Amar de Brasil!

Opa família, amigos, e missionários tudo bem! Isso bom aqui em Brasil! Nos temos muitos coisas vamos em aqui! Nos somos batizar uma família este semana! Eles são muito animado por batismo e nos temos 5 novos pesquisadores! Como vocês está? Eu espero tudo mundo ser bem! Eu também espero vocês podem ler que Eu escrivo. Prova mente sol Élder Warner e Sister Miller e meu avô e tudo um quem estudar Latin em escola. 

Anyway! Things have been great here. As I said just before we have a baptism this week for a family that we have been trying to be baptizing for three weeks but our Bishop and Stake President have been playing goally the whole time. Luckily Presidente Dias will be there to make sure the Baptism actually goes through this time so it´s a for sure thing now!

We got new investigators this week as I said we have five new investigators. 2 of them who said to come back and visit them didn´t want us to come back and visit them though. (I don´t know who the heck said Brazil was an easy mission? It´s really hard here). Well the other 3 we had we were able to visit. It´s kind of funny. They all have the same name at the start of their names. (By the way people here have like five to seven names here in Brazil, and that´s normal). We taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and asked them if they wanted to be baptized. They all said yes to baptism but not right now. I remember Elder Goodwin and I laughing about that then saying we weren´t going to do it right away but that we would teach them more. They all then let out a huge sigh of relief. I´m really going to be praying that we can teach them and be able to bring them back to Christ.

This week a certain holiday starts up in Brazil. Oh this is going to make teaching here really hard. Carnaval starts this week. It´s not that big in our area but it is in João Pessoa city and everyone goes there so there is no one to teach here in our area. We don´t know what we are going to do during the huge week but it is going to be really hard to teach people the next couple of weeks.

Well that´s about all for the highlights that I will share at this time. Just like my brother always said the sound of ´´Firecrackers`` is real here. Well that´s my letter for today! I hope everyone is doing ok. Those on missions keep working the work of the Lord. Let the Spirit guide you in all you do! This is your Elder from Brazil saying Tchau for the week!

Elder Jacklin

Also more pics from the week!

 

 

Opa tudo mundo! Como vocês está!

Opa tudo mundo! Eu sou muito animado para falar com vocês de novo! Este semana foi muito legal! Eu amo é a qui muito! É muito quente a qui, e esta chovendo muito! I´m getting really good at this. My first half of my training is over and I have my next 6 weeks to look forward to! It´s been a great first transfer here in Bayeux with 4 baptisms! It would have been 7 if the Bishop didn´t reschedule the Baptism without telling me or Elder Goodwin.

It´s been a great week for our mission though. Our goal for this week was to baptize 65 people and our actual count was 81! We are doing great here. We are getting so many converts. We have Zone Conference tomorrow. We´re probably going to talk about this with everyone. The zone we are doing this with has Elder Geisler in it! It will be awesome to see him again!

The start of our week was pretty hard. We didn´t get as much work as we wanted to done this week. We had a lot of uexpected things happen to us this week. To start off on Tuesday, we had our meeting with our Zone which normally takes all morning to do. Then we had the President come and have an interview with me at our house. That was really good and I got a lot of help with that. But we did about only 4 hours of work that day. The next day the Senior Couple or Vice Mission Presidency came to our house to do something with my bed and we had to reorganize our entire room because of it. We didn´t even leave until about 5 that night. It started picking up the next few days though. On Friday we had splits with the Elders in Santa Rita. I had to go with the LD´s companion back to Santa Rita while Elder Goodwin stayed with the LD to do Baptismal interviews.

Santa Rita is insane! It has this giant hill. And for those who ran cross-country and know what Grinder is. This hill is like the Great-Great-Great Grandfather of Grinder. Grinder is a walk in the park compared to this thing! I mean it was huge. It took us a half hour to just walk up this thing. At missionary speed, (which for those who don´t know that is a really fast pace). But it was amazing! I wish I had my camera with me to take pictures. It was a great experience. The people there could actually understand me.

Saturday we had a baptism our fourth in this area. We were supposed to have a family baptized but on Saturday but the Bishop rescheduled it to Sunday but the Family couldn´t do Sunday so we resceduled it for next week. But the person we baptized today was so excited to be baptized. He was so excited that I had to hold him back from going into the font first before the Baptizer did. It was a great experience. Then to finish of the week I had to give a talk in Church. It went really well. I talked about how to become a good missionary and I said that 3 key points that are super important are Patience, Diligence, and Obedience. Is it possible to change your scripture on your plack. Because I found an amazing scripture in Alma that I really like. When you get the chance look at it. It´s Alma 1:25. I love this scripture a lot and I feel like it can help a lot of people who read it.

