Mission Life

I learned how to make a little shirt. :)

Missionaries, we have messy desks too ;) 

300/100 Celebration

So I hit day 300 on the mish. and my comp was at 100. 

So what did we do?.....PIZZA!!

"Your Word"

Some thing that is really marking me is the need for “word”. People today don’t have a “good word”. In the fact that when we invited the people to come to church they all say “I'll be there." When in reality it is on the bottom of their priorities. I have a challenge for you all. When you are talking with the people. Talk straight up. If you don’t want to do something. Say you won’t. If you want to do something. Say you will. And DO IT!!!! There is nothing more frustrating on the mish then the people that don’t hold their word. Work harder (as I will as well) to be more direct with the people :) 

The study for the week was a lot about a lot. We are studying the general Conference talks, and one the the favs is Pres. Eyring’s from The Priesthood session. All the priesthood holders in the world. Read that talk and take a serious look at the power we hold. Are we doing everything to make the most of our Priesthood. 

Another talk I love is the talk of Pres. Uchtdorf about being real. We need to show on the outside who we really are. It doesn’t make sense to be a fake. Live life, and love who you are. Be goofy, be serious, be funny, laugh, love, pray, and show your love for everyone in your way. You can be the difference in someones life. Work hard everyday to be who the Lord wants you to be. 

The mission is great. I am having a blast, and in case anyone missed it (Like I did) its already the middle of June (oops:)

I love you all, have a great week :) 

Elder Iverson :) 

I forgot. Today is the 300th day in the mish :) oops. :) 

Round Two - Chess

Elder L  Araujo likes to play chess also. 2-1 for Elder Iverson for now :) 

Well this week was a great one. I learned a lot and me and Elder L Araujo became a lot closer, when we aren't playing chess of course (it is then gut and blood and hate ;) haha And we are finding people that the Lord is preparing to be baptized :) 

Two Very Different FHE's

We are teaching a member of the Christian Congregation of Brasil. And they are people very loving. When we invited them to the church on Sunday they replied that they would make some time to come. And they invited us to a FHE. What the dad said was "We have a family night that will be in a neighbors house, if you guys can make it we would love to see you there." So we were like, we will see. We had an appointment at 7 and the FHE was at 8. So at 7 we taught our Atheists. What a cool experience it is to talk to them. They are genuinely interested. But just not in God quite yet. We gave a sweet lesson. It was so powerful. We bore strong testimony of the existence of God and after we finished we literally ran out. Elder Araujo "in the name of Jesus Christ Amen." We shot up, said we had to go. I opened the door, one of the guys said "I have a question for you" "We will answer Saturday" (As we ran out the door) As Elder Araujo said. They should still be debating about God :)

Then we ended up in our FHE with the Congregacao Crista no Brasil. First things first we showed up and all the women were in the room. And on the one side all the women with Veils. And the guys had their instruments. We enter and wait. We sat on one side. The pastor showed up and we began. The pastor said "Let us call a Hymn." And a women would say 190!" and we sang. Then the pastor explained what we sang. And again "Let us call a Hymn". And another woman 300! We sang 300 and the pastor explained. Then he said "Servant of God call a hymn" talking to me... ;) haha "What????" I thought "They don't even use the same Hymn book ;)" so I was flipping through the pages and found a random Hymn. "67 I said" "67, let us sing." Then came the prayer. It was everybody talking at once. Then one person started talking louder, and prayed. Then the pastor gave "The Word" :) and started talking about something. All in all it was a great learning experience. I learned a lot about the other beliefs. And as Elder Araujo said "We need to get them an Liahona, because they don’t know how to do a FHE. No treat, no game, what kind of FHE was that" :) 

Then the other FHE we had was with Lucimara and her kids. Ketlin, Jenifer, Matheus, and Migeul. And also Leandra and her kids. Raveu, Zinho, Fabiano, Luzania, and their friend Danilo. (There is a photo of the kiddos) And this FHE was great. 

Here in Brasil you see all sorts of things, namely here in Caucaia. As Elder Araujo says. "in Caucaia you can do anything." and in this family Migel is 2. And he has special needs. And is a sweet heart. But sometimes is crazy .For example. When we arrived he was taking a shower, and the mom didn’t dress him. So our friend Migel was running around naked. While Elder Araujo was sharing the message of the FHE the youngin was handing me DVD cases, and running around. I will have to say, that was the first time that I had a FHE with a naked kid running around. :) But it all turned out well. :) we had a great week.

Logan Temple

We had a wonderful day with Jace and our incredible family in the Logan temple.  Jace was able to take our his endowments with his best friend, Conan Wallace.  What a special day to share with good friends and amazing family members.  It was a day that filled my heart with love and pride.  I am feel completely overwhelmed with the blessings that our mine.  We have a loving Heavenly Father who watches over each of us and has provided a beautiful plan of Eternal Families and the temple is Key to that plan.  So proud that Jace could realize these blessings more completely today.  

Meet Elder Araújo

And my new comp is Elder L Araújo. He is also a stud. He is from Minas Gerais (which is a state that is above SP) He is addicted to soccer, and talks about it always, but thats a good thing. The kiddo has 3 months on the mission, and is still teaching me so much :) This week was incredible. We found 20 new invesitgatos, taught a whole lot of lessons :) it was incredible. 

Sometime Elder Araújo is a funny, funny guy.  He randomly does things that make me laugh, like laying down on the railroad tracks and shouting random spiritual messages.