May 21, 2012
Hey family!
Wow, you guys are really doing some
missionary work out there! That´s awesome. What, you´ve already had like 4
baptisms there since I’ve left, right? That´s incredible. The Lord is really
blessing you all. Baptism meetings are always really spiritual events,
especially when there are a ton of people involved. It also sounds like Brandon
is really doing well; it would be great for him to start having the missionary
discussions. Yeah, it´s kind of a weird next step, suggesting to him to meet
with the missionaries. I never got to that step! But just keep praying and
fasting about it and the Lord will provide a way for you guys to invite Brandon
to meet with the missionaries. Like that person said in conference (I forget
who it was), he said that if we trust in the Lord, be a friend, and act with
Love, we will be able to invite others to the Church in a way that is natural.
I hope it all works out, keep me posted.
This week I have actually been
focusing a lot on the ward here. Bairro Novo is an excellent ward, with a lot
of faithful members, and I’ve kind of been forgetting to work together with the
ward. So, during this week, I have been trying to work more with the Ward
Council and with the bishopric, and also I’ve been trying to just offer myself
for help to all of the members I run across. It´s already helping out, I feel
like the members here trust me more now, and some of them told me about some
friends or relatives that they would like to receive the missionary
discussions. It´s a really cool feeling, because you know that these referrals
that they give are sacred, and it makes me want to do my best to help them come
unto Christ. We´ll see how this all goes!
We´ve also been trying to reactivate
some less actives in our area, we have about 550 ´members´ in our area, but
only have about 120 people at Church every week, so we´re trying to help some
of them return to church. We had the opportunity to bring a lady back to church
that had fallen away over 10 years ago. I told the bishop about her, but he
couldn´t remember her, so I was thinking that no one would recognize her. But
after Sacrament meeting, a ton of women from the Relief society went over and
started hugging her, and catching up with her, and seeing how she was doing. It
was a really cool experience, and it reminds me that my purpose as a missionary
isn´t just to get people baptize, but to invite others to come unto Christ.
This includes rescuing those who have lost their way a bit.
Elder Little is doing really well.
The language is still hard for him, but it’s the same thing for all Americans!
He´ll get it soon. I´m not sure if it´s better for him to have an American
companion, because he can always just speak in English and I’ll understand, but
with a Brazilian, you HAVE to speak in Portuguese. Sometimes I have to be kind
of a jerk and make him speak in Portuguese when he´s not really sure how to say
something, but it will help him in the end to speak Portuguese quickly. It´s
kind of crazy, it´s already been three weeks since I started training him!!!?
The weather here is crazy, it´s kind
of annoying´. It´ll get cold for a few days, and then the next few days it´ll
get really hot. It´ll rain for two days straight, and then for the next few
days it switches between clear skies and overcast--all to trick us out! It´s
annoying. But, in general, it is getting colder.
Ok, I gottago, but I hope that
everything is going well. You should be getting letters soon, if you haven´t
gotten them already!!!
LOVE YOU LOOOOOTS
Elder Twitchell
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