Buckets / Humility (Week 62) — Called to Serve in Cuiaba

Son of a peach the only thing I could ask Santa for this Christmas season is like some nice peach cobbler. But let me tell you guys this week was so peachy. We had the opportunity to meet some really special new people. Its been a super mega miracle fest out here for me with that anti-mormon ish. My testimony is just growing like the weeds did when I was a kid and my dad made me weed the front yard every week. I swear it's impossible for anything to grow faster than those suckers.

This week we had Lia's baptism! It was as good as my mom's pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and there are not many cooler things than seeing how much Jesus changes a willing heart and an open mind. Also this week we had Zone Conference and I gotta see my Brasilian brother Elder Prado again. I freaking miss this guy already he goes home next week and I'm sure you guys really wanted to know that. While I'm at it he also gets married in a couple months and then he's gonna move to Utah. He's fluent in English and weighs 77 kilograms. But another cool thing that happened this week is that we actually were passing by Cristains and I wanted to show Elder Abplanalp how crazy he is haha so we get to their house and the first thing Cristain does when he sees us is like this huge bent knee Japanese bow and it started things off just right. We met his younger brother who actually is one of the raddest kids ever. He explained us Cristain's whole story and its actually so messed up I'll spare you guys the trauma but it's wack.

We had a nice Zone Conference this week and it was quite pleasant. Presidente Granja is just too cool. Nobody has a better Mission President. But I learned some cool stuff in my study this week about being humble. For all you readers that just tune out when they hear any word that sounds churchy, gimme a second to explain. Humility is rad. I gotta be honest I do a lot of shiz wrong, and I realized something about a good scripture after I had read it for the 356th time. Ether 12:27 sprinkles us with some heavenly knowledge about how radical humility is. Here we have Jesus just talking to us and as always he plants some firm love on us. "I give unto men weakness that they may be humble, and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me, for if they humble themselves before Me and have faith in Me then will I make weak things strong unto them.” What I find next level rad about this scripture is that is literally tells me why I suck sometimes and do bad stuff. It's because big bro Jesus wants me to learn something, and if I'm not humble I'm not gonna learn anything and I'm gonna continue to have the same wack issues. We gotta be humble folks. It's the key to getting better daily! Repentance takes a significant amount of humility, but the giveback is always 157 times better.

Thats a wrap meus amores. Let me thank all of you for praying for the missionaries. You guys are the freakin bomb.

Found Brigham Young ("Lion of the Lord”) on the side of the street.