i´ve been really busy this week with transfers, i´ve been
transfered to open a new city that has been closed for almost a year
called P, a small town about 40 minutes outside the big city of
Bauru in the countryside of the state of São Paulo.
i have a new companion as well, his name is Elder C he is really great and im really excited to get this
city up and running again with missionary work
the countryside of the state of são paulo reminds me a lot
of the countryside of California, really hot dirt but with
the occasional grove of trees, the state of paraná where i was
for the first two transfers was a lot like Oregon a little more south than
where we live, less green and hotter but with a good amount of trees
this week we didn't really do a lot of proselyting, we have
been combing the city for house to live in. right now we are living in B
with other missionaries and are commuting 40 minutes by bus every day to
p. but even though we didn't do much we have been visiting people who
have been taught by the members of the branch here and we are going to baptize
four of them this Saturday! a a couple and one of their
kids (they have 3 more kids but they aren't old enough to be
baptized yet) and a mother of a recently converted member
the work will go really well here, the members are excited
and like to help us and give us a lot of references
I loved conference as well, I got to watch the priesthood
session in Portuguese (understood 90% of it) and the two on Sunday in English
(they gathered all the English missionaries in the zone and had another
room set aside for us to watch). in português they are dubbed over by live
translators.
i Loved the spirit of conference this time around, there
were so many powerful testimonies. I liked the one by Jefferey R Holland, the
one by Tad Callister about the book of Mormon, and the one by the guy in the
presidency of the Sunday school about teaching by the spirit. the book of
Mormon and teaching by the spirit are the two most important things for me
right now to learn about
I love you all so much, Parabéns Rachel no
aniversário!
i got the letters from the family reunion, the package with
the pictures in it, and the letters for my birthday. (dont worry i have not
opened any of those letters yet) thanks Everybody! i really appreciate all
the letters and support!
it keeps on getting harder and harder to speak in English, i
hope that my grammar isnt getting too terrible. . . today i tried to bear my
testimony in English and i straight up couldnt do it until after i started
talking in english for a while.
Love you all! i will try to send more pictures!
-Elder Leete
