Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Grandpa & Grandma Deakin Thanks again for the letters and the cartoon clippings. I don't have any other missionary in my house that speaks english and they aren't as funny translated, but I sure do enjoy them. I heard you guys are getting alot of snow this week! That's good you'll will need the water here in 2 months. So you probably heard but I got transfered to an area called Sao Francisco, it's inside the state of Acre. So I had to take a 3 hour plane to get here ha so I'm a little off the beaten path...but I love it here. Best top 3 things: 1. They have CJ5! Jeeps for real! Way Cool! 2. The members/investigators give us food w/each lesson we have so I'm not passing hungry. 3. My comp/the house we live in is by far the best so far. Really clean, easy to clean, almost a real house! The other houses weren't very good ha. The Councelor in the Stake Pres. has a fish farm so he invited us to go fishing so when we go I'll show you how to catch a big fish! But I hope everything is good there and hope to hear from ya soon! Tchau Elder Deakin Oh also I have some music from pioneers and in there is names of some people. One was Ann Deakin Mill I was wondering if you know her story.
February, 2012
The Griswalds! Oh Deakins! Hey how is it going? This week was good. We finally got a wedding taken care of just not the baptism yet but she's good so I'm not too worried. So I got the package w/the photos and clip from Holly. I sent her a thank you. Also got a card w/ideas about what to write haha! Cambrias starting golf. That's cool just remember swing relaxed. Girls always try too hard, just relax. Holly said Annalisa won the photo contest for Grolls that's cool. Oh also got a really cool Christmas card w/dancing lights! Way Cool!!! So hows the presidency? Everybody tells me Mitt is winning but nobody here knows about government, so I don't trust them ha. But also I wont/didn't send the memory card today because Elder Helama wants to copy some of them. Also Da Cunha called me saying he got the package and he will write to ya. He said thank you alot. But I think that's it for today! Have a great week. I love you all! Tchau! Elder Deakin
The Griswalds! Oh Deakins! Hey how is it going? This week was good. We finally got a wedding taken care of just not the baptism yet but she's good so I'm not too worried. So I got the package w/the photos and clip from Holly. I sent her a thank you. Also got a card w/ideas about what to write haha! Cambrias starting golf. That's cool just remember swing relaxed. Girls always try too hard, just relax. Holly said Annalisa won the photo contest for Grolls that's cool. Oh also got a really cool Christmas card w/dancing lights! Way Cool!!! So hows the presidency? Everybody tells me Mitt is winning but nobody here knows about government, so I don't trust them ha. But also I wont/didn't send the memory card today because Elder Helama wants to copy some of them. Also Da Cunha called me saying he got the package and he will write to ya. He said thank you alot. But I think that's it for today! Have a great week. I love you all! Tchau! Elder Deakin
Monday, January 7, 2013
(Letter from President Klein)
Dear Deakin Family,
We would like to inform you that because of his good example and success your son, Elder Britten Campbell Deakin, is currently serving as a District Leader and Trainer. A district leader is in charge of a certain number of companionships, he is responsible for them, he trains them in aspects of proselyting and finally, he is a representative of the Mission President and the Lord for that group of missionaries; a trainer receives a newly arrived issionary and has the task of training him in all aspects of missionary work.
Here in our mission, only the will of the Lord, faithfulness to the mission rules and the commandments, hard work, and success lead a missionary to this position. This is a very important position that greatly reflects the confidence that the Mission President deposits in the missionary and more importantly, it symbolizes the confidence that the Lord has in your son.
As you can seen, your child has grown in the service of the Lord. Thank you for the continuous training that you have given him throughout his life. I know that you, as parents, are really responsible for the success that he is having here in the mission field! Again we ask that you continue to support your child throughout the rest of his mission. We trust in him completely and in his ability to serve!
We took the liberty of sending other copies of this letter to your son's Bishop and Stake President so that they can follow his proress and his labor in the field. I know that the time invested in preparing and training your child for the mission field is having wonderful results.
We pray that the Lord will continue to bless you in your sacred calling as parents.
Sincerely, H. Moroni Klein, Mission President
Dear Deakin Family,
We would like to inform you that because of his good example and success your son, Elder Britten Campbell Deakin, is currently serving as a District Leader and Trainer. A district leader is in charge of a certain number of companionships, he is responsible for them, he trains them in aspects of proselyting and finally, he is a representative of the Mission President and the Lord for that group of missionaries; a trainer receives a newly arrived issionary and has the task of training him in all aspects of missionary work.
Here in our mission, only the will of the Lord, faithfulness to the mission rules and the commandments, hard work, and success lead a missionary to this position. This is a very important position that greatly reflects the confidence that the Mission President deposits in the missionary and more importantly, it symbolizes the confidence that the Lord has in your son.
As you can seen, your child has grown in the service of the Lord. Thank you for the continuous training that you have given him throughout his life. I know that you, as parents, are really responsible for the success that he is having here in the mission field! Again we ask that you continue to support your child throughout the rest of his mission. We trust in him completely and in his ability to serve!
