Hey Family, 8-10-11
Thanks for the recipe! The pictures are great! The fireplace looks awesome and Annie’s bathroom looks like it belongs in another house. Looks like things are going great with the renovations. Here in Brazil there's a gap between the poor and the rich, it's crazy how obvious it is to. You can go to a town here and look at one side that has a nice houses and the other that has something less than a shack. But it's all well. The food here is good but I’m noticing it's hard to get all the necessary vitamins I need to have the energy needed. It's kind of hard to get all needed from beans, rice, and beef, hence the gut I was gaining.
It's really cool to hear about the people that are cleaning up their lives, or changing them. It's certainly a change of pace from the stuff I’m seeing here. A lot of people here are falling into old habits of drugs or inactivity. I see a ton of junk that I'd rather not see, such as accepting the gospel as true but being too prideful to make a change (you'd be surprised how many people say that 'I know your church is true' but I don't want to change religion, life, or follow the commandments). Then again only as a missionary can I see God's hand in things, for example, me and my companion had a good experience last night. We visited this member’s house and she was wondering whether her son was at his girlfriend’s house or somewhere else. It wasn’t that big of a deal, so I didn't think i needed to say anything, but I felt like I should tell her that if he was at his girlfriend's house we would stop by her house and tell her (because we were heading there anyways). So we went visited the girlfriend and he was there. On our return we had the opportunity to take a short cut back home or go the long way and tell the member where her son was. My companion wanted to go home the quick way but I wanted to go tell the member and show off our new dog (we have a dog that follows us everywhere almost every day now, pretty sweet huh?). So we went to the member and told her and went back on our way. On that same street there was this 20 year old girl (about the size of Annie) that was walking carrying some bags. She looked like she needed some help with her bags so we offered to help her out. She was carrying about 5 bags that were freaking heavy. Even I had a hard time carrying a couple of bags!! We found out that she was married but that her man ditched her and her daughter and that she has no family, because some died and others ditched her also. I don't know how interested she is in hearing about our messages, but it was cool to see how the Lord directs us into helping others out, even if they're not too inclined to hear about his gospel.
Anyways, I went to the temple today with my companion. The first time in 4 months! It was awesome!! It certainly filled that gap in my heart. Anyways as a result we're both extremely hungry and still haven’t eaten anything at 4 pm. So I gotta go. I love you!
Elder Williams
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