February 25, 2010
Hey hey hey!!
Transfers happened and after a long three week stay in Itapuã.... I’ve been transferred again. Unfortunately right when we started picking up some good solid investigators but its all good. We had a really cool experience with one man, Elso, who truly seemed to be taught by the spirit. One of those lessons where you feel that true comprehension has been reached. He began to finish sentences with us as we were explaining about the Priesthood being restored and as we invited him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon he told us that he didn’t want to read it alone but rather would read it with his wife and afterwards wanted to pray about it with her. Interesting how often people who come into contact with the truth and truly are touched by the Spirit have a great desire to share the gospel with those they know and love. Also had a girl who we invited to go to church on Saturday night who showed up alone to church on Sunday. When we had passed by her house Sunday morning to go to church her neighbor told us she had left a little while before we got there. A little disappointed as nobody else had decided to go to church on Sunday, we got to church only to find her in the hallway talking with a relative of her's, a member of the church. There was also a brother of a recently returned missionary who decided he wanted to be baptized and will be this coming Saturday. I was really liking the area but I am also excited to work here in Amaralina with Elder M. He is from Natal which is up on the northern end of things here in Brasil. Thus far we've done a pretty good clean-up of the smallish house here and after a bucket shower we came here to the LAN House to send some emails and pick up the weekly boletin. Other than that not much to report. I'm going to be studying Christ's life and teachings a good bit this transfer and am looking forward to gaining a stronger testimony thereof.
Jacob
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Feb. 17, 2010
Life here in the field is good though the results aren’t immediate in coming. We are currently working with an unmarried couple who are progressing slowly in their reading of the Book of Mormon (though the wife is really the only one reading as of yet I think) and another family who really seem quite excited about the gospel though they will have to get married before being baptized as well. We also were led to another woman who is extremely excited to know if the church is true. We taught her husband and a good number of family members though she seemed to be the only one who was really into the message. Recently Elder P. and I have have been trying to narrow in on how we can have the Spirit's influence stronger in our lessons and something we have been finding is the simpler we say things and the less "fluff" we throw in the better. A principle taught all over Preach My Gospel (PMG) but I just hadn't applied it. I feel like I haven’t used PMG as much as I could or should have here on the mission and am working on changing that around.
I know God Lives and this is His work, that through the prophet Joseph Smith He restored His gospel in its fullness and I feel that as we teach these principles each day. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amém.
Elder Pettit
Life here in the field is good though the results aren’t immediate in coming. We are currently working with an unmarried couple who are progressing slowly in their reading of the Book of Mormon (though the wife is really the only one reading as of yet I think) and another family who really seem quite excited about the gospel though they will have to get married before being baptized as well. We also were led to another woman who is extremely excited to know if the church is true. We taught her husband and a good number of family members though she seemed to be the only one who was really into the message. Recently Elder P. and I have have been trying to narrow in on how we can have the Spirit's influence stronger in our lessons and something we have been finding is the simpler we say things and the less "fluff" we throw in the better. A principle taught all over Preach My Gospel (PMG) but I just hadn't applied it. I feel like I haven’t used PMG as much as I could or should have here on the mission and am working on changing that around.
I know God Lives and this is His work, that through the prophet Joseph Smith He restored His gospel in its fullness and I feel that as we teach these principles each day. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amém.
Elder Pettit
Feb. 10, 2010
Don’t have a whole lot of time today but I'm really liking this area though we have been having difficulty in finding people interested in the gospel. We are keeping in mind though that while we are being obedient to the rules and God's commandments that the difficulties we face are according to the will of God so that we can learn and grow. In this light we are trying to bring our lives closer to the standards the Lord has set forth for us as His Sons and representatives. I am feeling a greater desire here in the field to grow closer to the Lord and be more responsive to the Spirit, a feeling I wish and need to feel for the rest of my mission and life. I am currently in Itapuã in the Imbui stake here in Salvador. The ward members seem really excited in general and have a desire to help with the work. Even though we weren't really expecting o have any investigators show up to sacrament meeting we came to know of part member families and we have already started teaching two of the three this week. I find inspiration and a greater perspective of the gospel of Christ as I come to know these families and think of how prevalent the doctrine of eternal families must be for them as they have members of their immediate family still unbaptized and unsealed to them. It is inspirational as well to think of one of these sisters, who has recently started working on her genealogy as a result of her testimony and her desire to have an eternal family, even traveling to the interior to talk with people who knew her relatives. Well, I need to go but I love you all and know this is God's work.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amém.
Elder Pettit
Don’t have a whole lot of time today but I'm really liking this area though we have been having difficulty in finding people interested in the gospel. We are keeping in mind though that while we are being obedient to the rules and God's commandments that the difficulties we face are according to the will of God so that we can learn and grow. In this light we are trying to bring our lives closer to the standards the Lord has set forth for us as His Sons and representatives. I am feeling a greater desire here in the field to grow closer to the Lord and be more responsive to the Spirit, a feeling I wish and need to feel for the rest of my mission and life. I am currently in Itapuã in the Imbui stake here in Salvador. The ward members seem really excited in general and have a desire to help with the work. Even though we weren't really expecting o have any investigators show up to sacrament meeting we came to know of part member families and we have already started teaching two of the three this week. I find inspiration and a greater perspective of the gospel of Christ as I come to know these families and think of how prevalent the doctrine of eternal families must be for them as they have members of their immediate family still unbaptized and unsealed to them. It is inspirational as well to think of one of these sisters, who has recently started working on her genealogy as a result of her testimony and her desire to have an eternal family, even traveling to the interior to talk with people who knew her relatives. Well, I need to go but I love you all and know this is God's work.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amém.
Elder Pettit
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
February 3, 2010
Woohoo!! I've been transferred and as such now have p-days on Wednesdays again. My new area seems pretty cool all three or four streets that I’ve walked on until now anyway... Elder P. my new companion and I came in last night and spent much of this morning unpacking and doing a bit of much needed cleaning. Our new house is spacious but the area is swarming with mosquitos at night so we have to sleep with the windows shut (we're thinking of investing in installing screens of some sort here) but thanks to a wonderful invention called the fan it works out well enough in the end. ELder P. was one of the guys waiting for his visa long enough that he had started serving in another mission (Tennessee Nashville area ) He seems like a good guy and speaks really well considering it's his second day out here in Brasil.
Not too much else to report for now. Christ is our Savior, this is God's work, and obedience to the commandments brings forth His blessings from heaven. In the name of Jesus Christ, amém.
Woohoo!! I've been transferred and as such now have p-days on Wednesdays again. My new area seems pretty cool all three or four streets that I’ve walked on until now anyway... Elder P. my new companion and I came in last night and spent much of this morning unpacking and doing a bit of much needed cleaning. Our new house is spacious but the area is swarming with mosquitos at night so we have to sleep with the windows shut (we're thinking of investing in installing screens of some sort here) but thanks to a wonderful invention called the fan it works out well enough in the end. ELder P. was one of the guys waiting for his visa long enough that he had started serving in another mission (Tennessee Nashville area ) He seems like a good guy and speaks really well considering it's his second day out here in Brasil.
Not too much else to report for now. Christ is our Savior, this is God's work, and obedience to the commandments brings forth His blessings from heaven. In the name of Jesus Christ, amém.
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