Transfer Day!

Well today is transfer day and the big news is that I or my companion will not get transfered:) Excelent news for me because my companion is amazing. We work so well together and are both really excited for alot of sucess in the next few weeks. Elder Del Pino is going home in 6 weeks and is starting to get a bit itchy but he will be fine and will work really hard the next few weeks. This week was crazy. We seemed to run around all week. Saturdayday night when my companion and I layed down to sleep we were sore on every single muscle. LITERALLY. but we were so happy too! Lets go over the weeks news...

Monday was supposed to be our P-Day but we ended up working pretty much the whole time. There is an investigator, that got baptised this week, and she needed food cause she doesnt have money (her husband died). so it spent alot of time to get that done and it was long from the house so we decided to just keep working. It was a great day!

On Tuesday we were able to visit a district meeting and help them with district friend, where all the missionaries work in the same area. I worked with Elder Roberts from Riverton. He lives with us. It was a great day and we were able to find lots of new investigators for the other area. Tuesday night we got a call from our investigator Fransisco. He asked us to come over the next day for a urgent issue.

Wednesday came around and we were really nervous to know what he was talking about. We passed by there at the time requested and he told us that he was two weeks without a job. Worse than that is that he was getting in fights with his wife and needed help!! Well Fransisco is a hard guy to teach. He gets blessings and answers but doesnt show his gratitude by keeping the comandments and his blessings get taken away. We talked to him a bit and I think that we helped a bit but it wasnt what he needed. 

The next day we went there with the bishop to talk about mairage (beucase my companion and I have no idea what were talking about) and about obedience. Fransisco promised to go to church but didnt make it. Its kinda frustrating but were just planning on putting it in Gods hands. Were not sure how much longer we will keep teaching him.

Also on Thursday we were able to teach lots of people and find alot of new investigators including 4 new families. Were excited to teach and help them. One of them is Andre who is a 25 year old guy that is studing Chineese but has some weird thoughts about religion. he will pray and ask god if he needs to be baptised.

Saturday came around and we were preparing for the baptism of Loeci that was taken place on Sunday. Elder Ritz and his companion Elder Hyatt slept at our house and gave the baptism interview Saturday morning. All went well. Than on saturday we went to two areas and helped them work a bit because their areas wernt having alot of sucess. Basically we walked in the road allll day long trying to find people for them to teach:) I hope they were greatful of our work...

Sunday was the baptism and it went great. It was also the Primary Program and the 2 kids of our investigator Adriana were able to help and sing along. And heres a surprise,,, the missionaries helped in the program too!!! We sang if the savior stood beside me. It was a bit strange to sing with the primary but I liked it, it brought back alot of good childhood memories:) I just imagined watching my dad sitting below trying to hold back all the tears hahahaha..

So basically thats the news for this week! Transfer day is tomorrow and we have a confrence with One of the Area Presidency. It will be a great meeting, the president is really excited for it.

Happy Halloween!!!

Elder Horst

One of our districts.

Shortest to tallest:  Elder Del Pino, Elder Roberts, Elder Berry, Elder Ritz, Elder Oliveira, Elder Horst, Elder Hyatt, Elder Trifitt

Tallest to shortest:  Elder Trifitt, Elder Hyatt, Elder Horst, Elder Oliveira, Elder Ritz, Elder Berry, Elder Roberts, Elder Del Pino

Lazanha!

A bird pooped on me!

The baptism of Loeci!

Trip to the Temple

Well im trying to send some photos but its raining really hard outside and the internet speed here at the internet cafe is really slow so we will see how it goes. 

This past week was really great for my companion. The problem is that it passed so dang quickly! I cant believe that it passed so fast and im a bit nervous that next week will be even faster. My companion and I are running to do everything we can but it seems like there isnt enough time to get it all done! Were working really hard on trying to manage my time better to accomplish all of our goals and duties.

On tuesday we had zone confrence. it was a really interesting meeting and I was able to learn alot about how I can improve my work and be a better missionary with a better focus on the work. It seemed like the whole zone liked it and we all left wanting to be better. The zone is having troubles with a few things. They are all working hard but it seems that some are getting conforable and not always pushing to do better. Were working hard on fixing that.

On wednesday we took a trip to the temple. It was a marvelous session as usual. The temple is such a beautiful place and just being aroud it is a great feeling. We took a lot of good pictures that I hope I can send to you.

