June 25, 2012
Hello!
This week was better. Nobody said anything bad to me (ha ha), so it was much easier. This area is just rough. Yesterday, our district had a "dia branca" "day of white..." where our goal as a zone/district was to baptize 20 people. So we worked super hard and met some good people to teach. We met a mom of a recent convert preparing for a mission, and she accepted the date for this upcoming Sunday! It was a very spiritual lesson.
I went on divisions with one of the zone leaders, Elder Valiati, on Wednesday and it was great. He was one of the assistants when we got here and he is an awesome missionary and really fun. They had confirmed 12 baptisms so they needed the help of Elder Carrell and myself. So that was really fun.
Then the next day was Zone Conference with President and Sister Tavares. It was about "7 banhos" or "7 baths", and they compared it to the leader of the army who had lepracy and had to take 7 baths in the River Jordan. It was really good, and I love the chances we get to be trained and learn with the President.
Yesterday was the District conference here in Apucarana, and like I said Dia Branca. So we went out to bring our investigators and get people with at least a possibility of baptism, but nobody ever answered. It's a little tough to have people go to church, but we are still working hard and looking for God´s elects here. But yesterday was awesome because the district together had 15 baptisms, but a little tough because nobody wants to progress here...
So I have some more scriptures from the conference, especially for Alec and any of my other friends you see preparing to leave. D&C 60: 2-3, 7, and 13, D&C 75: 20-21, D&C 123: 17, Alma 26: 22, Alma 57: 21, Alma 5: 45-47, Abraham 3: 22-23 and substitute your name where Abraham´s name is, D&C 29: 6-7, 3 Néfi 5: 13, Jacob 1: 19, Ether 12: 27, Matthew 4: 18-22, D&C 1: 19-23 and D&C 58: 16. So there are some for hard times, one that talks about not to worry about those who deny you because you´ll be there with Christ to bear testimony and all that good stuff.
I think that the picture of the family is Irmã Veroci, my stake president Edson, and their sons David and Vinicius in Maringá. Also, in the next package could you send Chalula hot sauce and kraft mac and cheese?
Thank you for the message. I love you guys ton! I hope you guys have a good week. Say HI to Al, Jack, and pep. Also send my love to every body. Tell Seth and Sam congrats if you see them again. Love you guys!
Love,
Elder Halpin
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| Elder Venancio and Elder Halpin found "Zion" in Brazil! |
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| Zone Conference with friends from the CTM. |
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| "Dia Branca" |
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