June 3, 2013

Hello family!

 Well wow I got to say wow! My mom talking in church I really never thought that day would come and I won’t be there to see it when it happens! :( But I am 100% sure that it will be an awesome talk, for as my dad talking we will have to see hahahaha jk dad you will do great! Well mom I have not heard about this broadcast thing! I don’t know what it is or anything but that would be cool, will it be for everyone or just for the missionaries maybe I hear about it tomorrow from the zone leader in our zone meeting! That would be super cool maybe he will reveal when the 2nd coming will be! That is cool about how Casey Madsen getting married tell here congrats for me hahaha that is cool that you met the brother of who will be the mission president here. Hahaha well that is cool to hear that everyone is doing very well!

 Well this week was pretty cool a lot of cool experiences happened and it was awesome! Well let’s start out that ELDER GRAY baptized again for the sisters missionaries. they prepared this kid that is the son of one recent convert and I went there did the interview and he was like I don’t know any one in this ward that could baptize me Elder Gray do you want to baptize me I said sure why not. And Eliton da Silva Santos was baptized this Sunday by me it was super cool because he was super prepared to be baptized and you could see the light in his eyes after it was so awesome. After the meeting the sister missionaries bishop calls me over in front of my companion and Paulo and starts speaking to me in English and chewing me out about how this is the second baptism that I have done in their ward and I shouldn’t baptize more people I should have their ward do it. I agreed with them a little bit.... then I said to him the sad thing is that he doesn’t know the people here and no one went to visit him and help him become member of the church it was just the sister missionaries and his mom... so bishop this is your problem maybe you should listen to the sisters and read the report that they give to you every week so you can do this. He wasn’t too happy about that but I really didn’t care because I was right and he comes out of no where calling me out that I am wrong in front of people that is just wrong. But I just got to wipe this off because it was just an ignorant bishop. After, we gave a blessing for Sister Johnson because her foot has been really been hurting her and she is wearing a boot.

  That family that lost their son is going so so well! They are wanting to be baptized and get married and go through the temple! They are an awesome family I love them so much I have fear that I will get transferred on the 10th and won’t be able to see this because here in Brazil it takes awhile to get married. But I will ask president if I can be there on that day! I would love to see them be baptized and they want me and elder Stout to baptize them. This week we did a fast with them it was so cool because that is a great idea and they were so awesome the both of them went from one lunch to the other one and they said they felt the spirit so strongly during that. I know that they will marry and be baptized they are so awesome I will be so happy for them if they marry and baptize! Funny thing this week so Paulo he got in a car wreck like 8 months ago and he never repaired his car because like car insurance doesn’t exist here but it’s on the drivers back side. and what happens is that when there is a lot of people in there it weighs the car down a lot and when you hit a bump it makes a really bad sound like the metal frame against the  tire and last night he hit a bump an it kind of cut his tire and I was like Paulo do you want me to make it a little bit better and he looked at me and was like you don’t know anything about cars and I was like I know very little and what I know can help. so we pulled off and I was like I will need a hammer to pound out this dent and that so we went to some ones house and was like hey can we borrow your hammer and they are like what and Paulo said the American here is going to try and get the dent out and I looked at him wow your super funny not. We got a hammer. I told him we will have to take the tire off to get a better angle at it, Paulo didn’t even know where the jack was at in his car so I had to get his jack out jack the car up take the wheel off and then I went at it! I made it better it’s not perfect but definitely better. And put the tire back and everything and we hit a bump again and it made just this little sound and he turns to me and was like dude your man you should be a mechanic. It was funny because even elder stout was doubting it! But this week was good I really liked it! But yah well family take care have a good week and keep reading! hahaha love you  guys!

Love, Elder Gray