Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Hey mom, I know you look forward to my letters as much as I look forword to yours, but today was zone pday and not much time to write. But I'm alive. I love you and the family and we should have baptizm this week. The work is great.

I love you and the letter next week will be better. tchau

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

well mom,
this week has been really fun. We have been working hard and starting to see the blessings. We should have a baptism this week of jenny (40+-) she wants blessings of god and to be baptised so she went to church with us last week and wants to be baptised. we told her she has to stop smoking and she is but she will get baptized.

um... we ran into a lot of menos ativos this week (less actives) and they said they would return to church so lets see what satan will bring for them today. one of the MAs we talk to was because we walked a drunk guy back to his house. I'm really glad this guy didn't lose his cookies all over me but when we got to his house his granddauther and his son and dauther-in-law were baptised and they haven't been going to church. So I think that the Lord wants them to return to church um... we got cleber to quit, to stop smoking so he should be going to church this week and tieago is this really kool dude we talked to and he should be going to church this weeek , he know the church is true and the book is blue, we just need to get him to the church.

one thing I'm really going to change and has change while I'm out here is reading the scriptures. Like I'm reading the bom 3 different times right now. once 'cause I started before the mish (with Jenn in a competition and I'm going to win and she is so going to pay for a snowbaording trip to park city) and I want to finish. And another in Portuguese marking when it talks about Christ and names of him (messiah and redemer, etc). And another (in english) 'cause President Frei asked us to read it and mark when it talks about things in our purpose (see page one of preach my gospel). So all different copies of the book and all diferent times of the day, but I like reading in English then in Portuguese 'cause it helps me understand. So in the next little thing you send to me could you throw in some new colors for my marking pen, you can buy them at deseret book for like 1 or 2 and I'm out of yellow and running low on pink, blue, brown, orange. I have red and I have green yeah, just those colors. love you. You're the best mom ever.

October 8, 2008

I do not have a mamacita. I wash my own clothes. there is this kind of washer here like this big tube with a little plastic pice that spins at the bottom and moves the water around. I'm learning to not wash the sox before the whites cause all the lint from the sox then gets on the whites and then they're kinda itchy after that happens.

The week was just fine with the comp speakin Portuguese. He speaks and i don't understand. I speak and he doesn't understand. we have a lot of fun. I'm teaching good. I hope we have like 6 datas set for outubro but I'm thinking the Lord will bless us with our goal of 2 this month.

Thanx to the prayers of my family and friends i got to go to conference, YEAH! I only saw the second session on Saturday and the first little bit of the second on Sunday cause on Sunday the transmission cut in and out so I didn't hear the 2 speakers on Sunday from brasil and the bishopbric guy and on including the prophet. So, hey, if you could like copy and paste the talks of Dalin H. Oaks and above and the bishopbric guy and down that would be kool. But I loved Elder Bednar's talk on prayers and I loved Elder Wirthlin's talk -- and I loved them all. It's weird, never like going to conference and it has so much more meaning when you get up and take the 2 buses for an hour to see it and I probably walked half a mile in beetween. So I'm so going to make my family do that. Forget this whole byutv thing, lame comfy couch. No way. They're going to the church and they're going to take notes! Yeah, sure... : ) jk

What I heard of conference was we are heading for hard time so have faith and rely on the Lord -- which is what we should do always, keep the faith and all will work out. I do think of the business and how things are doing. Every once and a while I'll see brazilans puting in a storm drain or a backhoe on the street and turn to elder sarmento , oi eu posso fazer isso antes da missão (dont try to translate that its not corect but he knows what im saying)

I could tell you about when we were teaching this less active and heard gun shots and saw a body in the street dead. But I won't cause I love you and I know you dont want to hear about that kinda stuff.

