Hey family, Nov 30, 2011
Annie didn’t send you guys the letter from last week so I copied it and pasted it. Then I'll write the letter for this week.
Thanks for the emails! We baptized Rosalina! It's cool; I learned that we actually saved a life to save a soul. The day we found her she was thinking of committing suicide because of the depression that she has. That day we found her she accepted baptism, and that Sunday she went to church. I could tell a new light came into her eyes and she was happy again. It's always cool to stop by and interrupt her reading the Book of Mormon. Anyways, we have another baptism coming up this Sunday. This one was a cool thing also, she was already going to church with her boyfriend in another ward, and we wouldn’t have ever found her if our zone leader didn’t do a contact on the bus.
Skype should be sweet; I think it'll be me and Elder Lucas Rodrigues again. He was the Argentinean that you guys saw last time we Skyped. I doubt that Keenan's gonna Skype though, he's in the states right now right?
It's cool to read that thought about reverence. This ward that I’m in has a ton of it, which is going to be good for the people we're bringing to church. Last Sunday I got the book that we're gonna study next year in Sunday school about the teachings of the prophets. It's about George Albert Smith. It's sweet. It gets me thinking about personal development. How we all need to get to the point of one of the apostles and prophets in our faith and progress before we can get to the point of Christ. This is in part as to we have these books of the prophets. Anyways, our bishop got in a bad accident driving some quad and almost died. But he should be alright. You should put his name in the temple because the temple's closed here. Bishop Álvaro. Which reminds me, the other day we went to the temple with our baptism to show her around and everything but it was all closed for maintenance and whatnot. It sucked, but she liked it anyways.
Anyways, love you guys!
Elder Williams
Ok, here’s the other letter:
Hey Family! Dec 7, 2011
This week we baptized Tatiane, and we've got Francieli for this Sunday. I was looking today at all the baptisms I’ve had on the mission and it looks like I’ve baptized almost all women. Not like that’s a bad thing, everyone needs to get baptized, but it's showing the kind of people that I’m attracting. Yesterday I was able to visit my old area because I went on a division with the zone leaders to help out the missionaries that are there now. They've been having problems finding people to teach, so we went there and found some for them. I'm learning a ton here on the mission, it's awesome, and I’m loving this area!
Anyways, for this Christmas we will be able to use Skype the Wednesday before. So it'll be the 21st of this month, let me know when will be the better time, and we've got to find a place here that has Skype. You guys are 5 hours behind, so probably 6-ish my time, 1-ish your time. It's going to be sweet. Also I learned that I don’t have any self-control. I got your Christmas package two weeks ago, and I’ve already opened everything. Thanks by the way, now have a lot of cool stuff to go with my suit! Also I got the bottle right when my old one broke. The only problem is that Brazilians have a culture that if you eat something in front of them you have to offer some to them. So I've got to eat all my stuff when they’re not paying attention, because it's us 4 there. These pics are of me switching soccer teams to Corinthians, of the baptism of Rosalina, Tatiane, and kid that I’m helping get baptized for my zone leaders. When I got that shirt, I entered the house of an investigator and within 5 minutes of knowing him, he gave me a new shirt so I switched teams. They don't sell this shirt anymore and it was given on the 40th anniversary of the forming of the team, so it's pretty cool. Anyways, hope you guys like the pics! Love you!
Elder Williams
Rosalina's Baptism
Tatiana's baptism
Peter got this soccer shirt from one of his investigators
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