Oi Familia,
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. As for me, it was just another day. Ha Ha
This week has been a crazy week of ups and downs. This week is Elder Adriano's last week in the mission field. As you can imagine it's been a roller coaster for him. Just all the crazy emotions thinking about home and stuff. So that kinda messed things up for me a little bit too. For example; there were a few days where he said about 5 or 6 words to me and that was it. I got all mad, because when I would ask him something all he would say was; "I need to focus." It just didn't make anything easy, because I didn't want his last week to go on like this. One day it was really bad, I was angry and I didn't want to be with him. All day I was thinking about how I only had 4 more days with him and then that's it. (I was being really negative) That day we had an appointment for a lesson with a really good and promising investigator, who I'm 99% sure I will baptize next week. Anyway, this lesson needed to be good, and really good spiritually. I was thinking... how can we have the Spirit with us when I am being like this, this can't work. So I prayed and I prayed and I prayed. I was working straight on faith that this lesson would be perfect. And what do you know... we got to teaching and the nasty feeling that I had in me went away and we were able to teach. To teach and teach with the Spirit was amazing. To feel that the Lord really answered my prayers and that I know that He is listening to me and He is helping me do His work. Lincoln, the investigator, was so into the lesson too. It was amazing.
Well, in other matters, I saw a dog get ran over this week. It was sad because it didn't just die right away, it was screaming and yelping. I wanted to help it out so bad.
As for Christmas (calling home)a sister in my ward has this thing called Skype. Its like i-chat on the computer. I'm not sure if mac's can have Skype, but you should check it out. All the rules and stuff, because she said that I could use it if I wanted to. (So maybe on Christmas you can see me as well.) I have no clue about it, I just know I can use it if I want. If not I'll have a number for you guys to call on Christmas to just talk to me over the phone.
Well, that's about it for this week.
Love you guys,
Elder Manis
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
I am Thankful
Oi Familia,
Como voces estão pôwell?
This week has just been another hard week of work. I'm sorry I don't have any cool stories, just been working hard and the results have been coming slowly but they are coming. Elder Adriano and I are getting along great. Of course we have our little brigazinhos now and then, but everything is going great. He is getting a little trunkie, he only has one week left in his mission. So ya, you can imagine how he is feeling.
Well, a random story. This week I had an interview in English with President Pickett and I could hardly speak English. It's so crazy because I have to think so much to speak English and its just facil [easier] to speak Portuguese, :) cool huh? Vai ser muito mais facil se eu escrever minhas cartas do e-mail em portugés... mas vocés náo podem entender. haha [It's easier for me to write letters and e-mails in Portuguese...not that you guys would understand though.]
Well, I just checked my e-mails and I found out that it is almost Thanksgiving. Holy poo, I totally got lost in time. It is summer down here and I'm still waiting for it to get cold, but that will never happen. Ha Ha
Here are the things I am thankful for:
1. My Savior Jesus Christ and o que ele fez pra nos. I have been studying a lot about the life of Christ and trying to develop better Christ-like attributes. In doing so, I realized how much of a sacrifice he made for each and every one of us. He suffered, he wasn't just put up on the cruz [cross]. Ele [He] suffered in the garjim [garden] a pain that no one can describe and then he was persecuted and beaten, spit on and mocked and then he suffered on the cruz [cross]. Guys, know that Jesus Christ loves you and know that He died for you and only traves [through] him we can receber salvação [receive salvation].
2. Cada um de vocés [Each one of you] I love you all. For real's man.
Well I'm sorry I don't have much more to talk about.
Mom, I got my Halloween package. Ha Ha the candy lasted a good 5 seconds. I gave a Reese's peanut butter cup to Elder Adriano and he didn't take the paper off. So he ate the paper and said it was nasty. Ha Ha... burro. Ha Ha
Read the scriptures and know the Church is true.
I love you guys,
Elder Manis
Como voces estão pôwell?
This week has just been another hard week of work. I'm sorry I don't have any cool stories, just been working hard and the results have been coming slowly but they are coming. Elder Adriano and I are getting along great. Of course we have our little brigazinhos now and then, but everything is going great. He is getting a little trunkie, he only has one week left in his mission. So ya, you can imagine how he is feeling.
