Bom dia todos! preparation day again, all is well here in Ponta
Porã. We had transfers last night lots and lots of changes in the zone except
for me and Elder Piñon, we will be staying together another 6 weeks :) that was
good I didn't really want to leave ponta porã, I like this city and the members
alot. So every single companionship that had a change are going way up
north to Cuiabá in Mato Grosso. I was excited because Elder Payne my "son" was
called as a zone leader in Cuiabá, that made me happy to see him moving up
already, I sure trained him well haha jk also Elder Geisler one of my old
companions from Sorriso will be coming here to the zone that will be fun having
him in the zone again. I'm sad to see so many good friends leave, it was a
blessing to be able to get to know so many missionaries well and be able to
learn together with them. One of the other big switch ups is they closed an area
in our ward here. There were 6 missionaries here when I got here, but now it will
go back down in 4, there is a shortage of missionaries in the mission again,
there are tons of missionaries finishing and going home these last several
transfers and not quite enough arriving, so they shut down an area here of our
ward so now me and Elder Piñon will be taking over this area which made me happy, because this new area isn't just a bunch of mansions so hopefully we will be able
to have much success this transfer, This week was interesting, Sunday was kinda
disappointing as none of our investigators went to church yesterday. Hopefully they are
alright though we will be visiting them this week, We worked alot on just trying
to find new people to teach this week, it was good, but we didn't have much
success, we taught some pretty interesting people and lessons. We just decided
to knock some doors cause we didn't have anyone else to teach so, the first door
we knocked on we taught a lesson to 2 women pastures, one didn't really say much
but the other thought she already knew everything about everything, and so we
taught the lesson the spirit was strong and since we have a goal of doing the
baptismal invite at every first lesson we made the invite, but they didn't even
answer or respond to our invite the one just went off on how it´s only Jesus
that saves us and a bunch of other stuff that had nothing to do with nothing,
she was trying to tell us that we worship Joseph Smith and that we put him
before God and Christ, so we explained how that was the opposite of what we
believed and we explained the Book of Mormon, and then they gave us cookies and
we left haha, then we knocked some more doors met some more flaky people that
didn't want to commit to anything. But this week me and Elder Piñon had a good
laugh, we went to a return appointment and the daughter of one of our
investigators came out, I think she was about 5 or 6, we asked if her parents
were there so she ran back in and then came back out and told us "My mom said
that she isn´t here," haha so we looked at each other, like what? then we asked
if she could go ask her mom when we could come back, she got a funny look on her
face and then she realized what she had said, so she kinda looked at us for a
second and then ran back into the house and she came and and said we could come
back tomorrow, and then we asked what time so she ran back again and then came
back and said 6 o clock, haha we thought it was kinda funny, children our so
innocent I wish everyone was as loving and innocent as little children, no wonder
the Savior loves them so much. So yeah this week I think I got the trunkiest
that I have ever been on the mission, cause these last 3 months I have been
watching one of my mission heros Elder W Santos get ready to go home, Saturday
afternoon he finally got on the bus to go to cuiabá, he had to leave early so he
could go to campo grande and watch sacrament meeting there and then to cuiabá.
Its an 18 hour bus ride. I was saddened seeing him go because he was one of my
best friends on the mission, he was a valient missionary until the end and
worked until his last hour, it made me think a ton of my family and friends and
of everything that I left back home, it made me trunky simply, i kinda wished it
was me getting on the bus to go back to Cuiabá to then get on a plane. And then
he left and that feeling passed pretty quickly haha. Really though not even when
I was with Elder Almeida did it effect me very much, because I was his last
companion but watching Elder W Santos go was tough, whatever though I got
another 7 months so Ill just forget everything else and just work. Weird huh,
next week I will have 1 year and 5 months and by the end of this transfer I will
already have a year and six months, strange huh. So I'm pretty sure that I will
be staying here in Ponta Porã for 6 months, because I am guessing at the end of
this transfer Elder Piñon will be released as a zone leader, because usually
president releases zone leaders so they can have the last couple transfers to
themselves and not have to worry about all the stresses, elder Piñon will only
have one more transfer left after this next transfer so he will probably get
transferred and I will probably stay which will put me at 4 transfers here. Who
knows though transfers are always a toss up here and no one ever knows exactly
what will happen. So yeah they say its supposed to start cooling down pretty
soon that will be interesting I'm excited to feel more cold, instead of just face
melting sun. but yeah all is well here pray for our investigators especially
Bruna, not sure why she didn't go to church yesterday she was excited this entire
week to go again. Israel and Gabrielle our super firm and our going to church
and activities and our doing well, that makes us happy. Oh yeah so here's a
picture of me flossing my teeth I have kinda gotten obsessed with brushing and
flossing my teeth on the mission cause I don't want to get any cavities or get
nasty teeth, but still I wont be surprised to get home and find that I have some
cavities or something haha. SO yeah I just found out Saturday that this Sunday
is going to be mothers day already! What so yeah I think we have a family
that will let us use our computers, her name is Irmã Cynthia she is great and she
is from Paraguay so you guys can speak Spanish with her probably haha, so i will
notify you guys during the week for what time we will be able to do skyping, I'm
guessing it will be in the afternoon probably around 3 or 4 oclock my time here
or later, so I don't know maybe after 2 for you guys, I think we are pretty
flexible on the time though but email me when would be the ideal time for you
guys and this week I will send you and email to get everything set up, man it
seems like just yesterday that I was already talking to you guys, I guess its
been only about 4 and a half months, itll be the last skype home to you guys! oh
louco!! I hope the brothers have a good last month of school, high school was
good but it seems so long ago it almost seems like a dream, but yeah so i think
that's about it for this week, life is good I was reminded again of the
importance of praying and how we need to rely on the Lord. I love the Lord and
this work, I need to put my trust in him more and acknowledge him in all things,
I know the Saviors lives and that he is our Savior. A Igreja é
verdadeira sem dúvida! com amor
-Elder Kennington
