That definitely sounds like an intersting night for
sure. Lots of concerts and interesting events. Did Nathan forget his
shoes, or did he purposely leave them? Go Fishers Tigers! I hope that
means that the football team is doing good right now! Happy Birthday
David! The Primary Program was this week? You are a primary teacher
now? Cool, sounds like it was fun. I still remember Zach and Nathan
burping in the microphone. Classic.
This week in the fantastic world of Itacoatiara was super busy. Monday was p day, but at midnight
Elder Sanford and I went down to the port to go and pickup the elder
who were arriving from Maus. The port was about 40 minutes by foot from
our house so it was a nice week through the entire city to get to the
port. got the elders and got back home by taxi! Got home at about 1:20am and then went promptly to sleep. 6:30, got up and got ready and left 7:30
for Zone Training. The Training went really well, it was super cool
and talked a lot about how to find the families who are prepared to hear
the message about the restored gospel! Super cool . The rest of the
day was normal, but I was half asleep. Didn´t get to sleep until 11:00. Wednesday was Zone Conference. 6:30 wake up and 7:30
out the door. Our Zone had prepared an arrangement of A childs prayer
and so we praciticed that a bit before Pres. and Sis. Castro got there
from Manaus. I played piano with one of the other elders and everyone
else sang. Verses were sung in Spanish, English and Portuguese. When
they got there, we started out the Conference normally and then annouced
that we had a special presentation for them. We performed the whole
song (for the first time!) for them and by the end we had Sis. Castro
was in tears. There was a super strong spirit there during that song.
Music truly has the power to open and touch any heart. The restof the
zone Conference was super good. Lots of counsel about how to study the
scriptures that was super good and it really has made a difference in
our work here. So this week we had a lesson with Jucileno that was
super good. We had already asked him if he would be baptized a few
lessons before and this lesson we talked a little bit about that . He
had a bunch of questions so we answered them, but during that lesson the
spirit was so strong that he told us that he almost felt like he was
crying. he told us that he knew he needed to be baptized but he wants
to do it with his family so we are going to talk with his family!
Yes! This week was about scripture study as well! We had a couple
that had argued and werer having problems and we asked them about their
scripture study and they admitted that they hadn´t been reading the
scriptures and we challenged them to ready their scriptures together.
They both agreeded to do it and two days later when we showed up again,
there was a percibile spirit in their home that was so much better, all
from just reading the scriptures. Super good week this week!
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