Well, a random story. This week I had an interview in English with President Pickett and I could hardly speak English. It's so crazy because I have to think so much to speak English and its just facil [easier] to speak Portuguese, :) cool huh? Vai ser muito mais facil se eu escrever minhas cartas do e-mail em portugés... mas vocés náo podem entender. haha [It's easier for me to write letters and e-mails in Portuguese...not that you guys would understand though.]
Well, I just checked my e-mails and I found out that it is almost Thanksgiving. Holy poo, I totally got lost in time. It is summer down here and I'm still waiting for it to get cold, but that will never happen. Ha Ha
Here are the things I am thankful for:
1. My Savior Jesus Christ and o que ele fez pra nos. I have been studying a lot about the life of Christ and trying to develop better Christ-like attributes. In doing so, I realized how much of a sacrifice he made for each and every one of us. He suffered, he wasn't just put up on the cruz [cross]. Ele [He] suffered in the garjim [garden] a pain that no one can describe and then he was persecuted and beaten, spit on and mocked and then he suffered on the cruz [cross]. Guys, know that Jesus Christ loves you and know that He died for you and only traves [through] him we can receber salvação [receive salvation].
2. Cada um de vocés [Each one of you] I love you all. For real's man.
Well I'm sorry I don't have much more to talk about.
Mom, I got my Halloween package. Ha Ha the candy lasted a good 5 seconds. I gave a Reese's peanut butter cup to Elder Adriano and he didn't take the paper off. So he ate the paper and said it was nasty. Ha Ha... burro. Ha Ha
Read the scriptures and know the Church is true.
I love you guys,
Elder Manis
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Migraine
Oi Familia,
How goes it in the AZ??
Everything going OK?
Things are going great down here. Well kinda - as far as work- it's going perfect, but this week I found out that I am my mother's son and my grandpa's grandson. In other words MIGRAINES, and they are killer too. Just yesterday during church I started to get a headache. I thought nothing of it, drank a bunch of water, but still it was pounding. I was sure it would just pass because I was almost positive my head hurt because I was dehydrated. So [after church] we went to teach a lesson. I was fine-ish, then BAM, I couldn't talk, I could hardly see and I was sweating like crazy. It was crazy. So we hurried up the lesson and left. Then BAM I threw up like 10 times in the street. I had Elder Adriano help to walk me home because I was basically blind. It was crazy! I couldn't see and I felt like I was going to pass out. It felt like a horse was kicking me in the head. I just went to bed and crashed. I'm not sure if it was caused by stress or the hot sun or something else, but it sucked big time.
How goes it in the AZ??
Everything going OK?
Things are going great down here. Well kinda - as far as work- it's going perfect, but this week I found out that I am my mother's son and my grandpa's grandson. In other words MIGRAINES, and they are killer too. Just yesterday during church I started to get a headache. I thought nothing of it, drank a bunch of water, but still it was pounding. I was sure it would just pass because I was almost positive my head hurt because I was dehydrated. So [after church] we went to teach a lesson. I was fine-ish, then BAM, I couldn't talk, I could hardly see and I was sweating like crazy. It was crazy. So we hurried up the lesson and left. Then BAM I threw up like 10 times in the street. I had Elder Adriano help to walk me home because I was basically blind. It was crazy! I couldn't see and I felt like I was going to pass out. It felt like a horse was kicking me in the head. I just went to bed and crashed. I'm not sure if it was caused by stress or the hot sun or something else, but it sucked big time.
As for work, it was, well...OK
We have been finding a lot of people to teach. But they are all burros. (donkeys) You can teach and teach and teach and your words go in one ear and out the other. It's really frustrating. But we found a real good kid named Lincoln, he is 19 years old and is just looking for the right path in life, which is amazing. He is not a burro. He is really smart and actually pays attention to what your are saying. It's so much easier and makes you happier when you teach someone that cares. As far as Elizete, she is progressing so well. Just this Sunday she paid her tithing. It is so amazing to see her progress.
We have been finding a lot of people to teach. But they are all burros. (donkeys) You can teach and teach and teach and your words go in one ear and out the other. It's really frustrating. But we found a real good kid named Lincoln, he is 19 years old and is just looking for the right path in life, which is amazing. He is not a burro. He is really smart and actually pays attention to what your are saying. It's so much easier and makes you happier when you teach someone that cares. As far as Elizete, she is progressing so well. Just this Sunday she paid her tithing. It is so amazing to see her progress.
