Brazilian Autumn

Well we are reaching the point here with the weather when it's not too hot during the day and it gets just cold enough at night to be comfortable. Ahhh lovin it.

So today (Monday) is usually P-day but rather than that we are going to email our family and then go teach and work as normal. You might ask why and the reason is that on WEDNESDAY we get to hear from ELDER RUSSELL M. NELSON!!!!! He's going to be here in São Paulo and they're pulling together three different missions to all come hear from him. Since it's going to take away from our time to work they decided to make that day p-day, if he weren't an Apostle I'd be more sore about it. 

Outside of that it was a pretty normal week. I worked outside of my area for most of it working with other missionaries in other areas but it was still good. We had a cool experience in another area where we were going through an old list of members of the church and visiting the ones that aren't going to church and we came to this tiny side allyway and couldn't find the house in this alley and we were asking everyone and almost gave up. Finally we talked to a guy that said he didn't know the person we were looking for but then said 'Wait, you mean Benedito that lives in that house around the corner?' and directed us to the person we were looking for that lived in a house we would have never found. He received us warmly and expressed a strong desire to come back to the church and bring his family with him that aren't members yet. After having been rejected for an entire afternoon it was cool to be reminded that there are people out there that DO want to hear from us and DO want to improve their lives. 

"Our missionaries are going forth to different Nations. The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”

What a marvelous work and a wonder,

Elder DP