Halloween
past by completely unnoticed, if i didn’t have to renew my vista on Oct 31st I
would have never even thought about it.
Here
in the “Londrina T” stake we will have conference this next week. The culture
about Church meetings are a lot diferente here, because more than half the
people don’t have cars they have to walk to church so one of the biggest
concerns that bishops and stake presidentes have is simply getting the people to go to church
every Sunday, and especially stake conferences.
I
really look forward to stake conferences; I really can recognize how
spiritually great the seventies are. When I was growing up a stake conference
was just like any other Sunday, but now that I guess I’m more spiritually involved in
every church meeting, I can see and feel the difference in the spirituality of
brother John Doe in the Ward and one of the seventy when they visit. I´m not
saying that brother John isn’t spiritual, because an honest testimony with
sincere words Always brings the spirit, but when a general authority talks he
brings with it his calling, and they always talk about what the people in that
region really need.
Are
there really 47 missionaries from our stake? That’s crazy! Here a stake is Lucky
if it sends out 7 or 10. How many wards are there in the stake?
As
for the election, every investigator seems to ask me who is going to win, and I’m
so disconnected I don’t know anything. Hey, if my ballot got there in the mail,
can you guys vote for me. Send one more in for Romney (not like it will matter,
we do live in Oregon)
I
Liked the Package you all sent! I got a bunch of Pictures from R and
Peanut butter and Cake from the Family. Every morning now I make a “vitamina”
how they call it in Portuguese. I put whole milk, bananas, Nesquick, and peanut
butter in a blender. It’s delicious, But I’m also gaining weight. . .
This
week is my Companions Last week on the mission. We have about 8 people that
could be baptized but have problems. (Marriage, word of wisdom, etc. . .)
We
are teaching a young couple that both smoke. We gave them a blessing to stop
and the husband, who smoked a carton of cigarettes per day didn’t smoke any
more since then. The wife is having a harder time, she just is smoking less.
This is the third time on the mission that I gave someone a blessing to stop
smoking and they stopped. They all have the same thing that they just don’t
have any more desire to. I know the Priesthood is real, but it completely
depends on the Faith of the person who was blessed, I have given blessings in a
lot of people that just kept smoking in the same way.
Love
you all, I´m doing great here
-Elder
Leete
