December 10, 2012

And I thought that last week was a hot one... It's just getting worse down here, I don't think I've ever used so much sunscreen in my life combined as I have been these past weeks. And its been even worse because unfortunately we've been spending a lot of time out in the street as well. I think this week was probably one of our most difficult ones that we've had here yet. It felt like nobody was home or wanting to let us in. But we worked hard all the same, doing all that we could to bring the gospel to everybody we could. Also this weekend the 2 people we baptized 2 weeks ago were confirmed members of the church and received the Holy Ghost. Last week they already had other plans to travel so they couldn't make it. But now they're all set and really excited to continue learning and growing in the gospel. It's amazing how much the son, Gabriel, who's 9 years old is already learning and memorizing. He is extremely intelligent.

This morning I had the fantastic oppurtunity to play basketball for the 2nd time on the mission. Me and Elder Messias went down to the chapel after our studies and played for awhile. He played around with the soccer ball of course and me with basketball. Man how is it so good to play basketball. I miss it imensly.

Also this week on Wednesday we had our christmas zone conference in Sorocaba. Its crazy to think this is my 2nd and last christmas already, where has the time gone. But the conference was really good and we learned a lot. Also we got a call last Monday saying that we would be giving a training at the conference. So we also gave a training there on how to evaluate our investigators to see if they're progressing or not. It went really well and we gave the training to roughly 50 missionaries. It was my 2nd time giving a training at a conference as a Zone Leader.

Oh and so one of our investigators who are still waiting on getting married that I've mentioned a couple times are going really well beyond the getting married part unfortunately. But this week the "husband" even went to clean the church. It was so awesome when we heard about it. Also yesterday we taught another really awesome couple thats already married. At the end we asked if the husband wanted to pray and he said he never prayed in his life but that he would try. And so he did and it was great, he was super happy after finishing the prayer. It was a great experience to see how happy he was to talk with his Heavenly Father. It was crazy to hear that he had never prayed in his life, but now he's on the right path. And that was basically the highlight of our week, it was another tough one for us but we keep going hard.

Eu te Amo

Elder Gleason

P.S. 3 Nephi 1 23; 5 8,13; 7 17-18, 24-25 and Pslams 86 11; 92 15; 97 6,10

 

Elder Messias, J.R., Elder Siddoway, Elder Vincent, and Elder Fox (sitting down). This was at the Christmas zone conference.