Week 27

Well it has been a great week this past week. We had a baptism this past Sunday morning. Its was set up for Saturday Night but our ward mission leader is of no use at all. It just makes the biggest difference when the Ward mission leader does his job. But we got it all done on Sunday and Confirmed her too in sacrament.

We have really been focusing on finding new people to teach each day. I love doing all the contacting we do in the street and then getting references and tracking them down. 

It was really cool to hear that Aylee came up to the house this week and spent it with you guys. She is really awesome and I love her. It was so awesome to see the pictures that Stephy sent me of everyone.

But ´´jazzed´´ I think is the wrong word for Brazilians. They are insane!! Specially now that Brasil is in the Final rounds. We changed P-day for tomorrow and we are going out eworking today to get some stuff down this week.

That´s about it this week I think....

Week 25

Oh yes well the doctor didnt really say much and all the resluts were, were pictures of my insides and that everything was normal inside me. So... Thats all I got for that... But I feel great right now and have been feeling great for the past few days!! So it´ll stick around this time I know.

Well Elder Castro was emergency transfered last night. He leaves tomorrow and I get a new companion hopefully a new district leader or they will make me the district leader.

The food I miss the most is probably a nice big ol burger fresh of the grill. They don't do a ton of burgers here and they have Burger King and McDonalds but its not the same and not very good.

 

No it just happens every once in a while. Thye just called out of the blue and transfered him. He hasn´t been doing too good of a job with being the District Leader honestly... but that's not for me to say.

 

Honestly its just like every other World Cup back home.. Its usually you only watch your country´s game and other than that you dont care. For the most part. Every once in a while someone will say something.

Yeah we have 4 lessons planned for tonight and more tomorrow hopefully!!

If this is that last message for the night Love You Momma!!!

Elder Chapman

Week 23

Momma!! Its so good to hear everyone is doing so good! I feel so much better knowing the Lord will take of you guys while I´m gone. I pray constantly for you all and I´m so blessed to have my prayers answered!!! I´m so excited for Sarah!! I´ve been praying really hard for her these pasts weeks. And Grandma Martin too. Praise the Lord! He´s a pretty awesome Father!!

This week has been pretty good for me. Wednesday went really really well. We had the entire mission come together for the farewell. President gave a training seminar first and afterwards was lunch and then after lunch was the singing. I´ll get someone to post it on Facebook at the office or get a copy of it for you. We went to the hospital on Thursday to get my stuff for my exam tomorrow. That ate up the day for us. Then we had to make our own lunch. Which I am always excited for. I make a lemon chicken thing. Its really good. 

But the coolest thing this week was we had Stake Conference this week. And I´m pretty sure entire Brazil did too. Because there was a broadcast from Salt Lake and the temple was closed and the temple store was too. The two area seventy talked to us and the second councilor in the relif society did too. And also Elder Scott and Elder Ballard. Elder Scott speaks Portuguese!! I didn´t know that but it was really cool to heat their talks for us. 

One really cool experience we had this week was giving a blessing to one of our investigators! She was bad. She was vomiting she had a fever and she was having a tough time with it. So we gave her a blessing. And I told her in the blessing that if you have faith you can be healed. We came back the next day and she was completely fine. She said it was a miricle. I was like uh yeah it was!!! 

So that was something cool for you this week. But other than that I´m doing pretty good. Honestly I need to ask for some money though and I hate to ask. But with going to the hospitals so much that just eats my money for buses and the medicine they have me buy. I get reimbursed for the meds but they still haven´t had time to do it for me yet. So if you could, could you put some money in my account as soon as you have the chance.

Love you Momma hope to talk to you soon!!

Week 22

Hey Momma!! That good to hear that dad got tot go out to help out Beth. I hope she´s doing better. I´m sure he was liking to spend time with his family.

You need to talk to Amber for me and get her email for me!!

I wish I had done EFY at least once before... Oh well Sarah can do it for me!! That is so cool that Dusty was one of her instructors and Amber got to do some stuff with her too!!

