Monday, November 28, 2011

November 28, 2011

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Oí familia!
Yes it is very hot. Yesterday it was about 95 degrees with humidity...ugh. Just have to imagine I´m walking in a winter wonderland or something. Oh well its just 2 or 3 more months of this. Feel free to send some snow for me.:) Don´t worry about that boy Ma. I´ve done stuff way worse. I don´t remember if I told you, but I gave a hymn book to a blind woman. Don´t worry Ma the play sounds like it´s going the same as usual and it always turns out great. So is this year´s play the super hero one? Make sure to record it for us who aren´t there to watch it. So this week was pretty normal. Oh this week I had the privilege of helping baptize 4 investigators of the sisters in our area. Oh so also, I sent my memory card last week. When you get it please copy all of the pics to your computer so I have backups just in case something happens to it. Feel free to add some pics of home too:) So this month our Mission has the goal of baptizing 200 people. Oh so this week we taught a woman named Rejina. She looks a lot like Jimmy, the producer of our CD which I thought was hilarious. But anyway she is really Catholic and the first time we taught her she wasn´t very open, this last time we taught her was awesome. We taught her the Restoration and before she started recognizing and complaining about all the faults in the Catholic church. Then when we taught her about Joseph Smith the Spirit was extremely strong. There´s a really good chance she´ll progress, but really it all depends on her and if she prays to know if it´s true or not. Anyway so that was cool this week. Oh so happy Thanksgiving! I ate potatos rice and chicken for thanksgiving. It was good but it´s not the same. So we have an investigator who likes art and drawing and I was wondering if you could take pictures of the paintings I did for the CD and the Bear and wolf pastel drawings I did to show him. You don´t have to send them through letters. go ahead and just email them to me. Anyway that´s all for this week. Have a great week! Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger

November 28, 2011

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Oí familia!
Yes it is very hot. Yesterday it was about 95 degrees with humidity...ugh. Just have to imagine I´m walking in a winter wonderland or something. Oh well its just 2 or 3 more months of this. Feel free to send some snow for me.:) Don´t worry about that boy Ma. I´ve done stuff way worse. I don´t remember if I told you, but I gave a hymn book to a blind woman. Don´t worry Ma the play sounds like it´s going the same as usual and it always turns out great. So is this year´s play the super hero one? Make sure to record it for us who aren´t there to watch it. So this week was pretty normal. Oh this week I had the privilege of helping baptize 4 investigators of the sisters in our area. Oh so also, I sent my memory card last week. When you get it please copy all of the pics to your computer so I have backups just in case something happens to it. Feel free to add some pics of home too:) So this month our Mission has the goal of baptizing 200 people. Oh so this week we taught a woman named Rejina. She looks a lot like Jimmy, the producer of our CD which I thought was hilarious. But anyway she is really Catholic and the first time we taught her she wasn´t very open, this last time we taught her was awesome. We taught her the Restoration and before she started recognizing and complaining about all the faults in the Catholic church. Then when we taught her about Joseph Smith the Spirit was extremely strong. There´s a really good chance she´ll progress, but really it all depends on her and if she prays to know if it´s true or not. Anyway so that was cool this week. Oh so happy Thanksgiving! I ate potatos rice and chicken for thanksgiving. It was good but it´s not the same. So we have an investigator who likes art and drawing and I was wondering if you could take pictures of the paintings I did for the CD and the Bear and wolf pastel drawings I did to show him. You don´t have to send them through letters. go ahead and just email them to me. Anyway that´s all for this week. Have a great week! Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger

Monday, November 21, 2011

November 21, 2011

Oí Família,
I´d have to agree. Time is going by really fast. I´ve seen Jaren only in photos, and probably won´t meet him in person for at least 3 months. The weather here is getting worse. I feel like I´m living in an oven sometimes. Fortunately it rained yesterday and ever since it´s been way cooler. We had another Mission-wide baptism this week. We baptized a kid named Pedro Lucas. The funny thing is he´d been going to church for a long time now and before we taught him the Word of Wisdom he had already quit drinking Cafe and tea. He´s really cooland I was able to baptize him so that was cool. Oh so I sent my memory card today finally. Don´t worry about the package. Send it whenever you can. It doesn´t matter to me. So I feel your pain with the dogs. Uruguaiana has more dogs than I´ve ever seen in my life. There are a ton! Oh speaking of dogs, how´s Fonzie doing? Not getting fat I hope. haha This week we met a women who is pretty much like Job. She was born with a paralyzed arm then later some kid shot her eye out with a sling-shot, then later a truck pretty much destroyed her leg and to top it all off her only daughter poisoned her, put her in the luny bin and sold all her stuff including her house. Oh and all her family is dead except for one cousin. So yeah I don´t think I´ll ever complain about any trial again.:) Oh so is it true that Krystal is preganant again? That´s cool. Maybe I´ll be able to see this baby:) Anyway thanks for the email. Oh and remember about the testimonies I asked for please. Have a great week. Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger

