Well this was another fast week, I wonder how time can pass by so
quickly, I'm not sure if it passed by as fast for you guys though, sounds like
mom has been sick this week and its been really rainy back at home, hope mom is
feeling better Ill pray for her. So this week was pretty normal I guess, there's
not too much to write at all, last p-day we didn't do much of anything, we just
ate and bummed around the house, I think I Already mentioned, but our house is
super hot inside during the day, so napping on p-day is kinda out of the
question, because all you do is sweat and sweat even with the fan blowing full
blast on you. So its better just laying in the hammock outside we have two here.
This week one of the Elders here Elder Andrade got transferred unexpectedly, I
guess there was kinda like a mini transfer in the middle of the transfer he left
on Wednesday night and the other elder got here Friday afternoon, it took a
while, and so we were in a trio for a couple of days. This week we worked alot
with Fabiola and her sister as well, her sisters name is Aline, she has also
been to church several times as well, but so far hadn't committed to a date she
said she thought that after baptism we had to be perfect which is what a lot of
people think we taught her more and she felt that it was right and received an answer. We worked with them and helped them with any questions or doubts that
they had and they accepted to be baptized on Saturday, so we baptized them on
Saturday. It was a nice hot day about 100 degrees, and we did the baptism at the
group leaders pool here. Presidente Reber was also in attendance as he had
arrived just a little before the baptism, it was very spiritual, Fabiola is on
the left of the photo and is 18, and Aline is on the right of the photo she is
the one carrying the baby, yes its her baby, we see alot of very, very young moms
here in brazil, but she said she wanted to change her life and start over again
with a clean slate. The baptism was very spiritual and the pool water was super
nice, good thing president was there because i didn't want to get out of the pool
after the baptisms cause it was so refreshing, the water went up almost to my
nametag, but didn't get it wet so it was pretty deep. The baptism went great and
I'm glad that the Lord allowed everything to go well I look forward to swimming
after the mission, I decided that I really like boating and wakeboarding and
wakesurfing and stuff like that, I really miss those things, the things that I
most miss besides my family and friends, are snowboarding, going trail riding on
the dirtbike, fishing, and driving. But hey, I can talk about stuff at home
because 2 months is all I have left, and then my expiration date will be up. And
then whether I want it or not, I will be sucked back up to the united states,
from one day to the next, and then I think that I will enter into shock or
something, I'm always talking to Kaiden and Robby and Jetson and they were asking
how I'm going to cope with life at home, I just said I don't know and that I think
I will probably just die, I hope not though, all I know is that it will be
weird. Anyway 2 months is still along time and there is still much to do as I
have said 100 times. So president got to be here on Saturday, and he watched the
baptism, then he had several interviews with some members here so that they
could receive the Priesthood, so we guided him around to the houses of the men
who were to be interviewed, and then that night he invited us and some families
to go to a pizzaria and eat dinner that night, so we ate pizza that night, it
was good and there was a ton of people at this pizzaria cause its the most
popular one here in alta floresta, its expensive though, like 20 bucks a pizza
and he bought like ten haha, we still have some leftover pizza in the fridge back
at the house. Sunday was also really neat, in the morning it started raining a
bunch and I kinda got ticked because i knew that people would use it as an
excuse to not to go to church, but we were blessed and somehow people went to
church we had 6 investigators there, We had the daughters of that family that we
have been working with alot, they went the parents didn't go because they had an
emergency and had to go to their parents house which was in another city 150
miles away, we also had two more investigators that we taught for the first
time on Saturday night before we ate pizza, there names are carol, and Natasha,
in the lesson Carol starting cry after the first vision, she felt the spirit
very strongly, she said she loved church and that she wanted to go next week as
well, the only problem is that this week is general conference and so we wont be
having church here and there really isn't any place to go to watch conference
except using the Internet which is very unreliable. So we will see what happens,
we are really wanting to go to Sinop and watch conference, but we forgot to ask
president about it so we will see if we can go and watch it, I really hope we
can cause I do not want to miss the last general conference of the mission. So I
was saddened to here about the accident of Coy, I remember him from when I was
younger going to church in Bridgeland, he had just gotten back from his mission
recently, he had the nickname of Dietz and that's how most people knew him, that
saddened me alot hearing his passing. I'm sure he will go right back to work as a
missionary teaching the many people awaiting in spirit prison. There was 46
people at church on Sunday which is the best I have seen so far, that's far
better than the original 4 people that it started with back in febuary, we will
continue working with these people and these families because we want them all
to be baptized and I know that they are people who were prepared by the Lord
before coming to this earth to help be the pioneers here in Alta Floresta. So
that's about it i don't have much more to say, thank you for your prayers and
continue praying for us as always, I am always praying for you back at home and
i am always concerned with how you all are. so here are some pictures of the
baptism and our "baptismal font" also here is a picture of a sweet car that we
found and were cruising around in, don't tell president Reber though haha. anyway
thats it, I love you all and wish you all a wonderful week, take good care and
know that I love this wonderful Gospel and I love my Savior Jesus
Christ. A big hug for everyone!
-Elder Kennington
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