A Month in Brazil!

This last week has been pretty fantastic. We baptized pretty much all of our most progressing investigators, so we´ve been spending a lot of time finding new people to teach. What better way to find people than to tract (actually there are tons of better ways, but this can be effective sometimes). It´s weird to go tracting, because it´s something I never did for the first six months of my mission, but I´m starting to like it. For some reason rejection is easier to take in another language. Maybe it´s because I´m already struggling to translate in my mind, so it´s easy to tune out all the negative feelings.

The language is increasingly becoming easier, but it´s harder to practice when you´re in a trio. I´ll probably be transferred in a couple weeks, so hopefully I´ll get placed with a Brazilian, then I´ll be forced to practice. Yesterday I got up and bore my testimony in sacrament meeting. It was funny because afterwards a girl in the ward came up to me and said (translated) ´´It was good to hear your testimony. Before then I´ve never heard you speak.´´ I know I don´t speak a whole lot, but I´m really in trouble if people don´t know what my voice sounds like. My courage to speak is increasing with my ability to understand.

We met an awesome family of four the other day and after teaching them we asked them that if they receive an answer and know that these things we teach are true that they´ll accept baptism, and their answer was ´´well of course´´, so now we just have to teach them and pray that they are open to the spirit. 

We had one more baptism this week, Tallytah, the sister of Fernanda. She would´ve been baptized last week but she didn´t really feel compelled to be baptized, until she saw her sister get baptized, and then she got excited. I love working with families. It´s what the gospel´s all about and it´s so amazing the impact the gospel can have on a family.

Well that´s all I have time for today. 

Love you all 

Love,

Elder David Short