Hey Mom and family! 5-23-12
Thanks for the testimony mom it was great! Just an idea, but I think it would be pretty
good if you edited it a little bit and sent it to some friends not of the
church. I think it would make them
double think about the Book of Mormon.
So I finally finished everything up and everything’s ready
to go so tomorrow I’m finally going to send off my package to you guys. It should be about 100 bucks. But the dollars up to 2 for 1 so it should
only be like 50$. With the dollar up we
can spend a whole lot more money on goodies for the average amount that we
would get. I’m excited to get my
cereal. I'll let you know when I get
it. I’m excited to play with your new
ipad when I get home.
I've decided these days, that I've wasted quite a bit of my
pre-mission life. And as a result I’m
not too full of wholesome talents, so I’ve decided that for the little time
before I go to school I’m going to do a ton of stuff to see where God has
blessed me and develop them. Like piano
for example, or maybe some unknown talent of golfing or something. Anyways, I’m excited. I've also been thinking of something I could
do for a career to get some moneys... I haven’t decided anything yet, I
actually haven’t a single clue, and the part where I’m trying to focus on the
mission as well is more important, so I’ll let you guys think of something that
I could do for a career.
This past week we baptized Ismael. It was great!
We were trying to baptize this kid for a good 4 months or so. His girlfriend brought him to church and he
got to know some people there, we stopped by and started to teach him and he
got a strong answer about the book of Mormon.
However he didn’t want to progress so we abandoned him. Then he went to church again a while later
and came up to me and told me that he was almost there. So we started to work with him again, but we
just couldn’t ever get a hold of him. A
couple weeks ago me and Elder Smith fasted.
We did it with the purpose to baptize on the 20th of this week. We asked him to show us someone to baptize
but we didn’t specify someone. For those
next two weeks we worked and worked and worked, but nobody appeared. Then on the 19th we stopped by Ismael's house
and asked him if he was going to get baptized and he said yes. We had already taught him and interviewed him
in the past so we didn’t need to do anything but wait. The next day he got baptized. It was a great testimony builder of
fasting. Anyways, I hope we have yet
another good week this week. Our zone is
really hurting for baptisms. Anyways, I
love you mom!
Elder Williams
PS. I’m starting to learn German every time I get back home
from working. I figure I might as well
while I still have the gift of tongues.
I only have the book of Mormon and it’s on my companion’s iPod. If you guys have any way of doing it, can you
guys send me the B of M in German with a dictionary?
Hey Dad! 5-23-12
Thanks for the email.
This week was pretty good; we finally had a baptism here in
Cosmópolis. It was some tough work to
finally get this kid wet. We started
teaching him like 4 months ago. He was
dating a member of the church and was introduced through her; he got a really
strong answer from God about the Book of Mormon, but didn’t want to do anything
with it. It took a lot of faith on our
part.
I loved the pics, my companion is really into hunting and
really liked the pic of the hike in Salem.
The card was funny, I liked it.
We're going to have our stake conference here in two weeks
or so. It should be pretty good. On the 10th of next month, they're going to
dedicate the Manaus Temple so they're going to stop church and show the
dedication to all of Brazil, but only temple recommend holders can watch it, so
it's going to get in the way of missionary work for that week, but I’m still
pretty excited to watch it.
Yesterday I picked up one of those old books that they use
in the Sunday school about the Teachings of Joseph Smith. It was interesting, I was reading about the
gifts of the Spirit. It's so interesting
to think about how many gifts the Lord can give us, depending on the situation. We're taught to learn and search out the best
gifts, so it's sort of a hobby that I’ve picked up now while I’m reading the
scriptures. I started reading my
patriarchal blessing and I saw a couple as well that the Lord promised if I’m
obedient and ask for them. I bet you
could find the same thing in your own blessing.
The work's really starting to pick up here where I’m at in
Cosmópolis. The zone isn’t being
obedient at all and they stopped working, but we burnt everyone and it worked
out. Last week they had some great
results, no baptisms still, but the president promised that if we can fulfill
the standards of excellence (40 lessons, 20 new investigators, 6 marked
baptisms, 10 investigators at church, and 140 contacts) the Lord will give us a
baptism and we can baptize every week.
We've been doing that standard for a couple months and things are just
now starting to pick up. I think that
the Lord was giving us a trial of our faith, but now we got some baptisms lined
up for every other week. Anyways, I love
you all!
Elder Williams
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