We took the liberty of sending other copies of this letter to your son's Bishop and Stake President so that they can follow his proress and his labor in the field. I know that the time invested in preparing and training your child for the mission field is having wonderful results.
We pray that the Lord will continue to bless you in your sacred calling as parents.
Sincerely, H. Moroni Klein, Mission President
Sunday, January 6, 2013
April 4, 2012
Family! So I'm going to write happily and try to get this in the mail with the last weeks before next week but I'm not so sure if it will happen. I tried/wrote a letter last week but correios was full and really slow! So it didn't work, but I wrote! And just to prove it I'll still send all three (already sealed them So you will get 3 letters together when you get this one, But just to explain quickly? What happened this last week last Tuesday we had District meeting but after the meeting got out the Zone Leaders showed up with the Assistant and he called me to talk to him. So we went and said that the old DL was taken over and I'll be the next. This was one week before transfers so I'm not sure what happened. But then we went to the "Rodizio Grill" called Gauche! But there we ate some really good food! Like Aligator, Ostrich, Warthog! It was all really great food! Oh yeah we also had Conference with President Klein. He looked at our area books. Ours is doing good just a few problems but also he gave us a talk. Some things I liked was "being tempted isn't a sin, Jesus was tempted. Sin is when you give in." Also "the gospel of Jesus Christ isn't the gospel of Jesus Christ, but the name God gave to "His" doctrine so really it's the doctrine or gospel of God but God gave it the name of the gospel of Jesus Christ because he was the role model!" Then he talked alot about being a model. Another thing was a quote "he said" if nobody gets to heaven without Christ nobody gets there without me because we are representatives of Christ." and the best thing was "Baptism is a remission of sin in the past. Baptism by fire is a remission of sin in the future." But then our baptism fell through because her uncle died so were working/waiting for her to come back to town. But then we had General Conference and transfers. Transfers are more easier to explain so I'm continuing the same area for 3 months but I will be trainer and district leader, train a new Elder from Chili E. Santana, my filho! Grandson of DaCunha ha. He's way cool. His accent is funny ha, but I'm learning Espanol! I can already read and understand but speaking is the next step ha, but things I liked from Conference was English so we got to hear their voices ha. But I will write another page. I Love You all! Tchau! The Atonement didn't end. Sacrifices still need to be made with time, money those things. " a religion that doesn't require sacrifices of all things will never have power sufficient to have the saving power of man." Pres. Eyring: "Send me a mountain" The formula of faith is hold on! The thing God loves most is being merciful especially to the one that didn't expect it. Soaris: "You can't be right by doing wrong, but cant be wrong doing right. What we do speaks so loudly that others might not hear what we do. Uchdorft: Heaven is fill with forgiven people. Every bad thing that is happening can be stopped by stoppkng everything that is causing it. What does Christ think of me?
Family! So I'm going to write happily and try to get this in the mail with the last weeks before next week but I'm not so sure if it will happen. I tried/wrote a letter last week but correios was full and really slow! So it didn't work, but I wrote! And just to prove it I'll still send all three (already sealed them So you will get 3 letters together when you get this one, But just to explain quickly? What happened this last week last Tuesday we had District meeting but after the meeting got out the Zone Leaders showed up with the Assistant and he called me to talk to him. So we went and said that the old DL was taken over and I'll be the next. This was one week before transfers so I'm not sure what happened. But then we went to the "Rodizio Grill" called Gauche! But there we ate some really good food! Like Aligator, Ostrich, Warthog! It was all really great food! Oh yeah we also had Conference with President Klein. He looked at our area books. Ours is doing good just a few problems but also he gave us a talk. Some things I liked was "being tempted isn't a sin, Jesus was tempted. Sin is when you give in." Also "the gospel of Jesus Christ isn't the gospel of Jesus Christ, but the name God gave to "His" doctrine so really it's the doctrine or gospel of God but God gave it the name of the gospel of Jesus Christ because he was the role model!" Then he talked alot about being a model. Another thing was a quote "he said" if nobody gets to heaven without Christ nobody gets there without me because we are representatives of Christ." and the best thing was "Baptism is a remission of sin in the past. Baptism by fire is a remission of sin in the future." But then our baptism fell through because her uncle died so were working/waiting for her to come back to town. But then we had General Conference and transfers. Transfers are more easier to explain so I'm continuing the same area for 3 months but I will be trainer and district leader, train a new Elder from Chili E. Santana, my filho! Grandson of DaCunha ha. He's way cool. His accent is funny ha, but I'm learning Espanol! I can already read and understand but speaking is the next step ha, but things I liked from Conference was English so we got to hear their voices ha. But I will write another page. I Love You all! Tchau! The Atonement didn't end. Sacrifices still need to be made with time, money those things. " a religion that doesn't require sacrifices of all things will never have power sufficient to have the saving power of man." Pres. Eyring: "Send me a mountain" The formula of faith is hold on! The thing God loves most is being merciful especially to the one that didn't expect it. Soaris: "You can't be right by doing wrong, but cant be wrong doing right. What we do speaks so loudly that others might not hear what we do. Uchdorft: Heaven is fill with forgiven people. Every bad thing that is happening can be stopped by stoppkng everything that is causing it. What does Christ think of me?
