3-20-13

Great news!!! Love, Mom and Dad

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From: "Washington Spokane Mission"
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:56:41 PM
Subject: Travel Itinerary for Brazil

Elder Jacob Shepard and Elder Jeffrey Stahura’s visas have been received and they will be leaving Monday, March 25, 2013 for Brazil.  We wanted you to be aware of your their itinerary (if you’re like me you’ll be tracking the flights until he’s landed in Brazil!).  I believe they will have permission to call you from the airport.

 

We have enjoyed having these Elders here for the last six weeks and have gotten attached to them – wish we could keep them here!  You have great sons and they are wonderful, strong missionaries.  You can be very pleased with the work they have done in the Washington Spokane Mission.

 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call the mission office.

 

 

Sister Dean

WASHINGTON SPOKANE MISSION

 

Visa Received – passport and visa will arrive to the mission office via FedEx this week.  Missionary has been booked on the itinerary below to coordinate with their International Mission’s transfer dates.

3/5/13

Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:03 PM

 

Thanks for the quote, Dad. I love you and I'm thankful for the advice you give me. Thanks for the Portugese quotes too, because I don't know all the words and it helps me find things that aren't gospel related. We have been doing so many things this and last week that I haven't been able to write as much. We had to have P-day on tuesday because we had interviews with President Mullen yesterday. There sre a lot of people who are ready to progress here but caught on little things that stop them from being baptized, or keeping their commitments. My companion calls them the low hanging fruit. Since we cover two wards, and since a lot of the people are spaced out from each other, we have a hard time getting to every one. Some are far away because they live in back roads by the mountains or forests. A lot of the people are talkers, so we are trying to be better at have short appointments. They love to talk about anything, a lot of times about how Obama is running the country into the ground. We bring members to lessons and they sometimes like to get distracted, instead of helping us keep the lesson fixed on the gospel and with the Spirit of God. We try to keep the casualness at the beginning and have the Spirit as we teach up until we leave, so that the remember how they felt and wanting more. I still have a lot to work on, bu everything is going great. I'm getting better at teaching simply and applying it to the investigators lives.

Eu gosto deste trabalho. How is everything at home? I just got the package you sent me with the clothes and soap. Thank you again. I'm gonna make sure to right every P-day home at least, so feel free to ask any questions you like. I love you all and wish the best for everyone.