So today I started out my day with cutting my own hair for the
first time. Lets just say I am and was missing mom a little bit extra.
But it isn't horrible so it is fine. Then after that I went over and
before playing basketball with Jelson I gave him
a haircut which was much easier because he is black and just gave me
the razor and said zero take it all off. So that was a fun experience
to have cut a black man's hair.
Also as far as eating healthy I am doing my best and everything it
is definitely not easy but Elder Durfee says that I am his vegetable and
fruit companion. And that everything that I make is healthy looking.
So I will continue to work on that. There
is also lots of good food to try here and I do love the gelato.
This week I was starting to feel like we were not contacting enough
people and so I suggested a game were whoever contacts more people the
other one has to make some food for them in the evening. And so now we
rarely walk past someone without giving it
a shot and It has gotten kind of aggressive and really exciting. It
brought a lot of life into Elder Durfee and he loves it. I am also
happy to make food just to see him going after more and more people.
But I have started having conversations with people
on the bus and stuff by myself. It is fun and I kinda make sense and
understand most of it. So the language is coming along but my speaking
is really rough still. I am always reading in the book of mormon in
portuguese and that is working miracles. It is
really cool when I can understand scripture language.
The weather here is really nice as it is cooling off a little bit.
The people all complain about it being cold but I am usually still in
short sleeves and loving it. It still feels like summer to me which is
making it crazy to know that it is November.
The mission flies by.
We got to do some service for a man that was baptised last transfer
that had a stroke last year. He is really cool his name is Ernesto his
story is really cool about how his life completely changed after his
stroke. He went from being a self centered
businessman to a very humble man and no longer able to to what he was
before. He was definitely prepared by the Lord to have his heart
softened to hear the gospel. He is now an awesome member but has a hard
time getting to church right now with his schedule
in the clinic where his is working to get movement in his arm and leg
back. Because of this he needed help getting groceries because his
housekeeper was out of town. It was fun and everything but we have to
be there for a long time in the middle of a fast
and it made it really challenging. It is crazy how Satan tries to stop
things from happening.
For instance when we were headed over to give a lady a blessing we
had a car swerve off the road and fly by us yelling just trying to scare
us which worked for me. But we gave the blessing anyways and it was
really cool. I now have memorized how to do
the anointing so it is pretty cool to hear for me. I also got to teach
the lesson in gospel principles yesterday with a lot of people
including investigators there about the spirit world and in the book it
brings up some weird stuff so that was interesting.
But I made it through without teaching any blatantly false doctrine so
that is good.
This week we have been working hard but have
not been able to get the success that we would like number wise. We
have been really working with trying to get our investigators that are
right there over the hump and get baptised. We
are trying to get our members involved as much as possible and
hopefully that will help our investigators to take the next step. I am
grateful for the mission and the help that we get here from the members
that are already really excited about missionary
work. I will continue to try and work to talk to everyone and always
follow the spirit. I want to be a better missionary every day so that I
can help the people around me more. I am grateful that we have the
scriptures to look to and that they really are
and can answer all of our problems. I am really excited as they are
starting to be clearer to me in Portuguese. The gift of tongues is real
and I plea with Heavenly Father that he will bless the missionaries
with this everyday. I am honored to be a representative
and full time worker in this great cause. How much that means grows in
me every day. I hope that I never have a night where I look back and
realize that I hadn't given it my all but I am grateful to look back and
see where I need to improve. The programs
we have here in the mission are for a reason and I am grateful for that
guidance. There is no greater work than this. So at this point last
year I would have already had my surgery if that puts time into
perspective for you. It makes me think about how
fast the mission is going by already and how fast it is going to
continue going like that. We really just need to make the best out of
every single moment because I do know that I am on the Lord's time and I
would hate to know that I could have done better.
Next week I could be writing you from another
place because it is transfers Sunday so who knows what will happen. I
personally think I will stay but you never know. So hopefully I will
get plenty of time to write but even if I don't
I will make sure that all I do is write mom. ;) I will make sure that I
never fail to write you. I hope all is well at home and that you all
remember where your priorities in life should be.
I love you all and have a great week!
Elder Hobson
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