April 8, 2009

Jeff's Email- 08 April 2009



E aconteceu,
And I came to pass,
Well another week has passed in the land of Brasil and once again I have a new companion. After spending a week with Elder O, he is now gone to his house. It was a long "trunky" week for him. He is going home early to start school. Last night I stayed at the house of the assistants and today I returned back to Rio Bonito with my new companion. He is a professional soccer player for which I have no clue which team. He is pretty awesome! English is slowling withering from my mind as I only speak when he asks me what a word means or today when I am typing it. Hopefully I wont speak too horrible of english when I return.
The english class is going well. I just sit there and answer questions for a while until the end when they have been trapped and we grab their address and go and challenge their lives with the gospel.
Cool story...we were teaching this family and they have a little son about 7 years of age. During the lesson we always ask questions to see if they are paying attention. His mom, older sister could never answer but he always knew exactly what to say. We asked them to pray about it and we returned on the following day. The first thing he said to me was that he prayed, he knew José Smith was a prophet and that this was the true church. He turns 8 this August so who ever will be working here at that time will have a nice easy baptism on their hands. Hopefully if all góes as planned his family will be baptized here in a few weeks and his baptism wont count as a convert baptism.
Anyways I am starving from a long day of travel and want to get into my house before the rains come so until next week!
-Elder Johnson

No comments: