#15 - Halfway through TRAINING ALREADY!? (8/28/23)

 E ai meus amigos! Como ta indo? [And there my friends! How's it going?]

 facebook post idea Elder Zoneti made

It's weird to think that the day is already here... I FINISHED MY FIRST FULL TRANSFER IN THE FIELD! (But I am staying in the same place and only half way through training 😅)

Elder Hall was telling me that these next 6 weeks he is going to be treating me as junior comp so... my training is still happening but now I am going to be put to work more😁 Muito legal!

Here's some updates on events from this past week:

- This week we had a division with our zone leader Elder Jenkin & his comp Elder Luedke! I got to go around with Elder Luedke and man oh man did I learn a lot! I learned the importance of teaching to needs and how missionaries also need to know the 5 love languages to best help others. These include: 1. Quality time 2. Words of Affirmation 3. Acts of Service 4. Gifts and 5. Physical touch which is just High fives or handshakes or fistbumps. It's cool to see how things I learned before the mish are helping in the field.

  TITA! 

 -Venezuela food is AWESOME! We had a member lunch yesterday with a Venezuelan family and it was DELICIOUS! I don't know how to spell this word but they have Tita ("Chi-tah") and it's like Horchata but better! (I want it in the states ngl)

 late night cooking!

-One of the people we met this week is named Jonathan and he's a pretty cool dude! He has this huge motorcycle and listens to country music. When Elder Hall and I visited him, we may or may not have stayed for like a full hour just listening to country music (Love language 1. Quality time!) He is honestly an awesome dude and gave me a lot of song recommendations

-MIRACLE: While walking to our final lesson for the day, we found a kid who lost his earbud along the road and couldn't find it. After looking for a bit, we said a prayer and low and behold, WE FOUND THE EARBUD. THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!

the tag

- RAIN! yeah there is a lot of rain here...

Horses na rua!!

- We had the opportunity to go to the temple with recent converts in the ward for their first time attending the temple! It was a remarkable experience to do baptisms with them and see them inside the house of the Lord. The Fruits of our Labors are real and worth more than gold.

Temple trip

- Elder Hall was sick again one night this week so while he was resting, I watched a inspirational video on Gospel library titled: "Life is incredibly unfair - in our favor". Biggest take away: Even though we want everything to happen for a reason, it's better to let God make reason out of everything.

Scriptures:

D&C 66:6 (If you know, you know!)

3 Nephi 12:25 (we shouldn't make contention but rather agree with our enemies)

3 Nephi 11:37-38: It is interesting how Christ repeats the same idea twice. This idea of becoming like a little child, we shouldn't fear it or think of it as a weakness, but as an opportunity. When we are younger we are must prone to listening to our parents and learning and that is what Christ wants us to do. Learn from him.

It's honestly been an awesome week and we may have some baptisms coming up this next week. If you can, pray for:

- Jurigir

- George

Ate mais! Falou!

-Elder 🐟er