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| Elder Paynter, Elder Rojas, Elder Cochran, and Elder Sanio.
"It's
our home, yeah we share it together. So much fun! And we have to paint soon
too ha ha so it'll change buts it’s a blast. We have a lime tree in the back
too so we have limeade
every morning. I want to plant a lime tree at home."
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| Elder Paynter and Elder Liesmann |
Well I am super jealous
of you and Dad, I am just so excited to get to know my niece and hold her for
the first time. If she will let me!
I just got done studying "The Family: A Proclamation to the
World" and wow. I can’t tell you how grateful I am for you and dad. For
the examples that you have been in honoring your covenants with the Lord and
with one another and for all of the love you two have given our family. I couldn't hold back
some tears while I thought about how blessed I am to have the most wonderful
parents in the world, and I don’t know why I am so lucky or why God let me be
your son but I thank him every day and every night for allowing me to be raised
by you and dad. I absolutely love you two and hope one day I can find a wife
like you mom, and be a father like dad. I love you both so much, and hope you
have such an amazing week full of happiness and miracles. I am sorry this is so
short but I got to run soon! I love you so much mom! Thanks for everything!
Dad,
Thanks so
much for the email. There’s nothing better than to hear from paps. Well this
week was the craziest most unorganized week of my mission, and therefore it wasn't the best but it still went well and now that we had a little time to
plan and organize this coming week it will be pretty good! We had to leave to
the Campinas for what we thought would be our mission tour, but turns out it
was Elder Evans and his wife giving us a three hour talk. In three to four
weeks we will have our mission tour. Elder Evans is the executive leader of
missionary department for the church. Pretty close to the 12. And he had his
wife speak first, and guess what she spoke about? Marriage, guess what he spoke
about? Marriage. Guess how many missionaries were trunky after that talk. All
of Missão Brasil Campinas. I even think President Perrotti got trunky. Ha-ha
just kidding. But his wife told an awesome story and said how she believes that
us missionaries knew our mission presidents before we came on earth and we made
a pact with them to work hard together to build the kingdom of God. It was
really cool, and Elder Evans talked about how we have a Heavenly Mother and the
importance of working with families and helping them to get to the temple, not
just to baptism. It was pretty cool stuff, but yeah there was a lot of cheesy
marriage stuff that isn’t too motivating for missionaries who can’t even think
about marriage for a while. Ha-ha He told a story about how he was at a
fireside and Elder Scott the apostle was speaking and he asked Elder Evans how
long it took him to get married after he came home from the mission, Elder
Evans said three months. Elder Scott got mad at him for taking so long because
Elder Scott got married seven days after he got home.
So we had spent a lot of time
in Campinas this week and unfortunately that lady's baptism fell through and
yeah. It was pretty sad to hear. But we did our best and she is well aware of
what that means for her.
We got
home Wednesday night from Campinas and worked with a lot of appointments that
had fallen through. Then we got a call that an area in our zone needed an
interview, so we spent Friday night and Saturday morning out of our area to do
an interview, and it was a pretty cool experience. It was a girl that was
fourteen and she had an awesome testimony of the church, and we went and
visited a recent convert in the area too and her conversion story was
incredible. She was sick for seven months and doctors didn’t know what to do
with her, she could only eat steamed vegetables with a tiny bit of salt and an
apple without the skin. But the missionaries gave her a blessing and the very
second it ended she was cured and went and ate normal food and the doctors
didn’t believe her when she told them it had gone away. They doctors ran the
exams and she was cured. It was really cool.
Then
we came back home and worked really hard on Saturday but it we didn’t have too
much luck. We had no investigators in church on Sunday too, but we decided to
cut our investigators that weren’t progressing and we have some great plans
this week. Three family home evenings, and tonight I am cooking tapioca for
everyone! So it’s going to be great! This week was excellent and I was able to
see so many miracles Dad. Thanks so much for all you do for me and for the
email! I love you so so much! Have a great week and be so safe ok!
Elder Paynter
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