March 26, 2012
Familia! So this week went by super fast just like all of them in the past! I cant believe how fast the time is going! But everything is great here as you can see my finger is better because my handwriting is better ha. But this week few things happened. Start off w/the parts most exciting. First off mom don't read this but we almost DIED! J/K but for real so we were in a lesson that we did a contact and were there with alot of families, 4 different families, but only the wives. But when the 1st husband got home he had a bottle almost empty of whiskey. He didn't say hi. She said thats normal, your fine so we continued. Then he came back and called her into the kitchen while we were sitting there we heard I told you I don't want anybody in my house! Get them out or I'll kill them! I Kill! I'll kill them! Needless to say we didn't wait to have her return we ran! haha but we won't return there until we know its safe! But then about our baptism, she fell through! :( Because she lies! I'm still so bitter so we will wait a few months to go back! But that's really about it for this week ha. I didn't have anything exciting happen, other than what I already told ha. But spiritual message/story Sunday morning I found out that I had to give a talk. Our church starts 3:00 p.m. but I talked on testimony. So you all know how I love stories so there once was a man that on a dark cloudy night took his car for a drive, but in the middle of no where the car turned off. After a long time he was able to start it again. The lights burned out so he was in the middle of no where in a car w/o lights on a super dark night when he saw another car coming, so he started using this car as a guide following every move dodging holes and curving with the road! But all of a sudden the first car stopped and the car without lights ran into him. He left the car mad! Hey why did you stop, you knew I was following you. The man from the first car said...yeah but you entered into my garage! So you guys try to relate that to testimony! Love you all! Tchau! Elder Deakin
Familia! So this week went by super fast just like all of them in the past! I cant believe how fast the time is going! But everything is great here as you can see my finger is better because my handwriting is better ha. But this week few things happened. Start off w/the parts most exciting. First off mom don't read this but we almost DIED! J/K but for real so we were in a lesson that we did a contact and were there with alot of families, 4 different families, but only the wives. But when the 1st husband got home he had a bottle almost empty of whiskey. He didn't say hi. She said thats normal, your fine so we continued. Then he came back and called her into the kitchen while we were sitting there we heard I told you I don't want anybody in my house! Get them out or I'll kill them! I Kill! I'll kill them! Needless to say we didn't wait to have her return we ran! haha but we won't return there until we know its safe! But then about our baptism, she fell through! :( Because she lies! I'm still so bitter so we will wait a few months to go back! But that's really about it for this week ha. I didn't have anything exciting happen, other than what I already told ha. But spiritual message/story Sunday morning I found out that I had to give a talk. Our church starts 3:00 p.m. but I talked on testimony. So you all know how I love stories so there once was a man that on a dark cloudy night took his car for a drive, but in the middle of no where the car turned off. After a long time he was able to start it again. The lights burned out so he was in the middle of no where in a car w/o lights on a super dark night when he saw another car coming, so he started using this car as a guide following every move dodging holes and curving with the road! But all of a sudden the first car stopped and the car without lights ran into him. He left the car mad! Hey why did you stop, you knew I was following you. The man from the first car said...yeah but you entered into my garage! So you guys try to relate that to testimony! Love you all! Tchau! Elder Deakin
April 9, 2012
Sorry this will be super fast and probably really short but I promised a letter every week! But I'm doing really well. This last week was running crazy! But we had little success with people coming to church, but this week we are going to work even harder! But my comp E. Santeina is really cool! I like him alot, but his Portuguese is pretty good so I'm not learning as much Spanish, but I'm still learning. I can read/understand almost fluently ha ALMOST! So one of my responsibilities is to do divisions and the trainamento in District meeting. So my responsibilities keep growing, but I'm loving it. My District is really fun and I try to make my District meetings fun like Pictionary or other games. Any ideas would be great! So I started to study the Book of Mormon using a cd w/readings and wow it's alot easier to understand. I love it, it's helped my testimony alot. But I hope all is well. Tchau!
I love you all! Elder Deakin
Sorry this will be super fast and probably really short but I promised a letter every week! But I'm doing really well. This last week was running crazy! But we had little success with people coming to church, but this week we are going to work even harder! But my comp E. Santeina is really cool! I like him alot, but his Portuguese is pretty good so I'm not learning as much Spanish, but I'm still learning. I can read/understand almost fluently ha ALMOST! So one of my responsibilities is to do divisions and the trainamento in District meeting. So my responsibilities keep growing, but I'm loving it. My District is really fun and I try to make my District meetings fun like Pictionary or other games. Any ideas would be great! So I started to study the Book of Mormon using a cd w/readings and wow it's alot easier to understand. I love it, it's helped my testimony alot. But I hope all is well. Tchau!
I love you all! Elder Deakin
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