Hey Everyone!!
So this week we had our Family History activity on Friday, a lot
more members said they´d go than the amount that actually went, but it
still went well. We spent pretty much the entire week visiting every
house in our area with people that we know to invite them to the
activity. Our family who went to church last Sunday had their father
(grandfather for the kids) pass away so they left town and only one of
the kids came to church yesterday but she really loved it again and is
already making friends with the other single adults in the ward. We had
some really sad happen with 2 more of our friends, too. We were teaching
them about the Plan of Salvation and they told us that they don´t want
to live with God and their families forever and that there is no way
that the gospel of Jesus Christ is so simple like we taught it...we had
to explain to them that we are here to find those people who do want to
live with God and their families
forever and help them acheive that goal and that we can´t poorly spend
the Lord´s time talking with people who don´t have those desires. We
left feeling super sad because they were great people who we really
thought would progress, but everybody has their free agency and we know
that God will grant us according to our desires. So Carnival has arrived
here in Brazil and everybody told us that our area won´t have any
parties or anything like that (they say it only happens in downtown
Floripa)...I´m worried as to what Brazilians consider a ´party´ to be
because we could not escape the carnival parties yesterday and carnival
doesn´t even officially start until Saturday...these should be some
interesting weeks. I love you all and hope that you enjoy the winter
back home!!! Give the kids some loves for me!!!!
Love,
Elder Michael J. NEilson
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