Well I love you and until next week, tchau.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Well this week has been freaking amazing. I’m really getting a testimony of how good first lesson is Da mensagem da restauração is so powerful and can change the lives of people every where !!!!! my new comp Elder Sarmento is on fire and he always is like, "hey pray about this and god will answer your prayers, and what r u going to do with this new answer... you need to be baptized." so we have marked 6 baptism dates in outubro and had two already so that 8 BAPTISMS in outubro. I pray to the Lord every night to bless the people we set dates for because i would so happy to bring these people back to there father in heaven

Awesome kitchen. The sink drains into a bucket, which is dumped outside.

We had conferência da zona this week and pres talked to an elder about where he lived before the mish and talk about how if he could never return what would he do.... and he likened it to the people in the world cause we used to live in a amazing home before and we are going to return and we need to make sure that we bring all of our brothers and sister with us... basically what he was saying also had a big thing on the atonement or expiação de jesus cristo it really made me think of all the thing the savior went through for me and that every sin i commit has a payment every one has a payment and christ paid that every one. i love the Lord I’m grateful he is helping me in this work

And thanx to the prayers of my family and myself i think i will reach my goal of going to conference on saturday probably just the morning session that starts at 1?? and they play it in english so says elder cottchell in another room so I’ll definitely be hittin that up. my new comp knows so much about the scriptures it’s crazy. he is 22 and studied pshycs if that’s how you spell it got baptized when he was 18 i think and decided to go on a mission which is an awesome choice. i teach him english and he teaches me portuguese and when i say he teaches me portuguese its more like, “hey did that make sense?” and he'll say yes or no, which kinda sucks but hey it’s helping me ... I sound like a dummy but its all good.

Scott's all-in-one bathroom/shower. The white unit is the on-demand water heater

Bettim, Brazil

First companionship, Elder Broud & Elder Marx

Where is Elder Marx at???

Scott Speaks Portuguese!

um... eu tenho uma entrevista com presidente frei no sexta-ferra nós falemos sobre como eu posso estudar as escriturdas melhor lemos em môroni 10: 3-5 sobre promessa de môroni eu presciso ponderar as escriturdas mais e achar por que mormon poe este em o livro foi bom entrevista eu gosto muito .

"I have [I think he meant had] an interview with president frei on Friday. We talked about how I can study the scriptures better. We read in Moroni 10:3-5 about Moroni's promise. I need to ponder the scriptures more and find why Mormon put this in the book, it was a good interview. I liked it a lot."

Thank you to all the return missionaries that responded to my request for a translation.

Wednesday, September 17

things on the battle front are good. we are winning and satan is loosing. i broke down and bought new shoes if you haven’t looked. they are good, i like them. my other one’s i had worn the sole down and it has a big hole in it. so it rained like crazy on monday hurricane style but we went to work cause this is a "mission of warriors" not a mission of "pretty boys" like across the way. we baptize and confirm and invite people to come unto Christ in the words (more or less) of president frei. Hey, he sent you an email about CHRISTMAS PACKAGES AND HOW THEY NEED TO BE IN THE MAIL BY OCTOBER 15th. love you. i think it would be good if for christmas you buy me 2 shirts and keep them at the house so i wouldn’t have totally out of date cloths. But, yeah, i hope i told you in the last letter that i freakin love the koolaid singles you sent. they were awesome .... there were no questions so i don’t know what to write about ..... um i sent letter to you with pictures in it
we baptized edinalva and now i guess she has a drinking problem so now we need to resolve that um... we are going around to the recent converts and teaching them all the lessons again cause transfers are this next week and elder broud thinks he is leaving so he wants to tie up all the loose ends um... maria didn’t get baptized cause ... i have no idea she just doesn’t feel ready to, so we felt that we should teach the atonement better. so that’s what we are doing this week a week of atonement. we started with lehi’s dream and we explained that and then tonite we are going to talk about what the savior went through and apply it to the dream and then we are just going to go over every lesson and say this is what we teach to make sure you’re ready for baptism and every lesson and then just be like we have taught you every thing you need to be ready to receive this promise with god what else do you think you need?