Thanks Valley Forge 2nd Ward!
good morning family! How are you all doing over there in the States!? Sounds like all is well! Mom had a week off of work to chill and relax i bet thats nice, kimball is finally off to school. I like that picture, its pretty awesome. What grade are you in? 3rd grade? nah just kidding. Jake plans on going off to byu idaho soon too eh? Thats exciting! Should be good.
This week here in Brazil has been great and pretty fast. Cant believe its already monday. We've had some good success here in Brazil. We've been teaching some awesome families here in Grajaú, We found this one family that has 4 teen kids, we are teaching all of them too. They all have a desire to go to church and do those things. There are two specific girls named Barbara and Tinara who are on fire. They are both reading the book of Mormon, praying and they went to church! They are awesome! We've been seeing them everyday this past week, to really help them out. We plan on seeing them everyday this week too. To help them out with the B word.. i cant say the word Or ill jinks it haha.
We also are teaching this lady Maria Christina this week too. She is progressing well, we have taught her every lesson to be taught just helping her out be ready for Baptism too. We gave her a blessing last saturday to help her give up smoking, and to have help overcoming the law of Chastity. After we gave her the blessing, Satan has been working really hard with her.. its been really hard to get her to overcome her weeknesses. We help her out for sure. She'll be ready.
Then we are teaching this kid named Abnar who is 16 and thinks he is a Gangster, its really funny. He is awesome, he's been to church two times and liked it everytime. Its hard to get him to progress in reading the livro de mormon. We are working with him a lot to. We are helping him be prepared for baptism too. I guess really we do that with every person we teach, but we are really hitting it hard this week with these three families.
Nothing too exciting happened this week, really just the same old. Im sitting here in the mission office emailing you guys because its some brazilian holiday and all the lan houses are closed. Its pretty nice chillin here. As I was typing to you guys I recieved a package from theactivity girls from our ward. Ill have to send A picture to you guys haha. Ah I have some questions for you guys! Next week is transfers I dont think ill be transfered but there is always a chance. If so, ill need a bit of money to travel to my next area. Im not sure how much I have, but yes mom I was able to buy sandals last week. Thanks :) Oh, everyone here in my ward keep looking up my facebook page and showing me and always make fun of me for my background picture haha of the favela.. They keep saying I need to change it because it looks dumb they say.. So mom if you would like could you change my background picture and Maybe my profile picture too! Thanks :) To whatever youd like. You can accept the people from Brazil too, they are all people I know.
One more thing too, people keep telling me to update my instagram account.. if you guys really would like you can! Anyone can be in charge of it. You can post or hashtag whatever you guys think would be sick.. haha Thanks you guys are the best! I hope everything is going well over there, Im glad to see you all are being blessed. Thats awesome :) I love you guys a lot! Keep doing what you are doing!
Love, Elder Kenning
Spiritual thought: Elder Holland's talk "the price and blessing of Discipilship" Jacob 1:8. This talk is so unreal, Its so true though. The story of the sister missionary is pretty rough to hear about for me being a missionary. Its rough, ive ha similar experiences. The price is high, but its definitely worth it. We will recieve so many blessing too. Look to our greatest examples like Joseph Smith and Jesus Christ. They are amazing people, and they went through so much hard things, because they know its worth everybit of it. Really its whats the Lord wants from us. We need to be the best that we can be. Stick to the path!
This week here in Brazil has been great and pretty fast. Cant believe its already monday. We've had some good success here in Brazil. We've been teaching some awesome families here in Grajaú, We found this one family that has 4 teen kids, we are teaching all of them too. They all have a desire to go to church and do those things. There are two specific girls named Barbara and Tinara who are on fire. They are both reading the book of Mormon, praying and they went to church! They are awesome! We've been seeing them everyday this past week, to really help them out. We plan on seeing them everyday this week too. To help them out with the B word.. i cant say the word Or ill jinks it haha.
We also are teaching this lady Maria Christina this week too. She is progressing well, we have taught her every lesson to be taught just helping her out be ready for Baptism too. We gave her a blessing last saturday to help her give up smoking, and to have help overcoming the law of Chastity. After we gave her the blessing, Satan has been working really hard with her.. its been really hard to get her to overcome her weeknesses. We help her out for sure. She'll be ready.
Then we are teaching this kid named Abnar who is 16 and thinks he is a Gangster, its really funny. He is awesome, he's been to church two times and liked it everytime. Its hard to get him to progress in reading the livro de mormon. We are working with him a lot to. We are helping him be prepared for baptism too. I guess really we do that with every person we teach, but we are really hitting it hard this week with these three families.
Nothing too exciting happened this week, really just the same old. Im sitting here in the mission office emailing you guys because its some brazilian holiday and all the lan houses are closed. Its pretty nice chillin here. As I was typing to you guys I recieved a package from theactivity girls from our ward. Ill have to send A picture to you guys haha. Ah I have some questions for you guys! Next week is transfers I dont think ill be transfered but there is always a chance. If so, ill need a bit of money to travel to my next area. Im not sure how much I have, but yes mom I was able to buy sandals last week. Thanks :) Oh, everyone here in my ward keep looking up my facebook page and showing me and always make fun of me for my background picture haha of the favela.. They keep saying I need to change it because it looks dumb they say.. So mom if you would like could you change my background picture and Maybe my profile picture too! Thanks :) To whatever youd like. You can accept the people from Brazil too, they are all people I know.
One more thing too, people keep telling me to update my instagram account.. if you guys really would like you can! Anyone can be in charge of it. You can post or hashtag whatever you guys think would be sick.. haha Thanks you guys are the best! I hope everything is going well over there, Im glad to see you all are being blessed. Thats awesome :) I love you guys a lot! Keep doing what you are doing!
Love, Elder Kenning
Spiritual thought: Elder Holland's talk "the price and blessing of Discipilship" Jacob 1:8. This talk is so unreal, Its so true though. The story of the sister missionary is pretty rough to hear about for me being a missionary. Its rough, ive ha similar experiences. The price is high, but its definitely worth it. We will recieve so many blessing too. Look to our greatest examples like Joseph Smith and Jesus Christ. They are amazing people, and they went through so much hard things, because they know its worth everybit of it. Really its whats the Lord wants from us. We need to be the best that we can be. Stick to the path!
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