Aug 27

Good to hear all is well back in the united states of america!  I love my country.  Brasil as well but nothing can compare to the land of the free and home of the brave haha.  Tell the family I said hi and give everyone a big hug for me.  Yourself included.  I felt something this week that I haven´t felt before in the mission.  That i´m truly away from home haha.  It kinda hit me when I was talking with a member that i´ve been out for 10 months.  It doesn´t feel like that.  I feel like i´ve missed a lot but I really haven´t.  My growth and development has skyrocketed since i´ve been here.  My intelligence is growing each day.  Not just with spiritual things but temporal and physical.  Português is going great.  My companion is awesome.  We are really confortable with each other.  At times to comfortable.  Almost like a brother to brother relationship.  We are hitting each other and things like that ( all joking ) .  We realized it this week and we are trying to  be less mean to each other haha.  We love to play around.  But yeah....

 

The week was pretty good.  A little frustrating but good.  We didn´t teach a lot of lessons this week due to the fact that no one was ever home and our planning just didn´t work out to good.  We are also trying to filter our investigator list and find new investigators that have potential.  It´s quite a fun thing.  I love doing contacts and talking to people.  First couple of times you get a little nervous, but if you just open your mouth the words appear.  

No baptisms this week unfortunately.  We have  a really good investigator whose name is Cristiane though.  She is 24 and she is progressing wonderfully.  She went to church the other day and enjoyed it.  She is already in 2 nephi and has already recieved an answer about the Book of Mormon.  I´m excited for her baptism.  I love teaching people that actually do the things the lord asks of them.  Makes everything that much better haha.  

Zone conference is this week.  Excited for that.  We will be receiving training from president and the assistants.  It´s always good to better your teaching:)  .  

Unfortunately nothing to new came out of the works this week.  I´ll keep you all updated though.  

The gospel is awesome and it is perfect.  I´m so thankful for the support that I recieve and the people praying for me.  Christ lives and this is HIS church.  Until next week

With love,

Elder Diamond!