22 September 2010

It was good to hear from both Dad and Lyn this week. Sounds like exciting things are happening in Santa Maria. It sounds like Lizzie is way busy (busier than I was, that’s for sure) but that she’s having a great time. It sounds like she’s involved with pretty much everything.

Things here in the center of Curitiba are going well. We have been having great success motivating the members to give references to the missionaries. As a consequence we are teaching much more with the members, which leads to a much richer (and lasting) conversion. Wagner received the Priesthood two weeks ago, and he already blessed the sacrament last week. He’s looking forward to receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood and going to the temple soon. Priscila has been making a lot of friends at church, and the both of them are really anticipating the day when Yuri, their three-month-old son will come home from church singing Primary songs.

Elder Treasure and I are still really excited to be companions. We’vebeen throwing around a lot of ideas for our area and our zone which we will implement shortly.

My testimony of prayer was strengthened this week when we were late for a lunch appointment. We marked with the sister to eat at 11:30 because we were going to be close by, and she had an appointment at 1:00. Well, we ended up being about 3 miles away at 11:30 when we caught the bus. Normally, the bus would have taken us to a stop about 15 walking minutes from the sister’s house, and we would have arrived at the stop at about 12:00. I was praying during the whole bus trip that we could arrive faster to our destination so as to keep the sister’s trust. Well, it just so happened that an extra bus driver was on the bus and he got off almost exactly where the sister’s street was, and we took advantage of the situation to ask if we could descend, too. To make a long story short, we got to lunch at 12:00, the sister didn’t get mad, and I know that Heavenly Father answers our prayers when we do our part.

Until next week,

Elder Floyd