A street by the Campinas Brasil LDS temple is named after Marcus' Great-Grandfather, the late President James E. Faust
Hey everyone,
Today is my last CTM P-day!!!! Today also could have been
the last time I am able to go to the temple in 2 years. In 6 days I will
be in the mission field!!!!!! I am so
excited, but also so nervous! I forgot to mention in my
last email, but on Fast Sunday, I was
called as the new district leader!! Also at the temple today I
got a picture of the street named after Grandpa Faust! Hopefully pictures
next week everyone! Yay!
Last Wednesday Elders Buck and Kagi had to move rooms so 2
new Brazilians could stay in our room. The
Brazilians are super cool and one of them speaks 4 languages fluently, to
make things better, they are both going
to my mission! Also since they are Brazilian and only have to stay 2 weeks,
they will leave with me on Tuesday!
There has been no one going to my mission in the whole CTM the whole time I’ve
been here except for the one visa waiter Elder Marchant.
On Friday I got my first
haircut on my mission. The barber came and woke us up at 6 am. He speaks no
English at all and there are many horror stories about how terrible his
haircuts are.....I’ve seen quite a few of them firsthand. I was very
worried, but I briefly explained what I wanted in Portuguese. The entire
haircut only took 3.5 minutes....everyone’s does haha, but the haircut actually looks good!!!!!!!!! I was very pleased!
My comps were not so lucky.....lol!
This week our goal is to speak as much Portuguese as
possible, only substituting an English word when we do not know the Portuguese
word for it. We have spoken about 95% Portuguese so its been very good! Doing
that has been frustrating and exhausting, but
we’ve made a lot of progress, and it is very rewarding.
This week during a lesson I taught the entire story of
Ammon and King Lamoni in Portuguese to one of our investigators. It is my favorite Book Of Mormon story! I
loved it! We are all making a lot of progress, but getting into the
mission field is the main thing on our mind.
Not too much happened this week, but I want to share some
of my thoughts:
"When your body aches and begs for rest, REMEMBER HIM! Remember Christ and how he
did not slow down or stop, even after death. Remember all that you have been blessed with and work with no regrets.
Give you whole heart, mind, mind, and strength!"
"I don’t want to do what I want to do, I do what God wants me to do because he
wants me to do it. I want to follow and
know Christ"
"You can’t be happy if you don’t want to do the things that
lead to happiness, even if you still do those things."
My mind is very clear in understanding right and wrong,
and I am very in tune with the Spirit and it’s promptings.
Next Tuesday will be a huge day for me with many new
things. This is where the work really
begins. I believe this will be the most difficult thing I have ever done in
my life. Most likely I will receive a Brazilian trainer who will speak no
English. So every single thing, simple and difficult will have to be
communicated through Portuguese. Every single thing, investigators, P- days,
when and where do we eat, what is our budget, even where are we going, what
should I bring, and what should I teach in the lesson. It is going to be so
difficult, but I’m confident that I will be ok. With God anything is possible,
end of story. It will be super hard,
but through God, we will find a way.
Also, most likely now my P-days will be on Mondays, and my
next P-day will not be until 2 Mondays from now. Then I should be able to give
out my address and send pictures and have more time for emails on p- day! The bad thing is that I don’t have time
to write everyone back here in the CMT! Bro
Truman, Cole Nisson, Drake’s dad, Rachael from newspaper- they have all have
written and I feel so bad I haven’t responded because I literally don’t have
time. But I will have more time
soon and I will for sure write them back.
Also, I finally set up my gymnastics rings so I’ve been
doing cool gymnastics stuff. Everyday we play volleyball against another American
district! It gets so intense and we go so hard, it is a blast!! I am doing great, I have been so blessed
here. Things are well. Also going to get more Brazilian donuts
today!!!!!! ;)
Elder Hunt
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