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
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
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