Same Address

This marks the end of another transfer and I’m going to stay here for more area to finish off training Elder P, then I’ll definitely be moved out. This will be the first time I have stayed in an area for more than two transfers, but I’m seeing the area and ward grow so I think that me and Elder P can do really well here and I won’t get too bored of the place. That means too that you all should feel free to send me packages to this address!

 All letters should be sent normally to the mission office.

Yes they have daylight savings, its turning into fall here so a couple of weeks back we "fell" back an hour. It still is really summer weather here though, everyone is holding out for the rain to start up again to cool us down

We have a ward here with a frequency of about 100 people, the meetings are exactly the same as over there, I just miss having a nice big chapel with carpet and padded pews. The chapel here is really small and has nice hard ones to keep us awake during sacrament.

I just miss carpet in general, and being able to walk around your house barefoot.  Our floor in this house we´re in is straight cement with a layer of paint over it.

I haven’t had to speak here yet, but every once in a while I will give the lesson in principles of the gospel.

Our Young Women’s program in this ward is really strong, they have been really great about integrating our recent convert from last week. She even brought her friend to church this week who wants to get baptized too! Our baptisms are multiplying!

That’s about it for now, we area teaching a really cool family but that needs to get married before they can get baptized, but they have to wait for a previous divorcement paper to go through. In the meantime, pray for the parent´s hearts to be softened to let the kids be baptized. Two  girls, one 10 and one 8. R and A C. The parents are S and D.

Love you all! Remember to send me more peanut butter! (Feel free to send that as often as you want, if I have too much I can pawn it off to others for a lot!)

tchau!

Pic!

Elder P, A, N, and Elder Leete

Familia

This week was yet another tiring week, but one that ended once again with. . . . . .

BATISMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me and Elder P did a contact knocking on doors with a lady named A the first day that he got here, and we finally got around to visiting her two weeks ago. We taught her once and she showed up for church!! But then last week we stayed in the hospital so we didn’t visit her but that Saturday she went to a Relief Society activity and then last Sunday went to church again and brought her daughter N! We didn’t even teach her or anything that whole week! Then this week we taught her and invited her to be baptized and they BOTH accepted!! They were baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday!!! They really are some of the ELECT!!!

For other random matters, has anybody sent me any more packages? The last one I got was the Christmas one.

But it is the last week of the transfer so i don’t know if I will stay here for much longer if you want to send me a package wait for next week for me to say if I’m staying here or moving. Has anyone sent anything to this address?

 All letters go to the mission office, all packages to the house where i´m living

Mission office:
Elder Kevin Leete
Missão Brasil Londrina
1100 Higienópolis sala 61
Centro
Londrina - Paraná
86020-911
BRASIL

Love you all!

-Elder Leete

oi!

Whew! It was a super busy week this week that ended up with, you guessed it,

BATISMO!!!!!!!!!!

Starting with last Saturday Elder Petersen was having bad stomach pains, so we went in to the doctor and he gave him meds with the instructions to come back if he develops a fever. Sunday night, he started getting a really bad fever so we went back hoping that it wasn’t appendicitis. After staying in the hospital for four nights and doing a ton of tests the doctor finally said that it was probably Dengue and sent us home to rest since his fever went away. As he stayed in the apartment me and Elder R. Silva, our district leader, went crazy doing divisions so that we could make up for the lost time, we even got all the missionaries in the zone to come work in our area for a day. Me and Elder R. Silva visited a family that me and Elder Pineda taught but stopped teaching a while back and we invited the son to be baptized. He was all for it but the mom was really hesitant, but with a lot of work and a marathon of visits on Friday and Saturday it all turned out great and he, Leonardo, entered the waters of baptism on Sunday!! Elder Petersen was well enough to baptize him so he did it! It turned out that Leonardo was really afraid of getting his head under  water, so after a little while of trying he ended up doing the tried and true "sweep the leg" to get him under and everything turned out great!!!

This week we had a lot of visitors in sacrament meeting, so with a little work we should have another baptism soon. Keep praying for us to be able to teach with the spirit and that our investigators will keep their commitments and especially that this new member will stay strong in the gospel even though he’s so young.

That’s it for this week! Until the next!

Love you all!!

-Elder Leete

Companion is Sick

Mon 2/20/2012 3:40 PM

Sorry I couldn't write today, I’m in the hospital with Elder P who has been sick. The doctors have not found out what's wrong but they will do more tests tomorrow. Everything is fine though, he will be right as rain in a few days.      Elder P's mom also found moms blog so she’s keeping up through that so just post good stuff about us!

Tchau! I will try to write again this week but probably won't be until next Monday! 

-Elder Leete

The Importance of Prayer and Scripture Study

Hey everybody!

My pink eyes all cleared up and I’m on antibiotics for the throat and that’s a lot better too. I had to spend a lot of money on drugs so i used my card and will get the reimbursement from the mission in like a month. (yeah it takes forever) Also today I’m gonna have to buy groceries with my card, our mission allowance doesn’t fall until like Wednesday but we only go shopping on P-day so I gotta get food now.

My newbie´s doing real well, he can speak and understand a lot just not very fast.

L hasn’t stopped smoking yet, but she´s getting there so thank you for the prayers.

Hope everybody had fun; sounds like you guys are having a good time. (MORP)
Feliz aniversário Melissa!! Parabéns! I’m starting to feel really old now. . . .

I second everything that Matt had to say, that about describes the mission experience.

(Matt is Kevin’s friend serving in Poland.  He wrote: "I'm doing way good, it's so fun, this is better than anything else I have ever done, ya its hard ha-ha and I'm always tired but you can't describe the feelings, experiences, and miracles. It's unreal.")

In Brasil they don’t celebrate Valentine ’s Day, but in August they have a near equivalent `day of the boy/girlfriends´.

It’s hot here. It just stays at about 30 degrees Celsius all day, every day. Unless it rains in which it cools off a little.

Recently we have been teaching a good amount of families about the importance of prayer and scripture study in the family, something that I’m growing more and more grateful for that we did as a family in my whole life.   Really the secret about living a God-centered life is:

-personal prayer
-personal scripture study
-family prayer
-family scripture study
-ward prayer and ward scripture study (which happens at church)
-stake prayer and scripture study (which happens at stake conference)
-regional prayer and regional scripture study (at regional conference)
-Everybody prayer and scripture study (general conference)

If we do these things we will one day return and live with God, because that is how we get the strength to battle against Satan.

And that’s all I have time for today. I Exhort you all to do these things and Be Saved, it’s just that easy.

Love you,
-Elder Leete

Lots of Pictures!

We received a sd card full of pictures from Kevin this week.  About 400 of them neatly organized into files for each of his areas.  We are in the process of figuring out the best way of sharing them so stay tuned.  For now, here is a picture of Kevin and his companion in their Christmas PJs we sent them.