Londrina, Brazil

Londrina, Brazil

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

May 7

So we are still working out the logistics here about the skype situation. I am thinking that I will call at around 5 o´clock my time. I think that is like 4 o´clock in florida and 3 o´clock in Texas. so around that time I will be getting into contact with you all. 
This week was rather stressful. We worked a ton in our own area and in the other areas in the zone to try and help out but unfortunately we werent blessed with the results we were expecting. Ultimately it is the Lord´s will that is done on this Earth above all others´. So we will keep fighting and waiting for the Lord´s will to be done and exercised through our faith and the faith of those that we are teaching. 
The families that we brought to church are progressing rather slowly to our disappointment. They are wanting more time and giving a lot of excuses as to not keep the commitments that we are leaving with them. We even had two families agree to be baptized this last saturday morning but when we went to pick them up to take them to church there was no one home and no one would attend the phone when we called. but hopefully this week will be better. I am feeling that it will be. 
I have been enjoying the times I have been spending traveling and doing splits with my roomate Elder Lavering. He is a great listener and has been asking many great questions in which I have been blessed enough to have the answers to help him. Therby, the two of us grow together spiritually and the bond of our friendship likewise grows. We have great spiritual debates. We get principles of the gospel and start defining them and putting personal experiences into the equation and I have been able to see many new points of view on many subjects of the gospel. It seems as though when we focus on worldly things or things outside of the gospel with others and especially with your companions, the time seems to pass slower than usual. On the otherhand, when we teach and minister to each other and look to see the good in each other and in others and grow through one another´s words the time flies way faster than we would like it too. My lesson this week has ultimately been about this relationship, between the difference in God´s time and our own human time. We achieve God´s plane of time when we elevate our minds to the things in which God would have us see, hear, and think. We stay where we are, halted in time, in a time in which will ultimately run out when we speak of temporary materials, matters, and subjects. Ultimately it is for this cause that man ultimately falls away from the presence of God and halts temporarily their personal progress toward God´s principalities, domains, and kingdoms that He has planned for our eventual habitation. That is why our choices of thoughts, words, and actions mean so much to yourself, to others, and to the Lord. We are either raising or falling. There is no constance. Everything we do has an equal and opposite reaction, or in otherwords consequences. May we seek the better and best consequences that the world and the Lord has to offer us on this great journey that have been prepared for and embarked upon sense that great primordial counsel held so long ago in our Father´s presence. 
Have a great week! I will see you all sunday afternoon!





Apr 30

     What ? ? ? There is a new avengers movie ? I am waaaaay behind on all this kind of stuff Lol!!!! To me moana is still the next movie to comeout haha!
      And speaking about pants, I have been looking at mine recently. I realized that I have soley one pair of pants that aren´t torn in the middle haha. I will probably trash everything on the last week in the mission and just go home with the suit on my body lol. Some of the shirts are still wearable as well so I can take a few of those as well lol. Oh and I went dumpster diving in my suitcase full of my clothes that I never use (my Pday clothes). I found the pair of abercrombie jeans that I had brought with me here on the mission. I wanted to see how it would be like at home being able to wear jeans whenever I want. That was my mistake haha.... So I through my legs in the pants and start hoistering them up. So I get to my knees; no problem. But I get mid thigh and I cant get them up anymore. Then I started doing the whole girl thing where you start jumping and tugging and fighting against the jeans lol. I didnt work out too well. Needless to say, they didnt rise. I was awstrucken. I know that I have gained 44 pounds on the mission but it hardly even looks like it honestly. Most of my body is mooshy however now. But now I know that I have gotten a bit thicker. People are telling me that I am growing as well. Hopefully that is true and not just a nice compliment to win me over lol. So that was an eventful moment for me haha.
     My week went well it was pretty spiritual. Not just because I am a missionary but it was more spiritual than normal. Some pretty cool things had happened. We are with a good group of people that we are teaching. We brought 10 people to church this sunday. The branch was super stoaked to see it full of investigators. I would say we have a group of 20ish investigators. That is pretty awesome! this week however two of our investigators fell through on their baptismal dates. It was rather frustrating but the Lord prepares all of His children in His time and not in ours. Hopefully this week we will have lots of success with all these people that we are working with. Maybe the Lord will bless us and these investigators with the blessings of a few baptisms!
     The zone conference last week was canceled, so we will be having our conference with President Pereira tomorrow. Today we have a zone Pday planned so it ought to be an enjoyable day. It will be great for the zone to be able to get together as well and relax and get to know each other a little bit more. 
     Elder Lavering and Elder Reinoso were tennis players in high school. we are trying to plan out a Pday to where we can get rent some rackets and a court for an hour at the nearby tennis club. Hopefully it will all workout. I am for sure rusty, as I haven´t played in over a year and a half. But it will be fun all the same.
     I hope you guys are doing well. I am super excited to see you all again here shortly! Time sure is flying as you said! I love and miss you guys!

             Love, 

                      Elder Worsley

Apr 23

This week wet well. We had a lot of problems to solve with relation to other missionaries and some other problems. We worked probably one day. But we were able to be productive doing what we were doing. We were able to help with 6 baptisms this week. Sadly due to some problems here in the zone we lost a companionship and a district leader. Now the zone will be greatly crippled. at least until President works everything out or Gomez and I figure out a way to get around this new turn of events. We are having to do the district leader´s work and it is a little over bearing. We will have to travel to another city that is 3 hours away by bus twice a week now. That is going to kill two full days, then we have another day killed interviewing people here in Prudente. So we will have a good 2 days of work each week in stead of the normal 4 that most zone leaders enjoy. but God will bless us for our efforts and will guide our foot steps to the people that are needing us and God´s restored gospel. Hopefully we will be able to sustain the baptizing pase. Now that I only have 5 months left in the mission, it is a race against time to achieve my goals and help God´s children enter into the waters of baptism and into his fold at His right hand in the kingdom of God. We were however, able to baptize this week a 41 year old man named Ney. This week we will baptize his wife and one of their kids.

This weekend we had a bidistrict conference with the two districts of Tupã and Presidente Prudente, the area autorities and Presidente Pereira. It was a good weekend and we were able to be spiritually edified greatly.

Tomorrow we will have a tetrazone conference in Marília. That will be fun! It will be cool to see my last area. I am excited.


It is starting to cool off now. It is in he 80s in the afternoon and in the 60s at night. That surely helps both the missionaries and the investigators. The misisonaries because it is easier to work, and the investigators because they are more willing to leave their homes. 

As for the skype coming up, we dont know where we will be doing it yet. But we will find a place.

well, I hope you guys have a great week! get feeling better mom! I love you!