Dividing Time

Where do most of the missionaries from there go on their mission?

Most serve missions in Brazil, but here are a few that go foreign.

Are you in a very big ward?More or less. here are 600 members, but only 150 are active. :/ But that will change.

Do they have more then one ward in the city of Porto Alegre?Yes. I don't know about the south, but the northern part has about five or more. Porto Alegre is really big, like Denver.

note: sorry for spelling errors. the keyboard here is broken :(

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Our area is strangely divided. Basically, it looks like a pair of sunglasses, because there are two huge land-masses connected by a very thin straight. So, this week we've been splitting our time up between the two of them. In the last few weeks, we passed most of our time on the land closest to us. After a lot of work with little success, we finally decided to pass some time on the unknown side. Fortunately, we saw very great rewards.

Among the people we found, there were some very special ones. Some expressed they had been waiting for some time, others that they had never thought about it but felt they'd been needing this for quite some time. One of them, however, was truly special. When passing by a house of a return missionary (returned four weeks ago) he gave us a name and address of his godfather, and then simply stated, "It's time." So, feeling ready to go, we passed by the house. The man at the door greeted us and invited us in, beginning a very long conversation about his life and the happiness he searched for. He said that he has traveled about the world several times, looking for something to change him, or fill the emptiness inside. But, every time he returns home, he realizes that nothing has changed.

So, when he paused in thought, we were moved by the spirit and declared to him, "John, the hole in your life is something that can only be filled through the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Such a gospel that we carry, and we testify that our message will not only make you change, it will make you complete." After that, we began to teach, reading scriptures and testifying without end, and left that powerful lesson with a baptismal commitment, a few references, and a really powerful peace. This man has a lot of potential, and all he needed was someone to send us his way.

The scriptures always remind us that as long as our brothers and sisters are outside of the church, they will always be missing something, whether they've recognized it or not. Whatever the case, we have been greatly blessed and therefore have the great responsibility to invite others to receive the same.

Thanks for everything, and until Next time.

Elder Angus

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tempo (tehm-poo) Meaning both time and weather, being also the two elements we cannot control... yet. ;P