Bettim, Brazil
First companionship, Elder Broud & Elder Marx
Where is Elder Marx at???
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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.
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 i think it would be good if for christmas you buy me 2 shirts and keep them at the house so i wouldn’t have totally out of date cloths.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?
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?
Monday, September 8, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Elder Marx with President & Sister Frei
teaching is great we ... oh i know what i should tell you, we had two baptizms last week and i baptized somebody ...in portuguese... i asked elder broud if i could say the prayer in english but he said the witnesses don’t know it in english so i said it in port. Anyways, baptized charles and edinalva. It went really well and we started teaching maria next door to charles and she just got an answer that the church is true and we hope she gets bapt this week, if not then next week. but we are teaching like that whole street now and are going to have a noite familiar on the street have a lesson and play taco which is this game they always play in the street and looks really fun.
the language is good. today in language study we went over the 1st vision cause i had been messing that up pretty good so we went over it and I’m going to practice that. we get a letter from the president every week in portuguese and I’m starting to understand it and I’m really starting to understand when people talk to me in the street, so that’s good. in the mission we need to make 10 good contacts a day like of impact and either get an endreço or plant a seed for the fuirto warriors. so i do that and instead of really playing a recording i starting to talk to more people.
the language is good. today in language study we went over the 1st vision cause i had been messing that up pretty good so we went over it and I’m going to practice that. we get a letter from the president every week in portuguese and I’m starting to understand it and I’m really starting to understand when people talk to me in the street, so that’s good. in the mission we need to make 10 good contacts a day like of impact and either get an endreço or plant a seed for the fuirto warriors. so i do that and instead of really playing a recording i starting to talk to more people.
love always, elder marx
President and Sister Frei with the new arriving elders. Scott is 2nd from the right.Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
whoo-hoo - Scott answered my questions this week!
How do we send you letters?
Just send stuff to the mission home. I'll probably get it like twice a transfer 'cause they bring it to zone conference and interviews. The apartments are a really scary place for mail to sit all day.
What's going on in Brazil?
It's elections here so there are just cars driving around with huge speakers on their roofs turned all the way up so it's really hard to talk to someone on the street when they drive by. I call them satan mobiles cause anything that tries to stop the work is of satan.
How's the teaching going?
We are teaching Charles. He is not a member, but his wife was baptized like 3 years ago and they had two boys die while ago and some buddy some where said some thing to make her mad about her sons, so they never went back, but we started teaching. And I said, "Charles, is the book true?" "Yeah," he replied. "So then the church is true and perfect cause it's of Christo, but the people in it aren't perfect, so get baptized." So he is on the 31st with the other family. And we have a baptism this week, Edinalva.
...big problem, getting people to church 'cause the building is really far away and people can't afford the onibus ticket to get there, so it's hard to get them to church.
Had any good experiences?
...back to Charles. We taught him about fe last night and I didn't really know what was going on, but at the end I thought I should tell him that is would help if he read the bom every morning before he went to work and it would help him throughout his day. And later Elder Broud told me that we gave him a scripture and we are going back tonight and he wouldn't have time to read it but then I told him he should read in the morning. So that was so the Spirit 'cause I didn't even know what the heck is going on...like antes the mission I didn't really know what was the Spirit and what was the crazy ideas of Scotty. I'm starting to realize how to recognize and follow thoughts or promptings.
In zone conference, sis. Frei talked about pineapples and how it takes them 18 months to develop and everybuddy always wants fresh pineapple, so they continually grow them and harvest and plant more. So she was saying that we need to always find people and plant the seed.
We have 5 baptisms on Sunday.
Just funny Scotty talking about trying to get home fast after an appointment went late-
So we're keeping the pace up and moving right along but we are going up and down and up and down these hills and my fat legs are getting tired but we finally get to the last stretch and I just want to fall over, keeping in mind I've just been walking all freaking day up and down up and down hill mountains all day so it's the last stretch and I'm like, "Pai celestial, help make it home." and right then this thought comes to my ehad, Elder Broud is a little in front like always and I thought 'race him home.' So I was like, yeah, I could beat him. So I raced him -- and won by the way.
whoo-hoo - Scott answered my questions this week!
