October 29, 2012

Another tough week on us. We have related these past couple weeks to the story of Job in the Bible unfortunately. We had things going extremely well, and then things started going down hill. But like Job we have continued faithfull and not gotten disanimated. We know the Lord will bless us for our efforts, faith and work that we are pointing in here in Itu. We know that the blessings will come in double just like in the story of Job as well. After suffering through many things and hardships that he went through in the end the Lord blessed him with double of what he had before hand. The Lord will always be testing our faith to see just how far we´ll go and right now we´re in that stage. He´s testing our faith and we´re continuing strongly and working diligentely in His vineyard. It was pretty ironic though because this week I finished reading the book of Job as all this was happening. I have been reading the Bible for a while now and am now is Psalms. I really enjoy reading the Bible and have learned a lot from my reading. Also im almost finished with the Book of Mormon for the 3rd time on the mission and when i finish it im going to read and study it in portuguese and hopefully read it in portuguese 2 more times before the end of the mission.

Also, this week we were supposed to baptize the couple that I've talked about a couple times and everything was going great with them and we had the baptismal interview marked and everything. So on tuesday we did the division and I left with Elder Vazquez (my trainee) and the other elder went to do the interviews. Everything went great but in the time that they were filling out the information for baptism they told us they werent legally married. Boom boom boom boom. They had told us they were married and even use wedding rings and everything. But in Brasil, maybe the US too idk, there is a thing called "friendshipped" where you dont have to get married married but it shows the government that youre together. We werent too happy and it was a sad moment. But they're going to talk about marraige and we´ll see what happens when we go back this week. They say they still want to be baptized which is a good start at least.

Also yesterday we had stake conference here in Itu and we had the priviledge to have 2 seventies here in Itu along with Pres Martins. It was packeddd. They had a complete change in the stake presidency and because of the change there will also be a new bishop in itu because he was called as the 1st counselor in the stake presidency. But it was super awesome and very spiritual. Also all of our recent converts that are over 19 received the Melquesideck priesthood. I know I spelled that wrong.

Eu Te Amo

Elder Gleason

P.S. Alma 53:20-21; 56:47-48; 57:21, 26-27 and Job 8:20; 13:15-16; 19:25-26; 23:10-11

 

 J.R. made a new tie buddy for the mission. Nobody there believes that he actually made it but that he sent it to somewhere to make it. "But I sewed that sucker"

J.R. and Elder Messias with Elder Godoy and the other 70 that he had no idea how to spell