Dear Family & Friends,
I do appreciate all of the emails,
yes. :) I am glad you got to celebrate Grandpa Wright's birthday. No, I can't
believe it, ha ha. I hope Chad is doing swell. I've been working on letters to
you and everyone, but I am still figuring out how to mail them, so they'll
either get sent today or next P-Day.
Nope, my companion is still the same
one I have had, Elder Alexandrino from Fortaleza, Brasil, but Elder Reinhardt
was in a trio with us for a little bit because his companion got emergency
transferred. How it works in Brazil is 2 companionships usually live in the
same house to save on costs. And right now, I live with Elder Reinhardt and his
new companion Elder Nielson but we are not companions right now.
THAT STORY IS SO COOL! Oh. I am so
happy to hear about that! I was talking to Elder Quiroz this week, and he told
me you can look up the patriarchal blessings of your ancestors on Family
Search, so I have been doing that. It is so cool! That is a splendid goal!
Ha ha, here in Brasil...in the front
of our missionary planners they offer finding ideas and my companion, when I
got here, told me to put a big X through the family history idea. Not because
it is a bad idea, but because it scares people here to death. A lot of the time
people aren't married, and so they don't want to find out where they came from.
It's just a cultural thing, but my companion said he wants to look through
Family Search to see if there were any other members in his family because he
was baptized when he was 14.
Your comments remind me of something
President Uchtdorf said, "Even Moroni, in the twilight of the Nephite
nation, believed in Hope!" Oh! If you want a good laugh, listen to the
talk, "Come What May And Love It." Elder Wirthlin shares a hilarious
story about his daughter and a date she went on. It's hilarious. I won't try to
paraphrase it because I won't do it justice.
Your comments remind me of something.
Often we do get "too busy" for others. I think catching up with
others who have touched our lives and helped us is one way that we show them
and Our Father in Heaven that we appreciate, honor, and most importantly, Love
them.
I have so many stories to share with
you. Here is one of them: Elder Quiroz, and later my companion Elder Alexandrino
gave me some good advice. Many people here in the mission were telling me to
forget about my mission in the U.S. because Now my "real" mission has
"started." What these two servants of the Lord told me was,
"Don't Forget Kansas. But just try to apply what you learned there here in
Brasil." I will never forget that.
I hope I can apply THAT to Brasil. We
may not have baptized much in the U.S., but I hope to develop at least half of
the character of the people I met in Kansas, here in Brasil.
I hope you all know how much I Love
you. And how much I can see each of us growing. "...The stronger the
Trees."
Eu Te Amo, Para Sempre, e Nas
Eternidades,
(Google Translation)
I Love You Forever, and in the Eternities,
Élder Weaver
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