November 5, 2012

And another transfer has gone by, tonight we find out about what will happen with us and the zone this wednesday. However we do know a little bit of information already, that our area (which is huge) will be getting 2 more missionaries. So now we will divide the area and have 2 more elders living with us in our house. It should be pretty fun and it will make things a lot easier with having to go to commitments on one side of the area to the other. And since this is happening it is extremely likely that me and elder messias will both stay here to help the new companionship get to know the area. But who knows anything can happen, and it is usually the unexpected that ends up happening so we´ll see tonight when they call us. In the beginning however it will be a little tough because right now were working in the entire city with investigators on both sides so now half the investigators will be with the new elders that get here and we´ll have less to do to start off. But we´ll work hard and we´ll have the chance to get to know other neighborhoods and areas that we havent gone to because the area is so big. The ward here is really pumped about having 2 more missionaries. I remember back in the day when our ward had like 6 or 8 elders it was crazy.

Unfortunately this week was another tough one on us and we didnt have any big results but we continue doing the best we can and we know the Lord will bless us for our efforts. Im pretty sure this last transfer with elder messias I worked more diligently and smartly than all the others and yet it had the least results. Not that i didnt work hard the other transfers nothing like that, but i never worked as hard as i did this one. In 6 full weeks we only had 5 days where we didnt do 15 or more contacts trying to find new people to teach. the goal on the mission is to do 15 contacts tuesday through saturday. And we only didnt get that goal 5 times and those 5 times we did like 10 contacts or so. So yeah we worked really hard. But the Lord knows what He´s doing and what He has prepared for us as well.

Well thats about it for this week, I've been doing a lot of stuff with my pictures so my time is already running out on here. Oh but before i forget the Bishop said somthing really great yesterday in sacrament meeting. He said that the greatest mircales are when a person changes to be better than he was. It was really great. It doesnt translate exactly from portuguese to english so if it sounds weird my bad, I'm sure you get the drift haha.

Eu Te Amo

Elder Gleason

P.S. Alma 60:13; 62:45, 49 and Job 27:4-6; 33:14; 36:5, 11

P.S.S. OHHH and I just remembered. In guapira this past saturday and the saturday before they baptized 2 people that I found and started teaching. On was Rosana, who me and elder vazquez did a contact with in front of her house, she was baptized last week. and the other me and elder vazquez found as well asking for a cup of water, his name is Marcelo and he was baptized saturday. So Awesome!!!!!

 

 on Wednesday night they made french toast with a class that a member that teaches english and J.R. talked with them quite a bit. They also get their addresses to go by another day with them

J.R. and Elder Messias had a tough day and decided to take some pictures...