July 16, 2011

Dear Family: All is going well here in the MTC. Today might be my last Sunday in the MTC as in I leave this week!! Crazy. It was also Fast Sunday and I really have grown to love the power of a fast. The Lord can really strengthen you when you are at your weakest point. I'm kinda homesick but I feel like that's mainly related to nervous..Oh! So this Thursday we had the opportunity to go out and proselyt. We had the best experience. So for the first forty minutes we walked around asked a lot of people if they wanted to hear our message. Everyone said either A. noio tempo Eu tenho um reunioo. B. eu tenho esto livro ( but they hadn't read it) or C. already a member. But we ran into one guy and all I can say is that man was so ready to accept the gospel in his life. He knew english! It was a major blessing. He was thinking about life alot and that he hadn't heard alot about God lately. We taught him like all of the first lesson. It was so cool. Just what I needed! It was crazy spiritual. The other two we gave away were door knocking. We knocked on this man's door and I started talking. Asked him if he wanted a book and he said if you want to give me it I will take it. Then I explained what it was and then again asked him if he wanted it and he said yeah. It was awesome. I really feel that they might actually read it. But other than that experience nothing else exciting. My portuguese is pretty good, but I'm going to start the Book of Mormon challenge given by Pres. Hinckley to read it in a language and you will become fluent quicker. One Elder has 100 pages left and he's pretty good at speaking, but he also had a semester 8 credit class on it so.. But that's about all I have to say for today. Thanks for all the letters. I Love You all! Tchaou Elder Deakin P.S. We saw this moth bigger than my hand in the hall last night. It was cool.

July 1, 2011

Family!! How is everything going? Everything is great here. I'm sitting in a meeting thats going pretty slow so I decided I would write ya. How's home? Are you guys getting all of my projects done that I started? haha That's cool the fishfry went good and everyone sounds really busy still! I don't know how long this mail system is taking but I have only received 1 letter ha thanks alot! So time is going fast. I have a test Monday to see if I can leave Tuesday or early at all. But whatever works. It's alright here. The food is ok. I've eaten so many rolls. I'm keeping the same weight. We have Brazillian roommates and they are crazy. They are so loud and party all night. My companion and I still get along really well! He;s a good kid. We have had alot of spiritual moments like last week was fast Sunday and we had a District fast for our teachers girlfriend to have an interest in the Church and want to be baptized and on Monday he told us that Sunday night she took a lesson and accepted to be baptized. It was crazy. It was exactly the testimony builder I needed. So today was Valentines Day. That's weird. Also it's getting pretty cold here, only 60 but its a weird cold. It's so strange! For gym time everyone knows me from basketball cuz I'm the 3rd tallest here. Also I have been mistaken for a Brasilian, like alot. It's hilarious. They will ask me voce americano o brasilero? And I say Americano. It's funny. As soon as my language comes I will totally say Brasillian haha. It's fun to hear that you are still including Shay in everything. Holly's written me twice now ha. I think its way fun. Well let me know if you receive this letter so I know how long it takes. But vte mais eu te amo ate logo paz fora e muito amo! Tchou! Elder Deakin