Hello Everybody!
This is Elder Allred speaking! How is everybody doing?
Well, Shirley had been having a little trouble with coffee last week, so we´ve moved her date to this Sunday after General Conference. Thankfully, she´s now decided to never drink it ever again. Sarah hasn´t had any coffee since we taught the Word of Wisdom! She was going to be baptized on Sunday, but she wants to wait and be baptized together with her mom.
Great news! Rodolfo (Shirley´s husband) got the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday! Now he can baptize his wife and daughter on Sunday! The bishop designated a few of the priests in the ward to confer the priesthood upon him.
Sérgio and Valdira and Fabrício and Débora got their first triple combinations on Sunday. The ward did a ward temple trip on Saturday and we sent money with the members to get them. I also got a triple combination for Rodolfo´s family that I will give them this Sunday at the baptism.
Luciano is the fiancé of a young lady in our ward. He´s been coming to church steadily and finally at church on Sunday decided to get baptized. It was really neat. He told us that he want´s to get baptized as soon as possible, so wee marked the date for this Saturday night. Because he will work this whole week, we had to teach him the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lesson all at once after the meetings at church on Sunday. He readily accepted everything because he´s been so involved with the church for the last couple months. He was our best student at English class while it was still going on.
We´ve been teaching an older lady called Maria Lúcia (probably about 60-70 years old). She´s been coming to church regulary now for a few months. Her son, Oduvado(probably about 45 years old), has been a member of the church for 5 years. Unfortunately, about a year ago he suffered an accident and hasn´t been able to go to church since. The joints on the right side of his body don´t really work to well. For example, his right hand don´t close and he can´t bend his right knee. He´s been pretty much bed-ridden. He´s been having great progress! He can now sit up on his bed, and thinks that here in a little bit he´ll be able to leave the house in a modified wheelchair that his brother has been working on. We visit them a couple times week to teach him and his mother. While we´re there we help him with his physical theropy. Maria Lúcia doesn´t want to be baptized yet because, as she puts it, "baptism is for young people." Anytime we try to teach her about baptism she refuses to listen, but she´s been building a lot of good friendships at church lately, so hopefully she´ll soften up here in a little bit.
I don´t think I told you guys about the baptism a week and a half ago. Maria Juliawas baptized and confirmed the Saturday before last. She isn´t a convert however. She´s the eight-year-old daughter of Mário and Joelma. Mário is a little less active, so Maria Julia asked me to perform the baptism. I called President to see if missionaries could do ward baptisms, and he said as long as the bishop says so, which he had already done. Joelma went through the temple for the first time this last Saturday. We´ve been working with Mário to reach the same goal so that they can get sealed soon.
(I just realized that I had been spelling Saturday wrong, so I went back and corrected all the "Satterday"s that I typed.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
9-23-08
Subject: Conference! (Ok, just 11 more days... Patience!)
Hello Everybody!
I didn´t have too much time to write last week because I was making a CD of the Book of Mormon for a recent convert who has dificulty reading. I was quite amazed that I was able to download the entire Boom of Mormon in MP3 in only about 45 minutes. But it took up all my time. I´ll try to write more this week, but if I have time I´m going to make some General Conference Invites to give to people on the street.
Anyway, just to finish what I was saying last week:
Shirley and Sarah are getting ready for baptism. We´ve riddened their house of all coffee. Rodolfo is trying to get the confidence to receive the priesthood so that he can baptize his wife and daughter this Sunday.
Elder Carr is from Salt Lake City. He is a professional singer. I got really excited when I heard that he was moving in with us last week. Unfortunately, he said that barbershop isn´t his thing. He just does solos. (Don´t worry- I´ll convert him!)
We had Stake Conference this last Sunday. The 3rd ever in our stake! (Because it makes a little time that the stake divided itself). Even though it is a 45 minute bus ride to get to the stake center, Rodolfo took his family and Maria das Dores brought hers as well. Maria das Dores is only waiting her divorce and marriage to come through to be baptized. We´ve been having a lot of success teaching families lately.
We did a service project at the house of Aurea (recent convert) cleaning her "quintal" (yard?) and taking away all the "mato" (wilderness?).
President Texeira is having his first missionary reunion, but I won´t be there. I think Salt Lake City is a little outside of our area.
Goodbye for now!
--
Elder Jason Morgan Allred
Hello Everybody!
