March 18, 2013

Yet another week that the Lan House isn't working with sending pictures home. They're taking forever to get this thing fixed, hopefully they will get it all set as quickly as possible. So this week we got new news about our emailing from the First Presidency, now we can email family and friends! So if anyone wants to send an email you can hit me up at james.gleason@myldsmail.net!!! I cant promise that I'll respond but I can print it out and write back letters a lot quicker than waiting for letters to get here and then responding to them. So if anyone wants to they can feel free to email me now!
This week was a decent one, but definately not the best week I've had here in Jaraguá. It had its extreme ups and downs as well. This week we were able to mark 2 baptismal dates with a couple that is really awesome!! They're family of a member and have been going to church for awhile now and have finally decided to be baptized! So we're really looking forward to that and along with that a few other people as well.
Also this week we had a zone conference and me and Elder Souza gave the training on how to invite people to baptism. We studied and practiced a ton and we had the success that we wanted in the end. It ended up being a really good training and the other missionaries liked it as well. It's pretty fun to be able to give trainings to so many missionaries at one time, it's definately a priviledge.
Yesterday at church we had 170 people there!!! My first weeks here it was around 120-130. When Elder Ahmed left it was at about 140-145 and this week out of nowhere we had 170. And we were missing quite a lot of people that we were waiting for. And just to clear that up it wasnt 170 investigators but just 170 people, members and non members. The ward is really getting excited.

Eu Te Amo
Elder Gleason

P.S. Mormon 9:14, 21, 23, 27 and Jer 7:23, 25; 9:23-24; 17:5, 7