Another...uh...P-Day?

So I know that a lot of you especially my mom probably have been having a heart attack about why I didn´t send an email yesterday. So something new our President is trying is, he is moving all of the Zone Conferences to Mondays and then after we have a P-Day with the two Zones. But we don´t get back to our areas in time to write emails. So we will start doing this probably once every four or five weeks. So don´t anyone freak out if you don´t get an email from me on Monday, it will most likely come on Tuesday.

So this past week was pretty chilled, we had our ups and downs this week. The training is going really well, my filho is having some struggles but we are getting along great in the work. He´s doing a great job. Eu sou um pai com muito orgulho.

So the highlights for this week, and the lowlights.

The first one is, we found a less active family a couple days ago I think on Thursday or something. But they welcomed us very well, and we found out that they have someone in their family who wasn´t baptized, because she was only 7 years old. That was four years ago. But now she has accepted our help to be baptized and we will try to get the family active again. A lot of them want to come back it´s just that they work on Sunday. But we will work with that.

The Lowlight.

We had another one of those sucker punches to the gut. Well at least I had it again, this was the first time my companion experienced this. But that one young man that we were preparing to baptize, F, who was progressing a lot and was moving forward with such great vigor. Came to us on Sunday and said that he didn´t want to be baptized anymore. We tried everything we could to get him to stay active, but he just wanted to keep following the Catholic Church. I know that this is normal, to lose somebody that you have been working with for a long time, but it gave a hard one on my companion, so it´s been a little hard for him the past couple of days. But we did have something awesome happen that night.

On to the next highlight.

We had been trying to teach a young man for a really long time, but he was having a really hard time in listening to us. Well on Sunday night we were able to catch him and give him a lesson, he really enjoyed it. He also opened up with us a lot. He really likes a lot of the same things I do, and that was super awesome. His name is K. He´s such a great guy and we will for sure baptize him.

So that´s all for this email. I guess now I will leave my message for the week. For this message I decided that I would share a music that I really like that explains a lot of how we need to be faithful in our work to help the kingdom of God grow here on the earth. I´ll send it on a seperate email. But I know that if you apply the things that it says. It will help give that Energy to keep working on strong.

That´s all for today. I love you all! Have a great week everyone!

Elder Jacklin

My Message: Strong and Courageous

 We are daughters of God

 With vision of who we are

 And the love of the Savior in our hearts

 We are sons of a King

 Heirs to our Father’s throne

 We are true to the priesthood that we hold

 We live in perilous times

 But with prophets here to guide us

 With the Spirit inside us

 With angels walking beside us

CHORUS:

 We will take the shield of faith

 We’ll withstand the evils of these final days

 We are fearless

 We are brave

 We’ll defend our Father’s name

 At all times (we are strong)

 In all things (we are brave)

 In all places

 We will be strong and courageous

 We will not be afraid

 To walk in the Savior’s way

 And prepare for the day when He will reign

 We’re calling all of the earth

 To return our lives to virtue

 To be faithful in all we do

 To join the great cause of truth 

CHORUS:  

 We will take the shield of faith

 We’ll withstand the evils of these final days

 We are fearless

 We are brave

 We’ll defend our Father’s name

 At all times (we are strong)

 In all things (we are brave)

 In all places

 We will be strong and courageous