I didn´t have too much time to write last week because I was making a CD of the Book of Mormon for a recent convert who has dificulty reading. I was quite amazed that I was able to download the entire Boom of Mormon in MP3 in only about 45 minutes. But it took up all my time. I´ll try to write more this week, but if I have time I´m going to make some General Conference Invites to give to people on the street.
Anyway, just to finish what I was saying last week:
Shirley and Sarah are getting ready for baptism. We´ve riddened their house of all coffee. Rodolfo is trying to get the confidence to receive the priesthood so that he can baptize his wife and daughter this Sunday.
Elder Carr is from Salt Lake City. He is a professional singer. I got really excited when I heard that he was moving in with us last week. Unfortunately, he said that barbershop isn´t his thing. He just does solos. (Don´t worry- I´ll convert him!)
We had Stake Conference this last Sunday. The 3rd ever in our stake! (Because it makes a little time that the stake divided itself). Even though it is a 45 minute bus ride to get to the stake center, Rodolfo took his family and Maria das Dores brought hers as well. Maria das Dores is only waiting her divorce and marriage to come through to be baptized. We´ve been having a lot of success teaching families lately.
We did a service project at the house of Aurea (recent convert) cleaning her "quintal" (yard?) and taking away all the "mato" (wilderness?).
President Texeira is having his first missionary reunion, but I won´t be there. I think Salt Lake City is a little outside of our area.
Goodbye for now!
--
Elder Jason Morgan Allred
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
9-09-08
Elder Jason Allred
Brazil São Paulo South Mission
Rua Dr Luiz da Richa Miranda, 159
8 Andar, Parque Jabaquara
04344-010 - São Paulo - SP
Brazil
Subject: Wow, that water was cooooooooooooold!
Hello Everybody!
Yeah!
Rodolfo was baptized and confirmed! His wife, Shirley really felt the spirit at the baptismal meeting. I´m sure that it won´t be long until she realizes that she to needs to be baptized. And their daughter Sarah is just waiting for her mom. Guess what! Sarah is 11 years-old - just like another Sarah I know! :)
(Wow, this keyboard is really weird to use)
On Saturday, we participated in the Church's nation-wide service project "Mãos que Ajudam" (Hands that Help). Throughout all of Brazil, the Church spent Saturday renovating public schools. We were lucky. The Church chose one of the public schools in our area. Over 500 people from the two stakes here in São Vicente came to help. Most of the work was repainting, cleaning and fixing desks, fixing and replacing doors, rewiring the fans and the lights, and stuff like that. My companion and I got a cool job. We got to drill into the side of the school to put up metal grates on the windows to block the rocks that kids throw. It was only a one-day project, but we got a lot done. Actually, President only let us help for 5 hours. He said that there were more important things to be doing. :) So we got there at 6:30 in the morning and worked until lunch. Most of the other missionaries in the two zones live on the island and had to wake up a lot earlier to get a bus. We only had to wake up at 6am because it´s only a 5 minute run from our house. We´re hoping that the parents of the students that study there get a little more curious about the Church because of the project. Many teachers were crying out of thankfulness because they had lost desire to continue working in that broken-down school, but now they have a renewed hope.
I finally mailed the letters I wrote a few weeks ago.
Fabrício (who was baptized 3 weeks ago along with his wike) got his first calling on Sunday. He was set apart as the assistant secretary in the Elders Quorum. He and Sérgio (a recent convert from last transfer) got the Aaronic Priesthood the week before.
Elder C. Pereira got a little sick on Sunday. He threw up a few times. I had to call Sister Richardson for him because she´s still learning Portuguese. It was really hard to try to talk in English. Typing is easier. Anyway, he´s better now. We´re pretty sure it was the leftovers from lunch that he ate.
Everthing´s great!
Goodbye for now!
--
Élder Jason Morgan Allred
Brazil São Paulo South Mission
Rua Dr Luiz da Richa Miranda, 159
8 Andar, Parque Jabaquara
04344-010 - São Paulo - SP
Brazil
Subject: Wow, that water was cooooooooooooold!
Hello Everybody!
Yeah!
