Ponta Pora Week 33

Life is good. This week seems like it was a month. We did a service project at an ohpanage with our zone and a few members. It was a huge success and we had an incredible time making obstacle courses for them and just helping them cut loose a little bit. We are working with an awesome couple Mareni and Wagner. Wagner was baptized when he had 12 years old. We are helping them get married right now which is a super lame proccess here but its going to be awesome. When they get married he is going to baptize his wife and they are already super excited to go to the temple. I love them to death. They are one ofthe most active families in the ward right now.

    Good stuff is happening.

    I am happy that everyones hanging in there. Do something super fun for me.

com amor,

Elder Davis Anderson

This is what an Elder in his mission said about the week!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! They are getting excited about the holiday season here in Ponta Porã! Everyone has begun to put up their Christmas decorations, trees, lights, and the weather has even been pretty crazy too! For Brazil it was getting pretty cold, down in the 50´s&60! This week I even broke out the Christmas lights and hung them around our house.

This week we have really been focusing on strengthening and helping out the members keep their testimonies strong in Jesus Christ, not anything else or anybody else at church.This week we organized and did an amazing Service project with the Abandoned Childrens' home here in Ponta Porã. We had so much fun playing fun little games like musical chairs, jump rope, and a home-made obstacle course with all the kids. We even danced a little bit too! The staff couldn't believe that we would do such a thing like this and be so fun and excited! By the time we were done, all the kids were happy, staff amazed, and a bunch of tired missionaries! We are starting to work with a couple of the staff members, so who knows what could happen! That's really what this church is all about, good fun selfless service!

Sunday was so incredible. We decided to wake up real early and go wake up all of our investigators, less actives, recent converts, members, and invite them all to come to church. It turned out to be a success! We had 2 investigator families at church, and almost 20 less active/recent converts at church as well. It was so fun to see the chapel full again! Afterwards we had a quick lunch and rushed back for a couple meetings at the church. As we arrived home, we went to open the door only to realize that our landlord had changed the locks on the front door. I almost got upset, but at that very moment our neighbors that were having a little party called us over. We got to know them and talked a lot about religion and they were especially interested in authority. We invited them to a baptism this saturday so I'm hopeful they'll have a good experience! It was fun how we were blessed in disguise.