Hey Guys,
This week was pretty crazy, lots of running around. Elder Young´s snake, the old lady who loves him, is hilarious haha. Oh man, everytime we go over there I just sit there laughing forever at the stuff that she says to him. Everytime we go there to teach her, she just talks about how beautiful she thinks he is and if he thinks that she is beautiful to. She´s about 60 years old, doesn´t have any teeth, and a little on the larger side of the scale, if you know what I mean. And the last time we were there teaching her, she was just saying how beautiful Elder Young talks, with ``such sympathy``, as she described it hahaha! Oh man, I about dyed laughing! Then she always asks him if he´s going to get married, and he is already engaged, so he just tells her that and then she says how she wants to go to his wedding and wants him to bring her a cake. He says that he will put a piece in the fridge for her if she ever goes up there to visit hahaha. Oh man, too funny. Everyone thinks that he is American because of his name, I think he gets a little annoyed by that haha. Good times over here.
We went and had dinner at Tania´s and Vaviane´s house again with their family and Vladir was there again this time; I love going over there, they are the coolest family! I was teasing him if he got me a Flamengo jersey yet; we were joking around about that last time I was over there talking to him and he gave me that little keychain thing. He said that it was ``arriving`` haha. The next thing I know, he comes out with this jersey in his hands and he´s like, this is my jersey of theirs that I bought I while ago....now it´s yours! I was like, What?! Seriously?! It was so sweet! I was so excited, he is such an awesome guy, holy cow! Still can´t believe it haha, these jerseys cost more than 100 bucks. All I know is that I need to find a way to thank him! I need to get his address and stay in contact with him for sure, he is studying to be an architect. We´re trying to get him back into the church, because he is less active and hasn´t been for a while. We also went back to Márcia´s last night and visited her again. We haven´t been there for awhile. She is really awesome; it gets really sad going over there though to these houses because they are such awesome people but they are missing something in their lives with not going to church. Every one of these families that are less active are some of the most awesome people I have ever met in my life; we just need to help them come back into the church.
We found another elect last night, his name is Eric and he´s 18. He went to church for the first time yesterday in the Sister´s area, but he lives in our area. We visited him last night, and he said that while he was in the church, he was seriously thinking about asking to be baptized right then. We are going to baptize him this week. :) He is awesome, he said that he loved the church; his dad is a less-active and yesterday was his first time returning in twenty plus years! Crazy!
Things here are going really awesome! Winter here is really nice, nice and cool. Elder Young is hilarious and we´ve been having some great times together for sure. Elder Glade is still here for his last transfer, he hasn´t gone home yet. He is a Zone Leader in Nova Iguaçú now; all of my old companions are Zone Leaders now, it´s what I do, I create Zone Leaders. See how good I am here? Haha just joking. I gave him our address and phone number so he should be contacting you guys when he gets home to go and visit you guys. He is an awesome guy, I miss him as a companion, we had some awesome times together!
Well, I´m glad that you are all doing great! I haven´t gotten my package yet, but I did get some more letters this last Zone meeting that we had, that was good. I will get my package at this next Zone Conference I think, I will let you know alright? I hope that you guys have a good week! I Love you all!
Love, Elder McDonald
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Week 13 in Volta Redonda
Hey Everybody, how´s everything going?
Thanks for all of the emails, they were really great! Sounds like you all had a great Fourth of July yesterday; I forgot that it was the Fourth until today haha. I don´t remember the American holidays very well anymore. Sorry this email is a little later than the others; the place where we usually go to email was having problems with the internet....same with the other one.....but we finally found one! haha today was good; we had to go and clean the stake center; the garden area and all of the grass and stuff. I can´t seem to get away from doing landscaping, even on the mission. What is this? Tell Jeff that I´m still practicing here on the mission and preparing to come back to work haha.
Well, I got a new companion, you were right, good guess. I´m still here in Usina though, very happy about that. I have my first Brasilian companion finally haha he is Awesome!! He has an American name though haha Elder Young; his real name is Elder Oliveira but someone already had his name when he got here, so they had to use his middle name, which is Young from Brigham Young haha. He´s hilarious! I finally have a companion who looks like he has a beard 24/7 like me; we both look like 30 year old missionaries walking around the streets haha. He freaked out when he saw our house for the first time, I just laughed. I love when we introduce the new missionaries to our house, it´s always great. We have so many awesome missionaries in our Zone. Elder Taffarel, Elder Mendonça; they are hilarious!! I always know when they get to Zone meeting because I always hear, ``MAC!!!`` haha it´s awesome! My new nickname is Elder Mac Feliz!! It´s pretty awesome, it´s the slogan for McDonald´s here, fits pretty well for me, huh? I think I´m going to make a t-shirt or something that says Elder Mac Feliz with the McDonald´s sign on it, or you could make it for me? We were playing some soccer again today, that was really fun. I´m pretty terrible, it´s been a long time since I´ve run or done anything like that haha.
This last week was pretty crazy; there were two Brasil games and during the games, the city just goes nuts!! We are inside studying, and when they make a goal, you just hear the whole city start screaming, horns blowing, and fireworks going off everywhere!! It´s insane, but way sweet! All of those illegal fireworks that are banned from Utah are all here haha sounds like a bunch of bombs going off! It was a really awesome experience to be here during the World Cup though, the streets are decorated with all kinds of awesome paintings on the walls and banners everywhere, it´s so sweet! I can´t take pictures though, unfortunately. I don´t dare return to Rio for the next World Cup that will be here; it is going to be insane!!!!! I´ll just play it safe and watch it on TV haha. I value my life too much.
