August 1, 2011

hello there mother well thanks for the email. and yes i did get my package the other day so thanks a bunch. the cookies were an amazingly awesome surprise thanks a lot. i love those so much.

thats really good that you have ward council everysunday we try to have it once a week its really important for the missionary work. when we go to a ward that doesnt have it the work struggles to get going so thats good.

that was cool about your brother and the questions he had. hasnt he asked a good amount of questions in the past. he could be being prepared by the lord. i would suggest you pray about it. thats what we do with the families in our mission. then when you have a name you have to act on that name and we usually get the address of the person and go with the member right then if possible to give them a book of mormon or pamphlet and invite them to hear the lessons. just an idea of what we are doing over here. its good stuff. revelation is key to the work which is the lords so it is key that we know his will and what we should do. thats why the phrase of our mission is do the will of the lord. its cool.

well this past week was pretty good. we had some good stuff. lurdes is kind of amazing and just absolutely loving the gospel. each lesson we have she just gets more and more excited. it is so cool to be able to see that. we invited her to be baptised and she accepted so basically as soon as we can figure out the marriage thing she will get baptised. it is really cool. she is just so happy and the lord prepared you so much. i feel so blessed.

we also got another sweet investigator just given to us. this menos activo contacted the braga zls last week i might have told you this. but he wants to come back to church so we had an appointment with him and he brought his girlfriend. he is paulo and she is paula. she is really nice but they arent married either so thats a small problem but she is liking church a lot and hopefully we can get her going pretty soon.

at church it was pretty funny this week we had two jehovahs witness come to church this week. it was pretty funny and they just wanted to talk and argue i think but we talked and it went well. we got them on a couple of things and the just twist it around and say no. they make me laugh. well we have to go right now and do some service so i will finish the email later on tonight. i love you and have a great day.

love
elder abreu