I'm Thankful For...

We sort of forgot about what day exactly thanksgiving was. I think it was this last Thursday right?
This thanksgiving I'm thankful for:
Three Acai shops in our street, and a pizzaria, and a $4 buffet!
Rain
Our first Baptism as a companionship! (first from start to finish)

You ate Turkey, we ate the usual rice and beans! I'm pretty sure I ate chicken on thursday too, so that counts. We ate at the Self-service restaurant that we now always go to when lunch falls through, it's very very tastey there.

This week we baptized Dalva, the first person Elder Ashby has baptized that we found with our own work. FINALLY!
We've been together almost 2 months, working our tails off, I hope that we start to have much more success, we are working with some great people.
I hope to start working a lot more with the ward, we're calling a meeting with some leaders to start rescuing some less actives.

The baptism was great, we had invited a lot of members, and the leadership in the ward really stepped up, attending. Dalva was pretty nervous but she has been nothing but joyful after the baptism. It started pouring rain during the baptism, and her family and friends were trapped in the church, we took advantage of that and gave them a tour. We then got soaked tracking down a few more people to remind them about church, ending the night with a pizza and guarana (a soda that everybody loves here).

Last night we lost the keys... It's kind of a problem to get into the houses here without keys, what with the huge wall in front. I went around back to our neighbors house and applied what I learned in Helaman 13:4, scaled the wall and climbed down the clothesline. That was fun.

Man I had a fantastic study this morning! In alma 40 until 42 when Alma is giving counsel to his son Coriantum.
Especially Ch 42 I understood a lot better about Repentance and Mercy. Verses 27-28 sum up what I learned.

God created a plan that is perfect. The conditions we have in this life allow us to choose where we will go in the next life.
Repentance isn't just to fix what we did wrong. It's a change. It's a process. For us to become like God we have a lot of change to do, so thank goodness for Repentance.

All we have are these few years, but we're learning SO much! we will be forever grateful to God for Repentance, and it's only possible through the atonement.

Love you all tons,
Commence the Christmas Hymns!!!

Elder Wallace