HEEELLOOOO Everyone! BOM DIA!.... Na verdade é boa tarde agora. Mas eu não comi então ainda é bom dia.
HOW ARE YA ALL?
This has been a great, crazy week. Things are going really well over here in Salvador. I am liking the area Brotas. It is a good area and we are working hard to find new investigators and bring them to church.
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This week was full of field-work, office-work, and zone conferences. It was great. We had to stay in the office for a while finishing all the number booklets. We have reformed all of them to make them look better and be more useful. So I spent the whole time creating Excel documents and making it look all pretty. haha Then I went into the excel worksheet for the numbers of the whole mission and created a new one. The old one had a ton of bugs. So I had to learn how to do all the formulas and spent a good time doing all that. BUT it was cool because I figured out how to make it highlight all the numbers by itself. SO if the numbers are lower than usual they are marked red, and medium is yellow, standard-high is green. So that was cool. It´ll save us a lot of time. BUt yeah so Monday was full of that. It is the day that we stay in the office. The other days we are in the field.
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| Good ole Brasilian Food! |
Tuesday we had the Imbuí Zone Conference. It went well. We gave some trainings during it and at the end we watched the message from President Nelson.
Wednesday we had the Salvador Zone Conference. ALSO went well. haha It was basically the same thing all over again. SO it was great.
On these two days, the conferences went long so we only got to our areas at like 5 or 6:00 pm. Which kinda sucks. It is harder to find new people at night. The péople are less likely to let us in to teach them. But things are going well.
My comp is awesome. He is a great elder and we are having a great time together. We are putting many new teaching techniques into practice. So it is going great. We also had a little family night I think on Sunday. I am sending a pic of that. The members are great here. We have been receiving many references from them. LOVE IT. haha
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| Elder Thevenin (my comp) is on the left, than Elder Gomes, and Elder Antunes |
SO this week I have studied about Jeffery R Holland´s last conference talk. Click here to read his talk. Which talks about the fact that it is a long path to perfection. That we shouldn´t beat ourselves up. BUT ALSO, we also shouldnt let down our standards or stop with our righteous habbits. For example, perfection might take a lifetime or more. SO I shouldn´t beat myself up at every little mistake. However, I shouldn´t take it lightly either. We should always keep in mind the infinite sacrifice that our Savior endured for us. I think that getting too relaxed can be one of the biggest problems. We find so many inactive peopel and the reason that they are inactive is because of the simplest things! haha They stopped reading the scripures, they stopped praying individually and in family. It is sad to see that happen. But, I think that it all ties in to what he said. We can all give our best. Our 100 pence.
Love you all!
Love,
Elder Davis