Hey family Good morning hope you are all well. So it´s
been a pretty quick week this week it went by pretty quick. Not much really
happened, but also alot happened as well. SO in our mission right now they had a
mini transfer because there are six missionaries that are going home today, so
that they could be home with their families during Christmas, because if not, they
would go home on the 6th of January which is the actual transfer, but President
Reber is letting them go home before Christmas to be with their families on
Christmas. Elder Cordeiro is heading home today, as well he has finished his
mission. So there are 6 missionaries going home, but the mission isn't receiving
anybody. SO that meant that hey would have to do some switching up in the
mission and close some areas or pull some missionaries out of some areas. And
what do you know me and Elder Payne got pulled out of Industriário and we are
being transferred down south to campo grande which is a 12 hour bus ride from
cuiabá. I´m pretty bummed out to be honest. Cause I'm leaving an area and a ward
that I love and plus I wont be with Elder Payne, I wont even get to finish out
the transfer with him. Sounds like I'm going to a branch...again. I checked out
their numbers they baptized 9 people last year, and have about 65 people or so
that go every week. I guess it could be worse. My companion will be Elder Campos.
A Brazilian with 4 or 5 months on the mission. So lets go and work like crazy.
Elder Payne will be with Elder W Lemes a brazilian. He will still be in my
district though, so I will get to see him every week. President came to our ward
here yesterday ,to give a training and after church he told us that he was
sending us down to campo grande. I don't know I was kinda expecting it. I knew
that they were probably going to pull some missionaries out of Cuiabá, and our
area made the most sense cause there was already 4 missionaries here and we
already lived in the same house, so it wouldn't mess stuff up too bad if they
pulled us out, because the church would still be able to keep the house of the
missionaries, and they will be able to put more missionaries back in as soon as
more missionaries arrive. I was talking to Jetson and he said that his mission
has like 300 missionaries in it, our mission has like 125. We are lacking alot
of American missionaries, which is taking a toll on our mission. But sounds like
a few more got their visas so that's good. Well I really don't have any desire to
write today but Ill keep writing anyway. Also on Thursday my hump day, President
called Elder Moraes one of the zone leaders here and told him that he was going
to the south to campo grande to be one of the assistants there. So its been
kind of a wild week, Elder John was transferred to here from his area which is
15 minutes away he was our district leader, but now he will be zone leader here. Our new district leader is an Elder that switched missions. He's a Brazilian who
was serving ine São Paulo, but his girlfriend got called to the same mission, so
they moved him to our mission which is kinda crazy I think. So Elder Moraes was
in a threesome with us and so we had to visit alot of people so he could say
goodbye, and also to help him get packed. Its been kind of a pain in the butt
this week. We were still able to work quite a bit, I went on a division with
Elder Moraes early in the week and we just spent the week trying to find new
investigators and teach lessons and make contacts. But we didn't have much
success everyone was either too busy, or already had their own religion. SO we
did alot of talking and walking, but we didn't have much success. Also, I was
bummed out too cause we stopped my DAlilas and Brendas multiple times every day
during the week, but every time she was either too "busy" to even show her face
and talk or she "wasn't at home." I finally tracked her down on Saturday, because
she went to get her hair done at some salon, so I had her family tell me where
the salon was located and so I went and found her and talked to her and asked if
she was going to church tomorrow? She told us that she had an appointment Sunday
morning and that she couldn't go to church, I said what?! Do you have an
appointment with your mattress in the morning? She then tried to give me some
excuse, it was obvious she was lying. That grinded my gears, cause I hate when
people lie to my face. I just told her that we would be waiting for her at
church. I'm not sure what happened why she is avoiding the missionaries now, but I
wish she would at least let us sit down and ask her what's going on. I gave
her address to the zone leaders now and so hopefully they can help her out.
That's what we did yesterday was I showed the leaders where our
investigators live and some members and stuff. Elder Groff only has 3 weeks in
the area and so he still doesn't know it to well, so I had to show him some stuff
yesterday. Oh, btw we had to go to the mission office again to take care of some
stuff with Elder Payne's i.d and I picked up my package it had arrived safely. I
already opened it all up and went through my Christmas goodies. Thanks for all
the sweet stuff I was needing it, I threw away most of my old socks yesterday, because they were all full of holes and stuff. I think the only thing that went
bad was the caramel, I don't know if it was because of the climate change or what,
but the texture just turned into sugar, you bite into it and its like you but
into a ball of sugar, it tastes good but its pretty hard to get past the
texture, But other than that it was all great and fine and dandy. I was super
happy to get it, thanks for the cards as well, and the pictures of the brothers.
I about peed down both legs when I saw the picture of Kaden he looks like he's
some 17 year old kid, I didn't even recognize him almost! Jordan's picture was
kinda funny too, looks like you guys did that option where they clean up the
picture, it turned out good though. So yeah hump day was just any other day. We
worked we laughed we ate rice and beans, actually we did have a bbq that night
though at the stake presidents house, that was cool. But I can officially say
that I have a year now. Its kinda snuck up on me, I have reached the summit and
now I just slide to the bottom. Its gone quick, it doesn't seem like one year has
gone by. Its been quick for me, but I don't know about you guys, this next year
will be even faster. Btw sounds like on Christmas we will be able to Skype home,
So hopefully I can get a laptop to myself in campo grande, we will figure it out
more next p-day but I will probably send an email next week to confirm a time
and stuff. I look forward to that though, too bad the video didn't go through of
Jordan after he got his wisdoms out, sounded pretty funny, I still remember when
I got mine out, I'm glad I didn't swell up too much. SO also, last p-day we went
to the center to print off some pictures and also I bought some new tennis shoes
their nikes and I like them alot. My other ones were hurting my feet and I kept
rolling my ankle when I walked in them, so I gave them to a member and bought
some others. Doesn't feel too much like Christmas here, its hot but there's quite
a few people with Christmas trees up. They always play that one John Lennon
Christmas song that is really pretty, but its a portuguese version but it has
really pretty words in the Portuguese version and focuses on Christ a little bit
more. Also It was my plan to finish the Book of Mormon in Portuguese on hump
day, But its been such a crazy week that I wasn't able to finish it, Ill finish
it today though, I'm in Moroni and only have another 15 pages left. A promise
that I think President Packer made, is that if we read the Book of Mormon in
another language out loud, when we finish, we will know that language, I can
honestly say that I have read out loud the entire Book of Mormon in Portuguese,
and it has helped me a ton. I know that the Lord has blessed and helped me a ton ,
because I have read and studied the Book of Mormon in my mission language. I have
been able to understand things that I didn't understand before from the Book Of
Mormon, Portuguese makes it a little clearer i think to understand the book of
mormon. I love the Book of mormon and I know its true. SO thats about it this is
a pciture of our conference that we had last week with the seventy, tomorrow we
will have our Christmas Conference, and than tomorrow night at 8 we will be
headed to Campo Grande, me and ELder Payne and Elder Moraes will be going down
together, we probably would be going today but then we would miss the Christmas
party conference thing, because they have already done it in the south the
conference and so we would miss out. But Yeah Love you guys I'm sad that I have
to leave my area and my companion, but Ill just do what I have to do. Love you
all have a great week.!
-Elder Kennington
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