My week was alright, we had a lot of lessons and found a lot of news, the problem in this area isnt finding news, but finding people that will progress. haha. Every area always have something thats difficult. The work is still going though, so thats the good part.
Its still really hot here, but hopefully this next month it should start to cool down a little. Also this week is Carnival week. Its only the most sinfull holiday in the world. Girls dress up in like victoria secret stuff with weird feathers and they do the SAMBA dance. So yeah to let you know its totally sin weekend here in Brasil right now. Luckily for me im in the south and in a small city so its only one weekend, in other big cities everywhere else this holiday can go on for almost months.
My area is way hotter then the others, and also the good thing is my area doesnt have any hills, its all flat, the first area ive had like that. It also is on Uruguay river, i havent been there yet but i need to take some pictures there. Also somebody tried to break into our house again, we think. Elder ******* (the biggest and strongest of us four) has been way scared and shuts every door and locks them all, even the ones inside the house. But luckily, we have the protection of the Lord.
i dont know what we will be doing all day. My city is called São Borja, but i am in the end of it next to Rio Uruguay. Well this week we ate in our house 5 out of 6 days of the week. But the members didnt make us use our money, one member owns a place were they make lunch and send it to people, so the members usually always just send us food.
I love and miss you,
Dylan
Knocking Out My Best Two Years
Serving a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Lansing, Michigan & Santa Maria, Brazil. 11/10-11/12
Sao Borja, Brazil
São Borja is a city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. São Borja is the oldest municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and was founded in 1682 by the Jesuits as the first of the Seven Points of the Missions, and named São Francisco de Borja, in honor of Saint Francis Borgia. It is situated on the Western Frontier of Rio Grande do Sul on the border with Argentina which is defined by the Uruguai river.
São Borja is known as the Land of the Presidents as it is the birthplace of two Brazilian Presidents: Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954) and João Goulart (1918–1976).
The city is linked to the argentinian city of Santo Tomé through the Integration Bridge.
São Borja is known as the Land of the Presidents as it is the birthplace of two Brazilian Presidents: Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954) and João Goulart (1918–1976).
The city is linked to the argentinian city of Santo Tomé through the Integration Bridge.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Things are going alright
Sounds like things are going great. I am glad you got to see some of my friends. I am way happy that ********* is going back to the mission. He will be a great missionary. I hope ***** is doing alright, i havent heard from him in a very long time. In fact i havent heard from anyone for a while.
Things here are going alright, we just played soccer today, it was fun but its in like the 100s. I am sweating like crazy and need to take a shower. We have a family night planned so i am going to make cookies, it will be the first time we visit the investigators in their house so we need to have a good first impression. We have been having some results these past weeks but are still very far away from having a baptism. I think i may be staying here for 7 more weeks, transfers are next pday.
Hey also i am trying to learn spanish, i am reading the book of mormon in spanish outloud everynight. In 5 days i have read 100 pgs. I am understanding and learning, and i want to come home with 3 fluent languages.
Well i love and miss you,
Dylan
Things here are going alright, we just played soccer today, it was fun but its in like the 100s. I am sweating like crazy and need to take a shower. We have a family night planned so i am going to make cookies, it will be the first time we visit the investigators in their house so we need to have a good first impression. We have been having some results these past weeks but are still very far away from having a baptism. I think i may be staying here for 7 more weeks, transfers are next pday.
Hey also i am trying to learn spanish, i am reading the book of mormon in spanish outloud everynight. In 5 days i have read 100 pgs. I am understanding and learning, and i want to come home with 3 fluent languages.
Well i love and miss you,
Dylan
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
This week was hard!
I am glad to hear that thanksgiving went great. Sounds like you all had a blast and did a lot of fun things. Seattle actually sounds fun this time haha. Maybe you should plan for it again next year, when i get home haha. Wheres all the pictures?
Well this week here was hard, we ended up cutting our last investigators, so we are down to the floor working on scratch now. We havent found really anybody good yet and the weather was in the 100s all week. We were out in the street all day every day and i felt like i was burning in the sun. its dry here like utah, so when its hot the sun just goes straight at you and it feels like we were in the oven. We did have a weird experience the other day, we contacted a lady in front of her house, she was a reference from a member, she was giving us a few excuses on why not to let us in, my companion was making the contact, i got tired of just standing there and started to talk about family and how Jesus has been helping her family that were members, and then i offered a prayer, during the prayer she started to cry and then after, she accepted very quickly that we return to share a message with her.
Anyways not mcuh more i going on, we might finally move our apartment i think tuesday or wednesday. Anyway,I love and miss you,
Well this week here was hard, we ended up cutting our last investigators, so we are down to the floor working on scratch now. We havent found really anybody good yet and the weather was in the 100s all week. We were out in the street all day every day and i felt like i was burning in the sun. its dry here like utah, so when its hot the sun just goes straight at you and it feels like we were in the oven. We did have a weird experience the other day, we contacted a lady in front of her house, she was a reference from a member, she was giving us a few excuses on why not to let us in, my companion was making the contact, i got tired of just standing there and started to talk about family and how Jesus has been helping her family that were members, and then i offered a prayer, during the prayer she started to cry and then after, she accepted very quickly that we return to share a message with her.
