Hey Dad and family! 9-4-12
Thanks for the report Pahorah. This week was sick, I told mom a good part
about how it was. My companion's not as
bad as everyone was saying. And if we
play it right everything will work towards him having a great mission. We have some plans to really get him
excited. We're planning on sending him
on 'missions' to see how the other elders are doing in our zone. We told him that because he's not their
leader we can send him out and the elders will work and be and act just as they
normally would be without trying to impress their leader. Then after the division he would report to us
on their difficulties so that we would know on how to further help our zone be
more efficient. And because he's got
enough experience up his belt he could even give some tips on how to work more efficiently. He got super excited at this idea. That's the point. He's ready to become senior, he just needs
some more fire in him, some more excitement.
Plus we can take advantage of this division and train the other junior
companions. This will really help the
junior get ready to become a senior. If
you have any other ideas on how to ignite the fire again in him just let me
know. Anyways, I can't wait til the boat
trip. It should be great! We printed off some random papers to put up
around the city. Like "Do you want
to get baptized just as Jesus Christ was?" or "Where did I come from?
Why am I here? Where will I go after this “life?" together with our number. We'll see if it works. I bet we'll get a lot of prank phone calls,
but we should also get some people that really have an interest to learn or get
baptized. Anyways, I love you dad! Have fun with the gorillas.
Love, Elder Williams
Hey Mom and family! 9-4-12
So this week was good, Nothing too eventful. Our zone had 5 baptisms last week, which is
actually pretty good for the zone. We
just need to do it every week. I think
it's legit that you guys had a sick gorilla experience. I had a cool one the other day too. I was walking home last PDay when we saw like
5 lemurs they got really close and there was some fruit on the ground so we
started feeding them. They starting
eating right out of our hand, and while they were doing that we would touch
them on the back with our other. One
almost bit me. It was cool. We really like our 3rd companion. He's not as bad as everyone was saying, and
really he's ready to become a senior. He
just stopped doing the qualifications that he needs to complete to become
one. So we got him going on it
again. The only problem is that he's got
this music box filled with this church music.
The thing is that the Brazilian woman that sings it has a terrible
voice. He loves it. He won’t stop playing it. We've been planning at home of how we're
either going to drown it or burn it.
Anyways, remember Lucimar? She
gave us about 20 references. So we've
had quite a bit to work with. One of
them was a family and last Sunday the parents went to church. We have an appointment with them
tonight. Their names are Ricardo and
Martinha. Also that last family from last
week went again. Except for Elaine. She's got depression, so it's hard for her to
get out of the house. Anyways, Carlos
(the dad) said that they are going every single week now. It's cool to see. Pray that they'll get baptized soon, and that
their marriage will be quick. This week
we're planned on baptizing Artur, Lucimar's
17 year old son. It's cool to see how
little we really play a part in this work.
Really it's all just God that does this work. It's so true that it really just requires our
desire. Cuz even the best missionary
isn't able to convert someone. If we
just desire and act, God will do His part.
Yesterday we had a meeting with president Perrotti. He talked about the difference between us and
Alma. He used chapter 18 as an
example. He said that we use the same
techniques and the same pattern as him, everything is the same, even in that
time period, it was difficult just as now.
The only difference is Alma's faith.
And in the end of his 2 year mission that he made in this chapter he baptized
450 people. Cool huh? Anyways, P-Day moved. They changed it to Mondays. We're writing today because we had a meeting
yesterday. I personally think that this
is way better. Now we can just work
without being interrupted during the week.
I hope you guys keep up this great missionary work that you're
doing. This work is too important to
just waste time. Plus, the quicker that
this world knows about the restoration, the quicker Christ can make His second
coming. I love you!
Elder Williams
Hey Mom and Family, 8-29-12
Thanks for the Email,
I think It's cool that you guys are in Africa right now. Is it still on the northern hemisphere where
you guys are at, or have you guys made the jump yet? I think it's funny that Chris ran in the Serengeti...(hello…there
are hyenas there!!) I’m proud of you, mom; I can't believe you're doing this, it’s
really legit. Yeah so yesterday we had transfers. It was fun.
Not a lot changed. Our zone only really had like 4 changes, and now
we're in a trio. Our new companion's Elder Freitas. He's good.
The president put him with us cuz he's passing through some problems on
his mission getting along with people, I guess we're just so easy to get along
with that we can maybe smooth out his rough edges. Our internet here is ridiculously slow
though, so I can't send you pictures. It
took 20 minutes just load our emails.
This last week was pretty fun. We
found a family that has a lot of potential to get baptized. It's Carlos,
Elaine, Lucas, and Luana. They went to
church Sunday and they're progressing well.
A good part of the members are heading over to their houses doing random
visits as well, which is great. Anyways,
they still need to marry so it might be a while to get them wet. But pray that they can continue to progress
and that they can get married and baptised quickly. Other than that we haven’t had to much of an eventful
week. Anyways, I hope you guys have a
good time playing with the gorillas.
Love you!
Elder Williams
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