Hey! thanks so much to everyone who wrote me and wished me a happy birthday! it means a ton to me. it is something that you cannot express in words well, but is more of a bursting feeling! i loved all of the cool ways that you guys sent things to me. your all truly the best!
and there is something that i want to tell you all is that i love you! you guys have been such influential people in my life! everyone of you guys have truly helped me in all aspects of life ya know! i would not be who i am today with out you all, you have helped me all the way. i know being the youngest i was a little bit of a trouble, but i came out somewhat good i think! ha.
so i am so excited for tomorrow. i have been planning for like the last week for my b day tomorrow. i have invited a couple smaller wards to go to an all you can eat pizza restaurante with me...its only 10 reais...like 5 bucks and you get all you want. there are four families making cake for me and stuff too. buying presents too, even though i told them that was not necesarry. but whatever ya know. i am learning to accept the charity that others have to offer. we all have to learn that. that will be fun tomorrow. ill be there for like three hours...i have a question...when does the time fall back there again? not to long and i wil be able to talk to you all again. man things are going great. the brazilians celebrbrate the birthdays the same way but here the birthday person pays for everything. weird. but i told them that i am american so they are going to pay for it. ha. we have tons of investigators going too. it should be awesome.
On that note, this week we were doing a division with other missionaries and i took this punk kid to my area. i guess president knows that i would whip him into shape....anyways we taught like 94 lessons and we found two GOLDEN baptisms. that was last saturday. anywys they went to church on sunday and we went there monday and marked their baptisms for this sunday. all in a weeek. it is hard to do that with all the mission rules like they have to go to church 2 times and stuff. but i am so excited. we are finding people through the most awesome ways. there is an article in the september ensign about everone being a missionary. everyone should go back and read it. it talks about being a missinoary for life. well the members here are taking it to heart finally. we are doing a intergration activity too on wednesdays to get the people pumped up. plus english class which keeps growing day in and out. tons going on.
so i am like a month from a year! crazy. it is such a weird feeling. it just means that i have less time left to save as many people as i can. i love the gospel. i just thirst to share my testimony. many people think that missionaries are so much different but really we aren't. we just pray study and we OPEN OUR MOUTHS. that is the difference. you have to talk to everyone because you do not know who is going to accept the gospel and who is not. that is on e of the biggest factors.
but sorry i have to run. i am so busy today. cleaning house, making a huge lemon merang pie and writting in my journal. you should all start that. it will bless your childerns lives and reach into the generations.
thanks a ton...and guess what i am not a teenager anymore! ha.
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elder gatten
13 years ago
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