Anyways not mcuh more i going on, we might finally move our apartment i think tuesday or wednesday. Anyway,I love and miss you,
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
MY NEW AREA IS COOL
Well my new area is cool, it is a big city right on the border, ive already seen the Uruguay elders walking in my area. I may be entering uruguay today with some other elders. My new LD is way cool, i like him a lot and its weird my district here is new. I am one of the oldest missionaries haha. The LZs are the oldest, my LD has one year down, and then me. So i actually feel like an older missionary here. The food is still the same, wont change ever. We have some richer members here though that make a few extra on the side. The work is still the same, a little hard but i am liking the new area where i dont feel like ive already knocked every single door. ****** called me on sunday and he is sad i am gone, haha. He might visit livramento soon and he wants to pass by and see me.
The other day we ate at a very good members house. The dad started teasing the 15 year old daughter and she freaked out and then got up and left the room. It made me laugh like crazy because i remember when dad does it to ashley and how sometimes the whole family would join in. Ah good times. Tomorrow is a zone conference and i am excitied to see Elder ****** again. Zone conference will be in Alegrete. During conference its one of the biggest holidays here in Rio grande do sul. Gauchos are coming into the city from everywhere and everybody is riding horses through out the city. Its good we have conference this day becasue nobody will be open to letting us in haha. The holiday is kind of stupid too because they are celebrating a war that they had with sao paulo. But sao paulo won.. so i dont get it.
Anyways thats all that is goin on here.
The other day we ate at a very good members house. The dad started teasing the 15 year old daughter and she freaked out and then got up and left the room. It made me laugh like crazy because i remember when dad does it to ashley and how sometimes the whole family would join in. Ah good times. Tomorrow is a zone conference and i am excitied to see Elder ****** again. Zone conference will be in Alegrete. During conference its one of the biggest holidays here in Rio grande do sul. Gauchos are coming into the city from everywhere and everybody is riding horses through out the city. Its good we have conference this day becasue nobody will be open to letting us in haha. The holiday is kind of stupid too because they are celebrating a war that they had with sao paulo. But sao paulo won.. so i dont get it.
Anyways thats all that is goin on here.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Getting Transferred
Today is transfers and.... i am leaving Rosário, i am going to Livramento. My new companion will be Elder ******. I will leave tomorrow so today is my last day with Elder ******. I am way sad to leave Elder ******. We have become way good friends, i will miss him. He wants to study in BYU so i told him if he goes to Utah me and him will live together in Provo. But i am also ready to leave Rosário.
Cool thing, a family from Alegreto has been visiting Rosário. We took them to church and ***** walked holding my hand haha. All i know, is I may not be baptizing a ton of people but i have made friendships that are already stronger then some of my friendships i had before the mission. I am learning how to love people and i love it.
Cool thing, a family from Alegreto has been visiting Rosário. We took them to church and ***** walked holding my hand haha. All i know, is I may not be baptizing a ton of people but i have made friendships that are already stronger then some of my friendships i had before the mission. I am learning how to love people and i love it.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Things are alright
Sounds like things are going great, kids are starting school, big red is gone haha. A lot of things have already changed since i left lol.
Things here are going alright. We had another tough week but i am looking positive again now that it will start going better, the problem is the branch i was serving in is not doing anything so we are starting to work more in the other branch because they are looking forward to helping us out, its just kind of sad to leave my other area.
We have two more weeks in this transfer, i think i might stay here in Rosário for another 6 weeks after, or i will be transfered to another city. I dont know, but i am ready to leave to another city.
On a good note my companion and I are getting along great. He is really great and is a professional mangá artist (some weird comic book drawing things) he has started to teach me how to draw and i am improving haha.
Have a good week and I will write to you next week!
Sunday, July 17, 2011
We had a BAPTISM!!
Well this week went a lot better, because we had a BAPTISM. I sent dad a email with pictures and a funny story about the baptism. I am doing great and still waiting for my package, i have a interview with the mission president on wednesday so hopefully.. hopefully he will have my package. haha. And some letters for me lol.
Tonight we are doing another family home evening and it should be fun, its with a man we baptized and his family, they are looking forward to it and we are too.
After emailing we are going to go and buy more food, i will probably just get hot dogs, cereal, bananas, cheese, just some easy stuff. I dont need to buy a lot since we always have lunch with members, even though we eat the same thing with them and i think my stomach is being weird again from eating beans and rice everyday. But I should get used to it, because thats what i am eating for two years.
Also i forgot to tell you at zone conference the family from Alegrete visited me. It was awesome and i was way happy to see them again, i hope i serve in that area again in my mission. Tenho saudades de eles.
But not much is going on just the work and talking to people, i love and miss you.
Love and miss you,
seu filho, Elder Boiteux
Tonight we are doing another family home evening and it should be fun, its with a man we baptized and his family, they are looking forward to it and we are too.
After emailing we are going to go and buy more food, i will probably just get hot dogs, cereal, bananas, cheese, just some easy stuff. I dont need to buy a lot since we always have lunch with members, even though we eat the same thing with them and i think my stomach is being weird again from eating beans and rice everyday. But I should get used to it, because thats what i am eating for two years.
Also i forgot to tell you at zone conference the family from Alegrete visited me. It was awesome and i was way happy to see them again, i hope i serve in that area again in my mission. Tenho saudades de eles.
But not much is going on just the work and talking to people, i love and miss you.
Love and miss you,
seu filho, Elder Boiteux
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