13 October 2014 - Santos Dumon, Brazil

So Elder Frogley has been invited to speak at two sacrament meetings--one in Providence (the ward he left from) the Sunday after he returns (so November 16th, I believe), and again in the new ward in Layton on December 14th (not November 14th, as Elder Frogley mis-types at the end of his e-mail). So he has two homecoming talks to prepare.

Haha, im already preparing my homecoming talks. Are they all going to be on Tithing? Or is he giving me a green light to do my own thing? Doesnt matter, im not to worried about it. The mission is good at helping people talk in public, haha. I hope i can keep doing the things i learned on the mission after the mission. Thats one of the scariest things about coming home. I want to sit down with you and Mom to have a goal setting meeting when i get home. That would be excelent. 

Anyway! This week was interesting! I dont know why im bothering to keep you all updated now. I can just tell you in three weeks! Haha, but ill give yall a quick run down on whats been goin on. 

Were helping two people at the moment work towords baptisim. Arenilson and Ane. 

Arenilson is a 37 year old man whos life has been destroyed by alcohol. He has two kids and and ex wife, none of which live with him. He also has Multiple sclerosis (i dont know how to spell that). He realizes the efect that alcohol has had in his life and has been really been trying to stop drinking. As of now hes been clean for two weeks! Thats huge progress for him. Were getting lots of help from the members with him. He cant exactly walk to church but the members agreed to help us go pick him up every sunday. He reads the scriptures every day, and when he started that was when he really started his clean streak. Its amazing the power a little spiritual guidence every day has. His baptisim is marked for this Saturday. Only 3 more baptisims and ill have hit my goal! 

Ane is a single Mom. She has two daughters, both of them baptised. She said she really wants to leave her old life and enter into the church. She just has some doubts and shes having problems drinking coffee. Weve had some really good lessons with her. Her daughters help her too, a lot. She has a great spiritual compas, but shes a little scared too (and lazy). She was firm on her baptisim for this Saturday though. She had doubt about her need to be baptised again, because she was baptised in another church. We used D&C 22 (I think). haha, im bad with remembering numbers. But we turned it into a really good leson on sacrificing our will to God. Ill probably use it in my homecoming talk. 

Other strange things this week. My comp had to have a surgery on his toe. So he got transfered back to Alagoas and now im here with Elder Dias and we´ll be a trio here in a little bit again when his original comp gets here. Haha, this is turning out to be a strange transfer. But its my comps birthday today so were probably goin with some members to the beach to get something to eat. Im stoked!

Anyway, Dad, November 14? Isnt that when you scheduled our three day shooting school thing? If not yea im down to talk whenever. Doesnt matter to me. 

Love you all!

Elder Ian