Week Forty-Seven

"emergency transfer.... DE NOVO?! our mission pres. must have been so excited about the temple announcement that he felt it necessary to switch everyone up in the middle of the transfer. My Argentinian is gone, along with my dreams of learning some spanish... yo estoy mucho triste!!!! i really was upset about it though, Élder D Ferreyra was a great comp. But luckily im still here in Resende, and ive got an american with me! breaking the 5 companion steak of south americans. His names Élder Meeks(Élder Mansa em Português), and the title fits the description: he´s really meek!!! He´s from St Charles, IL!!! He´s been through Naperville a few times so that was cool to hear! He´s a really great guy though. we work hard and play hard, its great to have a comp from the red white and blue for a change!!


This week was amazing. Im still on a ´´temple high,`` and its contagious!! We´ve had tons of sucesses this week-

Simão- is getting ready to be baptised!! He´s got some big goals in front of him week, he has some things he´s got to straighten out but ive never seen anyone with such faith!! Im really excited for the baptism, after baptizing his mom and sister(Iracele and Maria Luisa), we´ll have completed the family! Sure theres no dad in the picture, buit they´re a strong family unit who are praparing for the temple already! Miracles happen through families. 

Octávio- a miralce contact!! I contacted him in the street with Élder S Santos in the street about a month back. He´s a 15 yr old kid who doesnt believe in god but showed huge interest in our message. only he live in another area so i passed the reference hoping the other elders would pick it up where i left off... well last week he showed up at general conference!!  He ended up assisting the two sunday sessions and a replay of the preisthood meeting, at the end he asked what he could do to be a missionary!!!! turns out the other elders ´´forgot`` about the reference, but at least we were able to regain contact with him! Hes been going to all of the activities and i hear the lessons are going well... i just wish i could be more involved!! He truely is an eleite though and im so excited for him!!

Débora and Fernando- One of the greatest couples i´ve ever met! Fernandos a lot like ben, hes great looking, loves a joke, and works well with his hands. Débora is an angel, very supportive and together they´re a dream team! Only in their early 30´s, they just moved o resende taking a step of faith to look for work. they miraculously found two jobs in the first 3 days! then they ran into us, and just happens to be that they were looking actively for another church to attend. looks like God blesses the faithfull!! Theyre gobbling up the lessons and loved sacrament meeting. they even took pictures in front of the church, telling us they plan on coming back every week!! We have a baptism date set for them, all we gotta do is follow up! i LOVE working with families, they´re the foundation of temples!!!!!

Scpritural challenge- everyone thats reading this, read chapter of the book of mormon this week, and then write me to let me know what you learned, felt, and thought about it!!!!!"

-Elder Kelland Hansen