I completely forgot that it was the 4th when I woke up this morning. Well we have kids who shoot off firecrackers in the street everyday here, so I don´t think I´ll be missing much in that regard.
This last week we had an awesome zone conference thingy with Elder Araújo of the Seventy. He talked a lot about our finding efforts, and how we can improve. One of my favorite things that he said was ´´You aren´t going have an angel appear in the middle of the street with a trumpet, proclaiming ´right here, one of the elect lives right here´. Sometimes the spirit will tell you if someone is one of the elect, but other times you have to ask ´excuse me. Are you one of the elect?´.´´
So since Thursday we´ve been trying to put what he said into practice, and we´ve been seeing some mini miracles from it.
We´ve been trying to do a lot finding this week and to contact some people, no one seems to be home. This week was the Festa Junina in Itumbiara. Every night this week that had a concert, downtown, that lasted till three in the morning. We would wake up in the middle of the night to Samba, Sertanejo, and Pagode music.
Our house is the nicest house I´ve lived in thus far on my mission. I think it´s because we have couches that I like it so much.
So we only have a branch in Itumbiara, the goal right now is to bring attendence up to 80 people in sacrament. Once we have 80 we can turn in the paperwwork to have a Chapel built. Right now we only have about 55 people in our sacrament meetings, so we have some work ahead of us.
Thinking in English is making my head hurt.
Fire off a firework in my memory.
Love,
Elder David Short
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