Hey everyone, its good to be p-day day again. its been a normal
week. I was in a trio from Sunday until Wednesday, my companion got here in
Wednesday. It was funny waiting for him in the airport, its a super small
airport, that has one plane that arrives and leaves everyday. It arrives at
about 1 and leaves a little after 2. While waiting for my companion to get off
the plane an English speaking couple arrived, because I saw their brazilian
guide welcome them in English, i never actually heard any of them speak English
so I don't know if they were Americans or from Australian or England or something.
But I remember as we waited the lady walked up in front of us and took a picture
of us with her phone, she didn't even look at us squarely in the eye or say
anything she just walked up took a picture and left. I said rather loudly in
Portuguese look guys we´re famous! She obviously didn't understand what I said
though. It just reminds me of how Americans are weird. My companion is Elder
Freire, a Brazilian from Osasco São Paulo. He is 20 and is excited to be on the
mission and work, his parents were baptized when he was 2. His dad is a bishop.
Hes pretty dang solid and know why he is here on the mission, he has a very
strong desire to serve The Lord and help the people here in Alta Floresta. We
get along great, I almost feel bad being his companion cause i have this week I
will have 1 month left and he wont even have 1 month on the mission. I hope that
doesn't discourage him, but we will be working alot so I hope to show him that
you can still work and be excited for the mission with only a month left. This
week was kinda cruddy I guess as far as work but it defiantly had its strong
points. It rained so much this week, it rained almost every single day. It was
really bumming me out, I hate working in the rain, I think it tricks my brain
into thinking that I am in New York again. I was kinda bummed out there and I
feel like I am back there again. It was nice though because it cooled things
down nicely. I think Ive been in the Brazilian heat to long cause it got down to
like 70 degrees and it gave me a cold haha, Ive been congested and have had a
cough and sneeze since Thursday. luckily I still have some emergen-c that mom
sent me back in the mtc Im finally getting a chance to use it. We taught two
really special people this week, one was Marcelos sister that we baptized last
week, her name is Cassia and we met her in the airport when we dropped off Elder
Moraes. She was interested and said that she wanted us to stop by, so we went
there this week and we were able to see how she is a very elect lady. She said
she has been praying for her to know which path she should choose in life and
what religion she should follow. I think she was just waiting for us to invite
her to be baptized because she accepted without hesitations. She wasn't able to
go to church Sunday because her and her sisters and Marcelos family all
traveled. But we will go their tonight to mark a time to visit this week. Pray
for her and pray for Marcelo and Aparecida and their family, I know that Satan
will continue working against them, also this week we stopped at that market to
buy some groceries for elder Freire, and a lady stopped us and asked what we
did, we got her address and we went there Saturday, we found that she was also
a very elect lady, she is active in the Lutheran church but she told us there
are many things she doesn't agree with, she became very thoughtful when we invited
her to be baptized, she said that she had been baptized already but she said
that its something important to her and she wanted to talk to God about it and
receive counsel from him, she said she is very opened minded and if God tells
her to choose a different path she would be willing to do it, her name is Solde,
pray for her as well so that she can receive an answer, she wanted to visit
church but she had a birthday party yesterday and she said that she would only
be able to go next week. We have been praying alot to know where and how the
Lords want us to work, and I received the impression that we must work closer to
the church and work more with a area book. I felt that we worked alot with our
feet this week, though our numbers were high I was not satisfied with the way we
worked this week and I feel i wasted alot of time walking than actually working
and teaching. I was also a little bit down this week, I felt alot of lack of
Elder Moraes, he is one of my best friends and it was an adjustment not having
him at my side, I know that he is well though and made it home safely. So
tomorrow we will have a division I will go with Elder V. Alves again we will
stay in my area, so I'm not quite sure but it sounds like this week I might be
going to Cuiabá to renew my visa, if I do that I will probably travel to Cuiabá
by bus, and come back by plane, I'm not sure yet but I will call the office
tonight to see if I will be going or not. I pray that it will be a good travel
if I go Cuiabá is far away. I hope that this week is better and that it doesn't
rain haha, my thought seemed to return alot to home and to the family, 5 weeks
seems like a long time and I don't feel at all like the mission in coming to an
end, so far It seems like any other transfer, I think it will take a bit for the
thought to sink in that this really is my last transfer. Pray for us to find
those who are prepared and waiting, we are going to need all the help we can get
from our Father in Heaven, I thought that would be cool if we did Jordans eagle
scout stuff the day I reported that would be neat and there wouldnt be any
problems for me if that's what you decide to do, congratulate him for his good
work, but tell him that he needs to respect mom and dad cause its a
commandment. Know that I love you all so much and I love this great work, I'm
saddened that its almost my time to end my mission but I know it will bring much
joy seeing and being with my family again and the mission will bring me much
fond memories and satisfaction for the rest of my life. Have a great week
everybody and take good care!
-Elder Kennington
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| Elder Freire, a Brazilian from Osasco São Paulo. |
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