Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Zone Conferences (recieved 28 Nov 2011)

This last week was pretty spectacular. We´ve been teaching this awesome girl, Graziely, who´s getting baptized Saturday. She´s really awesome and I think that she´ll be the example to getting the rest of the family baptized.
I´ve really been hoping to find an awesome family, but it´s not easy.
Wednesday we took a two hour bus ride to Uberlândia for a zone conference with president. There were about thirty-somethin missionaries. The main focus of the conference was about our ability to teach, and our effectiveness as the Lord´s teachers. One of the points that President Prieto focused on was our use of the scriptures in our teaching. We had about an hour and a half of practices, and afterwards we had a scripture memorization test thingy, where we had to stand and recite a scripture. It scared my tag off, because no one had told me that we were supposed to have memorized scriptures. Luckily I wasn´t called on.
Our Thanksgiving Lunch consisted of the traditional rice, beans and chicken (don´t misinterpret me. It was delicious.)
Our zone conference went a little longer than it was supposed, so we missed our bus. We spent the night at a district leader´s house. It doesn´t matter where we are, or what the situation is, there is always work to be done. We had about three hours before our curfew on Thursday, so we split up. I went to work with Elder A. Souza. We did some tracting near the house and we found an amazing family, that accepted all the commitments and a baptismal date. The only sad part is that I won´t be there for when the get baptized, but maybe I´ll get transferred to that area in the next couple weeks.
I had a weird dream last night that I got transferred to Uberaba, so we´ll see what happens.
Graziely´s neighbor came to church with her on Sunday. We´re hoping to teach her family this week. 
Family is aweome. I hope to baptize a few  daqui um pouco.
That´s all I´ve got for now.
Love,
Elder David Short

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