Endure

Hello! Sometimes I wonder just how many people actually read my letters. With the state my English is in, they probably need a lot of patience with me. I'm kind of worried how it's going to be when I return home and start using English again, because the only English I use here is with a heavy Portuguese accent and grammar. In fact, it's actually pretty funny when I try teaching a Brazilian some English when I don't even remember straight for myself.

Anyway, this week was interesting. On Friday we had a division with the district leader.  The area they cover is the other half of the city of Montonegro.  It is completely different from our area. When I was there with his companion, almost everyone we talked to accepted us, and we ended up teaching about as many lessons in one day than I'd normally teach in one week in our area. Our district leader was equally surprised by the fact that it was so difficult to find investigators in our area. In the end we both learned from the experience and we move forward. As for the rest of the time, Elder Dickson and I are "putting our shoulders to the wheel." We found a few good families, and had some great experiences. With one family, we had shared our first message together with a Book of Mormon to read. On our return, she said that she had forgotten to read and pray that night and she had nightmares the whole night where the devil was slowly dragging her and her family into the fire. She felt horrible and couldn't sleep straight. But, she decided to read a little of the Book of Mormon, and she said that the moment she began to read, that horrible feeling disappeared and her dreams were peaceful and sweet. Once more, my testimony of the Book of Mormon has been strengthened, for through no other power could she be so readily delivered from that power unless it be the power of God.

There were a lot of other great families that began to show progress, but by the time Sunday arrived, they all "gave up" and returned to their regular life. I'm truly thankful for my family and all the efforts they made to take my stubborn self to church each Sunday, because now I know how important it was in my life, and I can see how difficult it was, and is, for even the best of people to make this simple but so important decision to go to church.   An act. so simple, that God used to change the lives of even the mightiest.

Well, I hope there's more to say next week, for my time is up. Four weeks until I see everyone once more, so there's a lot of work to do before that happens. Until next time!

Elder Angus

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acabando (ah-kah-bahn-doo) Ending. Like my time is ending, and so is my mission. I better get as much done as possible before it's too late.