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| Cameron and his mission companion |
This week was awesome!! I'm starting to understand the language a lot
more and actually be able to form a lot of sentences just on the spot! It's slow but it's a whole different language! I'm pretty happy with my
progress over all. I have my moments of frustration but I just keep
working and don't think.
I learned a couple of important lessons this
week. #1 is that you should always check inside a public dryer before
using it. Especially when washing your whites. I dried six white shirts
with a pen this week so I may be asking for a package to meet me at the
mission field. Don't send anything yet because I need to see what sizes
and all that and there were a few more things I needed. Lesson #2 is don't
eat your nightly snack while taking in the nice view of the city when
you're on the seventh floor. I lost it all. Oh- and speaking of the
seventh floor... I'll send a video of me dunking by the time I get out of
the mtc. We aren't allowed to use the elevators, so it's all just going up
and down seven flights of stairs anytime you want to go any where. It's
about 23 steps per flight of stairs. It's a workout. At least it might
help me keep the all you can eat feijoada from hanging out too long. I
don't want to have to write home asking for more pants too!
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| With President and Sister Grahl |
Things with the district and with the comp are great! I get annoyed
sometimes when the district is not working and talking about all kinds
of random stuff, but its getting better. We had a really good district
meeting last night where we just took like an hour and a little bit for
everyone to talk about their feelings coming here and what they've dealt
with and what they've learned from the experience. It was a great meeting and its going to make the district a lot closer as a unit and grow
up a little, too.
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| "This is Elder Evans' tie on its second mission!" |
On the topic of how we have felt coming here.... I'm
doing great. I haven't really been homesick or having doubts or anything.
It's a lot of long hard hours of studying, but its nothing you can't do if
you're trusting in the Lord and then putting your head down and doing
everything you can. There is nowhere I'd rather be and its only going to get
better from here. Part of me is really scared because I haven't hated
it. I feel like that means I'm just going to get it in the gut some other
time on my mission. I guess I'll just have to keep working.
My spiritual
insights for the week are a few things. First is we have focused a TON on
the Doctrine of Christ. I had never really noticed before what it was
when we talked about the gospel. The gospel is Faith in Jesus Christ,
Repentance, Baptism, The gift of the Holy Ghost , and endure to the end.
Everywhere in the scriptures when the prophets are speaking they are
always talking about one of those five points. That is what I am going
to share to the people of Brasil. I am here to share the doctrine that
is necessary to return to Christ. Second is how we come unto Christ. We
hear that all the time, but how do we do it? We have to work on
developing Christlike attributes. The biggest thing I learned that we
should work on is turning outward. The natural man always turns inward. Christ always turns out. Whenever we are offended, or hurt, or having a
hard time, look at the reasoning behind it. Try to turn outward and look
at how others are feeling and focus on them. As we do this, the light of Christ within us will grow and encourage us to come closer to him. We
will come closer to him by following the things he was than by any other
way.
I love you all and hope this week goes well for y'all! Send candy.
Love, Elder Little
Awesome!
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