Well that´s all for today. Eu amo tudo mundo! Tchau!

De sua missionário em João Pessoa Brasil

Elder Jacklin

Some Pics as well

Amor de Brasil! (Love from Brazil, but in a friend way!)

Opa meu família, amigos, um e tudo. Decupe por este carta sendo pequeno. Mas e muito tarde por-me aqui em Brasil. I will send a longer one next week. Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. Things have been very busy here and we had P-Day de Zona hoje. That is the reason my letter is going to be small. 

This week was crazy busy. We had a lot of stuff happen. To start off we have an area in our zone that doesn´t have any missionaries in it and we are right next to it so we have to do the work there. I don´t know why the president took the missionaries out of that area, probably because we don´t have enough missionaries to cover all of our areas. So most of the week we have been going to that area. To start off we have three references for baptism there. And we just got another one from Salt Lake. We were having lunch when we got a call from a sister who worked in Temple Square in Salt Lake giving us a reference in that area. So we went and taught him and are going to baptize him in 2 weeks.

This next week is going to be fantastic. We have been having great success with our investigators so far. We have 7 baptisms this coming Saturday! 7! One is for a family we have been teaching for about a week and we are going to baptize all 3 of them this Saturday. Then we got 2 references from the bishop in the other area about a week ago that we are going to be doing as well. Then we also have 2 more as well that we just got from the bishop again from that area a couple days ago. So we have a lot of baptisms this week. We have one set for the following week and we might have two more as well if we can get some of our investigators to come to church.

I am sorry that this letter wasn´t that long and I have so much more to say but I don´t have anytime left. I hope that my friends who are on missions are having great success. I hope those at home are doing great in all of their doings as well. I hope you are all doing well and are happy in what you are doing in your life.

De novo por este carta sendo muito pequeno. Mas eu tenho que ir! Eu amo tudo. Tchau!

Elder Jacklin

Bom Tarde! Como vocês está!

Opa tudo mundo! Meu Família, Amigos, um e todos! Este semana foi muito bom por meu! Obrigado para todos de sua cartas e emails! Eu seu muito feliz para receber seus.

To answer anyone´s questions, sim! Meu português é muito bom! I hope that all of my friends that are on missions are having a great time learning their languages! Things have been going great for me here. I had my third convert this week. (Third baptism), it´s so amazing that I get to see so many people come unto Christ! We get to teach so many people here. Many turn us down. But it feels so great to baptize so many wonderful people.

To start the week off. It was New Years. I got to email my family and friends again. I am finally able to send pictures now. But I don´t know why people say that holidays are great on the mission. I mean they´re great, when they don´t fall on your P-Day. If they do they become a total nightmare for your plans that day because, nothing is open. All the Lawn Houses are closed so you can´t email until the Patriarch comes and opens the Family History Center for you. And then he sits there and talks to you so it gets really hard to email. We also had a lot of really weird experiences with drunk people this week. They would always walk up to us in the middle of the street and be like, ´´Oh, don´t worry about all the bad things the people of your church teach you. I will protect you.`` You know just really weird stuff.

This week was good but very stressed. We have a lot of investigators, we have so many that it get´s really hard to teach sometimes. Our area is also a very large area and we have to walk a lot. But when we meet those people that we teach, we always seem to touch their lives. Most of the people that accept us really like what we teach. We have this one investigator, who lives with a family in the ward that we visit a lot. She just recently opened to us. And she said that anytime we came. She says what we teach is very complicated but she says that some how when we teach it, she can feel and know what it is we are saying. She just recently started praying and is starting to feel the spirit touch her. She is wanting to be baptized this next Saturday and we already have another one planned for that day as well. I love being able to bring so many people unto Christ. It is such an amazing feeling. One that I don´t think I´ll ever experience outside the mission. And when I do it by another language, that feeling is strengthened. I can testify that what we teach is true and I believe that the way we teach it really matters to those that we teach.

I would like to take this opportunity to share my testimony with you all. First time in Portuguese and Second in English. I hope that what I write can really help you, whether you´re on a mission or back at home.

