Tuesday, September 28, 2010
28 September Email
Hey family,
Everything is going great here in the windy city Osório. They have about 70 wind turbines here on the outskirts of the city because we get so much wind here. It's pretty nice. Your suit coat always stays flying in the wind behind you as you walk. My new comp is great. He is from São Paulo. He's been on the mission for only 4 months. He is a pretty good worker and doesn't have fear of talking to people which is good. We get along great. We have a few people with baptismal dates but I don't really know if the dates will hold. Hopefully we can reach our goal of 4 baptisms in the transfer. I know that President would be happy if we did that.
Not much has happened this past week. I'm still waiting on that package. Our apartment has been pretty dull lately without any sound. Hopefully the package will arrive safely and on time. I am still the professor for the youth here. The branch president told me that he would call someone soon to fill my place. We haven't had a ward mission leader, but I pushed the branch president and he finally called one last Sunday. Hopefully we can start getting a little more help from the branch with the missionary work here in Osório. Knocking on doors hasn't helped at all last transfer, so we are going to try some different things this transfer to try and get more references from members and to reach out to the people that would have and interest in our message. This Saturday and Sunday will be world conference. i think we will get to watch both sessions on Sunday at another branch about an hour from here.
How are things at home? Anything new happen? Maybe you guys can start planning the next hunting trip for 2012.
Let me know how everyone is doing. It's been a while since I've heard from Zach and Liz and many of the rest of the siblings. Thanks Savannah, Matt, Erin, Mom, Dad, and Grandma Edie for always writing to me! =D
Hope you all have a great week.
Love you all
My testimony
(In request by Erin)
Joseph Smith Jr. restored the true gospel of Christ here on the earth, all the keys of the holy priesthood were restored to the prophet Joseph Smith, and he sealed his great testimony with his blood like a lamb at the slaughter as he fell from the window of the Carthage jail exclaiming "O Lord, my God". This gospel that Joseph restored is the same gospel that Christ taught in Jerusalem and to the people that lived here in the Americas long ago. Because of this great man and many others the restored gospel is readily available to all who accept to live its teaching and principles. We can feel the truth of the gospel as we read and study the book of Mormon and the early history of the saints as they moved across the plains to find safety and relief from the heavy persecution that raged against them. As we study and apply the gospel principles in our lives we can feel our hearts being changed by the powerful atoning sacrifice of Christ.
-Elder Steele
Everything is going great here in the windy city Osório. They have about 70 wind turbines here on the outskirts of the city because we get so much wind here. It's pretty nice. Your suit coat always stays flying in the wind behind you as you walk. My new comp is great. He is from São Paulo. He's been on the mission for only 4 months. He is a pretty good worker and doesn't have fear of talking to people which is good. We get along great. We have a few people with baptismal dates but I don't really know if the dates will hold. Hopefully we can reach our goal of 4 baptisms in the transfer. I know that President would be happy if we did that.
Not much has happened this past week. I'm still waiting on that package. Our apartment has been pretty dull lately without any sound. Hopefully the package will arrive safely and on time. I am still the professor for the youth here. The branch president told me that he would call someone soon to fill my place. We haven't had a ward mission leader, but I pushed the branch president and he finally called one last Sunday. Hopefully we can start getting a little more help from the branch with the missionary work here in Osório. Knocking on doors hasn't helped at all last transfer, so we are going to try some different things this transfer to try and get more references from members and to reach out to the people that would have and interest in our message. This Saturday and Sunday will be world conference. i think we will get to watch both sessions on Sunday at another branch about an hour from here.
How are things at home? Anything new happen? Maybe you guys can start planning the next hunting trip for 2012.
Let me know how everyone is doing. It's been a while since I've heard from Zach and Liz and many of the rest of the siblings. Thanks Savannah, Matt, Erin, Mom, Dad, and Grandma Edie for always writing to me! =D
Hope you all have a great week.
Love you all
My testimony
(In request by Erin)
Joseph Smith Jr. restored the true gospel of Christ here on the earth, all the keys of the holy priesthood were restored to the prophet Joseph Smith, and he sealed his great testimony with his blood like a lamb at the slaughter as he fell from the window of the Carthage jail exclaiming "O Lord, my God". This gospel that Joseph restored is the same gospel that Christ taught in Jerusalem and to the people that lived here in the Americas long ago. Because of this great man and many others the restored gospel is readily available to all who accept to live its teaching and principles. We can feel the truth of the gospel as we read and study the book of Mormon and the early history of the saints as they moved across the plains to find safety and relief from the heavy persecution that raged against them. As we study and apply the gospel principles in our lives we can feel our hearts being changed by the powerful atoning sacrifice of Christ.
-Elder Steele
20 September Email
Hey everyone,
My comp will be transfered tomorrow. Not much happened this past week. The baptism last Saturday was moved to this Saturday. Hopefully it will go through. I should receive my new comp tomorrow.
