Happy birthday to the best mom I ever had.
Thanks for always emailing me, you are my number one supporter and thanks for all you do. I know you are busy with work and the family and the house and your calling and all, but I look forward to reading your email every week.
I have tons of memories of all the things you've done for me, and I know there are many more that I don't remember. The thing I want to thank you the most for though, is for who I am today, and who I am becoming, because it's totally because of you!
When people compliment me for my manners, or washing the dishes, playing the piano, doing the right things, I can always tell them, "It's because of my mom!" haha. I remember that washing the dishes was one of the few things I argued about with you. Now I'm always washing my dishes and wondering "why in the world the rest of you don't wash your own dishes!!!" haha.
I hope that some day I can have a family that's as awesome as the one you and dad have raised.
Thanks for helping be who I am, and preparing me and teaching me what I need to know to become who I want to be!
Love you more than anything!
Elder Wallace
Oh, haha, can I ask a few favors?
Accept the people that sent friend requests with brazilian names (cristiane, dalva, keila) etc on my facebook please.
Check my privacy settings too.
and Can you let me know how much money I have on my card?
Monday, February 10, 2014
O Fim Se Aproxima
Today will be brief, haha
Happy birthday mom!
Happy birthday Spencer!!!
You guys rock!
So this week I got to watch the lidership council. I feel pretty bad for Elder de Jesus, He's taking care of two areas, and being zone leader alone. He's stuck in trio until the missionary from argentina gets here and I go to Rio Verde to help him out.
I'm super excited two work with him, but I'm also super excited working here!!! FINALLY we're getting things going here, everybody's baptizing this month and we've got two more baptismal dates for the 22nd! Member Referrals!! and our last baptism this saturday was a member Referral also!!!
We baptized Jhonny and Luciana, they are golden. When Jhonny was baptized he gave me a hug, we walked to the bathroom and he said "Now... I'm Mormon!!!" hahaha.
Other crazy things that happened. We got the wrong bus getting back from Goiania and we decided to sleep in my house since it was closer. We were super tired and carrying all the packages for the other missionaries in the zone. I didn't have a key, so we visited our neighbor, borrowed his ladder and climbed the wall of our house to break in for the 2nd time this year!
What else... oh, on the bus back from goiania I started talking to the lady in the seat next to me, turned out she wasn't interested. But while I was talking to her I noticed the people around us were listening, so I distributed pamphlets for all of them to read during our 6 hour bus ride. I thought it was cool that even though my neighbor wasn't interested, my talking to her got my message out to more people.
I love some verses I read in Romans this week. Chapter 8
Thanks for all your love and prayers!
Love you,
Elder Wallace
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, whocan be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Here are fotos of our baptism this week Luciana luzia de almeida, and Jhonny otavio silva da costa.
We finished up the service project at odete's house (me, carlos franca, joao gomes, luiz, Bispo Roque, Fabio, Odete, e delaide)
I ate squash at Joao Gomes and Neidimar's house.
Love,
Elder Wallace
Happy birthday mom!
Happy birthday Spencer!!!
You guys rock!
So this week I got to watch the lidership council. I feel pretty bad for Elder de Jesus, He's taking care of two areas, and being zone leader alone. He's stuck in trio until the missionary from argentina gets here and I go to Rio Verde to help him out.
I'm super excited two work with him, but I'm also super excited working here!!! FINALLY we're getting things going here, everybody's baptizing this month and we've got two more baptismal dates for the 22nd! Member Referrals!! and our last baptism this saturday was a member Referral also!!!
We baptized Jhonny and Luciana, they are golden. When Jhonny was baptized he gave me a hug, we walked to the bathroom and he said "Now... I'm Mormon!!!" hahaha.
Other crazy things that happened. We got the wrong bus getting back from Goiania and we decided to sleep in my house since it was closer. We were super tired and carrying all the packages for the other missionaries in the zone. I didn't have a key, so we visited our neighbor, borrowed his ladder and climbed the wall of our house to break in for the 2nd time this year!
