Baptize!!

Mom,

the week went by really really well. things are gettting better.

im just here to baptize people. i dont care about anything else. ya ill reactivate a couple here and there but i dont think people understand, our duty is to baptize. d and c 20:73 says it clearly, an elders calling is to baptize. i show up here in this area, they have only have had 2 baptisms in the last six months, im like whats going on here, good ward and good area and only 2 baptisms. i baptized that in the first two weeks, bishop gets all scared and now he doesnt trust me cause i wanna baptize people! he made a rule that we can only baptize on saturday nights! in our mission someone has to go to church 2 times then they can be baptized. so if i take someone to church on sunday, they can be baptized on the next Sunday after church and thats how it goes, always always always baptize people on the second sunday but if they dont get baptized but they have been to church two times, you can baptize them anyday. so in order to baptize on saturdays you have to work with someone for three weeks! you have to take them to church twice then baptize on the next saturday the week after. i just dont understand this man, i do what im called to do, he doesnt help at all in the baptisms, (hes never once left to teach with me) then he just slaps a huge rule like that. this guy is scared of baptisms and i dont know why? he thinks he can choose who is going to be saved! ill still baptize people though!

this week our mission baptized 53 people. thats a lot of people baptized haha! its the new mission record for baptisms in a week.

dont send the package then, transfers happen next week. i think im going to stay here one or two more but you never can know, the Lord might just call me to another area here in a little bit. maybe at the end of this transfer i will leave. theres a lot of elders going away this next two transfers. theres a high chance i wont train again!!! there was 14 american missionaries that were supposed to come to our mission this next wek and only one got his visa so only 1 will come and 2 sisters. yes! i have a 1 and 140 chance of training again!!! they are going to send all the american elders from our mission to serve in the los angeles mission until they get there visas but heres the best part, the government didnt even let them start there visas yet. they arent gonna show up here for another 6 months haha. yes! no training americans for a while!!! elder frietas goes home next week. elder freitas is the one that trained me remember, hes finally finishing the mission.

youre talking about that Leban guy from the shop. i dont know him but i do know that Jesus Blesses all lives that follow Him. it wouldnt hurt anybody to take him to church. same thing with baptism, if  an 8 year old child that lives 20 miles from the church and has no family that are members or want to be,but wants to be baptized,  its not gonna hurt the child to baptize him, if anything youre just setting him up for something better in the future. thats my motto. our missions gonna go to the top this year. were gonna be the highest baptizing mission in the world.

Wow,  you’ve got a powerful testimony mom! i hope you two are doing everything you can to help riley and cambria and may the Lord bless you and dad in your work with them. remember, scripture study, family prayer, and family night are more of an impact on a childs life then any other source of entertainment or sports team.

I LOVE YOU ALLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Elder Bennett

o ya i forgot, this week we showed up on t.v. here in the state. look us up on the internet, i talked on the program, im a star mom! i made it on t.v.! look me up, its a program called Tarobá and the program was called Vitrine. the site is www.taroba.com.br and you should choose Vitrine for program then Tarobá for the channel. i heard ive already been put up for an oscar this year.

 

Dad,

im doing awesom!

sounds like you two had some fun in the snow. cambria is a pretty funny little girl. i hope she is finally starting to gain some confidence in school and with other things she does. i love that litttle girl!

this week our mission baptized 53 people! thats the most the missions ever baptized in a week! haha presidente tavares is super excited also! the results came in, for the year of 2012 our mission baptized 11th in brazil of 27 missions. thats really really good becuase our mission is in the south and all the missions that baptize the most are from the north. were starting off the year good now! before presidente tavares got here, our mission was 24th and 25th of 27 misssions so you can see the improvement were making with him. he preaches repentance to us like its nobodys business. he is crazy about us repenting. even though we baptized 53 this week he´ll still probably tell us to repent for this last months work haha.

were getting better as a team. its not really a team yet though cause you cant have a team with only one person doing evertything but in our team i really do put the "i" in team. hes gettin better though. love you dad, thanks for all the support in my life, not everyone gets a dad as special as you.