Monday, March 29, 2010

TRANSFERED!

Well Ben has been transferred again. This time he will be the senior companion. Here are some pictures he just sent.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Another Picture

Caught in the rain.

New letter from Ben.

OPA!!! todu bom!! familia como voces esta!! eu esto bein demies com certeza!!
Well this week was so much better!! we acctualy worked and we worked realy realy hard too!!! i have not recived your pacage yet!! i hope and pray you didnt right anywhere on the outside of it that there was a camera in it if you guys did then they say you have a better chance of it getting to me if you throw it in the ocean and then having some one i know pick it up off the beach and bring it to me personaly ha ha so ya all the mail here are independant companys so they dont care if the stuf gets to you so ya if you wrote on the outside that there was something expensive in it then well JA ERA!! its a frase it makes scense here ha ha the only way that i can get things is if you put christ stickers, saint Maria stickers, crosses and stuf cuz its easy to scare them ha ha but ya and just right gift you cannot wright camera other reason in spanish and portugese camera is the same as english...
but ya the week seriously was so good we had alot of cool experiences and mom i got your letter this week so i will share a little experience with yall but first sorry if you guys feel i havent been shareing my experiences it honestly is so hard to remember them all ha ha but dont worrie i have not missed a day yet for wrighting in my journal this transfer:) so we were waiting for the buss at the end of the day on thursday and we had been waiting for alomost 30 mins and finaly a buss came that we needed but i had the strongest immpression not to get on the buss i told my comp and he said that he was having the same feeling so.... we kept waiting the next buss came about 10 mins later we got on and then the next bus stop a kid got on his name is lucas we had been teaching him in the chapel but had lost compleate contact with him and we cant go to his house because his mom is wel... the oner of a prostitute house so we are not able to teach him there and we had litteraly just lost the kid and we talked with him and it was great!!! we set a time to teach him in the chapel again and hw showed up on sat it was so so good!! but if we had been on that first buss well we would never have even known he was there!! small and simple things!! it is so neat to see how the lord seriously guides his missionarys!!! also we had a verry cool experience about the book of mormon we were knocking doors and we found a lady who let us in thinking we were jehovas wittnesses or something and when she found out we were mormons she like freaked out because about twenty years ago missionarys had taught her and she had been realy close to being baptized but she moved and she had been having dreams about the book of mormon for twenty years!!!! she doesnt live in our area she was just visiting a friend so we passed the info to the missionarys where she lives it was the coolest storie!!! the book of mormon just has such POWer!!! i love it
love you all
elder eric brooksby!