Eu se que este igreja é verdadeira. Eu se que Deus falar-nos ser profetas. Eu se que famílias ser eternidade. Eu se que de nos ensinamos com Espirito de Verdade, nos podemos trazer muitos pessoas a Cristo. Eu se estas coisas ser verdade, e eu falou estas coisas em nome de Jesus Cristo, Amém.

I know that this church is true. I know that God speaks to us through prophets. I know that families are eternal. I know that if we teach with True Spirit, we can bring many people to Christ. I know these things are true, and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Eu amo tudo te vocês! Estas Pessoas em o missão, qualquer trabelhando forte! Estas para casa, ter um tempo de bom! I love all of you! Those people on the mission, keep working hard! Those at home, have a good time there!

O missionário em Brasil!

Elder Jacklin

P.S. I have to give a talk in church so if you all want to congratulate me or tease me about it you can. 10 minutes, in Portuguese, on how you can do missionary work in your everyday life. Tchau!

Feliz Ano Novo!!!

Opa Família! Como esta! Estou bem aqui! É muito bom aqui e eu amo é aqui! Eu penso eu devo escrivar este mensagem em Português hoje. Não, I´m just kidding. Hello everyone. It was nice to hear how good your New Years has been. It´s way different down here. It feels kind of weird, but holidays aren´t really an excitement for us down here, (except Natal e Dia de Mais). Everyday down here feels like a holiday to us. We had a lot of Ups and Downs this week. Allow me to narrate the week for you!

On Monday it was nice to see you guys again. It felt weird being on the other side of the screen this time. Did you paint the walls again? I swear I helped you paint those like 4 times before I left? Just kidding.

The rest of the week was pretty interesting. We had a meeting with our bishop on Tuesday. He likes what we are doing and he wants us to keep up the good work. He also told us that we need to stay out of the North-Eastern part our area because apparently it´s a bad place for Missionaries from the US to go. The other areas here are really nice though. We have a lot of people here that treat us really nice, even when they aren´t members.

We had another baptism this week. Her name is B. In the picture I send she doesn´t look very happy but she was. We baptized her on Saturday and were going to confirm her a member on Sunday. But Brazillians have a weird habit of not getting ready on time for things. We came by her house an hour and a half before church telling her that we need her to be prepared to leave the next time we come around. When we came around to her after picking up another investigator, his name is R I´ll talk about him in a second, she was barely starting to make Breakfast. So we had to wait for her to eat and to get ready. We were 45 minutes late for when we were supposed to get there. So we have to wait until next week to Confirm her. She is willing to wait and we are still excited for her.

R is an investigator we started teaching on our first day here. He has been taught all the lessons and wants to be baptized. So this coming Saturday we are going to Baptize him. We were supposed to do it last Saturday but then something came up in his family so we had to reschedule for this week. We are very excited for him.

P is making great progress. We are meeting with the Bishop tomorrow with him to talk about him receiving the Aaronic Priesthood this coming Sunday. Elder Goodwin and I are excited for him. Last night I was talking with him about the Priesthood (in Portuguese) I was telling him about all the Blessings it will bring him and his family with it in his home. He wants to serve a mission when he´s older. I asked him where he wanted to serve. He told me he wants to serve in Washington D.C. and convert Donald Trump. As soon as I heard Trump we both just burst out laughing. Then Elder Goodwin came rushing out the door telling me we had to leave because it was 22:30 and we needed to be getting home. By the way we were at a members house for this. His name is F and he´s the other person in the Picture that I will send of B´s Baptism.

Oh yeah a quick side note. My camera broke. I don´t really know how. Also just a personal thing to my mom. I got the charger, but the chord that goes with it wasn´t in my bag or in my Suit Cases.

Well that´s about all for the week. This morning we got up around 7 because it´s just like Monday, it´s another holiday here and we don´t have anything planned. Everything is closed to so we can´t buy any food or any other things that we need. Sometimes I wish that if a Holiday was on P-Day, then we could move P-Day to another day and just have a normal work day. Because we can´t seem to find anything that´s open today. I´ll send the pictures in a few minutes so if you freak out about why they aren´t here yet just give me a few minutes. I have a lot and will probably be sending them in a couple of emails.

Elder Jacklin

 

Elder Stratton & Elder Jacklin

Joao Pessoa Elders

 

Sao Paulo

The district

Elder Goodwin and Elder Jacklin's Christmas Display

B's Baptism

P's Baptism