But this week my stomach bug has come back and I went to the hospital twice this past week. But I'm starting to feel better now I just hate feeling like this. I start working and my stomach just hurts. I can hardly walk to appointments. But things are getting better and I have an exam scheduled for the 10th. So hopefully they can find something and get me right. If not I might be coming home or transfered to another mission. Its been over 5 months with this thing and I´ve lost like 20 pounds probably. This past week in church a member asked me how much weight I´ve lost. She says she can notice a difference. So that's not good. I´ve only been here for a few weeks. But the members are taking really good care of me.

Not much else is going on here.

Week 20

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Para bems para você!!! Esta data na vida!!! Muito felicidade muitos anos que vida!!

(Thats happy birthday in Portuguese!! it makes a lot more sense here!!) Congratulations for you. This day of life a lot of happiness and a lot more years!!

Hey momma it sounds like you all have had a super awesome week!!! 'Im so jealous of the hot dogs and brauts!!

But this week has been really good for us here in Ita 1!!! We have been working really hard everyday to try to make up for last week. Things are still going great with all of us for the most part. Elder Castro is still trying to adjust to having to do everything. He only has another month on me. So he´s still pretty green and he's the district leader. So he's got a lot to do and I don't know if he is handling it all that well. But I'm not in charge and am trying to help as best as I can. One thing that is bothering me about that companionship - he´ll tell someone something without knowing beforehand if its right, Like the other day he is marking all these lessons we are doing and I'm not remembering any of them. So I asked him about it and he was like I don't know. I was like dude we cant do that!! Numbers don't matter!!! Yeah having a lot of numbers is nice but we need to be honest and have names to support the numbers. And then today every morning before we email ya'll we email the office to report our numbers and he was marking down 5 people and only giving 2 names. I was like elder what are you doing?? He was like doing the report. I said then do it right. He got mad at me but I'm doing this stuff right.

Other than that little stuff the companionship is awesome and is going smooth. We are working great with our members and I am in love with them. They take such good care of us. My best friend is a recent convert André. He is such an awesome guy. We pass by his house everyday before we get to our area and he always pokes his head out the window and asks if we need some food or something!! He is awesome!! He is the same guy we Skyped with.

But the best part about the week was yesterday!!! We had 4 investigators come to church and 1 new one too!! But the bestest part was last night!!! President Pinho came to the stake center in Embu to talk to the stake and then the Stake President talked after him!! It was so awesome!! President Masius called the entire stake to repentance and work better with the missionaries!! Holy Cow!!! It was outstanding!! One of the best experiences of my mission thus far!!

But all is well today!!! 

Week 19

Hey Momma!!! That sounds like a pretty busy week! But that´ll be awesome staying so busy!!! Its nice to have down time but sitting around doing nothing is never any fun. I´ve been doing that this past week like I said but not this week!!! I´m gonna get after it and go be a 4th missionary!! I aslo read today a talk called the consecrated missionary. Wow, what a talk!! It was great!!!

It was so awesome to talk to you all yesterday!! My goodness it doesn´t feel like its been long enough to have been Mother´s Day yesterday!! It feels like its only been 3 weeks!! But its almost a quater over already!!! Man time just flys by!! 

But Email me back!!

Week 18

My new area is Itepecerica. Pretty awesome name huh?? And my new companion is Elder Castro. He is from Ecuador. He is a stud of a missionary. My first area was to learn to adjust to being a missionary and this area is to learn how to work and be a missionary. He works like no other. He is outstanding!!

Well the mission office still hasnt recieved the package as of yet. So that sucks. But its not a big deal it'll get here when it does. It is so weird, the weather here. Because at night it can be super cold and then during the day it'll switch between being hotter the heck then super cold and then rain and be hot after that. Its so bipolar here. But its alright. It makes things interesting.

But I have been at home the past three days and will be today again after I leave here. I dont know what I have. I went to the hospital yesterday and the said that it was just a bug and that it'll pass soon. So hopefully it does.

But the area is a lot differenet than Grajau was. There is a lot less hills and there is more of a higher income population of people. They all understand a lot of stuff we teach and that is awesome!!