Monday, November 14, 2011

November 14,2011

Oí Família,
So this week was a lot better. I think me and my companion are becoming a lot closer. He really is a great guy but like all of us he has some quirks. I felt really bad about what happened, but don´t worry I´m not too beat up about it. And it really is true. Fortunately I can because of the Savior I can become better and leave all my mistakes behind. The great thing too is when I tried to make things better I felt a ton better. Just goes to show that true repentance really does releave the guilt. Anyway so this week was a ton better. We worked a lot more in union and we had another baptism!! Her name is Lizangela and honestly she has the storngest testimony I´ve seen in a recent convert. Her story is also pretty funny. When Elder F. Silva and his companion first began teaching her one thing sha said was she was the kind of person that needs to see to believe. One day she said she needed to get an answer about the book of mormon and so she said shéd open the book of mormon to a random spot and that verse would be her answer. Guess which scripture she found. Alma 32 the verse that explains what faith is. That its a hope for things not seen that are true. I forgot the exact verse, but I´m sure you know it. So anyway that was funny and ever since then she´s had a strong desire to get baptized and follow the Lord. She really is one of those people that had their heart preprared by angels. One of the elect. So anyway her baptism was an awesome experience its just her husband that has to follow her example now. So also to add to my list of strange foods I ate chicken hearts too. Hmm...delicious...haha That´s great that Shantewa finally got her Patriarical blessing. Almost took her 2 years to get it.haha Don´t worry about the play Mother, it always is late but also is always great.:) I just hope you all continue until I come home. Oh so I was wondering if Father could send the names of the line of authority of the Priesthood. It´s always good show that line when we teach about the Restoration and the Priesthood. Oh and also I want a present from ALL my brothers and sisters and parents for Christmas. Don´t worry the gift I want is really simple and easy to send. All I want is your testimonies. They don´t have to be really long just tell me what you know about the gospel and principles pertaining to it and how you found it to be true. It something I really want and its not hard to do so if all could please do it that would be nice. Mother if you could talk to Krystal and Mikey for me that would be awesome. Anyway that´s what I want for Christmas this year so it would be awesome if you could do this for me. Well that´s about all I have to say this week. Have a great week guys! I love you!
Elder Jostead the Younger

P.S. ´´I´m dreaming of a White Christmas. Just like the one´s I used to know...``

Monday, November 7, 2011

November 7, 2011

Oí,
I´ll be honest my week was pretty crappy. Not work wise, just the fact that I caught a flu or something. I´m doing better now but with the sickness and this flippin´ heat I was having a hard time. It´s funny Jared said something like I don´t know what heat is, but it´s a little known fact that down here we actually get a lot of heat, This week was 40 degrees celcius and I heard in Dezember and January it will get up to 48 degrees celsius. I honestly don´t know what that is converted into Fernheit, all I know is its hot. That´s the thing here. In the winter it gets really cold, or at least cold for Brasil and in the Summer it gets extremely hot. The Brasilians from the north or the so called ´´Hot States`´ complain about the heat here. I don´t know if it´s hotter where jared is at or no, all I know is that it is really, really, really hot here. So anyway I felt destroyed this week and my patience wore thin and yesterday I yelled at my
companion. I felt like a jerk afterwards and to make it worse after I returned because after our fight I got up and left, he was crying. Not just crying bawling, for almost 10 minutes. Honestly I felt terrible. I apoligized and I think we´re ok now. All I know is that I´ll never yell at anyone like that again. So anyway after that experience I hope my companion can trust me again. It´s so hard to stay calm sometimes especially when it feels like everything is against you, but as a rerpresentative of Jesus Christ I need to have more patience and love for everyone. So anyway this week on a personal level was pretty bad, but the work is going forth really well. We´ll have a batism this week and we´re planning on having two more in the following week. Sounds like everyone is having fun at home. I hope the trunk or treat was good. I ate a candy bar to celebrate. I was actually thinking about the scouting for fod the other day. I remember how much I hated running around, but now I think I´d enjoy it. Maybe when I come back I´ll help out with it. Happy Birthday again Father! 49 years? That´s sad I´ll miss your 50th B-day next year. So the play was good just a little off color? So Brasil does have Daylight savings time. We already changed, but it was the opposite. We lost an hour. It wasn´t fun. That´s cool that the temple got remodeled. That´ll be cool to see. Anyway that´s all from me this week. Hope you have a great week. Work hard and stay happy!
Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger