Elder Hunt and his companion, Elder Reboucas
Assistants to the Mission President
Wednesday-Last p day wasn't p day, haha. Life as an Assistant is even busier than that of an Zone Leader.
Cantareira
Thursday- Our area Cantareira is
unbeatable! Só favela! Our area is very big, but we have a solid area of favela
that is not too far away from the church that I have already worked in on
divisions in the past. Elder Rebouças and I are an unbeatable double! We both
have 24 hour smiles and talk with EVERYONE, and even better we invite EVERYONE
to be baptized! Everyone in the favela knows us as those who baptize and bring
happiness into peoples lives. The favela we work in is pretty intense, but the
drug lords respect us, so it’s all good. :)
Elder Hunt got to visit Hugo on a division in his Cashereihna, a young man who he baptized earlier this year.
Friday-Our days are always filled
with different projects, assignments, and responsibilities along with our usual
work in the field. Rebouças and I have been finding an average of 10 new
investigators per day, our phrase is "smile on your face, Book of Mormon
in hand, and fire in your bones’ -it sounds way better in Portuguese! ;)
Wesley and Paulo Henrique
Saturday-We did a division to
interview Wesley, a young man who we baptized on Sunday. We followed up with
tons of people to bring them to church the next day.
Something interesting about our
situation was that we "opened" the area, meaning the two missionaries
who were there before us both left, leaving no one in the area to know where
things are or to have a teaching pool. But we came in hot, baptizing one in our
first week, along with bringing 8 people to church with a baptismal date for
this upcoming Sunday!
Wesley on his baptism day
Sunday-Wesley was baptized! Rebouças
and I bore our testimonies in sacrament meeting to give our ward a little life!
Our ward is a very "old" ward if you catch my drift. I bore my
testimony about Grandpa Faust's love for Brasil and afterwards everyone in the
ward told a different story about how they knew Grandpa or how he set them
apart, or did something that changed their lives; I always love hearing stories
about things like that! :)
Monday-We picked up all the mission
numbers and followed up with all the LZ's in the mission. We wrote the mission
news article this week and then we worked in our area the rest of the day! Great
day!
Tuesday-We had district meeting along
with a meeting with President. In this moment, our new mission vision and
phrase is "Nordstrom" because Nordstrom will do ANYTHING to please
their customers, pay any price or make any sacrifice. President instructed us
that in our case, our missionaries are our customers and we need to do
everything we can to gain their confidence and to raise their vision. They need
to want to be obedient not because they are afraid of getting in trouble, but
because they want to please God, also with fulfilling their role that we read
in D&C 20:38-The duty of the elders, priests, teachers, deacons, and members of the
church of Christ... and it is his calling to baptize!"
Wednesday-Today is our p day, even
though we've been working quite a bit in the office, we just are using the
computer a bit. We had a good lunch and at 6pm we'll being going to work in our
area!
Elder Hunt has a dog like this at home, except a little thinner :)
Also tomorrow, we'll be headed off to do a division with the zone leaders
in Baureri; it will be great! I love Brasil and I love being a missionary!
Elder Hunt
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