Wow how the time flies by! I can't believe it is already December and that thanksgiving has already flown by! I'd like to start out and say what I'm thankful for, which is my family! Not to be biased or anything but we do have the best family in the world! Sometimes i sit and wonder what i did to deserve such a blessing! I want you to know how much i love each of you!!
This week on Thursday, Thanksgiving, we had a multi-zone conference which was super awesome. President Costa from the Brazil presidency was supposed to come, but the day before he had to cancel so it was just a normal multi-zone conference with a Thanksgiving meal, or kinda. haha! We had the typical rice and beans but with a couple pieces of turkey mixed in! For dessert we did get pumpkin and apple pie! Oh man, that really hit the spot! It was fun for sure! At this meeting they shared the new Christmas video which is so flippen awesome! Dad mentioned that the missionaries had shown the video to you guys but if you havent watched it yet, you have to! Then share it with everyone! it is such an great video and reminds us of really why we have chirstmas and all the traditions! As missionaries, we will be using this video a ton and we have a bunch of pass along cards to give to everyone so that they can know that HE is the gift! or Ele é o presente here in Brasil! Share this video with everyone. It brings the spirit super strong!
Here is the link for the video Nick is referencing: http://www.mormon.org/christmas
This week as well we had stake conference which was super good! Elder Mazegarde from the presidency of Brasil came and President Dalton, as well was there which was super awesome! Saturday night it was about missionary work and elder Mazgarde sent the 38 missionaries along with 40 some odd members out to the streets to do contacts for 20 minutes! It was pretty sweet and everyone came back super excited to do missionary work! Sunday was great as well and it was packed! I was happy that we were able to bring 4 investigators to church! Seeing that our stake is like an hour away from Cipo and we had to take the bus, it was a good turn out! Lucas´ parents went which was super awesome and they liked it a ton! They have to get married too so it will be a longer process, but they are progressing way well after this week!
I got my chirstmas package, mom! President Dalton brought it to the conference but after the meeting we taught one of our investigators, Toni, and President thought I had left so he sent the package with our zone leaders! Oh boy. But it arrived. I just don't have it in my hands yet! I haven't found a family yet that we can help but I will keep up the search. I don't know when we will be able to skype. I think they will talk to us about that on the 15th, when we have our mission Christmas get together so ill keep you updated on that!
My new comp is elder H. silva ffrom Alagoas Brazil! He arrived from the mtc on thursday and will be staying in the sao paulo interlagos mission! He's pretty quiet but he's way awesome! He will like cipo for sure!!
That's about all I've got for ya! Make sure you watch and study that video and pray for someone who is in need of hearing our message! A lady bore her testimony yesterday about how the missionaries challenged her to pray for a family and she accepted, but when she got an answer to her prayer, the family lived super far away and she couldn't even help the missionaries in her ward, but still was able to share the message with the family, and everyone was baptized and sealed in the temple! Pray and you all will have at least one person to share this glorious gift with!! The church is so true!!!
Love
Elder Holmes
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