October 21, 2009

this last week was really good. we had 20 new investigators with 6 baptisms marked! unfortunately they all fell through because nobody went to church this sunday!!! i think we may have figured things out though! we are going to have a member with a car that will go with us to pick up the investigators in the morn! i cant believe it is already pday again! this week went by way fast. also the transfer is just about over too. one and a half weeks is all. i thought i just barely got elder lima as a companion haha. but things are going really well! i am teaching pretty well now. i need to work on all the lessons a lot still but it is coming! i am at about 6 months now and unfortunately i am not fluent! ha hopefully not to far off though!!! we haven’t really gotten too far into teaching anyone this week but we are teaching tons of people. hopefully that means we will just slowly move through the lessons with everyone! haha then baptize everyone the same day! to bad we are almost at the end of the transfer cuz maybe ill get moved before everyone is baptized. we will see how everything goes! we are teaching a mom and daughter and they are pretty awesome. we taught the word of wisdom and they don’t have a problem with that. also we taught paulo and his wife. they arent married so we invited them to get married first and they accepted. the wife said she felt the spirit so strong while we were there and when she read and prayed, so she left the book of Mormon open on the headboard of the bed to try to keep the peace there. pretty awesome!! the temple was a pretty good experience. i pretty much understood everything. unfortunately i didn’t receive a really big revelation about the investigators or myself ha. maybe next time! but everything is good here. sweet how you bought a new mustang. i am excited to see it. and i sure hope it is there in a year and a half. oh and i guess now that olivia took over the taurus that just leaves me with the mustang haha dang! ha well have a good week everyone. sorry i didn’t have more time to tell you about everything in more detail. i will do better next week. love you!!!

October 14, 2000

well i will hurry and tell you about my week. we are teaching a lot of people and i think i will just tell you all about them. first of all on last p day we visited maria gloria. she is 81 years old and in her death bed. she is really sick and we gave her a blessing. i did the annointing. we taught a man named davi and he lives in the back of a tattoo parlor. it was pretty interesting to have missionaries knocking at a tattoo parlor. we marked a baptism with him. also we messed up on an address and ended up teaching elza and marking a baptism with her. also we marked baptisms with luiza and aline. and also with roberto and sara. we taught some pretty good lessons this week and have a lot of new investigators. i went on a division with elder swenson my district leader. everyone says how awesome he is but he taught the one lesson terribly that we were on. he taught everything he knew. started talking about mary and the ressurrection during the message of the restoration. i guess i still learned alot from the division. also we had a district meeting yesterday and i learned a lot about pride. we didnt even talk about pride though. there is an elder that things he is all that. and during one of the practices i was the investigator and he said to his native companion, maybe you should teach cuz i talk really fast nd he probably wont understand. that made me pretty mad. ha he talks slower than any other american missionary that i have talked to. but i will try to be more humble. well have a ood week. love you guys.

love,
elder long

October 7, 2009

well this week was pretty good. i was really excited for conference! we had a lot of people that we have been teaching and we were thinking about moving a baptism up to in between the two sessions of conference instead of waiting until saturday. we also found a married couple that is pretty awesome and then a mom and two 25ish year old sons. they were really awesome. well conference was at 1 and 5 here. so we hurried and ate lunch andust in time to head to conference. the zone leaders called and said we could only go to the ones on sunday. i think cuz we didnt have investigators there. so i was a little bummed about that ha. then on sunday morning there was a rebroadcast of the priesthood meeting we thought but turns out it was the second session of saturday. it was good but i like conference a lot better in english. in between sessions they kept playing elder hollands talk about christ from last conference. it is called none were with him. it was in english too by the way. but they put it to music and video too. you should try to find it. it was awesome. i remembered that talk. it was awesome!you guys should try to find the video! but i couldnt understand much about conference. elder holland had a cool book of mormon that had a page folded by hyrum i think. thats about all i got out of the last session ha. i also understood about elder andersens son going to that new area that he prayed would open. oh and some more bad news. the baptism we were thinking about moving up to this sunday, well he moved to vinhedo...he was awesome he read to alma in like 5 days or less. i hope that the missionaries there can find him and baptize him. so now we probably wont have any baptisms this week but i am pretty sure we will have 3 next week and maybe 4 or maybe even 5 haha. we will see. i pray that we will!well that was pretty much my week. pretty alright i guess.
well i hope you all have a good week this week! love you!
love,
elder long