Familia e Amigos,
This week was good but it did have quite a bit of challenges. Altogether it ended on a pretty positive note though. First off this week I hit my year mark. Pretty stinking crazy. During the day Elder Orton and I checked out tis place that is right by the ocean. During that time it really hity how stinking fast tis time has been going. And how much faster it will continue to go. I am so blessed to be out in the mission. It is something amazing to me and everyday I am grateful to be here.
Speaking of which as well this week we had a pretty interesting lesson. So we were teaching this kid who said that he was going to give up pratically. His family wasn't the best example and he just didn't feel like he should continue getting ready for baptism or going to church. So we talked to him and brought up how if he's not really willing than we can't really do anything for him. He seemed pretty taken aback by that point and than (after we had been asking him to do this for a week) decided that he would pray to know really what he should do. We left that lesson in truth a little sad because it was basically a last chance lesson. But then the next day we passed him on the street and basically all he said was that he was willing to continue on. It was amazing. Honestly I know that Heavenly Father answers prayers and that He will help us to really understand what we need to do.
I love this work. I tis just amazing and I am so blessed to be out here as a missionary of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I stinking love it and there is nothing better that I could be doing. I love tis work and I love being out here.
Love you all,
Peder
ps this week I had to lead in church. pretty stinking awkward. hopefully I can eventually learn how to do it. haha
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Aguenta
Familia e Amigos,
This week has been pretty solid. So as I briefly stated last week I am now with Elder Orton. I had known him before in Fogo but never really thought that we would be comps. Well turns out that we are and I really love it. Elder Orton is from UT and he's way chill.
As well finally started the work here in Calheta. Straight up love it here. It is way small here( there's only about 16 members in the whole city) so we are still a group that makes part of the ward in Assomada. Straight up love it here though. We have some sweet investigators and members here.
One sweet thing during this week is that we talked to this girl named Celeide. So Celeide has a lot of health problems and her cousin carlos invited her to talk to us to see if we could help. So we started talking to us and she mentioned how she has been going around everywehre asking people for money so tat she can get consultations done. So we started talking to her about the power of prayer and really how God can help her with this. After we left the lesson Carlos and Celeide decided to pray. So they prayed and then they called Celiede's cousin in Praia. And her cousin said that she would help pay for the consultation. It really is true that when we pray God will help us.
As well this week we were talking to a member named Nelson. So Nelson is the group leader so he basically directs sacrament and all that. So one day we went over just to help him prepare a bit. As we were doing it Elder Orton was practicing leading for the music. Then we started talking about the way some people lead. So Elder Orton got up and then put his arms limp and just swung them around trying to lead. Next thing that happens is that Elder Orton hit a board with a couple things on it that just get shot across the room. Holy flip I was laughing so stinking hard that I started to cry. Luckily nothing got broken but it was just so funny.
I straight up love this area. It is awesome and the people have a real desire to learn. I know that this Church is true. It has blessed my life immensely and there is nothing better than what it has done for me. I love you all and hope that everything is going well where you are.
Peder
This week has been pretty solid. So as I briefly stated last week I am now with Elder Orton. I had known him before in Fogo but never really thought that we would be comps. Well turns out that we are and I really love it. Elder Orton is from UT and he's way chill.
As well finally started the work here in Calheta. Straight up love it here. It is way small here( there's only about 16 members in the whole city) so we are still a group that makes part of the ward in Assomada. Straight up love it here though. We have some sweet investigators and members here.
One sweet thing during this week is that we talked to this girl named Celeide. So Celeide has a lot of health problems and her cousin carlos invited her to talk to us to see if we could help. So we started talking to us and she mentioned how she has been going around everywehre asking people for money so tat she can get consultations done. So we started talking to her about the power of prayer and really how God can help her with this. After we left the lesson Carlos and Celeide decided to pray. So they prayed and then they called Celiede's cousin in Praia. And her cousin said that she would help pay for the consultation. It really is true that when we pray God will help us.
As well this week we were talking to a member named Nelson. So Nelson is the group leader so he basically directs sacrament and all that. So one day we went over just to help him prepare a bit. As we were doing it Elder Orton was practicing leading for the music. Then we started talking about the way some people lead. So Elder Orton got up and then put his arms limp and just swung them around trying to lead. Next thing that happens is that Elder Orton hit a board with a couple things on it that just get shot across the room. Holy flip I was laughing so stinking hard that I started to cry. Luckily nothing got broken but it was just so funny.
I straight up love this area. It is awesome and the people have a real desire to learn. I know that this Church is true. It has blessed my life immensely and there is nothing better than what it has done for me. I love you all and hope that everything is going well where you are.
Peder
Monday, December 3, 2012
Peder is in a new area with a new companion: Calheta with Elder Orton
Familia e Amigos,
So this week was quite an awesome week. So this week was the last week of the transfer. So in general we were kind of wondering what would be going on with our area. But we continued to work hard. During this week we had a bunch of members help us. One lesson was particularly awesome when we taught with Irmao Fernandes. So we went to teach one of our investigators who is preparing for baptism. As well two guys just sat in during the lesson. As we turned to it over to Fernandes those two guys just started asking him all these questions and he made them feel so confortable. They are pretty sweet and I really want to know what's going to be going on with them.
As well this week we had a soccer tourney activity at the church. It was a solid to get to to know the members beter and to find some new investigators which was way chill.
And then finally came sunday. So throughout the week I had a feeling that I would be peacing out. Turns out that I am leaving. I am going to be serving in Calheta with Elder Orton from Utah(don't know where in UT). I'm excited. I'm leaving Praia that has the church most established than any other area to go to an area that still doesn't even have a branch so I'm way excited. As well my past areas are doing super well and some of my investigators in Relva got baptized this last week. In general though things are straight up awesome. I love this work. It is the best thing I could be doing right now and I have no doubt of it. This new area should be sweet to really just get to work and baptize.
Love you all,
Peder
So this week was quite an awesome week. So this week was the last week of the transfer. So in general we were kind of wondering what would be going on with our area. But we continued to work hard. During this week we had a bunch of members help us. One lesson was particularly awesome when we taught with Irmao Fernandes. So we went to teach one of our investigators who is preparing for baptism. As well two guys just sat in during the lesson. As we turned to it over to Fernandes those two guys just started asking him all these questions and he made them feel so confortable. They are pretty sweet and I really want to know what's going to be going on with them.
As well this week we had a soccer tourney activity at the church. It was a solid to get to to know the members beter and to find some new investigators which was way chill.
And then finally came sunday. So throughout the week I had a feeling that I would be peacing out. Turns out that I am leaving. I am going to be serving in Calheta with Elder Orton from Utah(don't know where in UT). I'm excited. I'm leaving Praia that has the church most established than any other area to go to an area that still doesn't even have a branch so I'm way excited. As well my past areas are doing super well and some of my investigators in Relva got baptized this last week. In general though things are straight up awesome. I love this work. It is the best thing I could be doing right now and I have no doubt of it. This new area should be sweet to really just get to work and baptize.
Love you all,
Peder
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