What else... oh, on the bus back from goiania I started talking to the lady in the seat next to me, turned out she wasn't interested. But while I was talking to her I noticed the people around us were listening, so I distributed pamphlets for all of them to read during our 6 hour bus ride. I thought it was cool that even though my neighbor wasn't interested, my talking to her got my message out to more people.
I love some verses I read in Romans this week. Chapter 8
Thanks for all your love and prayers!
Love you,
Elder Wallace
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, whocan be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Here are fotos of our baptism this week Luciana luzia de almeida, and Jhonny otavio silva da costa.
We finished up the service project at odete's house (me, carlos franca, joao gomes, luiz, Bispo Roque, Fabio, Odete, e delaide)
I ate squash at Joao Gomes and Neidimar's house.
Love,
Elder Wallace
One Wild Week!
So as stated in the subject, this week was pretty wild.
After spending a week in Goiânia I was desperate to get back to my area! At transfer meeting I met up with elder Lee, my new companion (for 4 weeks). President told me before hand what will happen with me (which was really strange because that never happens). Elder Lee and I will both be district leaders for 4 weeks until an Elder from Argentina gets here, then I'll Be off to RIO VERDE!!!! (green river haha) to be Zone leader with Elder de Jesus.
You can imagine that I'm super pumped to be Elder Jesus's companion!
(knock the door, who's there? "elder De Jesus!!!")
Anyway I got back here and luckily everything worked out for Wilson's baptism. Good thing too, because I had called pretty much every member of the ward to make it go smoothly!
We've got two more baptismal dates for this Saturday, Jhonny and Luciana. Luciana is investigating and was introduced to us by a member!!! It's one of the first times I've had someone to teach who already is looking to be baptized!!! They're awesome and are looking for a house to buy in the Salt Lake Valley... I though... wait... non members determined to move to salt lake?!?!? We haven't even taught about the gathering of israel.. It'll be great to keep them active!
We've got two more possibilities for February 15th that are friends of members too. Working with the members is soo much better than doing it myself. It's like working with a mule and plow instead of working with a hoe. It's a bit tough to get the mule going, but it's a lot better than doing it by hand.
The members here are fantastic! There are always those certain families I can always count on, and I'm going to miss them a lot.
We had a few miracles in the district, two baptisms that weren't marked until friday and saturday, were baptized saturday and sunday!!! The new elders that were transfered into our district are doing fantastic.
The baptism on saturday I walked a few miles to another part of the city to do the interview. It was a great experience. Later that night I got a call from the Luizote Elders who were trying to fill the font (which doesn't need a plug because of the automatic pump) but the pump was broken so the water was draining when they tried to fill it. We went to help them and one hour later we managed to plug it up with a rubber glove, garbage bag and a metal plate we found in the closet (see picture).
The baptism on sunday the other Elder's had lost cell signal, so I didn't have the address to the kid's house. I had been trying to call them for hours and I was starting to get pretty worried about them and the person that would be baptized. I called a member, who talked to the stake president, who gave me the bishop's number, who gave me the address. An hour and a half bus ride later, I was in front of his house. Elder Lee did the interview and he was baptized sunday morning!!! It was an act of faith because I didn't even know for sure if the dad was waiting for us there or not, and it all worked out.
Saturday morning we had a service project with the ward, taking a bunch of clay shingles from out back in her house. It was awesome, everyone bore there testimony on sunday about it.
Looks like Hawaii was pretty awesome! Thanks for all the emails (mom dad, grandma and grandpa!) haha. the pics of the wales were awesome! If I lived on that island I would dress like a leper and walk around with bells on.
Love you all tons, miracles are real, we see them every day here.
Elder Wallace
The border of our area,
Star fruit
Bishop roque, Joao gomes, elder lee, and marcelo at the service project
We filled up three of these garbage bins
Baptism on saturday, Jessica (18 years old)
After spending a week in Goiânia I was desperate to get back to my area! At transfer meeting I met up with elder Lee, my new companion (for 4 weeks). President told me before hand what will happen with me (which was really strange because that never happens). Elder Lee and I will both be district leaders for 4 weeks until an Elder from Argentina gets here, then I'll Be off to RIO VERDE!!!! (green river haha) to be Zone leader with Elder de Jesus.
