HELLO FAMILY AND NATHAN AND SCOTT!!! HOW IS LIFE IN PROVO, POLAND, THE
MEXICO MTC AND THE PROVO MTC?? Things sure are going great here in
Teresina Brasil!! I´m going to catch the hottest part of the year here
in Teresina---one of the hottest cities in the world---YESSSSS!!! It
really isn´t too bad (the sun) I just sweat like CRAZY. You know me, I
already sweat a boatload and with this solzão (HUGE SUN) I sweat even
more and sometimes I smell like a dog by the end of the night and I look
like I just got finished playing an SVU soccer game on the hot turf!!
It´s pretty awesome--I arrive at home super sweaty and I want to just
scratch myself all OVER because the water here is dirty water that I
take a shower in and so it leaves me a bit itchy---the water isn´t
super, super terrible but it´s enough to make you itchy all over! I also
have some kind of allergy or maybe I went walking through poison ivy
because I have read dots all over my arms --SPREADING EVERYWHERE!!! We also spend
sometimes a good 45 minutes playing and writing in the area book and
doing stuff for the zone and so I stay with my tie all done up and my
shirt tucked in until like 10:15 at night sometimes and it leaves you
ITCHING LIKE CRAZY---hah--but I LOVE IT!!! It´s all worth it when you
finish out the fourth quarter. When you don´t finish out the fourth
quarter you always look back and are a bit frustrated with
yourself---but all you can do is forget that fourth quarter and go
dominate the next one---Champions are made in the fourth quarter. It
takes 90 minutes to win a soccer game. You can accomplish a lot of good
in this world---you can be ahead in a soccer game 8-0 with 85 minutes
already played in the game but if you decide to sit down and relax those
last five minutes the other team can score 9 goals pretty quickly and
all of your 85 minutes of hard work can go to waste. Don´t let your
guard down---SATAN WANTS US TO QUIT----BUT WE WILL NEVER QUIT---Keep
being strong and doing what´s right---especially when you are tired or
you don´t want to do it anymore---just continue to the end and the Lord
will BLESS YOU RICHELY!!
Ate mais!!
Well, happy birthday
grandma Allen! I hope that you have a wonderful birthday!! How many
years have you earned on this earth again?? You are just two years
younger than grandpa--correct?? I hope that you have a wonderful
birthday there in the BEAUTIFUL AND AWESOME STATE OF IDAHO---eat lots of
ice cream, have pancakes and bacon for breakfast and give a BIG, GIANT,
HUG to everyone for me there in Idaho!! Oh and you should learn how to
sing the happy birthday song in Portuguese--it´s pretty rad!! Thanks so
much for the packages and for that letter that you sent to me--it sure
is great to receive things from family!! I often wonder how those that
served in the war did things without hardly any contact with family or
friends.
This
week family we taught a cool family--they are not married yet but we
are going to take their names and information to the marriage/court
house this week and they will be married here in like 15 days and then
will be baptized afterwards---I have faith that it´s going to
happen and I´m so excited to see them enter the waters of baptism--they
are a super cool couple. The wife-soon to be- said a prayer to ask God if the Book of
Mormon was true and didn´t receive her answer--she said that she was
trying to say a delicate and fancy prayer and that she was trying to
push the answer but then decided to just forget everything and open up
and converse with God--she explained how the Holy Spirit touched
her---she explained it in a way that she didn´t really explain
it---sometimes it is hard to explain the answers we receive from the
Holy Ghost but yet we KNOW that we have them---they are often times are
glorious and wonderful but yet we have a hard time explaining them--just
like Joseph had a hard time explaining and describing Jesus Christ and
His Father, our Heavenly Father after seeing and conversing with them!!
Well our Zone has a goal of 15 baptisms for the month and we still need 7
this month and so we are working hard for this---we are also trying to
make sure that the baptisms are of quality and not just convinced to be
baptized like people sometimes are just to fulfill a number or a goal. I
know that God wants us to work with numbers but to be careful and
remember that these numbers represent our BROTHERS AND SISTERS---His
children.
Love, Elder Allen ( one of the Elder Allen´s---haha---YEEES!!)
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