza buffet to have dinner with President for meeting our baptism goal for the month!!! I came in a respectable 2nd place at the restaurant with a good 23 pieces eaten. Elder Lima won with 24. But, No problem right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Wednesday was our only normal day that we had. We tried to visit everybody during that small time until our FHE with the Ward mission leader (Bebeco) At 7. IT was a good, tiring day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Friday we went to Arco-IRis ( A neighborhood close by) to help the sisters in my district because they went to Rio Grande (A city) To do divisions. THey´re the sisters that do training for the other sisters. That´s allowed until 8 when we go back. We went to a MA member to visit her on her Bday!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span>Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-41765074240278882312014-03-31T10:51:00.002-07:002014-03-31T10:51:45.190-07:00Bigone...<br />
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Well, This week we didn´t get done too much. Though we did a lot.<br />
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On Tuesday we went to Camaquã for Distrito amigo. There we made lunch and did distrito amigo. We didn´t have much time to work becuase we finished lunch at 2 and had to leave at 6 on the bus but it was fun while it lasted.<br />
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Wednesday: We burned DVD´s, visited Jussan and Sara, João Pedro (he´s a sick reactivated kid/guy. We go there about once a week to speak english and help him out) This time before we left his house his grandmother gave us hot dogs because she has a little hot dog stand in front of her house<br />
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Thursday we had a service project that was supposed to go from 3-4:30 but it ended up going until 8:30. Though it was fun, we helped an inactive family move.<br />
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Friday we went to Porto Alegre to the foot doctor. There we ate chinese food and Sushi (Below average but what do you expect?)<br />
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Saturday: we had the best lunch ever with a family that we met while teaching English at the English school (Wizard) IT was the best churrasco I´ve eaten here. They were super nice and cool as well plus, super rich. Everything they have is super fancy. We taught english, and some people actually went, that was a change. We then had dinner with a Recent convert from the other area in the ward.<br />
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Sunday was a normal day with church and meetings and everything. Gremio and Internacional palyed yesterday... My team won 2-1. :D<br />
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This morning I visited Helena and Tiago then Paulinha!!! :D We had lunch with Helena and Tiago, everyone is doing well.. Except for Tiago, he´s kinda fallen away and is smoking again. Paulinha has also gotten really sick, she´s not the same that she was a year ago. :(<br />
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-45213958555551685712014-03-25T10:33:00.003-07:002014-03-25T10:33:32.259-07:00On Tuesday we had our Zone conference and also it was sister Andrade´s birthday so we had cake and stuff before lunch. GOod thing we got money for lunch so for us it was perfect. We then visited Jussan and Julien (2 Recent Converts) And we´re currently working with their parents trying to help them get baptized. The mom (Sara) goes to church almost every week and wants to be baptized but their dad doesn´t wanna get legally married. It´s such a pain in the but here sometimes. We then had a FHE with Jaque (Relief society president) but the investigators didn´t show up, good thing she had a plan B and we went to a less active sisters house. On the way home we had our first drunk guy for the week. Right outside the ``Walmart`` By our house, he stopped us asking for money to use on the ``Bus`` We told him we didn´t have anything, but he then pointed to our apartment saying ``But ya´ll live right there, just go get money and come back.`` Well, that was frightening. We lied and said that other Elders live there and walked a different direction going around the block and going in through a special door that I saw that morning. Talk about lucky right. Well, the Elders from São Lourenço weren´t so lucky, they were sleeping at our apartment that night because they had ``Distrito Amigo`` And their phone was dead. We called to tell them about the side door without luck. The hobo found them and they ended up giving him money.<br />
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Wednesday: We had lunch with the same Jaque then went to work in the rain... Boy was it raining. Remember the photo I sent ya´ll a couple weeks ago, it was like that, but worse. We were walking on a busy road and some car passed by, swerved into a puddle and drenched us. I though it was funny. My companion didn´t think it was too cool at first but once I started laughing he joined in. We visited a Recent Convert (Malvina) We went to talk to Patricia then we went home to dry off, make pancakes and hot chocolate<br />
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Thursday: We went to Vinicius and Alêssandra´s in the morning. Everything´s going well there. We had lunch with the Patriarch then walked around trying to get stuff done. We were able to talk to Diego again, he´s still kinda weird but doing well. We made some copies then... Drunk guy #2 stopped us. HE asked for money for the ``Bus`` we told him the same story then he asked us what he could do to help him..> I told him we could say a prayer and he agreed, he asked us to pray that he could safely get home. I prayed asking for a safe travel home then when we said amen he looked up and said ``I´m still here`` Can´t say the guy doesn´t have faith. Well, then he decided since he didn´t teleport home that he would walk with us, and boy did he. We walked trying to ditch him so that we could visit people becuase we couldn´t show him where our members and investigators live obviously. We walked and at one point my companion accidently stepped on his flip flop and broke it... Well, the guy didn´t like that and demanded that he payed for it... His asking price. 25 cents. after about 5 minutes I gave elder Campbell a coin to give to him and the drunk forgot that he asked for it and got offended when my comp tried to give it to him. Saying, c´mon man. Do you think I´m a kid, 25 cents won´t get me nothin. So, I said then I´ll keep it and he said ``Ya´ll that´d be a better idea`After a couple more minutes he asked for the money again, I aked him if he would graciously accept it and he said no. So, I gave him the same answer... When we got the chance we crossed the street and started walking fast once we got around the corner we literally ran to safety before returning to our home... During our walk he hit his head on 3 trees, 2 window and cat called at 6 women.<br />
