(Elder Mackrory)
Boa tarde meus queridos!
Bom, essa semana eu finalmente alcancei 1300. Como total
essa semana, vi 2; o total sendo 1301.
Alright lets get right into it. This week went really well.
On pday last, we got together as a zone to do nothing specific. It was good
times though. Good stroganoff, good volei and good guitar. We jammed out to
“Love Story ” and it has been stuck in my companion’s head all week. As a
result, he constantly tells me how good the song is and asks questions like
“What album is this from?”, “Are there any other songs from this album that are
good?” and other things like that. He’s a budding Swiftie and I’m so happy for
him.
On Tuesday we had a pretty rushed day at the office since we
were catching up on stuff from the weekend. We had district council too, which
tightened up the schedule. We had a district pizza party, Elder Butter’s treat.
I annoyed one of the assistants because I was on a roll with dad jokes. That
night we had a goated lesson with Jade, and helped her prepare for the
baptismal interview. She’s basically a member already with the level of
testimony she has.
On Wednesday we went early to the office for my meetings.
EnglishConnect 1 and 2, followed immediately by Media specialists. We are
debating the idea of getting professional mics to record better videos. During
personal study, I started reading the teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith, which
I’m realizing is a concentrated version of Doctrines of Salvation, also a
really good, but long, series of books. So I’m liking it a lot. We had a cool
lesson with Erick about prophets and then got ready to leave, when a couple
visiting from Salt Lake wanted to see the chapel and wanted to practice the
piano. He is from Salt Lake, and served in Spain, and she is from Peru, so we
spoke Spanish the whole time with bits and pieces of English. It was cool.
On Thursday as we left the house, our doorman gave me a box!
This isn’t outside of the ordinary as parents usually send their kids packaged
to our apartment. This time however, it was mine. Last week when I did the
division at Jardim Botânico, Elder Cayris was there doing a Division with the
other companionship. He had some super sick cowboy boots, the kind they use on
Brazilian farms. They’re not the high top American boots, and they had a cool
design on the front. So I bought some online and they arrived! they’re super
nice and I think they look sick.
Yesterday I had a crazy productive day in the office and
pretty much got everything done that I had. So naturally right when I left, a
bunch of messages came in asking me to do things. So it was nice to not have
anything to do for 10 minutes. The mission is preparing me for parenting, I
think. We also had a training for the Brasil area, where they introduced an AI assistant
that has studied all the secretary manuals and the president’s manual. So they
asked us to ask the AI before entering in contact with the area office. Super
cool stuff, and apparently Brasil is the first area in the church that is
trying this out. That evening we had the baptismal interview of Jade, and we
had dinner with the young single adult crowd to celebrate. On the way home
Elder Vieira still had Love Story stuck in his head. I don’t blame him.
Welp that’s all folks, it was a super short week.
Tender Mercy:
This week I focused more on reading the Book of Mormon. What
I found is that I’m sleeping better, my other studies are more spiritual and
more productive. I feel more immune to temptation. It was just a really
relaxing week despite all that happened.
Spiritual thought:
God is a god of chances. He is forgiving. He gave Israel at
least 1000 chances in the wilderness to go to the promised land before they
softened their hearts enough to be led there. From Cairo to Jerusalem is a two
week journey. 40 years divided by two weeks comes in just over 1000. So let us
notice the chances that God is giving us on a daily and even hourly basis. Let
us take the first chance and thank Him for all He has done.
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