Hey you all,
Came and gone another week! Me and Elder Simmons were still run run running this week, talking with everyone but still we have yet to find our awesome elect family. It's what we keep telling each other while we go tracting, "Elder, I think our awesome elect family is behind that door."
They're there, we just need to find them! One awesome family would just make all of our work worth it this transfer. We're having fun, though. There's always stuff to learn and laugh about out here.
On Saturday we went out to Rogerio and Fernanda's house for a ward service project, where we spent the morning building a roof for an expansion on their house. I was one of the few people who climbed up to work on the very top in the rafters, and I got to put my Carpentry skills to the test hammering and sawing and drilling and all that. It was fun :). I just love stuff that we get to do which is out of the regular like that. It was also fun to learn how to do alot of that stuff and learn construction vocabulary from everyone. Do you know what they call a Crowbar? It's called a Goat's Foot here. :) It was fun also to chill on the roof with all the guys drinking chimarrao. I felt very gaucho.
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| Me and Feijao |
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| Me and Juliano |
After that yesterday we ran to an activity with the youth picking up trash in a little park, and after we had hotdogs and soda. It was just a really cool day where Elder Simmons and I got to wear normal clothes and relax and do normal things and at the same time be helping the branch and building friendships with members. I'm only in my 4th week here in Rio Pardo but I can already tell you I'm going to get emotional when I leave here. There's just a bunch of really awesome families here and they really let the missionaries into their homes and their lives. It's stuff like that that makes the mission really fun. Lots of good memories.
And after are huge day of service projects, I got called by President Rogerio to give a talk the next day at church, 10 minutes! I got to sleep a little late that night and I was dead tired, but I prepared my talk, about "Changing the World", and I talked about the scripture that says through small and simple things great things are done by God, and how important it is to control all of the things you do... I think it turned out pretty good.
Last District Meeting we had a surprise mail visit! I got a "Sweet!" package from Grandma which I loved. Thank you so much Grandma! Carmels were PERFECT! It's one thing I had completely forgot that I missed from home! They're making good presents for kids of investigators. The vitamins were needed as well. Love you Grandma! I also got a great package from the entire Christensen family! Man, you guys are so awesome! I loved all the messages and drawings from each and every one of you guys, especially my new little cousins! Bah, how I miss you guys! What a good family I got. I can't even begin to realize how much of a huge blessing you guys are in my life! Thank you!
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| New District - New Sisters |
Anyway, I wish I had more cool news for you. There's always a lot of little things that happen in the week that are semi-interesting, but I don't feel like I am able to write more than a sentence about them.
- Elder Simmons and I getting swamped by dogs and scaring em off,
- getting lost on dark streets while trying to make a shortcut to an appointment,
- us trying to get every member to get liahona subscriptions,
- me still trying to get a BoM loan program working,
- me trying to make our map accurate so we can plan well,
- me learning different new ways to make chimarrao,
- me and Elder Simmons new yogurt addiction,
- how funny it is that a new cosco-type store that opened recently here STILL has a huge line in the entrance after one week,
- me and Elder Simmons just searching for office and SNL references to make eachother laugh in our long walks to appointments,
- us being trapped in a house by talkative old people throwing photo albums in our laps and talking about family,
- my sweet new Paul Cardall church piano solo albums,
- pretty much everybody ALWAYS making comments about how beautiful my mom is after seeing pictures and wanting to know how she stays looking so young,
- and also everyone always gawking at my photos of Lyns (blond hair is a huge deal here),
- me noticing and marking dirtbiking trails and seeing huge dirtbike gangs heading off into the trees... :)....Just a bunch of stuff I remembered from this week.
Well, I love you guys lots! It's this until another week! We're in September! What the heck?!? If you wanted to start sending me my letters from one year ago, that would be interesting. Lyns and Kate, how is high school? Classes getting hard already? How is seminary going (especially for Kate)? Lots of friends and activities? Already into the zone? Lynsey, have you started on your Senior Project? Do it early! Have you started looking in the Career Center for scholarships? Start a habit and do it early! I want to hear my sister getting a million scholarships this year! Kaitlin, are you getting to know lots of people in your classes? Are you remembering to smile always? Are you praying every morning and night and during the day? Working a lot on homework? Got to live to the max! I love you guys alot, I miss ya!
Love love love for every one!
Elder Conly
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