April 30, 2012
Hello!
So I am still here in Maringá after the transfers, and still with Elder Caetano. I think that this next transfer will be in four or five weeks instead of 6, because last transfer was 7 weeks. This weekend was great! We woke up at 4 o'clock Saturday morning and headed to Londrina (about 2 hours away). When we got there, we went to the chapel and met up with everybody! It was awesome seeing all the other Elders from my group at the CTM. Some of them are already going to be trainers!!! Crazy huh? Elder Cook was way good! It was him, Elder Godoy, and other representatives from the 70. They spoke on real growth in the church...not just baptisms, but how many people are attending sacrament meeting, marriages in the temple, missionaries going out, all that good stuff. It was an awesome time, and I learned a lot! Afterwards we went to another chapel in Londrina where people found out where they would go if they were being transferred. Then we returned to Maringá and worked just like normal.
Yesterday (Sunday), we had a special stake conference in Maringá with Elder Godoy, the Area President. He was really funny and talked about families, mainly to the youth and fathers. So this weekend was really great. Saturday night we had a lesson with Lucas and William´s (members) mom about baptism. After about 20 minutes, we finally got her to say a prayer and ask if she was ready for baptism on Sunday (yesterday). Then like 30 seconds later, a huge lightning bolt struck next to the house! Totally a sign, but she said she would pray and think about it later that night. So yesterday after all the conferences and meetings and everything we had, we went back to her house, and she said that she was already satisfied with her baptism and everything in the Catholic church... So yeah, that was pretty frustrating! So no baptism this weekend...But the work last week was good.
It sounds like you guys had a great week. Thanks for grabbing me a pirates hat! And the NBA playoffs look fun! Keep me updated on that, OK? Oh, this last week I had to buy some medicines because my nose won't stop running. We went to a nose, eye, all that type of doctor and he said I have a cold/allergy or something, so I had to get like $25 worth of medicine. It´s weird, but I´m OK so don´t worry. It's starting to finally get cold here...Yay!!! This morning was freezing, but by the time we leave it warms up a little bit, butIi´m using my jackets and all that now. Also thanks for the card mom! And no I´m not fluent at speaking, but now I am able to understand a lot more! so that's good!
Well, I hope you guys have another great week this upcoming week. Thank you for all that you for me. Maybe in the next package send hot chocolate... ha ha!! Tell everybody HI for me. Tell Alec, Jackson, and Peppy I love them. I love you guys tons, and hope you are doing well. Talk to you next week!
Love,
Elder Halpin
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| Chandler and his CTM buddies reunited at an Area Conference |
I didn't realize it got that cold down there. I am shocked they have brand new missionaries already training. That would be a little nerve racking!!!
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