On Saturday I was able to go to my old area São Tomé to see the baptisms of a few boys that I found and taught while I was there. It was so awesome to see everyone again and the baptism was really special. The elders are still working on the mom and dad to get baptised and also their older brother.. but they will come along and get baptised in no time. I was able to see huge differences in them since a year ago when I saw them,  (see photos below)

This saturday our friend Loeci will get baptised. I am really excited to get her baptised because she stoped smoking and drinking coffee last week and has been doing great! Im really proud of her and hope that she keeps it up so she can be baptised.

Adriana is progressing but I dont understand why shes not baptsed yet. She has such a strong testimony, goes to church every week, keeps the commandments, gives us dinner every week;) She is just having a hard time with one personal problem thats holding her back. I know that she will get baptised soon, we are just being pacient until she is ready.

My companion Elder Del Pino will return home in December and he will probably stay with me in the area until than. We are working really hard and making really high goals to keep him focused and ready to work!! He is a great companion!

I hope that everyone has a great week!

Love,

Elder Horst

This is a sister whom Elder Horst got to know and love in Sao Tome, an area that he served in a year ago.

A year ago while serving in Sao Tome, my companion and I had the opportunity to find and teach these three young men and their families.  We baptized their sister, Linda.

This photo shows the fruits of baptism, such a cool photo.

After I was transferred, the sisters taught this family and when they were transferred, the elders taught them :)  The mission president allowed us all to travel and attend their baptism.

The sister teachers!

Nata (red shirt) will be baptized in a few weeks and the mom (red hair) will be baptized when she gets married :)

Zone Conference

This week was once again an awesome week for the work! My companion and i worked really hard to help our investigators and it turned out to be a really uplifting week. heres the recap...

Tuesday was our zone training. My companion and I did a really good job motivating and teaching the zone. Our zone is really great. All the missionaries work hard to do everything that they can. During the meeting President had interviews with us, Interviews with the president are always uplifting. After the interviews, The mission president and the Stake President went on divisions with us. It was pretty cool being able to work with the ``Big guns´´ all day long. The stake President and my companion went to an investigator and marked a baptism and I stayed with the president. President interviewed a lady who lives in our area who had visits from the missionaries 15 years ago. This lady had a few abortions in her past and the missionaries told her that she could never be forgiven for this. She held on to that for fifteen years. President had an interview with her, said sorry, and explained how she was forgiven by the Lord. For now she doesnt want to be baptised,, but maybe one day.

We have been having great success finding people to teach in the road. Here are two examples.

I was walking down the road and felt inspired to talk to Eva. I talked about the gospel of Christ and how we all need to be baptised. She said that she was already baptised but wanted to be baptised again! We went back on Friday to teach her and things went really well. She wants sooo bad to be baptised and she said that she feels the spirit so strongly around us. I know that things will go well for her. Im excited to help her get baptised.

Another day I was on a division with the assistant Elder Bordoli (from Argentina). We saw a young girl shoveling dirt with her mom and asked if we could help. After talking to them for a few minutes they let us do the work. After we moved the small pile of dirt, we were able to teach them a lesson and invite them to be baptised. The girls name is Kathlyn. She is 15 and has a 1 year old baby. She told us that she always wanted her baby to get baptised in the mormon church when he grows up so were excited to help HER get baptised in the church too. Im sure everything will go well with her.

One of my investigators in Agronomia got baptised this week!! I hope that I get a photo to show you how it went:)

Have a great week!

Elder Horst

General Conference

General Confrence was super awesome this week! I hope that all of you were able to hear the words of the prophet and i hope that all of you have a strong desire to follow his council.

This week went by really quick and my companion and I had a really hard time balancing work in our area and helping the other missionaries. We were only able to work in our area for 2 full days. That makes it really hard to help our investigators. Beacuse of that, a few investigators stopped progressing and we didnt have anyone come to church. Thats okay though because the zone made huge progress this week that was really impressive. Also, we have big plans for this week that includes a division with the Assistants, Stake PResident, and President of the Mission. So that will help our area tons:)

We had a baptism planned for this saturday but the girl wants to wait a little longer. She is such a strong investigator but she is dealing with a separation so that is makingthings really hard. She will get baptised but its just gonna take a bit longer than what we were hoping for!

Today we have a plan of making pancakes and playing Brazils version of Risk called WAR that is alot faster because there are less countries. It will be lots of fun. Tuesday we have interviews with President that is always great!

Until next week!

Elder Horst