Hey! This week was SO awesome, and General Conference was
AMAZING!! Elder Bini and I had a great week as we visited a lot of less active
members. Tiago, our good friend, and Ward Secretary gave us a list of a lot of
them. We had some really great visits with a lot of them and found 2 young men
that were baptized a few years ago but stopped coming to church. They came to
General Conference and are excited to return to church! While we were working
with our list of less active members we found a family (parents and 3 kids)
that had just moved into their new house the day before and we have started
teaching them. It was awesome!
We had a great visit with Junior and Elizangela this week as
we all read a chapter of the Book of Mormon together. It was great and I love
that family so much!
Because this week we have transfers Orlando and Fátima, a
recent convert family, invited us over to eat dinner and have a Family Home
Evening. It was awesome and they are another family I love hear in this ward!
By far the best part of the week of course was General
Conference. It was sooo good! We were able to watch all the sessions in the
Stake Center here. Most all of it in English too which was great, but we
watched a little in Portuguese too which is always good, especially when Elder
Godoy from Brazil spoke in the Conference Center in his native tongue of
Portuguese! That was sure exciting here!!
I really liked all the talks but some of the best for me
were Sister Cheryl A. Esplin about the power the Sacrament can have in our lives
each week, Elder Holland about helping those in need, Elder Uchtdorf in the
Priesthood Session about asking ourselves "Lord, is it I?", and
President Monson about walking the path of our Savior in our lives. And my two
favorite talks were Richard G. Scott´s about the 4 tools we have in our lives,
prayer, scripture study, family home evening, and temple work, and of course
Elder David A. Bednar when he spoke to all non-members of the church about why
we as members are so anxious and excited to share the Gospel. The story of his
two sons was sooo awesome!
Anyway, as I said previously that this week is transfer
week. I found out this morning that I have been transferred! Tomorrow bright
and early in the morning I will go to my new area which is called Parque das
Nações in Zona Montese. I am suuuper excited because I will be companions with
Elder Goff!! He is my super good friend that lived with me for 3 months here in
Beira Rio. It will be his last transfer on the mission. He is so awesome and I
am excited to get to know the Zone there. I am a little sad to leave Zona
Litoral because I love this zone and the missionaries here but I feel super
good about leaving and feel like we have done a lot of good stuff here in this
stake! I am excited and ready for a new area and zone but I will dearly miss
the people I have come to love here in this ward. I have some great friends
here that I will always remember!
Anyway, I hope you all have a great week! I know I will!!
Until next week.
Love,
Elder Helvey
(no pictures this week - technical difficulties)
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