FAMILY!!!! How are you all doin?? This week was definitely a busy one!! Anderson and Mayara got your gift in the mail. They loved it. I asked Anderson if he was gonna transfer it to Brasilian money and he said no cuz he wants to keep it as remembrance! haha so cool!
We taught Hellen's brother and sister this week. Their names are Pedro and Maria. Hellen is the one who got baptized two weeks ago. We taught them the first lesson and it went really well. They both told us how they want to be baptized. We marked their baptism for the 7th of December. Helton will baptize Pedro and Maria asked me to baptize her. I am pretty stoked about that!!!
We also met just real quickly with Marcos and Claudia again as we were passing by their house. They didnt come to church this week, not sure why. But they are an awesome family! We are meeting with them again tomorrow to teach them the pan of salvation. We are gonna teach them a lot about eternal families and we think that will touch them for sure.
We are still trying to find more people to teach. That is the hardest part about missionary work in any mission! haha. But we will keep workin hard! Yesterday, both me and Burton gave a talk in Sacrament meeting. It went really well. I love you all and hope that you have a great week!!!
Elder Howard
Sunday, November 24, 2013
November 11, 2013
FAMILY!!! This week was a great one! Such a fantastic wee. Friday night was Anderson and Mayara's wedding and it couldnt have gone more perfect. So many members and non members went to support them. The ceremony went great. Afterwards, we went up and gave them both a big hug and told them congrats. Then Mayara turned to us and said, "Por causa de voces dois." Saying that all this happened because of me and Burton. Holy cow, talk about the best thing ever to hear!! haha. The next day was their baptism and it went great as well. Burton baptized Anderson and I got to baptize Mayara. On Sunday was their confirmation and also, Anderson already got the priesthood! They are so happy for their decision. We spent a little time with them after church and he just kept saying how happy he was. You can just tell they are extremely happy. It has been a long and great journey helping them get to this point. Such an amazing experience!
We also met this awesome family that I talked a little bit about in last weeks email. Well we visited them on saturday and it was great. Marcos and Claudia are their names. Claudia has taken us in with such love and care already! And they barely even know us! haha. We taught them about recieving an answer about Joseph and about the BOM. That is probably their biggest difficulty right now. We invited them to come to church yesterday and THEY CAME!!! It was so awesome to see them there. The members took them in and they had a great experience. We are so stoked for them. We are hoping for great things to come with this family.
Also, Hellen that got baptized a week ago, her brother and sister now want to be baptized! haha and her mom is allowing it! So we will start teaching them this week and help them prepare for baptism.
I love you all and I am so grateful to be a missionary. The experiences out here are priceless. Eu amo este evangelho. Eu sei que esta igreja é verdadeira e é a igreja de Cristo. Eu sei que Joseph viu. Se ele não visse, não estaríamos com a igreja verdadeira de Cristo hoje. AMO VOCÊS MUITO!!!!
Elder Howard
We also met this awesome family that I talked a little bit about in last weeks email. Well we visited them on saturday and it was great. Marcos and Claudia are their names. Claudia has taken us in with such love and care already! And they barely even know us! haha. We taught them about recieving an answer about Joseph and about the BOM. That is probably their biggest difficulty right now. We invited them to come to church yesterday and THEY CAME!!! It was so awesome to see them there. The members took them in and they had a great experience. We are so stoked for them. We are hoping for great things to come with this family.
Also, Hellen that got baptized a week ago, her brother and sister now want to be baptized! haha and her mom is allowing it! So we will start teaching them this week and help them prepare for baptism.
I love you all and I am so grateful to be a missionary. The experiences out here are priceless. Eu amo este evangelho. Eu sei que esta igreja é verdadeira e é a igreja de Cristo. Eu sei que Joseph viu. Se ele não visse, não estaríamos com a igreja verdadeira de Cristo hoje. AMO VOCÊS MUITO!!!!
Elder Howard
November 4, 2013
FAMILY!!!! This week was an awesome one!! Yesterday, we had the baptism of Hellen and it went great! She is 20 years old and is the sister of a member here named Helton. Helton was able to do the baptism and he loved it. It was a great experience for all the people who were there.
This friday is Anderson and Mayara's wedding!! We are so stoked for them!!! We will go to the wedding on Friday and then the baptism will be on Saturday. Burton will baptize Anderson and I will baptize Mayara. We are so excited for them. It is so cool to see people change their lives for the better and accept the gospel in their lives.
We met a super cool family this week as we were knockin doors, cuz we knock a lot of freakin doors! haha. The dad is named Marcos, his wife Claudia, their son and Caudia's mom Cecilia. They are a super catholic family, but were open to learn more. We taught them the first lesson and it went great! They seriously understood the importance of the message and the importance of the BOM. I then asked what would change in their lives if they recieved an answer that the book is true. Marcos responded quickly and said "Tudo" which means "everything". They will read the BOM and pray about it and we will return on Saturday.
We are still doin lots of contacts and working with the members to find new people to teach. Me and Burton are staying together longer and a new American is coming to be companions with the Bolivian that we live with. It will be dope!
