Staying in Lago Azul...Maybe

 

So, this week was a tough one, my knee has been getting worse again and I got a little sick. The sickness is getting better thanks to some good tea and passion fruit juice. Things are getting better with my knee too. I went to the doctor, and he helped me a little and I'm supposed to talk to some more people this week to figure out what I can do. 

 KNEE

So, things with my knee have gotten a little worse and it made things a little harder with the work and stuff. I got to the point where we had to go to the doctor again to see what I can do to help it and they gave me some stuff but it's not going super good it's helping a little, so I guess with time we'll see. But after talking with family and other missionaries I figured that it should get better eventually and as long as I don't puss it too hard it should heal with time. I do know that whatever happens that the lord has a plan, so it'll be good. 

 TRANSFERS

So, I'm staying in Lago Azul for now, but I might get moved because of how the area is with my knee so I guess we'll see. We might just try to move houses and that would help a lot. I would be a little sad if I left just because of how much progress we've been making but also, I cannot handle walking 4 hours a day on my knee so well find out soon. 

 ZONE CHURRASCO 

We had a BBQ in our zone this week too. It was great I forgot to take pictures but after they played football and basketball, and we got milkshakes. Very good. 

 That's pretty much all I can think of this week. I’ll try and do better with remembering and writing interesting stuff down but for now here are the pics.

 Love you all, have a great week and have a great Thanksgiving!

 

-Elder Amata

Mission Tour

 

So, this week we had a mission tour which is different from what I thought it would be. We went to the temple and an old lady let me name her cat. 

 MISSION TOUR

We had a general authority come to our mission to give us some words of wisdom and advice on how we can utilize our time better and focus on the people who are needing help. We are using a lot more of the book of Mormon to teach people too and focusing on how people can feel the spirit and know that this is the church of God through the book of Mormon. It explains more about this in Moroni 10:3-5 go give it a read. 

 TEMPLE

Having the opportunity to go to the temple was amazing. It is absolutely beautiful in there you can really tell that it is a house of God. I want to invite everyone who receives this email to go to the temple. Just search Temple of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints and one should come up. 

 TITO

We have a new member, and her name is Adriana, and she is probably 60ish years old, and we go to her house every week to read the book of Mormon with her and do a little study session. She told us that her cat just had kittens and we could name one, so the little cat’s name is Tito which apparently means power? I don't think it actually does but she said it does so we're going with it. 

 Love you guys have a great week and do something nice for someone else this week. 

-Elder Amata

 

Google photos 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mdFN5cxsLANs1HkQ9

Mudancas

 

This week was great we had a ton of rain but it's also super hot. We had stake conference, and our mission president came and talked, and we are passing our P-Day over here with a ton of other missionaries. 

 PRESIDENT SANTOS

I love this man he is amazing. He talked during stake conference and after he got all of the missionaries in our zone and gave us some words of wisdom to help us in our work. He is always talking about duck too and makes the quack sound a lot. 

 RAIN

It has been very rainy almost every day. Working in the rain is way better because it cools us of, the only bad part is when we have lessons or when we get home and are just super wet. But I'd much rather work in the rain then the hot sun. 

 ACCIDENTS 

So, we saw 2 crazy things happen this week I won't go too much in detail, but we saw 2 ambulances and we saw the actual accident that happened, so it was a little frightening. But we're all good nothing too bad.

 MUDANÇAS 

We learned a lot this week and have a lot we are going to move so I'll let you guys know how it goes. 

 Photos 

So, I'll add the photos from the week but I'm just going to put the link for Google photos in all my email now.

 

Mini MTC

 

Not a lot happened this week that I can think of, training is going pretty decent, his Portuguese is getting a lot better, but we've been a little behind on the work. But this week we're going to go get it done. 

MINI MTC

This week we had a stake mini mtc which is like a mini missionary preparation class, so it was very fun. We had about 35 kids there all from 16-18 from 6 different areas. We did some practices and let them teach some lessons. They seemed to have a good time, so I think it went well. 

 TRAINING UPDATE 

Training is going well were both learning a lot we, we are going to try and speak in Portuguese more so hopefully he can learn more. He's been doing better with talking to more people and being able to answer some questions they have. 

 That's it for this week we had a big p day with 8 people doing soccer and volleyball, so we played for a long time. I'll send a better email next week, love you guys. 

 PHOTOS 

I Forgot to take photos this week and my companion is having troubles with his phone so he can't send them to me.

  -Elder Amata