June?!

This week was another great one! Can you believe it’s already June? I can tell this is going to be a great week. World Cup, birthday, mission tour, and more missionary work! How much better can life get? 

This weekend we had stake conference in Cruz Alta. It’s about 45 minutes away from here so we took some buses up there. It was those nice tour buses so it felt like I was on my ballroom or choir tours again! Only problem is that we didn’t end up in Disneyland ;) But Stake Conference was awesome! Elder Leal of the seventy was there, the Porto Alegre temple president and President and Sister Parrela. I learned a lot of cool things, and it was fun to visit another city. On Saturday Elder Leal talked about not forcing the spirit but providing an environment where the spirit can dwell. Reminded me of what you said last week Dad. We just have to do what we can to provide a place where the spirit can dwell, and the spirit will do the rest. It will be in his own time, and maybe they won’t understand the spirit at first, but we just have to continue doing what’s right in our lives and families and homes and the spirit will do his part at the right time. Sunday he talked about things we can do to really get to know Christ. Life eternal is to know our Father and his son Christ, so these are some pretty important things. He talked about real study of the scriptures, taking the sacrament, sharing our testimony, and most importantly living the gospel. He is a great speaker and I really learned a lot from him. Also, I saw my mission father Elder Pontes there! President can’t seem to split us up because we’re still in the same zone, pretty cool right?

We taught our "golden" family this week and it was awesome! We talked about the plan of salvation, and when we talked of eternal families, the spirit was so strong. Their son who is 21 started describing his thoughts and started to cry because of how happy he is to know that he can live with his family forever. He has been going to the assembly of God lately and said he has been waiting and praying for his family to start going to a church as well. So that was a really cool moment. But now the problem: we've got to tell him that he can only be sealed to his family forever in our church... That’ll be a tough one haha. But we are going to teach more about the restoration and authority this week, because once they understand that, the rest is a piece of cake! Luis (the father) received word from his work that he just has to find someone to replace him in Porto Alegre and then he will be able to work here in Ijui. He said he’s hoping this last week was his last one working there and we’re hoping and praying as well! Once he is free from this I think he’ll be baptized for sure. They are just perfect and I’m excited to teach them again this week. 

Other than this, we’ve been trying to work with a lot of less actives to help strengthen the ward. We have lots of family nights set up with less actives this week, so we’re excited for that. We’ve been slacking a bit with keeping a big teaching group, so we’re going to try and find some new people this week. We also have the mission tour with Elder Soares from the 70 on Wednesday in Santo Angelo, so that should be pretty cool as well.

I have to get going, but I love and miss all of you! Hope your week is fantastic! Until next Monday!

Love,

Elder Weight