How do we send you letters?
Just send stuff to the mission home. I'll probably get it like twice a transfer 'cause they bring it to zone conference and interviews. The apartments are a really scary place for mail to sit all day.
What's going on in Brazil?
It's elections here so there are just cars driving around with huge speakers on their roofs turned all the way up so it's really hard to talk to someone on the street when they drive by. I call them satan mobiles cause anything that tries to stop the work is of satan.
How's the teaching going?
We are teaching Charles. He is not a member, but his wife was baptized like 3 years ago and they had two boys die while ago and some buddy some where said some thing to make her mad about her sons, so they never went back, but we started teaching. And I said, "Charles, is the book true?" "Yeah," he replied. "So then the church is true and perfect cause it's of Christo, but the people in it aren't perfect, so get baptized." So he is on the 31st with the other family. And we have a baptism this week, Edinalva.
...big problem, getting people to church 'cause the building is really far away and people can't afford the onibus ticket to get there, so it's hard to get them to church.
Had any good experiences?
...back to Charles. We taught him about fe last night and I didn't really know what was going on, but at the end I thought I should tell him that is would help if he read the bom every morning before he went to work and it would help him throughout his day. And later Elder Broud told me that we gave him a scripture and we are going back tonight and he wouldn't have time to read it but then I told him he should read in the morning. So that was so the Spirit 'cause I didn't even know what the heck is going on...like antes the mission I didn't really know what was the Spirit and what was the crazy ideas of Scotty. I'm starting to realize how to recognize and follow thoughts or promptings.
In zone conference, sis. Frei talked about pineapples and how it takes them 18 months to develop and everybuddy always wants fresh pineapple, so they continually grow them and harvest and plant more. So she was saying that we need to always find people and plant the seed.
We have 5 baptisms on Sunday.
Just funny Scotty talking about trying to get home fast after an appointment went late-
So we're keeping the pace up and moving right along but we are going up and down and up and down these hills and my fat legs are getting tired but we finally get to the last stretch and I just want to fall over, keeping in mind I've just been walking all freaking day up and down up and down hill mountains all day so it's the last stretch and I'm like, "Pai celestial, help make it home." and right then this thought comes to my ehad, Elder Broud is a little in front like always and I thought 'race him home.' So I was like, yeah, I could beat him. So I raced him -- and won by the way.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Wednesday, August 17, 2008
I'm here in Betim, Brazil, a little city out side of BH. My trainer, or father, is Elder Broud. He is from Oregon and speaks really good Portuguese. This is his first time training so it should be fun for both of us. You should be getting a letter from me in the mail, they had us write. It's really short and simple, didn't really feel like writing.
I don't know much about the area, just that there is a girl that is close to baptizmo and I'm way excited for that um... my apartment is... nice... Brad should know what I'm talking about. No badays, but hey we can't all live in high class.
peace elder marx
ps. eu tenho mais vente e dois mézes
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I'm here in Betim, Brazil, a little city out side of BH. My trainer, or father, is Elder Broud. He is from Oregon and speaks really good Portuguese. This is his first time training so it should be fun for both of us. You should be getting a letter from me in the mail, they had us write. It's really short and simple, didn't really feel like writing.
I don't know much about the area, just that there is a girl that is close to baptizmo and I'm way excited for that um... my apartment is... nice... Brad should know what I'm talking about. No badays, but hey we can't all live in high class.
peace elder marx
ps. eu tenho mais vente e dois mézes
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Pictures!
MTC laundry room. Writing letters during the rinse cycle.
Cafeteria or House of Beans & Rice
View of Sao Paulo from the roof. Under the metal roof is the indoor gym
View of Sao Paulo from Scott's MTC room.
Mr. Cheneys across the street. The missionaries can go here on p-day to get American items, cookies, and email.
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