Hey Everyone,
We will have Zone Conference this Friday in Petrópolis or Teresópolis; I´m really excited for that. This transfer really flew by, I can´t believe it. And Mom, yes, I'm still in Usina. And Dad, no we didn't baptize Suely´s brother, he got scared and he doesn't want to be baptized now. Pretty sad for sure. We have been working a lot with Vanessa and her family. I´m really going to miss them when I have to leave. I will take a picture with them this week and send it to you next week if I get the chance. I gave her that Arizona shirt that you sent me Dad, because it was too small, I hope you don´t mind haha. She loves it and so does her husband, Gustava. He always steals it and wears it and she gets mad, it´s hilarious. They are such an awesome family. So humble but so happy. I also gave our address and my email to a bunch of people in the ward. I want to keep in touch with a ton of these people here. I am going to be really sad when I have to leave. It´s going to be really tough. I was talking to Marcio and his family yesterday cause we were eating lunch at their house and they said they were going to start sending letters home for me so that when I get there I will have a big old stack of them haha.
Elder Glade will be coming home next week I think. Thursday or Friday. He has to take like three or four airplanes to get home hahaha poor guy. He´ll be pretty exhausted for sure. J.J. will also be going home really quick as well huh? Ridiculous! Also Matt! Can´t believe this. Tell Sam hi for me alright? I love you all. Talk to you next week!
Love, Elder McDonald
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Week 16 in Volta Redonda
This week was really amazing though! We were walking around in Padre Josimo, coming back home, and we ran into this girl that me and Elder Glade were teaching our first transfer here, clear back in April, and she came up to us and said that she was ready to be baptized! It was amazing! We baptized her yesterday and we are going to baptize her little brother this week as well! We got up around 5 yesterday to go to the church and warm up the water in the font and go to Padre Josimo to pick her up. We baptized her at 8 in the morning right before Church started so that we could confirm her during sacrament as well. Everything went so well for us yesterday; we were so blessed. The returned missionary, Adriano, brought about 10 of our investigators to church with him, and four of them are going to be baptized this week. Everything is getting better here now; he has helped us so much. He´s still in the missionary mode, it´s way sweet! Elder Young and I were so tired by the end of last night, I didn´t think I was going to make it home when we were walking. So tired haha. It was an amazing day though.
We also had interviews with President on Thursday so I got my package. Thanks. The candy is great; I´ve been sharing it with some of the members and with the Sister missionaries, they are very grateful haha. ``American Candy, yay!!`` haha. But interviews were so good with President. He is so amazing! He gave us a little training before and it was so awesome, the Spirit was so strong. But he said that from now on, we will only have an interview every 3 months. I guess it is a new rule that the First Presidency sent, it kind of stinks. I think I´m going to be transferred though here in two weeks. President was telling me that this is one of the hardest areas in the mission and he thanked me for being so patient here. It has been a little tough getting baptisms and stuff, but it has been an awesome experience for me. I really like this area and I have had some amazing times here and met some amazing people! I also asked President if he could find out more information about the Tribe of Asher for me and he said that he would. I´m so grateful for him, he is such an amazing President. I am so lucky to have him for a mission president! I am so grateful for the Lord for everything that I have here and that I am experiencing. It really is so amazing!
Well, I hope that you are all still being safe and enjoying the rest of summer. Don´t worry, the weather hasn´t changed much, never really changes a whole lot with the seasons haha.
Love you all!!
Love, Elder McDonald
We also had interviews with President on Thursday so I got my package. Thanks. The candy is great; I´ve been sharing it with some of the members and with the Sister missionaries, they are very grateful haha. ``American Candy, yay!!`` haha. But interviews were so good with President. He is so amazing! He gave us a little training before and it was so awesome, the Spirit was so strong. But he said that from now on, we will only have an interview every 3 months. I guess it is a new rule that the First Presidency sent, it kind of stinks. I think I´m going to be transferred though here in two weeks. President was telling me that this is one of the hardest areas in the mission and he thanked me for being so patient here. It has been a little tough getting baptisms and stuff, but it has been an awesome experience for me. I really like this area and I have had some amazing times here and met some amazing people! I also asked President if he could find out more information about the Tribe of Asher for me and he said that he would. I´m so grateful for him, he is such an amazing President. I am so lucky to have him for a mission president! I am so grateful for the Lord for everything that I have here and that I am experiencing. It really is so amazing!
Well, I hope that you are all still being safe and enjoying the rest of summer. Don´t worry, the weather hasn´t changed much, never really changes a whole lot with the seasons haha.
Love you all!!
Love, Elder McDonald
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