You can imagine that I'm super pumped to be Elder Jesus's companion!
(knock the door, who's there? "elder De Jesus!!!")
Anyway I got back here and luckily everything worked out for Wilson's baptism. Good thing too, because I had called pretty much every member of the ward to make it go smoothly!
We've got two more baptismal dates for this Saturday, Jhonny and Luciana. Luciana is investigating and was introduced to us by a member!!! It's one of the first times I've had someone to teach who already is looking to be baptized!!! They're awesome and are looking for a house to buy in the Salt Lake Valley... I though... wait... non members determined to move to salt lake?!?!? We haven't even taught about the gathering of israel.. It'll be great to keep them active!
We've got two more possibilities for February 15th that are friends of members too. Working with the members is soo much better than doing it myself. It's like working with a mule and plow instead of working with a hoe. It's a bit tough to get the mule going, but it's a lot better than doing it by hand.
The members here are fantastic! There are always those certain families I can always count on, and I'm going to miss them a lot.
We had a few miracles in the district, two baptisms that weren't marked until friday and saturday, were baptized saturday and sunday!!! The new elders that were transfered into our district are doing fantastic.
The baptism on saturday I walked a few miles to another part of the city to do the interview. It was a great experience. Later that night I got a call from the Luizote Elders who were trying to fill the font (which doesn't need a plug because of the automatic pump) but the pump was broken so the water was draining when they tried to fill it. We went to help them and one hour later we managed to plug it up with a rubber glove, garbage bag and a metal plate we found in the closet (see picture).
The baptism on sunday the other Elder's had lost cell signal, so I didn't have the address to the kid's house. I had been trying to call them for hours and I was starting to get pretty worried about them and the person that would be baptized. I called a member, who talked to the stake president, who gave me the bishop's number, who gave me the address. An hour and a half bus ride later, I was in front of his house. Elder Lee did the interview and he was baptized sunday morning!!! It was an act of faith because I didn't even know for sure if the dad was waiting for us there or not, and it all worked out.
Saturday morning we had a service project with the ward, taking a bunch of clay shingles from out back in her house. It was awesome, everyone bore there testimony on sunday about it.
Looks like Hawaii was pretty awesome! Thanks for all the emails (mom dad, grandma and grandpa!) haha. the pics of the wales were awesome! If I lived on that island I would dress like a leper and walk around with bells on.
Love you all tons, miracles are real, we see them every day here.
Elder Wallace
The border of our area,
Star fruit
Bishop roque, Joao gomes, elder lee, and marcelo at the service project
We filled up three of these garbage bins
Baptism on saturday, Jessica (18 years old)
Crazy Transfer!
Alrighty. So a few weird things happened with this transfer. Looks like there will be a visa waiter getting here a bit late, so Elder Ashby and I were called to goiania a bit early because of the Elders going home and to make sure that everybody has a companion for now.
I was a bit annoyed that we had to leave our area, but looks like wilson was baptized without a problem. I was a bit shocked that the other missionaries that were covering for us didn't go to the baptism to help him out, when I called them they didn't even know if he had been baptized!!! Luckily we have some members here that are just awesome and they baptized him and he was confirmed.
I'm staying with two zone leaders here, one from Chile, the other from Pará, Brasil.
They're a bit annoyed that I haven't finished yet. We're headed to the church to make pancakes.
I'll take pics!
But here are a few fotos of the zoo here in Goiania!
Love you all tons,
Elder Wallace
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I was a bit annoyed that we had to leave our area, but looks like wilson was baptized without a problem. I was a bit shocked that the other missionaries that were covering for us didn't go to the baptism to help him out, when I called them they didn't even know if he had been baptized!!! Luckily we have some members here that are just awesome and they baptized him and he was confirmed.
I'm staying with two zone leaders here, one from Chile, the other from Pará, Brasil.
They're a bit annoyed that I haven't finished yet. We're headed to the church to make pancakes.
I'll take pics!
But here are a few fotos of the zoo here in Goiania!
Love you all tons,
Elder Wallace
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