Dear Everyone,
- Are any Londrina missionaries going to the new missions? No
Londrina missionaries will go to other missions.
- Will there be any sort of mission conference(s) when President T.
leaves and the new mission president arrives? We should have a zone
conference with President T. this coming week (week of June 10).
Nice shirt, little bro (it doesn't have a pocket…mind is
blown…)!!! Congrats on the seminary pin and everything!!! Great job on the gym,
Dad, keep it up!!
So on to the week’s news (I actually have a bunch to report
today which is nice!!): first off...
happy 50th birthday old man!!! J
(Speaking of birthdays, when is Elder S.´s birthday? He sent me a birthday card
and I want to be sure not to miss sending him a birthday card!!)
I was called this week as district leader here in Cascavel!!
Wow!! This means that I need to accompany(?) everyone on Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday and get their weekly numbers on Sunday by telephone. Also I do all the
baptismal interviews for everyone in my district, so this past Saturday I
traveled with my companion 2 1/2 hours to Palotina to do a baptismal interview.
He passed and was baptized yesterday, so that was great. He was super ready and
I had done a practice with the zone leaders earlier that day (talk about
pressure doing a fake baptismal interview with your trainer and one of the old
assistants to the president watching and critiquing every move!!) so the real
interview was smooth as butter!!! And I will probably need to go out there
again this Friday to interview one more and the zone leaders have already
marked an interview for them this Saturday!! We are starting to catch fire here
as a district, the only thing now is that we need to baptize, we almost had a
baptism but he didn´t feel ready and we tried to help him out but he was firm
that he will get baptized just not today, (hopefully this week will be
better!!) This is the “Month of 200,” where our goal as a mission is to baptize
200 people. With the month having 5 Sundays it gives us a better chance to
reach the goal. It is President T.’s last month, and all stops are out to try
and finally reach 200 baptisms in a month in his honor. When President T. first
started as mission president, the mission was baptizing 20 to 25 people per
month. That is like a stateside mission!!! He is the best, and it will be so
different without him here.
Me and my companion waiting for the 8:20 bus back to Cascavel.
When we were coming back from the interview on Saturday
night, we had to get the 8:20 bus, which is the last bus of the day, and we got
the last 2 seats!!! We got back home in bed around 11:15 but it is all good
because we got permission from the APs to be out later in order to do the
interview.
Can you scan and send me a photo of dad on his mission??!!!!
Some other fun facts from this week:
- Elder F. is from Rio and
is super energetic... like a little ball of energy!! He is awesome.
- We tried ordering pizza
from Foz do Iguaçu by accident. Didn’t get it.
One of Elder W.’s investigators who is friends with some of the
YM in the ward was caught with a bunch
of marijuana and went to jail this week. (I don´t think he will be baptized on
his baptismal date...)
When we ate lunch with the Bishop this week, he invited us
to eat in the house of another member with him, we thought it would be perfect “tranquilo,” but when we get there what
was going on? It was a lunch activity for the YSA sisters from the ward...ha
ha, we ate outside by ourselves!!! It was pretty funny, actually!
Pray that we can baptize someone this week and that we can
bring lots of people to church this coming Sunday. I don´t know why, but Fast Sunday
is the day when everything goes wrong, baptisms fall through, investigators
don´t come to church, members bear their testimony about baptisms for the dead
(which just confuses any investigators who do come to church), LUNCH FALLS
THROUGH!!! I don't like Fast Sundays at all... I am trying my best to gain a
testimony about fasting, I always pray so hard and fast with a purpose but
nothing right ever happens, it kind of stinks!!
Love you
guys!!
Vamos Para
200!!! (go to 200, or get 200)
com amor,
Elder Cummings
Okay, that YSA lunch was funny! Good for him for fleeing. Ugg to the investigator with drugs and his fast Sundays. When we try hard Satan tries just as hard. And if Elder S is mine, it's Nov. 12. And, the best for last, congratulations, dear Friend! What exciting news for him to become DL. Just another gift for you to know how well he's doing and what a great example he is to us all.
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