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Friday: 2 drunk guys (1 of which was the same from Tuesday) Tried to stopped us, though since I didn´t have any more patience I told them that we didn´t have time to stop. I did 2 baptism interviews 1 for Carla and 1 for Ione. We had lunch with Bishop and I got my shoes back, fixed and shiney.<br />
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Saturday: Lunch with Valério then English class. No one went, again. Lucky for the people at the church that needed help getting a baby shower ready. I blew up and tied over 100 baloons. To the point that the skin on my left knuckle rubbed off. The baptisms happended without any problems and Saturday morning I made home made bread. Everyone said it turned out well. I wasn´t too impressed but oh well, I´ll get better. At the baptism Ione´s daughter tried to greet me with a kiss on the cheek and unfortunately (just kidding) I had fast enough reflexes to get out of the way. There´s a quick story for ya´ll.<br />
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Sunday: Church, CHURRASCO!Churrasco with Elton and Patricia, Vinicius and Alêssandra went (And Kaynã) Vinicius and Patricia are cousins so they´re helping us out a ton with them. On Tuesday they´re going to the place to get the marriage started.<br />
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IN the morning I traded bread for little cookie things from the Sisters in the other ward. and I came home from lunch with a nasty cold. The whole house is getting sick. Winter is kinda starting down here in the South. Alson on Friday we went to an English school (Wizard) And taught a class, getting a churrasco out of it for this coming Saturday (Patricia and Elton are the managers at the Wizard here in Pelotas)<br />
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-85678441530101692472014-03-18T11:41:00.004-07:002014-03-18T11:41:38.717-07:00Well, I had a great week. It was kinda weird when Elder Sá (The secretary) called me asking me which airport I wanted to fly to... I guess he didn´t take my answer seriously considering the fact that I´[m going to SLC instead of Rome like I asked. But, SLC is good too.<br />
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Almost all week we spent getting ready for the acitivity that we had on saturday, Pizza night... IT wasn´t much but it was really good. Everyone went to the church ate pizza, played basketball and got their less active family to ``Adopt``<br />
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This week we worked a lot with Pedro, we´re hoping he gets baptized on Saturday... It´s about 50/50. He wants to but at the same time he´s not sure yet. Though I think it´ll go all right.<br />
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-28711208927699575142014-03-11T09:08:00.001-07:002014-03-11T09:08:00.632-07:00New district, same thing... 4 Sisters, me and my companion... Couldn´t be better in my opinion. 2 of the sisters switched out so this week was kinda spent to get to know them during the district meeting. They seem really good, and after the first week, #´s were all good so, can´t complain.<br />
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We had a very normal week, just getting ready for our pizza night on Saturday here in the ward, we´ll be introducing a new program where every family ``Adopts`` An inactive family or recent convert, to strengthen and reactivate a lot... We have 30 families in the program, the goal is to reactivate all of them. Everyone in the leadership is really excited. :D<br />
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Yesterday we had lunch with some investigators and... a lot of their family. we ended up maked 7 new investigators during the lunch, that was pretty neat.Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-81245428422383086392014-03-03T10:20:00.001-08:002014-03-03T10:20:39.271-08:00Well, transfers are in!!! And, no changes. One more here with Elder Campbell in 3 Vendas.<br />
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This week we went to Porto Alegre to visit my foot doctor. She said that my toes are doing great. Now I´[ll go back for probably the last time in about a month.<br />
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This week I passed hump day, now we´re just ``on the way down`` I have a couple of more months until I´m considered just ``a waste of space``. Though, I don´t think that´ll happen to me. I donpt have to much time today because I´m trying to get my district organized the other 2 companionships were changed around a bit so....<br />
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Also, forgot my camera battery at home, sono photos today.<br />
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IOt was a pretyt normal wweek, it got kinda cold. That was nice. Finally the temperature is changing a bit.Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-87240701998558025152014-02-24T13:06:00.000-08:002014-02-24T13:06:06.097-08:00On Tuesday we had our district meeting and a normal day of weorking<br />
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wednesay I was not feeling good, at al (coldl. So we spent a little bit at home before we did some of our visits<br />
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Thursday: Baptism interview for the sisters from Arco-Iris then we helped them organize the church for the marriage they had on Friday<br />