Love,
Elder Steele
14 September Email
Hey family,
Everything is going great here. Not much has happened this past week. This week is "Semana Farrupilha". It's like a gaúcho holiday only celebrated here in the south of Brazil. Everyone wears funny pants and a red bandana used like a tie.
we have a baptism planned for this Saturday. It should go alright as long as it's warm out. The lady is afraid of cold water. We'll see what happens.
I will talk to you guys all next week. Sorry that I didn't take much time to email you all this week.
Love,
Elder Steele
P.S. Next week is transfers so I'll be on on monday.
Good luck to everyone that's starting school and such.
Everything is going great here. Not much has happened this past week. This week is "Semana Farrupilha". It's like a gaúcho holiday only celebrated here in the south of Brazil. Everyone wears funny pants and a red bandana used like a tie.
we have a baptism planned for this Saturday. It should go alright as long as it's warm out. The lady is afraid of cold water. We'll see what happens.
I will talk to you guys all next week. Sorry that I didn't take much time to email you all this week.
Love,
Elder Steele
P.S. Next week is transfers so I'll be on on monday.
Good luck to everyone that's starting school and such.
31 August Email
Subject: Osorio
Hey family,
Everything's going great here. Not much has happened in the last week. We've been knocking on a lot of doors but it doesn't seem to be helping much. We cut a bunch of families last week also because they were hiding from us. We had a division last Wednesday and my companion went with a member to a few families that we had started teaching and for one of them the lady peeked out the window and then waved for her husband to turn off the lights - the lights went off and no one answered the door.
If you guys have any ideas on how to find some new people you can let me know.
How are things at home? Where are they going to put the new chapel? In Victor? Are you guys going to be part of the Conesus Lake Branch now? That would be fun to drive to church every week.
I don't have much else to say. The work keeps moving on here. If we're lucky we'll have a baptism toward the end of this transfer, but other than that we don't have many other people that are really progressing like we had in Carazinho. It's going to rain all the rest of this week here too. =]
Hope you are all having a great time with school starting and the sports and hunting. Start the school year strong. Looks like Rose and Rem will have a ton of work with all the IB programs that they are planning on taking. Have fun with that... ; )
Love,
Elder Steele
P.S. - Thanks for getting that package in the mail. Keep 'em coming! If you guys send the next one this same week I could have the opportunity of receiving two packages at the same time. Think about how jealous the other missionaries would be...!
Hey family,
Everything's going great here. Not much has happened in the last week. We've been knocking on a lot of doors but it doesn't seem to be helping much. We cut a bunch of families last week also because they were hiding from us. We had a division last Wednesday and my companion went with a member to a few families that we had started teaching and for one of them the lady peeked out the window and then waved for her husband to turn off the lights - the lights went off and no one answered the door.
If you guys have any ideas on how to find some new people you can let me know.
How are things at home? Where are they going to put the new chapel? In Victor? Are you guys going to be part of the Conesus Lake Branch now? That would be fun to drive to church every week.
I don't have much else to say. The work keeps moving on here. If we're lucky we'll have a baptism toward the end of this transfer, but other than that we don't have many other people that are really progressing like we had in Carazinho. It's going to rain all the rest of this week here too. =]
Hope you are all having a great time with school starting and the sports and hunting. Start the school year strong. Looks like Rose and Rem will have a ton of work with all the IB programs that they are planning on taking. Have fun with that... ; )
Love,
Elder Steele
P.S. - Thanks for getting that package in the mail. Keep 'em coming! If you guys send the next one this same week I could have the opportunity of receiving two packages at the same time. Think about how jealous the other missionaries would be...!
24 August Email
Subject: Osorio
Hey family,
Everything is going great here in Osório. We have been finding a lot of new families to teach this past week and knocking on doors all week seems to have turned out well. We now have a bunch of appointments this week, including Thursday with a devout protestant. Let's see how it will go. This Sunday we had a devout Seventh-Day Adventist show up for the last hour of church also (Sacrament).
It's been getting a lot hotter here lately. I think that the Winter has just about gone away and Summer is coming quickly. I gave a talk on Sunday. Me and my companion both have to give talks every few weeks here it appears, because it's a small branch. My companion teaches the new members class and I teach the youth class the second hour also. We have been thinking of ways to find new families or men to teach (the branch here needs more men to get a chapel built). If you guys have any ideas let me know.
Did Rem and Dad go to Idaho on their hunting trip yet?
Love, Élder Steele
Hey family,
Everything is going great here in Osório. We have been finding a lot of new families to teach this past week and knocking on doors all week seems to have turned out well. We now have a bunch of appointments this week, including Thursday with a devout protestant. Let's see how it will go. This Sunday we had a devout Seventh-Day Adventist show up for the last hour of church also (Sacrament).
It's been getting a lot hotter here lately. I think that the Winter has just about gone away and Summer is coming quickly. I gave a talk on Sunday. Me and my companion both have to give talks every few weeks here it appears, because it's a small branch. My companion teaches the new members class and I teach the youth class the second hour also. We have been thinking of ways to find new families or men to teach (the branch here needs more men to get a chapel built). If you guys have any ideas let me know.
Did Rem and Dad go to Idaho on their hunting trip yet?
Love, Élder Steele
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