Boa tarde gente, sorry I'm emailing so late, we played soccer this
morning and then we went to a birthday party for a member today and then we went
home and cleaned up the house and stuff. So I'm hear with bro man Elder Pinõn,
its been a kind of wild week, we havent been hardly able to work cause we have
been running around so much with traveling and doing baptismal interviews and
stuff, I'm excited though this week to start fresh and have a free week ahead of
us, so yeah my companion is Elder Christopher Pinõn, from Miami Florida, but his
family is currently living in Virigina, we get along great which is normal, Ive
never had any problems with a companion. He is at a year and almost 7 months I
think. Who is a super focused and strong missionary and he will help our zone
and me alot. So he arrived on Tuesday so I just stayed in a trio for a little
bit with elder w santos and his companion. We were going to have a baptism this
week of Gabriele, we went to her house on Wednesday and talked with her and her
mom and got her signature and it was like the easiest thing in the world, but
Thursday we had to leave to go to campo grande right after lunch, cause we had a
meeting for all the zone leaders in the south, the reunion was great and we
learned alot, president was very pleased with our zone because we had helped
triple the baptisms that the zone has been having the last several months, we
were the zone that had the most number of baptisms in the south. But that's
enough being prideful but the mission now has a new plan that all the zone
leaders will do weekly divisions with the district leaders, hopefully it will
help the entire mission as much as it has helped us. we didn't get back to Ponta
Porã until about 11 Friday night, so we stayed the night at the house of the
missionaries that live really close to the bus station, because the next morning
we had to do baptismal interviews for them, so we did that and then we went
straight to the church so we could watch general conference, we were blessed and
they sent up a separate room for the Americans because there are 9 of us in the
zone here, so that was nice being able to watch the talks in English, its nice
to be able to actually hear their own voices, nothing against Portuguese at all
but its just nice hearing the actual voice of the Prophet, Priesthood session we
watched in Portuguese though. General conference was great and as I said before
I appreciate it alot more now that I am here on the mission. I felt the strength
and the power of the words of the speakers and I look forward to being able to
study the talks more I plan on downloading them and listening to them. It was
strange to think that its been a year since uncle tom passed away, I still miss
him and he was in my thoughts, my thoughts were back at home with you guys as
well, conference made all the Americans trunky, haha, next conference though will
be my last on the mission, and then I will be going home probably. Weird to
think that in 6 more months I will be entering into my last transfer of the
mission. gosh tu é doido. Lets not think about those things, this week I will
hit a year and 4 months, sad thing about missions is they all come to an end
whether we like it or not. Oh yeah, so we were going to baptize Gabriele on Sunday
but we called her mom to confirm things and she said it would be better for
Gabriele to wait to be baptized, I was pretty shocked to hear that but I just
told them that we would be coming by to visit them this week, so I don't know
what happened but tomorrow we will find out, I hope we can still baptize her,
pray for her and us so that everything can go fine so that we can baptize her
still. So yeah, I'm really tired cause we were playing alot of soccer which
really tired me out, but I'm stoked up for this transfer Elder Pinõn is the man,
he is 22 and we are already really good friends this transfer will be really
good, it will only be a transfer of 5 weeks instead of 6 weeks though, I was
excited to hear that you guys enjoyed conference and that dads companion was
called as an area authority, that's cool. But I know the church is true and that
Thomas S. Monson really is Gods chosen Prophet, that I know. Families can be
together forever, and the mission goes by too fast. Well not much to say today
sorry but pray for us so that we can find the Lords elects and baptize them,
love you guys and also I hope Keeton gets feeling better, I'm miss my little
cousins they have probably changed so much! take care and have a good week!
-Elder Kennington
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