I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!
Elder Howard
This friday is Anderson and Mayara's wedding!! We are so stoked for them!!! We will go to the wedding on Friday and then the baptism will be on Saturday. Burton will baptize Anderson and I will baptize Mayara. We are so excited for them. It is so cool to see people change their lives for the better and accept the gospel in their lives.
We met a super cool family this week as we were knockin doors, cuz we knock a lot of freakin doors! haha. The dad is named Marcos, his wife Claudia, their son and Caudia's mom Cecilia. They are a super catholic family, but were open to learn more. We taught them the first lesson and it went great! They seriously understood the importance of the message and the importance of the BOM. I then asked what would change in their lives if they recieved an answer that the book is true. Marcos responded quickly and said "Tudo" which means "everything". They will read the BOM and pray about it and we will return on Saturday.
We are still doin lots of contacts and working with the members to find new people to teach. Me and Burton are staying together longer and a new American is coming to be companions with the Bolivian that we live with. It will be dope!
I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!
Elder Howard
Sunday, November 3, 2013
October 28, 2013
FAMILY!!!! How are you all doing?? Sounds like you guys had a great week!! I had a good one as well!! Anderson and Mayara are doing great. They got almost all of their wedding invites out this week and they are super excited for the baptism and the wedding! We are so excited for them!!
Also, a couple weeks ago, we started teaching this girl named Hellen, who is a members brother. We taught her one quick lesson and passed her to the other elders here cuz she lives in their area. Well, this week she moved into our area and we will teach her again. The other elders have taught her all the messages already, so now we are just going to try to get her lined up for baptism! I am stoked about it!
Antonio and Sirlei are doing good as well. We were able to go and visit them this week. Sirlei is still wishy washy about the baptism, but she keeps thinking that she cant keep putting it off until tomorrow cuz one day, tomorrow might not come. She says that she knows it all is true. So we arent sure what the problem is exactly. They keep coming to church tho and are enjoying it a lot.
Also, we planned a family night with a member family here and their non member relatives. We taught a family of four: Paulo, Sandra, Leo and Renan. The family night went really great! We taught the first lesson using videos and stuff. We taught all about my man Joseph and the first vision. There was a great spirit with us and we could tell that everyone felt it. The next day, Sandra and Renan went to church. Paulo coulnt make it cuz of work. We will visit them again this week.
Well I love you all and hope that you have a great week!!! Aust, congrats on getting to the Semis in the state cup and for your hard work this year! You are doing way better than your older brother ever did :) I love you all!!! Next week is the transfer, so we will see what happens!
Elder Howard
Also, a couple weeks ago, we started teaching this girl named Hellen, who is a members brother. We taught her one quick lesson and passed her to the other elders here cuz she lives in their area. Well, this week she moved into our area and we will teach her again. The other elders have taught her all the messages already, so now we are just going to try to get her lined up for baptism! I am stoked about it!
Antonio and Sirlei are doing good as well. We were able to go and visit them this week. Sirlei is still wishy washy about the baptism, but she keeps thinking that she cant keep putting it off until tomorrow cuz one day, tomorrow might not come. She says that she knows it all is true. So we arent sure what the problem is exactly. They keep coming to church tho and are enjoying it a lot.
Also, we planned a family night with a member family here and their non member relatives. We taught a family of four: Paulo, Sandra, Leo and Renan. The family night went really great! We taught the first lesson using videos and stuff. We taught all about my man Joseph and the first vision. There was a great spirit with us and we could tell that everyone felt it. The next day, Sandra and Renan went to church. Paulo coulnt make it cuz of work. We will visit them again this week.
Well I love you all and hope that you have a great week!!! Aust, congrats on getting to the Semis in the state cup and for your hard work this year! You are doing way better than your older brother ever did :) I love you all!!! Next week is the transfer, so we will see what happens!
Elder Howard
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
October 21, 2013
FAMILY!!!! How are you all doin?? This week was a really good one, but definitely a tiring one!! Anderson and Mayara are doing great! Mayara had bachelorette party the other day and tons of the woman from the ward went. They said it went great! Also, Anderson and Mayara are finishing up their wedding invites and they are looking great! They have the San Diego temple on them with their names and the address and stuff. I told them to send you guys one so be on the look for it :)
This week we did tons of door to door knocking. We werent able to get into many houses, but we have some marked for this week to visit so hopefully those go well! haha. We are sick of knockin doors! haha but what do ya do? ;) We met a cool guy named Bruno that we will visit this week. He has tons of questions and is the kind of guy that has to see things to believe it. Me and Elder Val will be doing a division on Thursday and we will visit him.
Not too much more happened this week. President made a surprise visit at all the apartments in the mission to se if they were clean. He gave ours a rating of "Celestial Kingdom" so looks like I am set! hahah. Love you all and I hope that you have a great week!!!