Things have really been looking up. Elder Adriano is a little trunkie, but its all good. He only has 3 weeks left in his mission so he is now thinking about what he wants to do with his life. He always talks to me about what I want to do in life, and its made me realize that I have no clue. Ha Ha Oh well.
Hope everything is going great,
Elder Manis
Monday, November 9, 2009
A Date to Remember
Oi familia como voces estao, disculpa sobre a semana pasada ue tina problemas com esta site,
Well, what I just said was - sorry about no e-mail last week. I was having problems with this site. I didn't even get to e-mail President Pickett.
Anyway, this week I had my first baptism. Lets just say it was one I'll never forget. I will tell you about it. Yes, it was Ilizete, she has been progressing so well and she finally got baptized. I bought a cake for after the baptism to [make it special] and because its almost Christmas the store wrapped it in red wrapping paper. OK, so now Elder Adriano and I are walking to the church which is about a one hour walk(it's a good 10 to 15 miles). It's about 110 degrees out and 100% humidity, and between me sweating and the humidity the red ink of the bag went all over my pretty nice baptism shirt. But Elder Adriano and I traded shirts for the baptism, ta bom.
Now we are at the church and its time to fill up the font. So I followed all the rules and filled it up, but because it had been raining like crazy the week before, the church's water well was all dirty and the water that filled the font was.....GREEN! I'm talking like lake water, it was horrible. It got to the point where I asked her, "Look, the water's green. Do you still want to be baptized in this water?" I was so lucky, because she said "Yes". Then when we are in the water and I'm about to baptize her, I said the baptism prayer and put her under the water. But I messed up the prayer - I forgot one little word. [Since this is an ordinance of God I needed to do it right] so I had to baptize her again. Ha Ha All in all, it was the day I have been waiting for for a long time. :) It was amazing to hear her testimony afterword. The first thing she said was "Us so grato prá mue dois anjos." (I'm grateful for my 2 angels) It's so amazing, I can't describe to you how I felt. That scripture in Doctrine and Covenants is so true.. how great will your joy be if you bring one soul to Christ.. I think that's how it goes.. I just translated it.
[15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!
16 And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!]
I got bit by the bug now. I feel like a new missionary. It's crazy, now I'm ready to go.
The first thing Ilizete said when I knocked her door was, "I already have my religion." And look at her now. She is a member of the true Church :)))) I'm so happy!
Well, other than that this week has been just another week in the book, working hard and seeing results. :) Elder Adriano and I are getting a long great, so nothing to worry about there. :D
For your Christmas presents, what are your shoe sizes in Brazil (don't say "I don't know" you have the Internet use it haha) and sent me a cd walkman that plays mp3 cds
Love you all,
Elder Manis
Well, what I just said was - sorry about no e-mail last week. I was having problems with this site. I didn't even get to e-mail President Pickett.
Anyway, this week I had my first baptism. Lets just say it was one I'll never forget. I will tell you about it. Yes, it was Ilizete, she has been progressing so well and she finally got baptized. I bought a cake for after the baptism to [make it special] and because its almost Christmas the store wrapped it in red wrapping paper. OK, so now Elder Adriano and I are walking to the church which is about a one hour walk(it's a good 10 to 15 miles). It's about 110 degrees out and 100% humidity, and between me sweating and the humidity the red ink of the bag went all over my pretty nice baptism shirt. But Elder Adriano and I traded shirts for the baptism, ta bom.
Now we are at the church and its time to fill up the font. So I followed all the rules and filled it up, but because it had been raining like crazy the week before, the church's water well was all dirty and the water that filled the font was.....GREEN! I'm talking like lake water, it was horrible. It got to the point where I asked her, "Look, the water's green. Do you still want to be baptized in this water?" I was so lucky, because she said "Yes". Then when we are in the water and I'm about to baptize her, I said the baptism prayer and put her under the water. But I messed up the prayer - I forgot one little word. [Since this is an ordinance of God I needed to do it right] so I had to baptize her again. Ha Ha All in all, it was the day I have been waiting for for a long time. :) It was amazing to hear her testimony afterword. The first thing she said was "Us so grato prá mue dois anjos." (I'm grateful for my 2 angels) It's so amazing, I can't describe to you how I felt. That scripture in Doctrine and Covenants is so true.. how great will your joy be if you bring one soul to Christ.. I think that's how it goes.. I just translated it.
