yea i´m not sure how it happened but freaking has become the new portugues noun for someone that is really frustrateing among the missionaries. for example. if you are really annoying people will say Cala Boca Freaking! (shut up freaking!) or if you have an investigater really annoying or uncooperative, people say "só Deixa o Freaking" (just leave the freaking) I think its pretty dang funny if I do say so myself. =)
So hey! sounds like everyone is doing good! thats pretty cool to here about the double cornwall spirit testimony action! i´ve actually been trying to bear my testimony for the past few months but i dont want to take away the time from the members. and for some odd reason there are always lots of people on the pulpit. so I just wait for a little while and usually they run out of time before I have a chance.
So we had a leadership training for all the leaders in the mission. which means assistants, secretaries, zone leaders district leaders and senior companions. I thought it was kinda funny becuase its half the mission going taking a day off to listen to a little bit of training. So I left my companion elder pepper and went to maceio and was able to talk with president a little bit. It was cool what they had to say but sadly it killed our whole day and we couldnt really work. but it was a welcome resting day.
also with the other elders we went to Teotonio. which a little town about 30 minutes out of São miguel. We went their to support the group that is starting there. they are trying to form a branch out there. we went becuase the bishop had a lot of meetings scheduled that day and he sent us out there to be the preisthood leadership temporarilly. I was also chosen to give a 15 minute talk on the spot. It was a miracle that I was able to fill the time. I decided to talk a little bit about our duty as members of the church of jesus christ. I related it also to missionary work. I said something about how we are to learn our duty as members (D&C 107: 99) and then related to how we are all discples of christ and our duty is to help us come unto christ (3 Nephi 5:13) It was a good feeling to finally realize that i´m confident enough to give a 15 minute talk with just a morning to prepare.
anyway life is going good! I´m still loving the mission and trying to give my all to the lord. thanks for all your support too! Talk to you all next week! buh bye now!
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