Hey Everybody, I'm pretty cut on time today we went
to a bbq to celebrate a missionaries birthday here in the zone Elder Geisler who
was my companion for a transfer in Sorriso, we marked to play soccer at the
church at later this evening, I'm not even going to play though, I rarely do I
really don't like soccer that much whatever though. So yeah, this week was good
the weather was alot better and it was warm enough so that we could baptize
Mattheus, we were also going to baptize Bruna but she texted us Sunday morning
and said that she had gotten sick the night before and that she wouldn't be able
to make it to church, so I guess we will have to baptize her next week she has
been keeping all of her commitments and doesn't have any problems with the
commandments, but all went well with the baptism yesterday and the other elders
in our ward also had two baptisms, the water was super cold but they said after
they were in the water it felt warm to them, Mattheus said he didn't even feel the
water when he was submerged, I was worried that the water would be too cold but
the weather was actually reasonable yesterday even though it was supposed to be
alot colder, but The Lord blessed us and was mindful. The Lord has been very good
to us there has been alot of problems with us trying to teach our investigators
and we were really scared that the lack of us being able to follow up with them
would cause alot of problems, but the lord has helped us much and has preserved
and protected them, so like I said, the weather was alot nicer this week it was still
fairly chilly, but it wasn't raining or blowing alot so that made it better, we
did divisions as well and I went to another area and we marked some baptismal
dates for their investigators there, so hopefully they stay firm for this week,
so last p-day we bought a hamburger called arca de Noé, which means Noah´s arc,
which is a huge burger that I have alot of pictures of but I forgot my camera
and so I will have to come back later today or maybe tomorrow or next week to
get you the pictures of the baptism and of the burger, it was 30 reais which is
about 15 bucks or so but it contains, 10 hamburger patties, 10 hot weiners, 10
slices of ham, ten slices of cheese, and a bunch of bacon and sausage and
lettuce and corn and peas, it had a load of stuff and we all ate ( us 4
missionaries) and we were filled it was really good and I was pleased with it,
so we have been working alot with some amazing less actives in our ward to
reactivate them, we have been having some success and have so far we have been
able to get 2 families coming back to church, which has made us happy we were
working alot with our feet before and now we are trying to focus more on helping
take care of the Lords fold of sheep, and the Lord has blessed us with some
baptisms and the satisfaction of seeing alot of reactivations. I always love the
feeling of when we are guided by the Spirit, we visited a young man that had
been to church several times but had gotten wishy-washy and didn't really want to
be baptized any more even though his family all supported him getting baptized
we went in and we had a very spiritual lesson, and after that, he accepted to be
baptized this week so hopefully he will stay firm. I always know when I was
being led by the spirit during lessons because afterwords I can never remember
what I said after the lesson, sometimes we leave lessons and I have no
recollection of what I said during the entire lesson, its interesting how the
Spirit works he brings things to our minds, but alot of time when we are under
his experience we have no idea what we are doing and we are just being an
instrument in the Lords hands. So I forgot to comment last week that we had
finally moved out of our old house and we are now living with the other
missionaries, so now its 4 of us again, its not the best house in the world but
at least its free of mold and we have room to hang up our clothes, Ive been trying to practice my Spanish with Elder Garay who is a greenie from Chile, he is
helping me out and I try to learn as much with him as I can. Dad was wondering
about when transfers are going to be so they will be on the 16th I think, of this
month, 2 more weeks is all, whats mostly likely going to happen is that Elder
Piñon will leave since he only will have 2 transfers left after this transfer
and usually zone leaders are released in their last 2 or 3 transfers, I will
most likely be staying one more here in Ponta Porã which is fine with me that
will give me a total of almost 6 months here. Then hopefully I will be released
and I can go train somewhere i guess we will see though. I wanted to thank mom
for the pictures it looks like you guys had a nice memorial day. I'm glad the
weather was decent for you guys, but everyone says its just going to get colder
here, its normal here for this part of Brazil because we are so far south, its
like the basin kindof its hot in the summer and cold in the winter, Cuiabá on
the other hand is just hot all year round cause its close to the equator, But I'm
18 hours south of Cuiabá, so that's why its so cold here I'm alot closer to the
south poles. We are doing fine though and we are in good health, pray for Bruna
so that we can still baptize her this week, she is very elect and I don't want
her to fall through, I'm grateful that we were blessed to baptized Matheus this
week that was a blessing from our Heavenly Father. I love the Lord and am so
grateful to be a a missionary at this time, its so hard sometimes and I know
that I fall short alot but I am grateful for the Lords mercy and wish to please
him, I know he is blessing you all at home as he is indeed blessing me. So
yesterday will probably be 6 months to the day of when I go home, as far as we
know we will be catching our plane back to the states the 1st of December, so
its definitely coming up. Btw please do some spell check on this the computer is
junk and I have been typing super fast, I love you all and wish you all a
wonderful week!!!
-Elder Kennington
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