O que esta acontecendo minhas pessoas!

What is happenin my people! It has been another fantastic week in Brasil with many miracles! Allow me to share some of the grand experiences of the week.

So to start the week out we had our Christmas Conference with the ENTIRE MISSION! That was a party. We started it out by listening to the Christmas Devotional with the First Presidency. Then we had a training about how we can be more dedicated in finding new investigators. For Missionaries who are in the field right now. Don´t give the person their space, don´t get to close, but try to be super persistant when you find someone. Be super firm when you are talking with them and use a strong voice and they will feel the spirit of your words. Like Elder Holland does. But that was most of the training for that day. Then the second half came, which was a huge party. We had a huge talent show as well. My entire Zone did a dance, that wasn´t very great to add on. But we were all still laughing in the end. Then we did White Elephant gifts, I got a new bag to work with, which I have been needing for a long time, and we took a bunch of pictures so I´ll send those as well.

So the next thing that happened is we also had our Christmas Party for the ward and we were able to get Ryssa, one of our recent baptized, but not confirmed investigators to come to the party. She loved it a lot and she loves the church a lot. The only problem is is that she has a sister that always drags her off to some place on the weekend and she wasn´t able to come to church yesterday AGAIN! But we are going to be as firm as we possibly can for this next week.

The next thing that happened this week, is that we were able to find some new people to teach. Two men named Antonio and Paulo who are really great. They have seen us passing by for a long time and yesterday we stopped and talked with them. They like us a lot and want to come to church with us this next Sunday. So it was an awesome week this week. We are going to have a lot to do next week.

Well that´s all I have for this week. My message for today is a talk from Elder Bednar which is called The Powers of Heaven which is a really good talk, which is more sided for Priesthood holders, but it can always still be applied to everyone. Because we can all use the influence of the Priesthood in our lives and for the lives of others. So that´s all for this week. Eu amo todos de vocês e espero vocês tem uma boa semana e um Feliz Natal! Tchau, até o próximo!

Elder Jacklin

Pictures from the Christmas Conference

I thought that this photo wouldn´t make it on to the computer, but believe it or not. Our phone has a way to do photoshop, so I made this little photo just to say Merry Christmas to all of my good friends and family who have always given me such a great example and many great experiences in my life. Feliz Natal tudo mundo!

Hello people!!!

Wow this week was a very interesting week. We had a lot of very strange experiences this week, we had awesome ones as well. So to start them off.

So to start off the week we had a man walk up to us and ask if we could read the bible with him. So we started to read with him and such, he really enjoyed what we had to say to him, but when we asked him where he lived, actually only I heard this. He said he lived in the prison and that he escaped from there that week... I have no idea if he was being serious or not, I hope not, but he didn´t give us any problems so I don´t think so, but it was a very weird experience.

Next thing that happened this week. We had the great opportunity of finding a Less Active that we had no idea existed. He loves the church, it´s just that he moved and he didn´t know where the church was in his new home. We were able to show him that we have a bus that will take everyone to the church on Sunday, the only thing is is that he wasn´t able to come on Sunday, but we will start visiting with him this week.

We had another interesting experience happen this week, one of the members here broke their cellphone when we were in their house, and I have never seen someone so depressed in my life about something so little. But her reaction was really funny. But she´s all good now and she should be getting a new one this week.

We had been planning to confirm someone this week but we weren´t able to get her to come to church again, but we will plan to work super hard with her this week so she will be able to come this next week.

Well that´s all from me for this week. I hope everyone is having a fantastic week with lots of Miracles happening. I hope that you are all enjoying the Holidays this week, with snow or cold or heat. Have a great week everyone! Tchau tchau!!!

Elder Jacklin

P.S. I don´t have any pictures for this week. Sorry...

Minha nossa esta semana foi um outra coisa...

Me desculpe mas esta carta provavelmente vai ser muito pequeno. Então não muito aconteceu em nossa área. Nos tivemos um bom tempo ajudando um membro com uma problema difícil mas em outras coisas nos não temos muito.

So now I´ll switch to english. This week in reality was a little bit of a drag. We didn´t have the success that we wanted to have, and it was very stressed with a lot of events going on. We had interviews this week with President though. I really don´t know why we have these anymore. It´s like 5 minutes of: Hi how are you? I´m good thank you, and you? I´m good. Ok let´s have a prayer. NEXT! Not much really happens anymore in these interviews when you have been in the Mission for more than a year. But it´s cool because it gives us a chance to relax a little bit and talk with the other missionaries for 3 hours.

Other than that, we had to help a member out with a problem she is having, that´s been giving us some stress but we are getting it resolved so that´s a big relief. We are going to try this next week to focus more on our work in finding people, because this thing was taking up most of our time last week. But we´ll be getting there.

So I guess I´ll leave my message now, because I don´t have much left to say. So my message is a very plain and simple talk from Elder Holland, it talks a lot about Missionary Work, but the point of the talk can be applied to everyone that is a member of this Church. The talk is called: Missionary Work and the Atonement. It´s a talk that when you are in doubt, or are having many trials, always have confidence in the Atonement, it will help you in all your trials, and if you are a Missionary, use it to help your investigators. That´s all from me this week, I hope you all have a fantastic week, I´ll be praying for you all. Keep on moving in the light. Eu amo todos de vocês! Boa semana para todos!

Pictures with the Hommies!

Beleza, eu não fiz isso em muito tempo!

Eu acho que é um tempo bom para mostrar meu Português para tudo mundo de novo. Eu não sei se vai dar certo por todos de vocês para entender mas eu acho que este pode traduzir para um outro lingua, então... No I´m just kidding.

But anyway, how´s it going with all of you! Things are going great here in Altiplano. So what´s been happening is I´ve received a new companion. He´s awesome, his name is Elder Souza. He´s from São Paulo and one of the coolest guys I have ever known in my life. I´ve never had such a good unity with any of my other companions as I have with him, except Elder Goodwin, but aside from that.

We had a good week this week, it wasn´t a week of new investigators, but we were trying to get someone that we baptized last week to come to church this week to be confirmed, but things happened with her mom and we couldn´t get the chance to confirm her this week, so we are going to help her out this next week with that.

So not much else happened this week and I don´t have that much else to talk about, so I guess that´s all for now, my message this week is just to express the challenge that I left two weeks ago. It has helped me learn so much more about the scriptures and what they say, and I know it can help all of you as well. Find the words that you want to know about then find the scriptures that have those words in them. It will help out immensley. That´s all for this email. I´ll put some photos up for everyone to see as well. Tchau tchau! Eu amo todos de vocês! Boa semana para todos!

Me and my companion

A street in my area