I miss cars lol

 Bom dia. 

This transfer has been rough. Not a lot of progress with people. No one has gone to church. We have 2 baptisms next week so that's a good thing. But yeah it's been a slow transfer for sure. 

We have not had a lunch in a members house for a while. The only times we get lunch with members is saturday and Sunday. We usually go to a restaurant of a irmã. It's always good and slaps everytime. 

We had a date for yesterday but it fell through cause he didn't show up to church. He is tough he has the mindset that it's gonna be hard and difficult to commit to baptism. Gave our testimonies. But that's about all we can do it's his decision. But he is smart and knows his stuff just needs to commit. 

We have had to cut a lot of people that were soooo close to baptisms but just not committing all the way. It's sad . 

But I'm looking forward to the next transfer which is in 1 week. New area and a fresh start. 

That's pretty much it nothing tooo crazy has gone down here, except that someone threw a bunch of tiny bombs, basically one explosion fireworks right outside our apartment. It was strange. 

But yeah ill catch you next week with an update if I leave or stay. 

Pls feel free to email me whenever yall feel like it. i want to read them during the week. 

John 11 35

Jesus wept. 

I have actually been looking into this verse a lot. It has a lot of diff erent meanings. Basically the spirit will tell you what you need to hear. I invite you to read this verse ponder and pray about it. Apply this verse to your life right now. 

Tá bom tchau!

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P.S.

I should have put this but i had a bomb division with my boi Elder Treese. 

I went to his area but i was senior cause I had the chip haha treese get rekted. Nah it was chill made cookies at lunch. Had 1 lesson and contacted 6 people. Hopefully they baptize with one girl that was super nice to us and receptive. She was really helpful when I needed a word or two to finish my sentences. Kkkkk. But we ended the day by getting a terere cup for me and some acai. It was a nice break where we spoke almost the whole time in english kkkkk. 

Tchau!

It's coming along

I know yall probably think I got eating by a anaconda or sum. I haven't email in like 3 weeks kkkkkk. I'll give you a run down. There has not been to much crazy stuff going on here. 

2 weeks ago we had exchanges with the lzs ou zls zone leaders for 2 days. It was chill got to see how the area with a crap ton of hills is like. And there are A LOT.  

This past week has been some more things. We have been trying to get that guy jaime baptized. He had a problem in the past so we have to get a interview with the president of the mission. But the president has not really been helpful . So haven't baptized him in the past 2 weeks. Other things that happened are the Bishop's daughter came home from her mission. She was cool got to chat with her. She knows sister Kaufusi!!! She had served with her so that was cool to see how she was doing. Also this week we(my comp) have been trying to clean the area from just people that don't respond or not interested. Which is cool but just leaves us with nothing to do later on because we don't get many media references here. It's been chill we just call them once or twice and they answer and hang up kr don't answer we cut them from the app. I've starting getting tired of my comp. He cool as a person and he is very spiritual. But when it comes to missionary work he is hard headed. His way or no way type deal. Not all the way no way but close enough. I've been here for 2 transfers now I have talked to probably 50% of this area and it's a big area. And he just doesn't listen sometimes. But it's cool at the end of the night we are always laughing and making jokes so it's gonna be fine. 

We got sushi AGIAN!!!!!!. Uggghhh I miss a good roll from China buffet or that one spot on tate Street. But sushi is always good and I'll take what I can get when I can get it. But I will say they put cream cheese in every roll and it gets annoying. still good tho I don't complain about food often. You can see the blury pics on my Google photos(if I kick you it's cause it's a rule just join back) 

Yo shout-out to my boy Elder kongaika real quick the tie you gave me the bead one. I've been getting so many snakes with it dawg. Mom I'm kidding(not). Nah everyone in church is always like oooo muito legal(cool) so thanks for the tie my homie. See you back at the better byu(Hawaii). 

Jacob 6,  4 and 5

4 And how merciful is our God unto us, for he remembereth the house of Israel, both roots and branches; and he stretches forth his hands unto them all the day long; and they are a stiffnecked and a gainsaying people; but as many as will not harden their hearts shall be saved in the kingdom of God.

 5 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I beseech of you in words of soberness that ye would repent, and come with full purpose of heart, and cleave unto God as he cleaveth unto you. And while his arm of mercy is extended towards you in the light of the day, harden not your hearts.

It's not my job to tell you what it means it means something different to everyone. I invite you as a missionary to read and ponder this scripture and apply it to your life and situations and pray about it.  

I know if you repent without full intent you can't be free from what your problem was. But if you soften your heart and let God in and repent and live your life with all your heart. You will be free from your bandage, and be free from bandage in the last day. I say these things in the name of Jesus christ amen. 

Imma go back to sleep now boa noite!

I'm staying!!

So I didn't right a email last week. Honestly don't know why kkkkk. But the last 2 weeks went by sooooo fast. I'm getting transfered again already. I am actually staying in Êxodo!!!! I'm getting a brasillian comp that came the same time I did, soooo that's gonna be interesting. 