Rodolfo was baptized and confirmed! His wife, Shirley really felt the spirit at the baptismal meeting. I´m sure that it won´t be long until she realizes that she to needs to be baptized. And their daughter Sarah is just waiting for her mom. Guess what! Sarah is 11 years-old - just like another Sarah I know! :)
(Wow, this keyboard is really weird to use)
On Saturday, we participated in the Church's nation-wide service project "Mãos que Ajudam" (Hands that Help). Throughout all of Brazil, the Church spent Saturday renovating public schools. We were lucky. The Church chose one of the public schools in our area. Over 500 people from the two stakes here in São Vicente came to help. Most of the work was repainting, cleaning and fixing desks, fixing and replacing doors, rewiring the fans and the lights, and stuff like that. My companion and I got a cool job. We got to drill into the side of the school to put up metal grates on the windows to block the rocks that kids throw. It was only a one-day project, but we got a lot done. Actually, President only let us help for 5 hours. He said that there were more important things to be doing. :) So we got there at 6:30 in the morning and worked until lunch. Most of the other missionaries in the two zones live on the island and had to wake up a lot earlier to get a bus. We only had to wake up at 6am because it´s only a 5 minute run from our house. We´re hoping that the parents of the students that study there get a little more curious about the Church because of the project. Many teachers were crying out of thankfulness because they had lost desire to continue working in that broken-down school, but now they have a renewed hope.
I finally mailed the letters I wrote a few weeks ago.
Fabrício (who was baptized 3 weeks ago along with his wike) got his first calling on Sunday. He was set apart as the assistant secretary in the Elders Quorum. He and Sérgio (a recent convert from last transfer) got the Aaronic Priesthood the week before.
Elder C. Pereira got a little sick on Sunday. He threw up a few times. I had to call Sister Richardson for him because she´s still learning Portuguese. It was really hard to try to talk in English. Typing is easier. Anyway, he´s better now. We´re pretty sure it was the leftovers from lunch that he ate.
Everthing´s great!
Goodbye for now!
--
Élder Jason Morgan Allred
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
9-02-08
Elder Jason Allred
Brazil São Paulo South Mission
Rua Dr Luiz da Richa Miranda, 159
8 Andar, Parque Jabaquara
04344-010 - São Paulo - SP
Brazil
Subject: That´s funny. It´s spelled just like the word "escape."
Last week we had zone conferences! Elder Soares (of the First quorum of the 70) came and talked with us.
Today for Pday, we went to the aquariam in Santos, the neighboring city of the island. It was really cool. It was almost like watching Finding Nemo. Then we went and cut our hair. But, our Pday is pretty much gone.
We got an entire family in church on Sunday. Rodolfo, Shirley, and their daughter Sarah. Rodolfo is getting all set for baptism (he´s already stopped smoking - and yes! he´s married!), but Shirley doesn´t want to leave her other church. For the mean time she´ll keep frequenting both of the churches. (Do we say "frequenting" in English? Maybe the better word is "attend.")
We got some bad news yesterday. Anderson (14 years old) has been preparing for baptism for over a month and was going to be baptized this next Sunday, but yesterday, his mother changed her mind (before we got her to sign the baptismal form). Now he´ll have to wait 4 more years. :(
Wanger and Rita are brother and sister that came to church for the first time on Sunday. They´re in their mid-twenties. They have a really firm decision to change their lives and be baptized, but the biggest obstacle for now is the Word of Wisdom. They´re getting better!
--
Elder Allred
Brazil São Paulo South Mission
Rua Dr Luiz da Richa Miranda, 159
8 Andar, Parque Jabaquara
04344-010 - São Paulo - SP
Brazil
Subject: That´s funny. It´s spelled just like the word "escape."
Last week we had zone conferences! Elder Soares (of the First quorum of the 70) came and talked with us.
Today for Pday, we went to the aquariam in Santos, the neighboring city of the island. It was really cool. It was almost like watching Finding Nemo. Then we went and cut our hair. But, our Pday is pretty much gone.
We got an entire family in church on Sunday. Rodolfo, Shirley, and their daughter Sarah. Rodolfo is getting all set for baptism (he´s already stopped smoking - and yes! he´s married!), but Shirley doesn´t want to leave her other church. For the mean time she´ll keep frequenting both of the churches. (Do we say "frequenting" in English? Maybe the better word is "attend.")
We got some bad news yesterday. Anderson (14 years old) has been preparing for baptism for over a month and was going to be baptized this next Sunday, but yesterday, his mother changed her mind (before we got her to sign the baptismal form). Now he´ll have to wait 4 more years. :(
Wanger and Rita are brother and sister that came to church for the first time on Sunday. They´re in their mid-twenties. They have a really firm decision to change their lives and be baptized, but the biggest obstacle for now is the Word of Wisdom. They´re getting better!
--
Elder Allred
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