Nothing much really new here, the Ward still keeps getting better and we are getting a lot of help from the members now; a lot more references and a lot more people who want to leave on divisions with us and have family nights with us and investigators! One member, Ozair, is so awesome! I love that guy! He helps us out so much and we go over to his house a lot. We are trying to have a family night with him and I´m really excited! We also found a member who wants to help us as well, Vanessa, and she brought us to her neighbors house and we taught with her there. The Spirit was really powerful when she bore her testimony about the Book of Mormon and told us about her conversion story, so cool. Everything is getting better here, I love it!!!! We have another activity this week as well so that should be awesome!! Endrigo is going to the Campinas Temple this weekend and I told him to bring me back a new Bible because my old one got messed up a little bit. Elder Young also found a snaky old woman who likes him and I always laugh when we go over there; he hasn´t even been here for a week yet and already he has a snake, what is this? I feel like I am growing a lot more though for sure, I feel like the Senior companion because I have to show Elder Young where everything is and introduce him to all of the members, it is really good. I get the responsibility without getting burned by the Zone leaders haha. I am learning so much everyday and growing so much as well. I can tell that I´m already a completely different person and I still have a ways to go on the mission, so this will be cool to see how much I change for the better.
Well, I hope that you guys have an awesome week this week! Sounds like you had a lot of fun watching those movies, they were pretty awesome! I don´t remember them completely, but I remember a little bit of them. I heard Toy Story 3 was really, really good. Viviane said that she cried during it as well haha. Um dia eu vou assistir! I will talk to you all next week. Love you all!
Love, Elder McDonald
Thanks for all of the emails, they were really great! Sounds like you all had a great Fourth of July yesterday; I forgot that it was the Fourth until today haha. I don´t remember the American holidays very well anymore. Sorry this email is a little later than the others; the place where we usually go to email was having problems with the internet....same with the other one.....but we finally found one! haha today was good; we had to go and clean the stake center; the garden area and all of the grass and stuff. I can´t seem to get away from doing landscaping, even on the mission. What is this? Tell Jeff that I´m still practicing here on the mission and preparing to come back to work haha.
Well, I got a new companion, you were right, good guess. I´m still here in Usina though, very happy about that. I have my first Brasilian companion finally haha he is Awesome!! He has an American name though haha Elder Young; his real name is Elder Oliveira but someone already had his name when he got here, so they had to use his middle name, which is Young from Brigham Young haha. He´s hilarious! I finally have a companion who looks like he has a beard 24/7 like me; we both look like 30 year old missionaries walking around the streets haha. He freaked out when he saw our house for the first time, I just laughed. I love when we introduce the new missionaries to our house, it´s always great. We have so many awesome missionaries in our Zone. Elder Taffarel, Elder Mendonça; they are hilarious!! I always know when they get to Zone meeting because I always hear, ``MAC!!!`` haha it´s awesome! My new nickname is Elder Mac Feliz!! It´s pretty awesome, it´s the slogan for McDonald´s here, fits pretty well for me, huh? I think I´m going to make a t-shirt or something that says Elder Mac Feliz with the McDonald´s sign on it, or you could make it for me? We were playing some soccer again today, that was really fun. I´m pretty terrible, it´s been a long time since I´ve run or done anything like that haha.
This last week was pretty crazy; there were two Brasil games and during the games, the city just goes nuts!! We are inside studying, and when they make a goal, you just hear the whole city start screaming, horns blowing, and fireworks going off everywhere!! It´s insane, but way sweet! All of those illegal fireworks that are banned from Utah are all here haha sounds like a bunch of bombs going off! It was a really awesome experience to be here during the World Cup though, the streets are decorated with all kinds of awesome paintings on the walls and banners everywhere, it´s so sweet! I can´t take pictures though, unfortunately. I don´t dare return to Rio for the next World Cup that will be here; it is going to be insane!!!!! I´ll just play it safe and watch it on TV haha. I value my life too much.
Nothing much really new here, the Ward still keeps getting better and we are getting a lot of help from the members now; a lot more references and a lot more people who want to leave on divisions with us and have family nights with us and investigators! One member, Ozair, is so awesome! I love that guy! He helps us out so much and we go over to his house a lot. We are trying to have a family night with him and I´m really excited! We also found a member who wants to help us as well, Vanessa, and she brought us to her neighbors house and we taught with her there. The Spirit was really powerful when she bore her testimony about the Book of Mormon and told us about her conversion story, so cool. Everything is getting better here, I love it!!!! We have another activity this week as well so that should be awesome!! Endrigo is going to the Campinas Temple this weekend and I told him to bring me back a new Bible because my old one got messed up a little bit. Elder Young also found a snaky old woman who likes him and I always laugh when we go over there; he hasn´t even been here for a week yet and already he has a snake, what is this? I feel like I am growing a lot more though for sure, I feel like the Senior companion because I have to show Elder Young where everything is and introduce him to all of the members, it is really good. I get the responsibility without getting burned by the Zone leaders haha. I am learning so much everyday and growing so much as well. I can tell that I´m already a completely different person and I still have a ways to go on the mission, so this will be cool to see how much I change for the better.
Well, I hope that you guys have an awesome week this week! Sounds like you had a lot of fun watching those movies, they were pretty awesome! I don´t remember them completely, but I remember a little bit of them. I heard Toy Story 3 was really, really good. Viviane said that she cried during it as well haha. Um dia eu vou assistir! I will talk to you all next week. Love you all!
Love, Elder McDonald
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