It's the Lord's time!!

Feb. 20th 2012

 I am doing great here in the land of Paineiras Sorocaba Brasil. I am loving this work and with every coming day I am loving the hard things about this place more and more and the people too. I secretly hope that when I get back Joseph and I get called as home teaching companions and we get to teach all the inactive families or families that arent members. Ahhh.. my dream to do that!

 Wanna be home teaching companions 

I know that the skills I learn as a missionary are not only for the people of Brasil. 

Well its Carnival here so things are... interesting... but surprisingly enough my area is good cuz a lot of people don't like it.  I was able to give a blessing to the bishops wife cuz he is gone on the campout the youth do during carnival and I guess she is all better, it was really awesome!! 
We met two news at English class one which I think we might get a date for next week and the other lives in another area... :( I hate passing references of goldens ha ha.
 Elder Guthrie and I were walking down this street after lunch and I had to use the restroom VERY bad, I told the Lord listen I am going to need your help to make it home dry.  Then as if to say listen your on MY TIME here not yours, he sends E----(the fellow that dreamed about us.) walking up the street. He runs up to us yelling "I can't believe it, I can't believe it so much has happened to me since I last talked to you guys. Come back to my house! ANYWAY.... we taught him the restoration and got him to pray at the end and he was crying when I bore my testimony it was pretty tight. AND I made it home dry, cuz the lord kept his deal with me but it was close though. 
I got to bless the sacrament and I said it in Portuguese.. obviously ha, it was scary though but it was tight. I flippin love this! ALMA 29:9 the scripture for this week!!!
Oh we were eating dinner and this lady choked and it was scary and crazy ha but that's another story.       Elder Vincent (adam)

I have feelings that protect me.

Feb. 13th 2012 

You would be surprised how many times I feel feelings of what to do and not to do. Feelings that tell me to look over my shoulder one more time to see if the road is clear and just in time to stop myself from getting hit. The streets and drivers here are a little crazy, when I get back I will show you a scuff on the back heel of my shoe from a car tire. Ha ha.  My spirits are great.  I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the Book of Mormon!! I literally pour myself over it.  

My hair :(  yes sadly ... I AM GOING BALD. Ahhhhhh!!! :(

I gave my first full (1st and 2nd part) blessing of healing a few days.  I was afraid to heal him cuz he was having this problem for years but the spirit kept saying just to heal him and tell him he would be healed like three different times so I did and when it was all done he looked at me with tears in his eyes and was like Thank you so much, I can't feel it anymore I was like... whoa... your welcome! and he just sat down on the couch like it was nothing. 

    My Portuguese is great-people have told me that my accent is gone, however I do not feel fluent yet but blessings and confirmations aren't a problem anymore for me.

     We are now teaching an English class-it went great! Its weird to speak two language.

Feb. 6th 2012

     Well folks, I weigh a whoppin' 175, and I am gaining weight, I don't know how that's happening.   I walk like 5 miles a day. I think it's all these baptizing muscles... sigh...

Yes I baptized G------ on Saturday, our golden. Sad that he isn't our investigator anymore, he's a member now but still way cool. I baptized him and he was crying! In the service we watched the restoration, then the first counselor J----,played a song on the guitar for g------ about the first time he was baptized it was like no other baptism I've ever been to! He played the song he wrote and at the end instead of sitting down looked at everyone and said in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.  I realized the song was his testimony! G------ gave me the biggest hug and he said thank you so much-just lookin' at me.... I felt really mature, it was weird... I'm not used to that feeling!!! haha just kidding. 

    We are going to teach an english class! What a blessing to know two languages and this will bring us MANY news (new investigators) Thats what's up Brasilian missinoaries!  I know English!!! Muah ha ha!!.

     I almost fell into a cement hole! Here in brasil instead of manholes in the street they have these cement squares on the sidewalk to get in the sewer, anyway I stepped on one and it was crooked and I fell in but caught myself with my other foot and I was walking so fast I kinda just fell in front of it.... it was pretty lucky ha ha.  I just kept on walking almost without a break cuz I was reading something interesting to elder guthrie.. I met this guy named A------- that I think John baptized or taught, he stopped the car and yelled at me.  It scared me. He was like I know your brother really well but I'm way inactive! (people here sometimes don't act like its a bad thing at all cuz the church is still new)  

Elder Vincent

Blessings of musical talents. :)

Jan. 30th 2012

Adam writes that Mom is on the same spiritual wave because she tells him all the stuff to do and he's already doing it.  :)  He feels better about the language.  Says he hit another bread through because he's starting to talk in his sleep.  Portuguese.  He says that he knows that it is a miracle and that he is not smart enough to learn this on his own.  

He said that it rained straight for 24 hours and he has never in his life seen so much rain.

This is Joseph showing you what Adam eats every day.

He was amazed that Joseph eats the same diet as him.  WOW.  Except that a sweet Sister in their ward brings them food.    

"Had the opportunity to do some solid contacting this week ha ha. We were walking by one house and there was music playing way loud and it was a song I Iliked from home so I said aww elder lets knock this house- turns out it was a woman with two kids who wants to hear more ha ha. YES!! Man I miss music."   

     "I almost had to play the simplified version of Ye Elders of Israel this week for sacrament meeting I'm like, 'hold up, I don't know how to play!' ha ha it was scary, but sometimes I lead the ward, which is crazy, they seem to think I am musically talented. I was very thankful for the little musical skill I had."

Thanks for all you guys do. Love you so much!