Dois Milagres!

Dear Family,
We have been immensely blessed this week. Last Sunday we were blessed with a large number of investigators at sacrament, but as the new week began, we had no one to be baptized. I believe that it was on Tuesday that we visited a less active family with a member. The family had a young daughter that hadn´t been baptized, so the member (also being the primary president) asked if we could teach her so that she could get baptized. The parents allowed us to teach her and she was baptized Saturday.
Our second miracle happened on Friday. There was another young person in the ward who had been baptized, in another city, but he hadn´t been confirmed and there wasn´t a baptismal record. He was also baptized Saturday, and they both were confirmed Sunday.
We started the week with nothing, but the Lord blessed us for our diligent efforts and the miracles came.
That´s all I have time for today. I try to write a little quicker next week.
Love,
Elder David Short

PS I also included a picture of what happened after we got caught in the rain.

My mission address is:

Elder David Short

Rua 18 No. 110 Sala 1105 a 91107

Ed. Business Center Setor Oeste

Goiânia - GO 74120-080

Workin Hard

Dearest Family,
To start off...
This Tuesday we were given a new program from the mission called "Encontrar os Eleitos" or find the elect. This program is given to the members, for them to pray and make lists of people with whom we can share the gospel. Its a really awesome program and I'm looking forward to seeing to the blessings that come from it.
We met with little success while tracting on Tuesday, so we were walking by a cookie(not the typical American kind) factory and the owner gave us a free sack of the defective ones, which made up for the day.
Wednesday, I had teamups with Elder Wood; he's from Oregon, but not the part that likes the Ducks. The day was awesome, and would have been incredible, but Elder Wood had a score of blisters on his feet and wasn't very capable of walking very well, but we had success anyway.
We got a referral this week from a less-active member whose wife wants to learn about the church. They're really great, but they're not married yet and they'll have to wait another two months to tie the knot.
Nothing too too exciting happened this week, but we were thrilled to have a bunch of investigators at church and we were able to teach a bunch of lessons with members this week.
We're hauling to have some more baptisms before the end of the month.
Loves you alls,
Elder David Short

Batismo!

Well this week had some awesomeness, as we had a baptism. We taught and prepared our investigator in record timing being that she told us that she wanted to get baptized last Sunday and we taught her everything before Saturday.
The baptism itself was pretty awesome. We finally remembered to bring some inspirational music to listen to during the clothing change. Once again I made chocolate cake for dessert, and everyone loved it.
Tuesday, we found out that we would be having a special stake fireside with our mission president. We were responsible for inviting everyone in the ward to come, so we did a little extra walking to get everyone notified as fast as possible. Last night we had the fireside and the main topic was how to help obtain a temple in Brasilia. We had four speakers during the fireside. Our first speaker was President Rezende, the first counselor in our mission presidency (I didn’t know that we had a mission presidency until yesterday). President Rezende talked about church attendence, prayer and fasting as sacred responsibilities, and that if fail in these responsibilities we need to repent just like any other transgression. I thought back to the brother of Jared and how he was chastened for those very same transgressions.
Sister Prieto was the second speaker and she spoke on the blessings that we receive from the temple.
In President Prieto’s talk, he showed a clip from Hercules when Hercules goes to the temple of Zeus to find his identity. He quickly learns that he is a son of God and that he needs to become a true hero to return to live with his father. He is then instructed to seek out a trainer of heroes. President explained that we are like Hercules and that we need to be trained as well; that’s why we have bishops, stake presidents, teachers and missionaries.
After President’s talk, all the missionaries in Uberaba sang We Are All Enlisted.
The last talk was by the Stake President, and he spoke about tithing. I was really excited after the meeting when one of our recent converts came up to us and asked where the tithing slips were.
This past week was full of blessing and this week will be even better.
“Thus on to eternal perfection”
Love,
Elder David Short

Gratidão!

Dear Família,
First I would like to explain that last p-day I went on a cooking frenzy. I first made pancakes for breakfast, fish for lunch, chicken and noodles for our lunch the next day, snickerdoodles for the ward family home evening and stove top kettle corn. Maybe I was just bored, but the temptation to cook overcame me.
We had the ward family home evening on Wednesday. We watched part of the Testaments, and then Elder Lindsey and I were in charge of the games. We taught the kids duck duck goose, but they had trouble pronouncing goose, so instead they´d just whack the persons head harder. No one was seriously injured. Everyone loved my snickerdoodles and the bishop´s wife now wants me to get married with a Brazilian so that we can combine our cultural flavors. I told her that I couldn´t think about that right now.
Our district meeting this week paid homage to Elder Dias who would soon be leaving us. We held a wailing in his honor.
The topic discussed in out district meeting was that of gratitude in our work. We talked a lot about the dangers of pride and how we have to remember the hand of the Lord in all our success.
After our district meeting, Elder Lindsey decided to try something new in our missionary work. We decided that after every lesson (successful or not) we would say a short prayer of gratitude, for the opportunity to teach that household. After we started to apply more gratitude in our work, the blessings started flooding in around us.
I don´t have the time to explain all the miracles that we´ve seen this week, but to share just a few:
We found a family from Paraguay that had previously talked with missionaries, but hadn´t had the opportunity to visit the church before.
A man stopped us in the store and asked us where we´re from. We taught his family and he and his wife came to church Sunday.
Tracting we found a couple that was attending church in São Paulo and hadn´t gotten baptized, because they need to get married.
The greatest miracle that we saw came on Sunday. A member stopped us and said that her sister in law wants to get baptized. We asked her if this was true and she said it was. Her friend, that was standing next to her, then said that she wanted to get baptized too. We marked the date for this coming Saturday.
The Lord blesses those that thank him!
Love,
Elder David Short