My New Son (Greenie)

This week was pretty good.  I got my new son Elder O. M------.  He is from Santa Katarina in he south of Brasil.  He lives in the interior, and he is pretty excited to work. He is doing great.  He is 21 and he knows the doctrines of the church very well and is already teaching well. He talks in a way that shows some confidence, and I know that he has everything he needs to be a great missionary. He doesn't ask many questions other than "What are we going to do next?"  I expressed to him that especially in training its important to be real open, and as we talk about our investigators and how to help them, we will develop skills to teach. But he really is doing great. We got a new sister in our district (Sister De J----), and she gave some great animation to us.  Everyone was super excited and worked super hard this week. I'm really excited.  The District is going well, and we are finding new people to teach.

We had some great resultadas essa semana.On Friday before leaving to go to work, we prayed that the Lord could help us to find those that he is preparing for us to teach. Our appointment at 11 am fell through, so we started contacting with little results (some people lived in other places, and others weren't interested). We kept talking to people in the streets. We realized a little after that we had passed the street that we needed to enter in to go to lunch. When we turned around we saw a 13 year old kid walking towards us with his head down, looking at his feet, and bobbing his head.  We stopped to talk to him, and he told us that 6 years ago the missionaries visited his family. We asked him to bring us to his house, and he brought us to his house to meet his mom. She explained that the missionaries stopped passing by, but she really liked their messages. She told  us that she really wanted to shout for the elders when they were passing by in the street, but she knew that "one day God would bring us back to her house." These words filled our hearts with happiness.  And strengthened our testimonies that God hears our prayers and loves us enough to answer them.

We will have the opportunity to study Come, Follow Me too. We didn't get to this week, but we got our manuals and this week we will start.  It seems like a pretty great change.  Everyone was pretty happy this week at church.  How did it go back home with the changes?

I am searching every day to find things that I can change to be more like the Savior.

Elder C-------- left on Wednesday to Setubal. On Monday night Elder I---- (our ZL) slept over with us because his comp was leaving for home. We were woken up by the fireworks at midnight, and we drank some sparkling cider to celebrate. It was a nice little experience. Before he left, Elder C--------- bought 50 little pizzas.  I tried to tell him not to, but he went ahead and did it.  He then left about 30 in the oven without telling me. So today when we were cleaning we found a bunch of moldy pizzas.

I hope that you all have a great week!!!

Elder Nielson