I love you all and hope all is well. I miss you all very much.
Life
here is great. The Lord is really blessing this area. It is easy to see
His love that He has for His children here on earth. I have a strong
testimony that He is present in ALL places at ALL times. Dont ever
forget that.
This week was a great week. We are teaching some great people and
are helping many understand the Gospel of Christ. We have been working
with a family who is not married but we are working with them on the
whole marriage thing. This week will be a big week because we are going
to work on getting their documents. So pray hard that all will go well. I
will keep you posted on them. The husband wants to know if he can come
and work for you dad. hahaha. He is a really hard worker and has always
wanted to work on a farm. I told him I would talk to my dad. haha.
We are working with a great group of young men right now. We are
excited to see them progressing. The new rule of Brazil, I might have
already told you but I will say it again, is that a kid under the age of
16 has so go to church at least 12 times before he or she can be
baptized or he or she has to go a good number of times and have an
interview with the Bishop if he or she is to be baptized before
attending church 12 times. So with these young men who are all under 16.
13-15 are their ages. We are going to get them to chuch a few more
times then have their interviews because they are wanting to be baptized
now. haha. They are great young men who have a huge desire to follow
Christ. We will continue to work with them as well.
So last pday we went to say goodbye to our Bishop because he is
moving to São Paulo. I talked to his daughter who had to come home early
from a mission due to health problems and she started talking about
eveyone in my district at the MTC in São Paulo. And I asked her, Wait if
you knew them you should have known me. But she didnt remember and
neither did I. Then the conversation continued and I jsut sat quiet
thinking about the MTC and I remembered one day a Sister missionary came
up to me and asked where I was going to serve. When I told her where I
was going she told me in English that she has a dad that is a Bishop in
Salvador and I need to go visit her family and that was the only time I
saw her and forgot about it until that night at Bishops house.....to
make a long story short we discovered that it was her that came up and
told me that. So she invited me to come meet her dad and family and one
year later I was able to meet them and she was there too. Its a pretty
crazy story. Well at least I thought. haha. We all couldnt believe it.
Its a small world but I think the church makes it even smaller. Anyway.
That was kind of funny this week.
I have been studying Jesus the Christ again and am loving it. I
cant put it down. Study the scriptures and the words of the Prophets!!
This
week we have interviews with President and Sister. They are visiting
all of the houses to do a clean check. Good thing ours is clean. haha.
It really is.
Anyway, so my week was great. Congrats everyone with the babies
that will be coming soon. I love you all and have a great week!!
Remember that the Lord loves you!!
Elder Hadley
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