Last week we made 5 dates for baptisms! A family of 4 but one of them is a baby. They just need to come to church. The husband works on Sundays so it's hard. We have taught the wife 3 times. Kkkkkk but they are great and have been reading the book of Mormon. The others are a grandpa and his grandson. They both have been to church!! With no lessons!!! But we started teaching and he was supposed to get baptized yesterday but I haven't been in my area. He is great and has a lot of good questions.

The reason I'm not in my area.

So my mom (aka Elder violante) got transfered to being the secretary of houses. So he needed to get trained like 5 days before. So I've been with my old comp from the ctm Elder Carver!!!! It was light I see him every week in district meetings but never talk talk with him. His comp is chill just a little full of himself. But it's been a chill 4-5 days. Went out and worked with them it was awsome. 

But other than that the weeks were pretty good no big complaints from me. We went to the zoo last pday which was Tuesday because that was the day they let us go. It was so cool seeing all the different type of animals. There was a black panther, monkeys, Tigers, and more. It was also fun to see all the people on the Mish. 

Not much to say really the time has flown and I don't know where the days go! 

Até mais 

Tchau 

Sempre Pronto

Sempre Pronto(always ready) 

If you know me you know I'm always down for anything. Anytime my comp says let's go somewhere or so sum I always say tá bom. Yall don't need a traslate you can use yalls heads. We have been workin these past couple weeks. I have been sweating soooo much. To yall serving missions in south Brazil. Luckkyyyyyy it's getting cold. It gets cool here. But never cold, I'm dying and somehow I'm still getting fatter. 

I've been slacking on the emails and need to do better. Next week kkkkkk!!

I do vlogs instead of writing because my handwriting is soooo bad. But I need to right 1 or 2 things that happened the day for the emails. 

Então again every week has been flying by. WE HIT THE GOAL FOR THE MISSION. Each dupla needs to baptize 3 people for June. We hit that and next week maybe 1 (MAYBE) big iffff. Suppose to be 2 but he didnt come to church so 2 more weeks. He wants the holy ghost because he didnt receive it by the laying on the hands or authority. But it was a good week for getting confirmed baptisms and church attendance. Yet no one came haha. 

Wednesday we had divisions again. I was with our zl Elder Steven's from Utah. It was a nice break to speak English. He is really cool. We talked about before the Mish and what we did and school and stuff. He also served in itaporanga like I did. So it was fun to talk about people he taught and members. Did member knocking.( contacting members). We didn't have very good luck. But we gave 2 blessings of health which was awsome. And a couple people to visit. We got acai during the day which was weird but good. Imma buy his pull-up bar off of him  

This week has been hard with português and understanding it. I mess up alot and my comp gets annoyed. And it's annoying cause then I don't wanna talk at all. He says it trauma learning. Nah its . I don't wanna talk to him cause I mess he gets annoyed. 

I also don't like that I mess up a sound of a letter in a word and the while sentence doesn't make sense not just the word. English you can change the sounds jokingly but you can still understand. Here nah everyone just gets annoyed . It makes the Mish less fun. But I'm learning a lot and understand almost everything. Just talking sucks. 

That's my lil rant about português. 

The mission is awsome going out and teaching and being a light in the street. But just talking everyday talk sucks. I can teach the gospel just not talk. Hahahaha 

But I pray everynight and morning for the gift of tongues. And it's not like I'm not learning at all just slow kkkkkkk. 

Yall have a good week I know I will. 

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A prayer in the middle of the road

 Haha forgot to email last week. We had a baptism of our friend adalberto. Always awsome to get to perform a baptism. We invited everyone we taught to come to church. GUESS WHAT no one came . 

This week flewwww by. I don't remember a lot. Been getting acai all the time. I try to get it everynight but sometimes it doesn't work. We stay grubbing and I fat again. around 190 which I was before the Mish. But that was wayyy more muscle. This is just fat haha! 

Last pday we chilled with the other missionaries of the other ward in our building. AKA AFUTITI. I mean he cool ig. Nah fr tho he a real one. Reminds me of home although he from Cali. We played dominoes and WAR. Oh how I missed war. What a great game. After we got some grub from the place beside our house and some ACAI. There is this like peanut m&m candy called sum doce I don't remember haha. But it's sooooo good in the acai. 

We had a lot of lessons fall through and a lot of time at the church to practice my Gethsemane playing. That's really all I remember of the week. 

We had another bap Sunday with another friend Messias. He is a family member of a member idk exactly. Sum about him being a brother but not a brother idk. But he is cool and I've been teaching him American handshakes. His brother baptized him which was cool for both because it was Flavios first baptism. Today for p day we went to get a chop. Still to this day the only people that can actually cut my hair good good is the Korean saloon down the street from my house. He had no idea how to attack my hair. But it turned our chill. I mean hair is hair it will grown back.

