CRAB

Oi!
Tudo bem?!  Last week with Elder Waldron (my trainer),  had to say goodbye to him this morning and I had a lot running through my mind.  I will talk about that later but first the week!  We baptized Tiago this week and it was awesome!  He is a wonderful kid and is setting the example to his family and brothers.  I am hoping that the family of him will soon follow.  Kinda weird week because I didn´t know if I was gonna stay in the Area of Cidade Oeste or be transferred so we were visiting all of our baptisms and trying to set up the next people in the transfer for success!

We had dinner at some members houses this week!  I had the opportunity to eat some crab :)  Unfortunately it 
isn´t as good as new years time with my family =/  but hey it will have to do.  Anywayssssssssss

Friday Night I got the call and I am............................

. Staying :D  my new companion is named Elder Reis (hays)  he is really awesome guy.  He´s brazillian and is twenty three.  He was a member for a year and then left on the mission, what a great example! 

So yeah saying goodbye to Elder Waldron kinda stunk.  He basically showed me everything I needed to know and helped me a lot,  and then he just left,  it was really sublime.  It´s hard saying goodbye to a comp. let alone your trainer and the fact that he is also leaving the mission.  Oh well that´s the circle of the mission!   
Hope all is well family and friends, know that I love you all lots and you are all in my prayers every night.  If anyone needs something just e mail rourkediamond@myldsmail.net  

He Lives!
Elder Diamond

MARCH

Mother!

This week was absolutely wonderful.  I´m trying to keep my companion from not being trunky ( he is leaving back home next week ) but he is awesome.  Just working hard.  We had a baptism this week... Rita,  she is wonderful and the Baptismal service was excellent.

 

Friday the little kids had planned a little "suprise" leaving party for Elder Waldron.  He already new but it was still great I will attatch some photos.  Anyway we went up to the room and shared our testimonies as to how we felt.  The sprit filled the room.  I couldn´t hold my tears back and as I got up to bear my testimoney only thing that filled my heart was joy and love.  I sat back down and to my amazement I saw Bruno, Clayson, and Tiago ( we will baptise him next week ) crying.  Felt so much joy and at that moment so grateful to be able to serve these wonderful people.  They have changed my life for the better and i´m so thankful for it. 

 

I love you all

He lives

Elder Diamond

New PICS March

FEB 27

Dear reader,

 

Not to much new this week,  Me and Elder Waldron were once again blessed to have investigators at sacrement... 13 to be exact.  We are going for 4 baptisms this week if everything works out.  First being Anderson he is 19 years old and went to church and seemed to enjoy it.  We will be teaching him a lot this week.  His little sister Jessica, she has been to church about 5 times and enjoys it.  Rita,  she´s 13 and also Beatriz (10 years) .  Wish us luck! 

 

We have also been finding some really good families it seems.  I really want to baptize a family but it´s really difficult to find a family that is ready.  No doubt we are looking but for a family to be ready it takes a lot of prep time.  There was an activity saturday that our bishop held where the adults of the ward went out and made contacts.  I think we are recieving like 25 references this week because of that.  Some good families should emerge.

 

Oh yeah.  Funnnny story this week.  So I was on divisions this week with another Elder in my area, ( Elder Waldron was in the other elders area) .  Me and this Elder were just about to teach this lesson to some kids outside when one of our investigators starts walking towards us.  He was walking home from school (he is about 16) .  Let´s call him bob.  So bob comes up and I start talking to him, seeing how school was, etc.   Apparently bob is "marked".  ( I had no clue )   Marked means people are trying to kill him.  SO we hear a gunshot, the everyone just starts running,  and I heard 3 other shots I think as we were all running hahaha.  So what apparently happened was like 20 ft away from me some gangsters got in like a fight or something and one of em pulled out a gun shot it in the air first to clear the way I think, then tried to shoot the gangster, missed, hit his little brother in the shoulder, then tried to shoot our investigator bob, but he already ran off.  And yeah so it was pretty crazy.  Needless to say i´m still alive and well haha.

 

And that is my story, everything is fine guess I just need to start asking people if they are "marked" haha. It´s not as bad as it sounds but it is haha?  anyway I love you all

Have an EXCELLENT week!

He lives!

Elder Diamond