Hey Mom and Fam, 12-14-12
Thanks for the email. It's cool to
hear about your re-activation efforts in your ward mom, it's a big goal of mine to do that after
the mission for the small time that I’m in Medford. I have some buddies that I
want to work on. There are also some people I want to send out on a mission. For some of the re-activation efforts that I've done here in Brazil, there's
not a better feeling (other than a baptism)!
Since I've been here in Jacaré,
there's this kid Patrick that has been growing a ton in the church, he's 14 and
is already going to church by himself. His uncle has been the guy that's been
integrating him, but now it seems as if Patrick has a bigger testimony than his
uncle. Both the uncle and his mom are against his baptism for now. His mom won’t
sign the permission slip until he turns 15 (which just so happens to be next
month) I'll still be here on my mission when he gets baptized. However with the
experience that I have on my mission, I know that when the date arrives, his
mom will want to move it to a further date.
I'm really liking this area.
Yesterday we had an awesome activity called "Returned Missionary
Counsel". Only RM's were invited and they relived their missions and gave
out their ideas for other activities. It got them all excited for missionary
work and kindled that fire again. It was great, we established some goals to
work on and they’re all going to do some good work this week. Your last email
helped me see from their point of view and I used 3 Nephi 11, it was cool.
Anyways, I got the other box. Well
sort of, It's in the office. We'll see tomorrow if I can get it. There’s going
to be a leaving transfer for some elders like Elder Coelho that are going home. And
then there are about 5 missionaries that are going to get sent home, two of
which are in my zone, both for health issues. One of them is a sister that
almost died here. She was in the hospital for two weeks for stomach/eye
problems.
I’m totally down to go to Hawaii
with you guys sometime! I was planning on going there some time to visit Cassandra
and Sam anyway.
I talked with the President re: BYU Interview and I
sent him an email with all the info yesterday. He's been pushing it off for a
while, so I’ll call him again today and get on his case to do it today. Well
I'll see you all next week (Skype); it'll be way good, unless you guys get
eaten by a shark in Hawaii...until then...Love you!
Elder Williams
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