Family,
Thanks
for all of the emails and updates! I love hearing from you all! It was
another great week here in Itaqui, Brazil. I
think I’m finally starting to really get lost in the work! Time is
flying by fast! Yesterday was April 1st, and I was 18, today it’s almost
may and I’m 19. Crazy! Hahah. Family home evenings are great here! I
challenge you guys to continue to have family night once a week. It
really is special: start with a prayer, sing a hymn as a family, have a
spiritual message, then a game/activity of some sort, and end with a
prayer. Then dinner and dessert! It’s really awesome here. I love family
nights! And so I challenge you guys to have them and share the same joy
from FHE with me. :) Oh I keep forgetting to tell you guys that
´´Jairo`` is Jairus in Portuguese. And it’s more or less a common name
here! haha. (even in bible the story of daughter of Jairus, is Jairo in
Portuguese.) thought you guys would think that’s cool!
This week we had
reunião de zona (Zone Conference)! We took bus to são borja to have the meeting. (about an
hour and a half bus ride) it was great! lots of inspired training and
talks. plus had a great time at the same time! sent some pics. I
received lots of letters at reunião de zona from the ctm from you guys
and some other ones! haha!! (sometimes takes long time to get things you
guys send, but I will eventually get them!) thank you so much!! tell
the Deans and Rogers and all the families that sent me letters thanks as
well! really means a lot!
So I didn’t think I would... but every missionary has to have the
missionary ´´haircut´´ experience. so in short, we're poor. Haha and Elder Hauck has a haircut thingy (can't remember name of it in English). So he offered to trim my hair, I needed a haircut pretty bad, so I
accepted! Yep as you can see I don’t have much hair left. HAHA! All
good, not too bad, especially bc it was free! but hey, I can say I’ve had the
missionary haircut experience now! lol. oh and almost forgot, we had a
service opportunity finally this week! Cleaned up a member’s yard.
pretty fun. love service! chopped down grass that was up to our waists.
found all sorts of bones, skulls, snakes, and spiders underneath it all.
(one spider was giant and super dangerous! but I didn’t see it only
heard the story so who knows haha)
We also had district conference Sunday!
so we traveled again to são borja for that. chapel is really nice there
though, it was nice! president and sister Parrela were there speaking
as well. it was good to see them.
Great news!! We have 3 and maybe 4
baptisms this Saturday!!
(the investigator work is still going great here.) Always work to do,
people to find, teach, testify, and baptize! the pic of a family night
is with Irmã leda (the mom), Andirelley (daughter), and Allysson (son).
this family is really great and special. they will be baptized together this Saturday! and possibly Nadia, another investigator we're working with! she said she´d think about the date this sat. Hope all goes well this week with all of them! keep em in your prayers! :)
Well just about out of time! in short, it was another great week!!
I love and miss you all family!
Thank you for everything!
Have a great week! Love ya!
Love,
Elder Sargent
oh p.s. I made brownies for reunião de zona. they actually turned out great! who knew!? haha
pps. finding and making the stuff for brownies is really hard in brazil and in Portuguese! lol