 Then we went to downtown manaus for Elder Violante's glasses. We met up with some member for lunch and we had some bomb sandwiches. They had banana, queijo, and tucuma. And I saw a little bit of the Rio Negro river which was cool. 

One crazy story I have happened saturday night. We were walking home from a lesson about 9:20. We are supposed to be at the house by 9. 9:30 if we are teaching a lesson. But we were almost home I could see the house. I look back and all of a sudden a car from the other side of the street starts heading towards so we were lime oh he needs to park on the side of the road. So we slowed down a little but kept walking. NO he goes to to grab my comps umbrella and starts talking about umbrella umbrella. Then says your a prophet aren't you, your a Prophet aren't you. My comp says no and they guy goes give me a blessing. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. So my comp says let's pray, and the guy says OK. So my como says a prayer for him. ME I'm looking around I mean we in the middle of the road with some guy in a car with his family. I ain't tryna get set up here aight. But yeah it was crazy. 

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Yall have a good one tchau meus filhos 

First transfer done!

Sad to leave my first área, but excited to walk some stairs and hills. I am now with Elder Violante! He is from Portugal!! He talks a lot different them everyone else I have talked with so far. But I can kinda understand him which is veryyyy good. Still can't understand specifically what people say but I can get the general idea of what they say. I have met some pretty cool members while out tracking. And had some pretty good food as well. 

First day walking was a nice chill day. Went and talked with a couple poeple Violante had been teaching before. Then went to a members house and stayed there for a couple hours talking and learning more about the area and the people. They made some spaghetti and sausage. It was good! 

The next day we had zone conference! I got to see carver and treese and ames!! It was awsome to see them and how they have grown in the launguage. We had some good eats and chilled for a little before going back to the house.

 I finally ate tambaqui!!! It's a very popular fish in Amazonas, and it was reaallyyy good!! Also had some bomb brownies she has for her Market she owns. We tried contacting more people but it's hard cause no one is ever home or they don't wanna hear nothing.

Sunday was a great day! I forgot my tag!!! Só we asked a memeber if he could drive us back to the house to get it. So the day started of shaky. But when we got back one of the people Violante is trying to get baptized came to church!! He seemed very interested in all of the church aspects. Sadly he didn't stay for second hour and had to go home. But it's cool to see poeple that we are teaching come to church. 

After church we ate at a members house and had liquid açaí. It was really good. We went to some people's house but they weren't home sadly. We went to a street with about 3 house and went to clapping.( we clap and knock but it's normal to clap here). The last house that was on the street we were looking for this lady that had been taught a few months back. She wasn't there but her sister and dad were. We had a nice message with them and she had a lot to ask and say. We don't know if it will go any further but it was a great lesson in my opinion. 

Really not much to say it has been a tiring week with cleaning the old house and transfers.

PS. Yep Robert it's a rough time in these streets. I feel full as crap EVERYDAY but the food is sooooo good. 

OHHH I forgot to mention about the first meal I had. I finally have had lasagna here. It was at a irmãs house that is also a lunch restaurant. Ohhhh my goodness it was soooooo good. I wanna go back but it's only open for lunch, and we are booked until I leave.

The crib is pretty nice. Violante worked really hard to clean it(it was really bad when he came to this area). It's definitely a lot cooler than the other house. The other house in itacoatiara was a sauna! 

Remember God is always with you just pray. I never put anything spiritual spiritual on here. But talk to people you wouldn't think to talk to before. Could be on the street or a friend. Just talk.

Imma take a nap now goodnight!

It's time to say goodbye, and I'm alive!!!!

I had a feeling I was gonna stay but I'm hitting the road. 

To start the week it was pretty good chilled, and ate some churrasco and ice cream!!!. But Wednesday was awesome to start we did some work had good food then that night we went and ate pizza with my boi Nicolas!!! It was good. But then to the bad part. That night I woke up with a 102.2 fever and I was shaaaaking. It sucked I was like this for the day and that night. Nicolas brought me stuff and I was sooo grateful for that. But I sleeeept all day. I'm still a little sick rn so it hasn't fully left me. I had a killer headache Friday and Saturday. I have woke up every night either sweating or shaking. 

But guess what I did!!!! Baptized!!!!! And I gave the blessing for the receiving of the Holy Ghost!! In português!!! Very bad português but it was português none the less. I was sooo scared. But I felt calm after I got the parts he was telling me in my ear. I had a lot of faith in the Lord to help what to say. 

But yeah it's sad to leave everyone I have taught. Also sad to leave my comp,he has been awesome. He has been hard on me but it is good for me. 

Time for a new area and new people to teach and get to know. 

It kinda sucks cause I could have been some where else but I need to be near a hospital to help me so it's all good. 

But for the first transfer it was good. I had a lot of fun with Elder Moraes, and ate some good food. Living with 3 Brazilians had it's ups and downs but still fun .  

That's really all I got yall. Hope yall have a great week and I'll talk to yall next week!!