Hello Family!!
Well I love you guys so much! so we heard about the transfers this Sunday and it turned out that me and my companion are going to stay together so that is going to be a good thing! Because things are starting to happen here and it is amazing! Where do I start off???? Well so this week was interesting Tuesday there was no one in the streets at all! I was alright this will be different to do the missionary work and it was raining here super hard! Which was super not cool! But oh well and that night we had to sleep in the house of other missionaries to get on a bus to go to Curitiba to training for new missionaries which was super good! I liked it a lot and I learned a ton! Something funny about this training is that some of the elders there turned into complete robots! There were like asking everyone how many baptisms and about other things and it was ridiculous in my opinion because these missionaries completely turned into looking at people as numbers which is horrible! the day after we were passing by a members house before lunch and we saw two of our young men in their car just playing guitar and rockin out and I told my companion after we eat we are going to get them and they are going to leave with us! So that is what we did! We went and got them and they left with us and they loved it! I went with the older brother of the two and he was 19 and he doesn’t want to go on a mission so I was talking to him and helping see the blessings that come from serving a mission! And how fun it is! and when we were on division a pastor stopped us and was like hey I want to talk with you guys and this member looks at me like crap he is going to burn us and I was like stay calm! So this pastor comes over and he wants to bible bash with me so he started I was thinking that I will just make contact with him and me and my companion would pass there another day! But then he started to talk bad about the church and the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and I was alright you asked for it! I shared my testimony how I know these things are true and how he could know and how we have the power of God and he stayed shocked and then I was like you could know for your self and asked if we could pass by there and then he started to condemn me and I was like are you condemning me and he was like no and I was like you were to! So I put my hand on his shoulder and I looked at him really seriously in the eye and I said to him good luck for you in the last day hope to see you there!!!! And it ended there and he was super shocked and walked away and the member that I was with just had a look on his face that I just crapped in his face. and I was talking to him after and then I saw this young man and I was like I need to talk to him his name is Sander, we started talking and he was like I want you guys to pass by my house I am in need! I was like perfect I will! so after I wrote everything down I said to the member do you know what just happened and he was like what do you mean and I was like did you see what God did for us and he was over thinking when we are walking and he was like God just blessed us with someone that needs the gospel and I was like yep you are right! and after that he was super excited and so this week was fast Sunday and so this member that I left with was the first person to bear testimony, after the bishop he gets up there and shares his testimony about the day that he left with us and you could tell that it changed his life and that he is thinking about a mission! It made me super happy hearing what he was saying and how he wants to go more with us! After the sacrament meeting his dad comes up to me and gives me a big hug and told me thank you! It was a super good day, this week was awesome I really liked it! Also I and my companion found some really good people to teach and it was super good!! I think here in a little bit we are going to have some more baptism which is going to be awesome! But that is about it for this week I hope that you guys like this letter! I love you guys have a good week take care!!
Love, GRAY
Well I love you guys so much! so we heard about the transfers this Sunday and it turned out that me and my companion are going to stay together so that is going to be a good thing! Because things are starting to happen here and it is amazing! Where do I start off???? Well so this week was interesting Tuesday there was no one in the streets at all! I was alright this will be different to do the missionary work and it was raining here super hard! Which was super not cool! But oh well and that night we had to sleep in the house of other missionaries to get on a bus to go to Curitiba to training for new missionaries which was super good! I liked it a lot and I learned a ton! Something funny about this training is that some of the elders there turned into complete robots! There were like asking everyone how many baptisms and about other things and it was ridiculous in my opinion because these missionaries completely turned into looking at people as numbers which is horrible! the day after we were passing by a members house before lunch and we saw two of our young men in their car just playing guitar and rockin out and I told my companion after we eat we are going to get them and they are going to leave with us! So that is what we did! We went and got them and they left with us and they loved it! I went with the older brother of the two and he was 19 and he doesn’t want to go on a mission so I was talking to him and helping see the blessings that come from serving a mission! And how fun it is! and when we were on division a pastor stopped us and was like hey I want to talk with you guys and this member looks at me like crap he is going to burn us and I was like stay calm! So this pastor comes over and he wants to bible bash with me so he started I was thinking that I will just make contact with him and me and my companion would pass there another day! But then he started to talk bad about the church and the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and I was alright you asked for it! I shared my testimony how I know these things are true and how he could know and how we have the power of God and he stayed shocked and then I was like you could know for your self and asked if we could pass by there and then he started to condemn me and I was like are you condemning me and he was like no and I was like you were to! So I put my hand on his shoulder and I looked at him really seriously in the eye and I said to him good luck for you in the last day hope to see you there!!!! And it ended there and he was super shocked and walked away and the member that I was with just had a look on his face that I just crapped in his face. and I was talking to him after and then I saw this young man and I was like I need to talk to him his name is Sander, we started talking and he was like I want you guys to pass by my house I am in need! I was like perfect I will! so after I wrote everything down I said to the member do you know what just happened and he was like what do you mean and I was like did you see what God did for us and he was over thinking when we are walking and he was like God just blessed us with someone that needs the gospel and I was like yep you are right! and after that he was super excited and so this week was fast Sunday and so this member that I left with was the first person to bear testimony, after the bishop he gets up there and shares his testimony about the day that he left with us and you could tell that it changed his life and that he is thinking about a mission! It made me super happy hearing what he was saying and how he wants to go more with us! After the sacrament meeting his dad comes up to me and gives me a big hug and told me thank you! It was a super good day, this week was awesome I really liked it! Also I and my companion found some really good people to teach and it was super good!! I think here in a little bit we are going to have some more baptism which is going to be awesome! But that is about it for this week I hope that you guys like this letter! I love you guys have a good week take care!!
Love, GRAY
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