July 1, 2009

Well, it has been one more week and things seem to be about the same. and i am coming to realize that this is probably the hardest area that i have worked in on my mission. but i am holding in there and hoping that i will be blessed in the long run. but i hope that all is going good for everyone at home. i have been thinking about you guys a ton and now that the Fourth of July is coming up i a going to miss you guys and remember about the great times that we always have at the parade. but the bright side is that next year i will be back an the real party can begin. but we had another week and it went pretty well. Nothing to complain about. Latey we have been seeing a bunch of snakes around here and it has been heating up. we saw a snake yesterday at one of our investigator´s house and i didnt exactly like that. but whatever.....but i cant remember if i told you guys about the experience that we had last week. The experience about the man that was sitting on a bike and i felt like i should talk to him so i did. well we started teaching them and things are going pretty good with that family. they werent able to make it to church on Sunday because of the soccer game, Brazil vs. USA. this country lives for soccer and it is terrible trying to teach a lesson when the Brazil soccer team is playing, because no one wants to listen. but that game was pretty crazy, the USA almost won in the Final Game. all of the brazilians were shocked and almost crying when the States were beating Brazil 2-0 at half time. but then the states started playing worse and brazil started playing better and brazil won, 3-2. It was a really good game and it looks like the States will do good in the World Cup next taking second in the world in this tournament. And i will be at home to watch that as well. Oh and some new news with the mission. We just got word today that the mission is moving its boundaries and combining with another mission. so our mission is now bigger and has a lot more missionaries, which should be pretty cool. so i could not be transfered even further into the jungle now. The mission now covers 4 states here. Amazonas, Acre, Roraima, and Rondonia. As for the work and teaching in our....we are wrking and teaching, but we are having a lot of trouble finding people that really have the desire to serve and follow God. we have been teaching a few girls that want to be baptized but their parents wont let them, so we are now trying to teach their parents the messages so that they will let them. and the same family that we have been taching or a long time is having some troubles, Carla´s Family. Her sisters want to be baptized but their parents are fetching losers and dont want to be good examples for their daughters and the mother says a bunch of crap to them so they are scared of the mother. and i am started to get really impatient with the mother. but i just got a letter for President and he gave some good ideas to help. because the parents dont want to pray to know the truth. so we are going to read and pray with them. because i really like this family and i want them to accept the gospel. But it is hard for me to let them make their own decisions. because they have no idea what they are doing with their lives. they are going to regret it if the reject the gospel of the Saviour of the world. so i am trying to do my best to help them receive a testimony of gospel. But things have been going really good with Carla, she is the example in the house and we are working with her to help her family. She is now the Music Leader in the branch, which was weird because she doesnt even know how to lead music, so i have to teach her everyday how to sing the songs and lead at the same time. She lead the music for the first time in Sacrament meeting on Sunday and did a pretty good jobs. Her sister Jessica is also awesome, she wants to be baptized and went to seminary for the first time last night and loved it. She said that she is going to go again tomorrow. but we have been having trouble with the parents. so i am going to start being a little bit more serious with them and help feel the truth. But yeah.....i am thinking that that is just about all that has been going on. There was an activity in the branch on friday that didnt go to good because it started way late. but we had about thirty investigators there which is awesome. but the members didnt even talk with them or try to help them. so we got a little bit upset at that but we didnt sa anything because we cant. but things have been difficult in this area so pray for me and my companion so that everything can work out for us. but i think that is about all with things that have been happening around here. things are going good. just trying to do my part and hoping that success a long the way comes.It sounds like you have your hands full with work and things, sorry that i cant be there to help you out around the house. i looked at the blog and it is pretty cool, i didnt even worry about asking my president. because he will probably so no so i just looked at it with being told no. so if it was breaking the rules it was breaking the rules innocently. ;) but i hope that all is going well. i wish you a happy fourth of july, it will be my last. but give everyone hugs for me and tell them all that i love them. and my companion also wanted you to see if you could buy a memory card for the PSP, either a 2GB or a 1GB. Look at the prices and you decide....look for something that is around 40$ or so, but hopefully it turns out to be less. but i love you and have a great week. i will talk to you next week.
With Love, Elder Jory B. Spotts