Hey! How was Thanksgiving? It was great here. I mean
Thanksgiving is not a celebrated holiday here but we had a mini celebration in
our apartment. There were no turkeys, mashed potatoes, or pie but we had a good
time making pancakes (with maple syrup!) and saying what we are grateful for.
We called a few other missionaries and wished each other a happy thanksgiving
and each said what we are grateful for, so it was a good day!
The week was really good! We visited a ton of people and
again had a great week with visiting the people we are teaching with members of
the church. It really helps our investigators feel a lot better about it and
more excited to go to church. This week was a little difficult to get people to
church again because a lot of the people that we are teaching that are
progressing already had something to do on Sunday morning. But we already have a
ton of people confirmed to go to church next week so we are excited! Anderson
came to church again this week and loved it! He and Níazes are awesome and we
are so excited for them. We started teaching a 22 year-old named Beninha, and
she is really awesome. We visited her with a few members of the church already
and she is very excited to come to church next week. She works at the grocery
store here and we were talking to her about 2 weeks ago in the grocery store
and set up a time for us to visit her and her family. It´s crazy how the Lord
really puts people in our path that are so ready and needing the Gospel of
Jesus Christ.
We found some other great new people to teach this week,
too. We have really been focused on trying to talk to as many people as
possible each day and as we have made the initiative to stop and talk with everyone
in the street we have seen the miracles happen. Our days are very, very busy!
We were stopped on the street this week by a man who has a son serving a
mission in São Paulo and he told us he wants us to visit and that he also wants
to visit the church. It was a cool experience and we were able to teach him
once and marked a baptismal date. We have a few other people who have a
baptismal date for later in December so we are excited and we are finding some
really great people who have a desire to follow their Savior. I am very excited
for the Christmas season and the opportunity I have to help people feel of the
love God has for them. I am so grateful and even though it might be a little
hard to be away from home for another Christmas, I know that I am helping many
people change their lives to truly follow Jesus Christ and feel real joy and
peace. (check out the video and website, christmas.mormon.org. It´s awesome!)
Anyway, it was a great week and I am very excited for this
month. We are planning to do a ton of companionship exchanges this month with
all the Elders in our zone so it should be awesome. Dang, I seriously love
being a missionary!
Have a great week. Love you all.
Until next week.
Love,
Elder Helvey
We had an awesome family home evening with Anderson and a
member family in our ward.
It was so great and Anderson loved it! Family Home
Evenings are seriously the best things ever!!
Our Thanksgiving feast! Pancakes and maple syrup. Oh
yeah!
Also, the hat I am wearing is a hat that Marcío gave me, one of the
people we are teaching.
He sells them (it´s not an authentic nike hat but it´s
pretty dang sweet).
Beef Jerky was also part of our Thanksgiving feast.
Rafael (13 years-old) is a member in our ward who always
loves spending the entire day doing
visits with us. I gave him a pack of
SweeTarts at the end of the day and he was very excited!
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