September 25 2012

Hey everyone!

Things are still great in Brasil! Thursday was the day that Rio Grande do Sul comemmorates the day that they tried to win independence, and they were supposed to have a parade here in Rio Pardo, but it was too cold that day, so they moved it to Sunday. I wasn´t expecting the parade to be so big!  This tiny litte city in the middle of nowhere had a massive celebration for this. There were more horses in this parade then I have ever seen anywhere else in my life. It was really cool! Everybody in the entire town was dressed like gaúchos.

Other than that, transfers are coming up this week. Time is moving way to fast. It does not seem like I have been here in Brasil for almost 3 months now. On top of that, on the 28th, I will have been on my mission for 6 months already. I don´t know if I´m going to be transfered yet. I will find out next Monday morning when I send my emails. If I am being transfered, I won´t know where I am going untill the tansfer meeting at the bus station in Porto Alegre. Transfers are always stressful. You never know what´s going to happen until it happens. Oh well.

Thanks for everything guys!

Sincerely,

Elder Day

September 17 2012

Hey everyone!

This week was awesome! On Tuesday, We had a big tri-zone conference in Porto Alegre, and Elder Jairo Mazzargadi of the 70 spoke to us. He is a native Brazillian, and he is way awesome. He talked for almost 4 hours straight. No joke. If he had the time he would have kept on going too. It was really awesome to hear him though. I don´t think I´ve ever sat that still for four hours in my life. He spoke about a ton of stuff relating to missionary work, and how we can improve. The main thing he focused on was `real growth.` We are not just working for baptisms. We need to make sure that every convert is truly converted to the gospel. If they are, than they will never go inactive after the baptism. Almost nothing gets you more excited for missionary work than having a General authority come talk to you.

Other than that, it´s been extremely rainy here for the past few days, and I think it will continue until the end of this week. So far I´ve bought two umbrellas, but they both broke the day after I bought them. I guess I´ll just have to get wet!

Thanks everyone!

Sincerely,

Elder Day

September 10 2012

Hey everyone!

Things are going really well here. Not a whole ton happened this week. On the 6th, Brasil celebrated it´s independence, so that was cool. Two people made us Churrasco, which is a type of barbeque that the people make here in Rio Grande do Sul, and it is really good. They take a ton of beef and chicken, and the roast it on a spit. It´s awesome. They really love eating beef down here in the south. I don´t think I´ve gone two days in a row without eating some kind of beef. 

I am really excited for the 20th. It´s a holliday for Rio Grande do Sul. It´s called dia do gaúcho. They celebrate the day that they tried to seceed from the rest of Brasil. They lost the war, but they still celebrate it. It´s awesome. The people here have a ton of pride in their state. They are like the South Carolina of Brasil. It´s the best.

I gots to go!

Sincerely,

Elder Day

September 3 2012

Hey everyone!

Things went really well this week in Rio Pardo. It was a fast sunday, so that was cool. Here in Brasil, the largest meal of the day is lunch. Breakfast and dinner are really small, and lunch is always huge. Because of that, instead of fasting from dinner to dinner, we fast from lunch to lunch. I feel like it´s easier to fast from lunch to lunch than from dinner to dinner.

This week, my companion and I were fasting that we could have investigators at church this week. No matter how many times you visit people, and read the Book of Mormon with them, they are never going to progress unless they go to church. This week we had 9 investigators there! It was awesome. If you put in the work, the Lord will always bless you. The only bad thing is that last week my branch made a trip to the temple, so everybody bore their testimony about the temple. I think it kind of freaked some of the investigators out. Oh well, they had to find out about it sometime.

I gots to go!

Sincerely, 

Elder Day