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Friday we went ot Camaquã to do a baptism interview for the Sisters there... Well, we ended up getting some wrong information and missed the bus at 2 so we thought, well now what? As we were walking around waiting for the 6 bus something happened. From no where I ran into Andrea from my area (Paulo wasn´t with her) She was in camaquã visiting her father-in-law helping him organize. So we went over there and talked for a while. That worked our great for me. Though becuase of that we missed the wedding. Oh well.<br />
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Saturday we went to Arco-Iris´baptism and took home some wedding cake.<br />
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Sunday my companion finalloy realized that he was dying and after lunch we stayed home again... He´s been sick since about friday with a cold/strep. It´s running through the house.<br />
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Yesterday was stake conference, and 2 baptisms for my district... One right after the stake conference one at night... They were both surprises but welcomed... </div>
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On Saturday i helped the sisters from Camaquã give a tour to their investigator that was baptized on Sunday, it was a lot of fun. Then we had the adult session of stake conference which starting this week the elders were allowed to go to. Though, I didn´t see Paulina at either of the sessions. oh well. </div>
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Today I ate, very well at Lobão ``Big wolf`` IT´s what everyone says to be the best restaurant in our mission and the ruele is you have to eat their at least once when you go to pelotas... Well, seeing as how I didn´t last time, I couldn´t let it slip again and can I just say... wow... </div>
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During the week we just did a lot of running around. On Friday we had our zone conference, interviews with President Castro, the AP´s slept at our house for 2 days.... It was a lot of... fun.</div>
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On tuesday we went to a sisters house and talked with her son again. He has a desire to come back to church but was just needing a push. I guess we did good enough because yesterday he went to church@!!! :D</div>
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Wednseday We visited our neighbor had been to church a couple of times then we met with our ward mission leader.</div>
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Thursday. Visitied Vinicius and Alessandra again. It went really well, again. we went on splits... I went with Elder Galdino to do some baptism interviews and it allw ent well. After we did the interviews we went to dinner with a member (At his house) I saw a play station 4 for the first time. That was cool and ate one of the best lasagnas in my life.</div>
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Friday We went to Camaquã to do baptism interviews for the sisters in my district... That was the whole day. a 2 hour bus ride there and back.</div>
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Saturday. English class, nobody went. We had our weekly activity... Nobody went. The Zone Leaders baptism went well. We had 3 investigators there (OUr neighbor (carmen) Vinicius and Alessandra).</div>
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Sunday. Church, meetings. We were supposed to sing during sacrament meeting but luckily there wasn´t time. :D Then at the meeting I saw a bunch of people from my first ward. Then we had FHE with the bishop and a family that he wants to help.</div>
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So, this week was realy really really hot. They´re saying that this is the hottest the Rio Grande do Sul has been in over 60 years.</div>
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<br />Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-8770130370136955712014-02-03T11:09:00.002-08:002014-02-03T11:09:25.502-08:00On Tuesday we had district meeting then Distrito amigo in our area, it didn´t end up helping that much but, oh well.<br />
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Wednesday We had lunch with a super nice lady with an inactive son (about 24) that wants to come back to church. This week we´re gonna go with him to buy church clothes. After lunch we spent the whole day trying to get to know the people and find new investigators. The members are helping a lot. we´re getting a lot of references to help us out<br />
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Saturday we had our english class and weekly activity, then went to try and find an address that doesn´t exist. So, I went to the doctor to finally get my neck looked at after a month of pain. It´s nothing, just a sprained neck, I´m taking medicine and already feeling way better.<br />
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Sunday was a good sunday. Lunch with the stake president, visits with some members. and we went to a house where there´s a possible baptism.!!!!<br />
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this morning we got our best lead. We tauht a man (vinicios) and his wife (Alessandra) And were able to mark their baptisms for the 22nd. They went to church once a couple of weeks ago with his cousin. I think they´re gonna be good. Thursday morning we´re going back!!! :D<br />
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Jess and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017009899080106300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582571411759306512.post-31845804393630092102014-01-27T10:24:00.000-08:002014-01-27T10:24:01.845-08:00<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">On Monday I went bowling</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Tuesday I took a bus the whole day,though it was nice, with air conditioner and water...</span><br />
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Transfer news is in, and I´ll be returning to Pelotas!!! The neighbor ward, 3 Vendes. For the first time I´ll have an American campanion (elder Cambell) Let's see what´ll happen right.</div>
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Sunday was church, lunch then Irmão Paulo made us a churrasco since we thought I was gonna be transfered!!!</div>
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