So this week was
transfers and I am staying in Alverca with Elder Alves which is cool
with me becase Alverca is a sweet ward. If what happens what should
make sence I would think that means that I will problably end up staying
here for one more after that atleast to keep consistency so I am gald
that I am really liking this area.
So
that is awesome that you are working hard on the Morning family prayer
thing. I know that it will be kindof tough but it definatly is worth a
feather. (as the direct translation for "worth it" is in portuguese)
and will help you all have better days and resist the temptations of
the world. I will make sure that in my morning prayers I am mentioning
the house too.
Glad
that the super bowl was sucess and that everyone sounds like life is
good the house is going up quick and that big man jess is tearing it up
on the hardwood!!! Keep gettting more aggressive and faster and all
that good stuff. I will let you know about the white sauce but for now,
I dont cook food really I just make biscuits and then buy oatmeal and
fruits and veggies and the members do all the rest! vida boa aqui
This
week we have really been trying to use all of our resources as
missionaries so that we can have sucess in finding the truely elect of
God. It has been a challenge as we have been trying to clean out our
investigator pool so that we can help those that really want to progess
progess and find the ones that the Lord has already prepared. Hopefully
our prayers and efforts will be answered and we can start to have more
new investigators that will progress. We have been having lots of
sucess from our aula de Ingles and hopefully we can continue to use that
to strengthen our menos activos and our investigators that are coming
to that.
We have one investigator that is
named Ibe. He is a man that we pass by once a week to teach because he
has been taught for a long time by the missionaries and has a desire to
be baptised he just works on sundays. His contract will end here at the
end of the month and he plans to move to london and get baptised with
his family if he can get over his doubts about blacks and the priesthood
and poligamy. He has an issue with sever comments that past apostles
have made and has a notebook were he keeps all of them documented. He
has had these discussions with many missionaries and african members but
he still is holding the doubts. We are really concerned that he can
get past them so that he will go through with his baptism when he
moves. We are going to talk to Elder Phippen about visiting with us so
hopefully that will be a sucess.
So
for the spiritual thought this week I have to first say that this week
has been a tough week as far as success with our investigators. More or
less all of our marked lessons with people have been falling and we
have been cleaning out or investigator pool because none of them were
progressing. It is really tough but it is missionary work and it never
has been easy. But thismorining I was reading about Captian Moroni and
the chapter where it talks about how if everyone was like him that the
devil would not have power. I thought that it was really cool becuase I
have never really studied the verses early on that discribe what kind
of man he was. I had to take a step back and look at myself to see
where I really stand on each of those traits so that I can have the same
power of spirt that they had. When I get frustrated with lack of
sucess I have to think about how the everyone has their freedom and I
cannot force anyone to be more happy and accept eternal glory and
endless joy. But I know that i can control what happens with me and
that I can only work harder and be more obeidient so that I can have a
more powerful spirit with me as I teach.
I
am excited to be able to continue to work here in Alverca and hopefully
we will be able to have more baptisms and strengthen this amazing
ward. Love you all and have a an amazing week as always1
Love Elder Hobson
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