August 8. 2011
Mommy,
This week has been good! The baptism was really good! The members here are really great with baptisms and they are always really excited about somebody getting baptized! One of the sisters in our ward made a huge cake and the bishop and his wife brought stuff for hotdogs. The hotdogs are a little different here. They cut the hotdogs into little pieces and make a thick soup and put the soup on the bread. It is actually really good! Somebody else also brought a lot of soda and stuff so it was like a mini party! The baptism was really good. He asked one of the members to do it so we were really happy about that! I think I told you but Marco has been going to church for about a year and a half now so all the members already love him and were super excited for him!
Roman is still going to get baptized this week! We are super excited for it! Maybe his brother will get to baptize him because he has been a member for a while. It is fun teaching him because he is learning Portuguese just like me. He is learning a lot faster than me because of his Spanish! So sometimes he says a lot of Spanish words mixed in with Portuguese! It’s really funny! I was thinking about it and realized that you all should have been Spanish speakers so that I could learn Portuguese faster! Why did you not all speak Spanish... hahahahah
I learned something really cool in church yesterday. The teacher was talking about the spirit and that we need to be ready to feel the influence of the spirit. He compared us to a pan of water and that the spirit was the fire underneath and if we are ready (luke warm water) we will feel the influence of the spirit a lot faster. But if we are not ready (cold water) it will take a long time for the spirit to talk to us! It was so cool! I love to learn things like that because I have never thought about it like that! Have you?
We had a division last week on Tuesday because we found out that all district leaders and trainers needed to go to this meeting. And since Elder Taylor is our district leader and we had to teach Roman that we would do a division. So he went with Elder Soleburg and I went with Elder Laws. Elder Soleburg is training Elder Laws. So I have more time In Brazil then he has on his mission. I was really scared because I was the one in the companionship that could speak more Portuguese. I had to do most of the talking! I was so scared! But it went fine we taught him and he understood the lesson that we taught him about the law of chastity and the word of wisdom. I felt really good about it and know that God helped me with that one!
Love Ya!
Elder Vaughn
This week has been good! The baptism was really good! The members here are really great with baptisms and they are always really excited about somebody getting baptized! One of the sisters in our ward made a huge cake and the bishop and his wife brought stuff for hotdogs. The hotdogs are a little different here. They cut the hotdogs into little pieces and make a thick soup and put the soup on the bread. It is actually really good! Somebody else also brought a lot of soda and stuff so it was like a mini party! The baptism was really good. He asked one of the members to do it so we were really happy about that! I think I told you but Marco has been going to church for about a year and a half now so all the members already love him and were super excited for him!
Roman is still going to get baptized this week! We are super excited for it! Maybe his brother will get to baptize him because he has been a member for a while. It is fun teaching him because he is learning Portuguese just like me. He is learning a lot faster than me because of his Spanish! So sometimes he says a lot of Spanish words mixed in with Portuguese! It’s really funny! I was thinking about it and realized that you all should have been Spanish speakers so that I could learn Portuguese faster! Why did you not all speak Spanish... hahahahah
I learned something really cool in church yesterday. The teacher was talking about the spirit and that we need to be ready to feel the influence of the spirit. He compared us to a pan of water and that the spirit was the fire underneath and if we are ready (luke warm water) we will feel the influence of the spirit a lot faster. But if we are not ready (cold water) it will take a long time for the spirit to talk to us! It was so cool! I love to learn things like that because I have never thought about it like that! Have you?
We had a division last week on Tuesday because we found out that all district leaders and trainers needed to go to this meeting. And since Elder Taylor is our district leader and we had to teach Roman that we would do a division. So he went with Elder Soleburg and I went with Elder Laws. Elder Soleburg is training Elder Laws. So I have more time In Brazil then he has on his mission. I was really scared because I was the one in the companionship that could speak more Portuguese. I had to do most of the talking! I was so scared! But it went fine we taught him and he understood the lesson that we taught him about the law of chastity and the word of wisdom. I felt really good about it and know that God helped me with that one!
Love Ya!
Elder Vaughn
Mommy,
I do remember when I started my paper work. It’s the first step of signing your life away to Heavenly Father! So it’s kind of a big deal. Be patient with Ryan, I know that he will serve a mission.
I do remember when I started my paper work. It’s the first step of signing your life away to Heavenly Father! So it’s kind of a big deal. Be patient with Ryan, I know that he will serve a mission.
That sucks that he has to get his wisdom teeth taken out soon! I feel bad for him because he actually has more than one. Is it two or three that he has? He should have been more "wise" like me and only had one! hahahahahahaha
This week has been good! We marked two dates! One of the guys is 26 and his name is Marco. He has been going to church on and off for like a year and a half! We started teaching him three weeks ago. One day he told us that he did not really believe in God. Then a couple of days latter the Bishop calls us and tells us that Marco said to him that he wants to get baptized! We were like ok whatever Bishop, but we marked an appointment with him and we talked to him about Baptism and then we asked him if he had any questions at the end. His question was "when can I get baptized?" I could not believe what I was hearing!! So we have been seeing him almost every day since then getting him ready for Baptism! We have to make sure that he is keeping the commandments and so forth... but the best part of his whole story is that after the lesson on baptism his prayers changed! He actually prayed about something one day and now he knows that it is all true! Hearing his changed prayer was so cool!!! I have said it before but to see the gospel change people’s lives is amazing! He is going to get baptized on Saturday!
The other date we have is for a boy named Roman, he and his family are fromPeru
Well everything inBrazil
Love ya!!
Elder Vaughn
This week has been good! We marked two dates! One of the guys is 26 and his name is Marco. He has been going to church on and off for like a year and a half! We started teaching him three weeks ago. One day he told us that he did not really believe in God. Then a couple of days latter the Bishop calls us and tells us that Marco said to him that he wants to get baptized! We were like ok whatever Bishop, but we marked an appointment with him and we talked to him about Baptism and then we asked him if he had any questions at the end. His question was "when can I get baptized?" I could not believe what I was hearing!! So we have been seeing him almost every day since then getting him ready for Baptism! We have to make sure that he is keeping the commandments and so forth... but the best part of his whole story is that after the lesson on baptism his prayers changed! He actually prayed about something one day and now he knows that it is all true! Hearing his changed prayer was so cool!!! I have said it before but to see the gospel change people’s lives is amazing! He is going to get baptized on Saturday!
The other date we have is for a boy named Roman, he and his family are from
Well everything in
Love ya!!
Elder Vaughn
