Hello sports fans!
Well, thank you so much for all the emails wishing me a happy birthday! I felt so good today! I felt like I was 21 years old! But just for a moment. I don't even believe that I'm 21. It's so weird. But anyway, I am still a missionary and I still have to work so that's what I'm a gonna do!
Elder Papenfuss's Portuguese is getting better...he's still talking with everyone he meets, so that's good. This very second he turned to the guy by him in this internet café and showed him mormon.org. Man I've never done that! What a splendid idea!
On Saturday, we went to contact a woman we had talked to earlier in the week. Unfortunately, she didn't live at the house number she passed to me, but we ended up talking with the family that did live at the house. We asked them if we could share a gospel message and they accepted (a bit reluctantly). They called all eleven (11) people that were in the house to participate. So, they gave us two chairs and everyone gathered around on the front porch. This isn't anything new for me, but I imagined how scary it must have been for Elder Papenfuss! We aren't able to follow-up with the majority of them because they live outside our mission boundaries, but it was good practice for Elder Papenfuss.
The family that attended church last week wasn't able to go this week (bleh). But I hope...really, really hope...they will attend this Sunday. We will do a Family Home Evening with them and another family in the church ward this week, it's gonna be GREAT!
We had a multi-zone mission conference and talked a little about some stuff from a book called 'Every Missionary Can Baptize'. It's a pretty good read, I recommend it. This book and a few others that I've read talk extensively about focusing completely on the work and the power of the mind.
Okay, my time's up. Thank you so much for the warm birthday wishes! I'm excited to see my mystery package next week! (OH HO HO what could it BE!?!?). I love you ALL and INDIVIDUALLY with all my heart!
Elder Bradford