Elder Howard
This week we did tons of door to door knocking. We werent able to get into many houses, but we have some marked for this week to visit so hopefully those go well! haha. We are sick of knockin doors! haha but what do ya do? ;) We met a cool guy named Bruno that we will visit this week. He has tons of questions and is the kind of guy that has to see things to believe it. Me and Elder Val will be doing a division on Thursday and we will visit him.
Not too much more happened this week. President made a surprise visit at all the apartments in the mission to se if they were clean. He gave ours a rating of "Celestial Kingdom" so looks like I am set! hahah. Love you all and I hope that you have a great week!!!
Elder Howard
Monday, October 14, 2013
October 14, 2013
FAMILY!!!! How are you all doin?? Sure miss you all like crazy!!! This week was a great one! ANDERSON AND MAYARA ARE GETTING MARRIED!!!! We are so excited for them! We went into the court house this week with all their documents and now we just have to wait for their wedding date. I got to be a testimony for it all too which was cool. They are planning on getting married on November 8th and baptized the next day. I am soo excited for them!!!
Today I am in Floripa!! haha how awesome is that?? I have missed it here for sure. I had to come and get my visa renewed along with the rest of the group. I am starting to get old on the mission ;) It is so awesome here and it is great to see everyone after so much time. I will be catching a nine hour bus tomorrow morning to head back to Joacaba.
Antonio and Sirlei went to church this week as well and we marked to meet with them tomorrow night. We are hoping to baptize Sirlei this month and to start on their marriage paperwork as well. They arent living together so she can get baptized before the wedding.
Things here are going great! I am liking this area a lot and I am meeting fantastic people. I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week. I hope dad had a great birthday as well! LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Elder Howard
Today I am in Floripa!! haha how awesome is that?? I have missed it here for sure. I had to come and get my visa renewed along with the rest of the group. I am starting to get old on the mission ;) It is so awesome here and it is great to see everyone after so much time. I will be catching a nine hour bus tomorrow morning to head back to Joacaba.
Antonio and Sirlei went to church this week as well and we marked to meet with them tomorrow night. We are hoping to baptize Sirlei this month and to start on their marriage paperwork as well. They arent living together so she can get baptized before the wedding.
Things here are going great! I am liking this area a lot and I am meeting fantastic people. I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week. I hope dad had a great birthday as well! LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Elder Howard
Sunday, October 13, 2013
October 7, 2013
FAMILY!!!! How the heck are you guys?? Today we are trying a different lanhouse to send emails so hopefully the internet will be better! It was freakin weird not being able to chat with you guys!!! hahah. HOW AWESOME WAS CONFERENCE?? Me and Burton watched it all in English and I enjoyed it a ton! I felt like so many of the talks and the things said were written just for me. It is way cool how the things they say apply so much to the things that I need. Hollands talk was fantastic. I also liked how all of the talked about missionary work with members, enduring to the end, and having faith and hope through our trials. It was great!!!
This week we also visited Anderson and Mayara a lot. We try to visit them and talk to them as often as we can. On friday they called us to take us out to eat. When we got to the restaurant, there were three little lakes next to it. They said we were going fishing!!! hahah it was so cool!!! We fished with them and ate and had a great time. Then we taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Holy Ghost and Endure to the End. It looks like it will take a little while for them to get married and baptized tho cuz of family problems. But we are here to help them every step of the way. They are reading the BOM everyday and are already to 1 Nephi 14. It is great!
We also had a family night this week which was great. We taught one of the twins and we are planning on visiting them this Saturday. It is tough to visit them cuz of their schedule. Also, their mom isnt too supportive of the church and stuff so that gets in the way too. But we will see how the visit on Saturday goes.
We are back to doing a lot of contacts to find more people to teach. It is tough, but thats what needs to be done! haha. We are trying to get references from members as well, so we will see how that goes. I love you all and hope that you have a great week!!! Shout out to the best dad in the world having his birthday on Saturday! 35 years old right? ;) I love you dad!!! I will be thinking of you!!!
Elder Howard
This week we also visited Anderson and Mayara a lot. We try to visit them and talk to them as often as we can. On friday they called us to take us out to eat. When we got to the restaurant, there were three little lakes next to it. They said we were going fishing!!! hahah it was so cool!!! We fished with them and ate and had a great time. Then we taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Holy Ghost and Endure to the End. It looks like it will take a little while for them to get married and baptized tho cuz of family problems. But we are here to help them every step of the way. They are reading the BOM everyday and are already to 1 Nephi 14. It is great!
We also had a family night this week which was great. We taught one of the twins and we are planning on visiting them this Saturday. It is tough to visit them cuz of their schedule. Also, their mom isnt too supportive of the church and stuff so that gets in the way too. But we will see how the visit on Saturday goes.
We are back to doing a lot of contacts to find more people to teach. It is tough, but thats what needs to be done! haha. We are trying to get references from members as well, so we will see how that goes. I love you all and hope that you have a great week!!! Shout out to the best dad in the world having his birthday on Saturday! 35 years old right? ;) I love you dad!!! I will be thinking of you!!!
Elder Howard
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