Oxe!!! Uma grande Mudança e muitas beijas para todos vocês! 10/10/2016
So guys! I accidentally deleted all my photos (i need to
develope patience with the computer haha)... but you guys already have most of
the good ones. I´ll just have to start fresh again. And next week you will have
some fresh pics of brasil.
A lot of things happened this week. Last week of the this
transfer ended... i had a division with Elder Castro (the assistant to the
president)! It was awesome, i slept in the mission office and learned soooo
much with him. How to teach, how to contact, how to plan and more! We even did
a bus contact, instead of just a few people on the bus we contacted the whole
bus. He talked while i handed out pass along cards of the Book of Mormon! It
was nerve racking drawing the attention of all the people on the bus but went
well. Now i feel obliged to do it everytime i´m on the bus because i know how
now! I only have two years to help people come unto Christ, gotta do whatever
it takes!
I also had a division with Elder Uchtyl, he is american and
is going home tomorrow. He is an awesome missionary. I taught with him on his
last day of working. His testimony was so strong and he told everybody we
talked to to take advantage of the opportunity to visit with the missionaries!
It was an awesome experience, i want to be like him when i end my mission!
So tomorrow is transfer! We recieved word on the detailes
yesterday! I will stay in Jardim Catanduva, Elder M. Silva will go to serve in
Zona Osasco! And the scary part is that i will be a trainer starting tomorrow.
I will recieve a greenie fresh from the CTM! Brazilian, at least i wont have to
teach him Portuguese! But i am learning quick how much more i will need to
trust in the Lord to fulfill my purpose in this area.
Right now the work is going well. We have two investigators
that will be baptized this month on the 16th and 23rd. They are awesome and both
very intelligent so its so cool to be a part of their conversion. Marcia and
Sandra are their names! We found a family this week!!! An entire family and the
parents are married and everything! the first lesson with them was awesome! It
is rare to find a traditional family in São Paulo but we were blessed to come
across one!
So if you are in brasil and walk through the exaust of a car
and it smells like a burning bar, its because the driver is being economic
haha. They use pure alcohal if they cant afford to pay for gas and it smells
sooooo bad haha! I always wonded why some exhausts smelt worse than others but
my comp finally told me it because the fill the tank with alcohal which is way
cheaper.
I learned a lot from my trainer, I will miss him. I am still
in my first area which is a good thing, i dont want to have to learn more
street names yet haha. We got a missionary couple in our ward this sunday,
Elder and Sister Anderson! They are from Texas. During the week they work with
the church´s webcasting program and establishing it in Brasil but on the weeked
they will help my ward with the less active members. I am going to help them by
putting together lists of less active families for them to visit! They only
have two months in Brasil! its wierd being out here longer than other people!
This past saturday marked 4 months on the mission. The time is passing so fast!
I love all of you guys! I know that God is real, and i know he hears and
answers prayers. Not because i learned from other people but because it happens
in my life. If you are not a praying person, your Father in Heaven is waiting
to hear your concerns, needs and wants. There are many blessings that depend on
our asking! Love all of you guys! My Americans!! If any of you have questions
about Brasil or the work i do on my mission, please feel free to send me an
email and i will try and answer in the best way i can!
Com Amor,
Elder Sanchez
This
is my new companion fresh from the CTM! Elder Pittella! He is from the very
south of brazil. Everyone calls him a Vaqueiro (brasilian cowboy) because of
his accent haha. It is nothing like a cowboy accent in english but i understand
it really well. He is freakin awesome! He served for a year as the executive
secretary of his home ward before the mission and he has all the ideas to ramp
up the Jardim Catanduva Ward! Yup, i´m still in Jardim Catanduva. I figured out
that i will be here at least six months, two tranfers to be trained (already
done) and two tranfers to train.
My companion´s first pizza on the mission!!! Chocolate
Border and all!!!!
"Estou treinando um novinho!" I am training!! 10/17/2016
So this week was awesome!! My companion is soooo good, Elder
Pittella! I swear he already served a mission, he basically knows how to do
everything and teaches very well and by faith. We have been walking alot and it
is starting to get pretty hot here in just the past week. We have two baptisms
coming this weekend. Marcia and Sandra will be baptised on the 23rd after
church! I am so happy for them and their progress! It is so cool to be a
missionary. A large part of my happiness on the mission is from seeing the joy
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ change other people and to learn more about the
nature of our Heavenly Father. So many times we teach the first lesson about
the Restauration of the Gospel to people and my favorite part is in the very
beginning when we get to talk about the love of God and how he blesses
families! The truths are simple but have so much power. I love to tell people
that God is our Father and that we are His children and that he loves us more
than we can imagine. Everytime i say it or my companion says it, the spirit
confirms the truth of it in my heart and in the hearts of those we teach. Its
freakin awesome!
I got so many emails from friends this week!! Thank you
sooooo much! I read all of them and dont have a ton of time today to respond
but i will soon enough dont worry! Things are changing here, all the differences
in the brasilian culture are normal to me now and i´m forgetting all of the
concepts and commodities of your average american lifestyle. I love being
a brasilian! I am also kind of glad that i am out of the country during this
election. I hear it is a bunch of junk. It sounds like two pastors of different
churches arguing about what the apostle Paul said in the bible regarding
marraige. Good luck with that vote! I am exempt this time!!
I read the testimony of the Prophet Abenadi in the Book of
Mosiah in the Book of Mormon. He was the man. He was testifying before the
wicked King Noah and his priests about their wickedness and how if they dont
change then God will destroy them and how Jesus Christ will come and redeem the
righteous and not the wicked. They tried to kill him in the middle of his
testimony but by the power of God he commanded them to give him more time to
finish relaying what God had to say and they stopped until he finished. Abenadi
changed the heart of the King for a moment but the peer pressure of his priests
hardened his heart in an instant and they burned the prophet of the Lord at the
stake. The death of the prophet Abenadi serves as a witness that Jesus Christ
is our Savior, that only through obedience to his comandments, we can live
again with our Father in Heaven! I love this story and his sacrifice for
Christ!
Love you guys!
Elder Sanchez!