Elder Horst : A Very Busy Week!

Well this week has seemed to fly by. Alot of things have happened. Lets start with Tuesday. Tuesday I went on a division with Elder Gull. Elder Gull is a district Leader here in our zone. I like him because he is a really hard worker and has good vision for his district. It was my week to leave the area so I was able to work in his area.

Wednesday was a full day because I had my first Zone Leader Meeting. The name has been changed to Leader of the mission Meeting because now we have sister Leaders! They arent like zone leaders, but they take care of all the sisters in the missionary. I like the idea! It was a very spiritual and productive meeting. I truly learned alot on how to be a better missionary and leader. For lunch, President took us out to a nice restaurant with all you can eat churrasco! It was super yummy!

Reunited with my best friend, Elder Henderson :)

Thursday, the Asistants to the President wanted to do a division with us. I went to their area and one of them came to mine. it was TONS of fun! The assistants work in a really hard area. Downtown Porto Alegre. Its really hard for them to have investigators cause there are no doors to knock and nobody in the road acutallly live in their area! We spent some time finding some less active families. It was good sucess. At 5 we had to hurry home. Brazil has been having lots of riots and protests lately. They had one planned that day and we decided to go home when we saw thousands of police men on the road. It was fun to see, but im glad we didnt get stuck in the middle of it. The next day, roads and businesses were destroyed from the violence. Its kinda sad the lack of respect that some people have.

Playing checkers with orange peels, orange vs white!

Saturday and Sunday were major days of sucess! Sunday it rained but that didnt stop us and we ended the week with 7 baptisms marked! Ill talk a bit about them

First of all, Alan e Debora. They are really perfect investigators. They are getting married on the 15th and getting baptised on the 20th. They are reading the Book of Mormon every night and praying. They are doing lots of missionary work and never miss a week of church! Im really excited for their baptism. They have two kids, One with 3 year and one with just a month.

The other baptisms that we have are from knocking doors. We are working really hard to animate and encourage our areas. Thanks for all your help and support.

Love,

Elder Horst

Me and my companion, Elder Miller.