i loved watching the video of him
opening his call! haha he looked like a little boy on Christmas morning! im
very grateful that he is going, hes an awesome example to his family and to all
of us! berlin germany has got a BIG problem and its name is Elder Aust! vamo
que vamo!!!
german is the only language
on this whole entire planet ive wanted to learn!!! the next couple years are
enormous for the family. can you feel the work of the Lord! can you all feel
the Lords Hands sculpting the whole family! aunty sheryl wants to go to the
temple, do everything possible for her to enter there! a member once told me
that people get baptized because the testimony they have of the restauration of
the gospel, but people stay active on there testimony of the plan of salvation.
i know that when she can see with her own eyes the powerful and extraordinary
sealing ordinances made in the temple, she will return. i know that uncle Danny
is prepared and that he only waits to be sealed to his family. uncle Danny has
to be crying tears of joy to see his son going out to preach the gospel! he
only waits for his ordinances to be done!
dakota recieved the
melchezidek priesthood also, now stuff just got real. sounds like home life was
fantastic this week and everyones happy, i almost cried watching the video! its
really cool to watch people open there calls! when riley opens his were going
ape! i want fireworks and backup dancers.
the branch
had a party on saturday, the theme was western, let me just say that jeans,
cowboy boots and square dancing is where im supposed to be in my life. im going
square dancing after the mish, and i will also be turning into a cowboy. this
is all.
well
the big story here in apucarana this week is that there was young boys walking
on the sidewalk on tuesday and a big diesel truck came out of nowhere killing 2
of them instantly and the 3rd was able to get away. the truck was going uphill
when the motor just died and the truck started going downhill and the driver
lost control and killed the little boys and destroyed the wall behind them. it
was ugly. one of the boys that was killed in this freak accident is Guilherme
Justino Ferreira Bueno, our little recent convert. we baptized him in may. he
was only 9 years old. we were shocked when we showed up in the neighborhood and
everyone was in the street talking about it, we asked some lady on the street
and she told us that it was little Guilherme. we couldnt believe it. we had
just been at his house on sunday when we taught him and his friend and he said
the last prayer. we told him that one day he was going to serve a mission and
that hed baptize a ton of people and he said alright ill go. he was loving the church,
everytime we saw him he always asked if thered be church on sunday. he gave a
lot of trouble to sit still in church but when there was a hymn to be sung, he
was there singing, little bear loved the hymns haha. we called him little bear
also, that little devil cussed everyone out in that neighborhood and everyone
loved him for that, sometimes hed say really funny things though. he never once
swore at us, he was always really respectful to us. his mom asked us to sing at
his funeral, so we sang God be with you till we meet again, im pretty sure we
even showed up on the local news also. we got invited to his burial service
also, it was really cool his grandma, who is randomly budhist, saw us and said,
guilherme got baptized in your church and he was liking it alot, im grateful
that he baptized in your church. it was such an awesome comment! we printed out
the pics of the baptisms and gave them to his mom, grandma and other relatives.
people wave and honk at us more now because of the hymn we sang at the funeral,
i feel like im a part of the community here, i love these people alot.
brazilians are cool. ive got the pictures from the accident and his funeral, we
also dedicated his grave site and left a picture with him, he was our little
bear. i found solace though in the ressurrection and Atonement of Jesus Christ.
good thing we baptized him so young huh, thats why we baptize children because
we cant put off the day of repentance!
Dad,
im proud of everyone! lifes in cloud
nine these days it seems! the zone is baptizing pretty well lately so were
pretty excited about that.
dakota is going to
berlin then, good thing hes been taking german all high school cause thats
gonna be a rough language. before he gets home ill be speaking german with him
i promise! hope that everyone is staying safe there, my little recent convert
died this week, a diesel truck hit him, it was a really tragic and crazy story
this week but everyones already moved on. my knee has been bothering me a lot
this last week so im going to the doctor to do an x ray to see if theres a
serious problem. sometimes i wake up in the night with so much pain like last
night but ill get through it. apucarana is the highest elevated city in the
whole entire state, its literally built on mountains which means that im always
going up and down hills. its the down hill that kills my right knee. like i
said, the Lords got something prepared though!! love you a ton dad, dont tell
mom about the knee, she blows any small thing out of proportion haha. - Elder
Bennett
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