We Got Pictures Today!!
Hey Mom, 5-16-12
Thanks for the email.
I really liked Skyping last Saturday.
After that, we went to an
investigators house and we had a FHE and ate pizza. This guy is like an “eternal”
investigator. We're trying to figure out
what will get him baptized. He goes to
church every Sunday and is reading the Book of Mormon but doesn’t want to baptize
for a really lame reason.
Two elders had an emergency transfer, An elder that was
super down and lost his testimony got sent home Monday. It's pretty sad, it makes me feel bad. As his leader it makes me wonder if there was
anything I could have done to stop it and change his life around. Last Friday we had interviews with the
president and we had an opportunity to talk about our zone, we left early
though so there wasn’t any time to talk with him after he talked with the rest
of the zone members. There were quite a
bit of challenges in the zone last week.
Their numbers (numbers being the key indicators for how many lessons
they taught, how many new investigators they found, new contacts they made, and
stuff during their week) were extremely low except for us and the two sisters
we have. The president called us last Monday
and was burning us for a good 15 minutes complaining out about our zone
members. About half of our zone has just
completely stopped working and don’t want to do anything. We've tried our best trying to inspire them,
but the president gave us a new idea, so the next day we decided to burn
everyone. After a meeting that we held yesterday
it seems like they will NOW do what they're supposed to.
My companion elder smith has this talk that I think you
would all love, it's called "The Fourth Missionary" by Laurence E.
Corbridge. It talks about 4 different
types of missionaries, the first two types are just completely disobedient, the
3rd is obedient, works hard, and does everything he needs to but his heart isn’t
into it and isn’t happy, and the 4th is obedient, diligent, and does everything
he needs to and is happy. And it's
because of his attitude that he lets his mission change him. I think that this talk can apply to
everybody. They may not be on a mission,
but they're members of the gospel and if they accept it and are happy to accept
the responsibilities and duties, callings, and everything that it says to do
and let it change them, they can become very strong members of the church and
be very well prepared to enter into the celestial kingdom. I think that also has a direct relation with
the temple. The temple really blesses
and protects from the evils that the world has to offer. The bishop that we have now says that if all
the worthy members of the church make a sacrifice and go to the temple double
the amount that they normally go-- or rather 2 or 3 times a month-- and if they
fast when they should, the ward will grow at a much quicker rate then if they
work on reactivating and don't do these visits and fasts.
Last week for PDay we went to an area called Itapira and we
had a chill day, we ate some food, we played some soccer, and we went on a mini
hike believe it or not. I got some pics
up for you. There's also an elder here
that's a hic. He taught me about the
difference between a cow, a cow heifer, a bull, and a steer. Cool huh?
I took some pictures of them so that I could zoom in on them and tell
the difference. Anyways, I love
you!
Elder Williams
Pictures from Peter's visit to the Itapira countryside. They went on a PDay hike.
Is this a heifer, bull, or steer? Zoom in...
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