[15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!
16 And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!]
I got bit by the bug now. I feel like a new missionary. It's crazy, now I'm ready to go.
The first thing Ilizete said when I knocked her door was, "I already have my religion." And look at her now. She is a member of the true Church :)))) I'm so happy!
Well, other than that this week has been just another week in the book, working hard and seeing results. :) Elder Adriano and I are getting a long great, so nothing to worry about there. :D
For your Christmas presents, what are your shoe sizes in Brazil (don't say "I don't know" you have the Internet use it haha) and sent me a cd walkman that plays mp3 cds
Love you all,
Elder Manis
Monday, November 2, 2009
Baptism
Hey Guys,
Well, this week has been great. A lot of hard work is starting to pay off. Elizete will be baptized this week!! Finally we are getting results. Well, I shouldn't say finally but you know what I mean. Things are going great with her. She is a little scared about leaving her church but she is really confident in her decision, which is great. She is really excited to start her genealogy and all that stuff for her family. Sunday we learned about baptism for the dead and it gave her a bunch of questions and doubts and stuff. I was freaking out, but everything smoothed out and she is growing in the faith which is amazing to see But I also saw how powerful Satan is. The day before the interview of her baptism Elizete had the worst craving for café. She was getting the shakes and all that stuff. She looked like she was on drugs. It was crazy to see how much Satan doesn’t want to see people get baptized. But she worked through it and everything smoothed out in the end. So I'm really excited to get a baptism this week :). Thanks for the prayers.
Its good to hear that everything is going great there. I'm glad you finally got the pictures. PS - I don’t say the N-word... Elder Hale said it.
Well, everything is going great just working hard.
HAPPY B DAY WYATT!
O grandõna 17 mané sempre faz bem e concivar tua rota.
Te Amo,
Elder Manis
Oops - I need every ones shoe size in Brazil sizes.
Don’t ask why just do it.
Well, this week has been great. A lot of hard work is starting to pay off. Elizete will be baptized this week!! Finally we are getting results. Well, I shouldn't say finally but you know what I mean. Things are going great with her. She is a little scared about leaving her church but she is really confident in her decision, which is great. She is really excited to start her genealogy and all that stuff for her family. Sunday we learned about baptism for the dead and it gave her a bunch of questions and doubts and stuff. I was freaking out, but everything smoothed out and she is growing in the faith which is amazing to see But I also saw how powerful Satan is. The day before the interview of her baptism Elizete had the worst craving for café. She was getting the shakes and all that stuff. She looked like she was on drugs. It was crazy to see how much Satan doesn’t want to see people get baptized. But she worked through it and everything smoothed out in the end. So I'm really excited to get a baptism this week :). Thanks for the prayers.
Well, as for Halloween everything was crazy. It has been raining here for the past 5 days and by raining - I mean RAINING. Its like a tropical storm or something. At times it was hard to walk against the wind because it was so strong. The little dinky umbrella I had broke in like 5 minutes. So I wasted all my money on a beach umbrella. I'm talking like the ones that Nana has in her backyard. The big huge umbrellas that you have to wind up and down, that weigh like 20 pounds. Ha Ha, yup I has walking around the streets with that, its huge. I did manage to buy a watermelon that weighed 20 pounds. It's pretty big, and we made a jack o' lantern out of that. It worked pretty good. The Brazilians that I live with were freaking out, but they thought it was cool. Ha, the first jack o' lantern in Brazil. They do have a day for the dead here but its not all crazy like Mexico. It's today actually [Nov 2].
Its good to hear that everything is going great there. I'm glad you finally got the pictures. PS - I don’t say the N-word... Elder Hale said it.
Well, everything is going great just working hard.
HAPPY B DAY WYATT!
O grandõna 17 mané sempre faz bem e concivar tua rota.
Te Amo,
Elder Manis
Oops - I need every ones shoe size in Brazil sizes.
Don’t ask why just do it.
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