- As you embark upon your last full week as a missionary, what are your thoughts on this time you have spent in Brazil? I feel as though my time in Brasil has been 2 years WELL SPENT!!! I would not trade my time here for anything. Before receiving my mission call I wanted to go to Russia or Europe, basically anywhere but Brasil, but now I would not trade it for anything!!! I feel as though I really dedicated these 2 years to the Lord and to serving the people of Brasil!! It was/is truly amazing. We are going to work for the miracle of baptizing 5 people this week...pray for us!!
- What do you feel you have learned? In what ways do you feel you have grown? We will need to have a nice long talk when I get home, because I have learned so much and grown so much that I don't even recognize myself!!!
- What do you want to eat when you get home? Ohhhh, good question! Pasta with carbonara sauce, rice fluff, lasagna, stroganoff, the usual.
While we are on the subject of trunky things, can you pick
up a few personal hygiene products for me this week so I don´t have to worry
about it when I get back? Thanks!! Also on my first day back if possible I
would like to do a temple session and buy new garments!!! (And I still don´t
know my travel info!!!!)
It gets crazier and crazier every time Brasil makes it
farther in the World Cup!!! You should hear the warzone of fireworks that goes
off every time that Brasil makes a goal or wins the game!!! Wowza!!!
And, as I was saying this week will be super crazy!! We have
zone conference on Tuesday, there will the world cup finals on Sunday, and we
are trying to baptize 5 people this week!!! So we are going to be running all
over creation to baptize here and help the rest of the district baptize too!! Sunday
we left lunch and went straight to the sisters’ area to do a second baptismal
interview (they had baptized on Saturday but a miracle went to church so they
had 2 baptisms!!!) and then I went straight over to Ouro Branco to do an
interview for the zone leaders and got to see a lot of old ward friends there!!
Ohhhh, this week I was a good boy with the camera, so let’s
get started:
photos from my last
district meeting (this week we have zone conference)
and the sisters bought me a cake too!!!
Timeline of how long
everyone in the district has been on their mission.
Note “Elder Cummings 1 year and 11 months…RIP”
Note “Elder Cummings 1 year and 11 months…RIP”
This is a text we received
when we broke the monthly baptism record with 201 baptisms in June and were in
second place in all of Brasil (only Manaus baptized more than us!!!) (Roughly
translated as Elders POWER, due to their
allegiance diligence, and FACT THAT YOU ARE GOOD. We closed this month with the
total registered by the Church of ... 201! Congratulations and let’s go!)
I fell in a hole in the street while watching the kite wars
going on overhead!!! Here kites are super popular and people try to cut the
lines of other people´s kites, it is pretty intense!!
Last P-day Elder P. and I played tourist in the Japanese
square in Londrina. There are some cool squares in Londrina, but unfortunately I
didn´t manage to find a cool shirt for Jason L
I think that is about it!!! If it turns out that this is my
last e-mail: see you guys on the 17th!!!! I think based on the fact
that I am here in Londrina already and will not need to travel on Monday, that I
will be able to send a shout out to you guys this next Monday.
see you guys soon!
Love you guys!!
Elder Cummings
1. He wants to eat rice? That made me laugh! 2. Must be hard being surrounded by beautiful women who bake him cakes ;-) 3. I wanted to order g's for my son, but can't remember what he likes! 4. I didn't know they were second in all of Brazil! How great is that? !!!! Love that boy!
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