Plan of Salvation (Week 42) — Called to Serve in Cuiaba

Warning hostile units, this email might be a little lame because this week was kind of just full of sickness. I got a raging throat infection in the tiny little back of my cute throat and now she's all sad and I took an antibiotic already and it just didn't go away. I have a nuclear virus inside of my throat skin. LET'S GOOOOO BOYS

This week started out with a lovely phone call from the Sisters. They live 2 hours away from us, if we were to walk, which I find quite ridiculous. How the clam am I supposed to help them in a crisis if they live in a completely different biome. They called in a state of utter panic because the lights in their house went out and so they locked themselves in the bathroom because they were scared. At the lovely hour of 11pm this was just the call I would want. We got a member to call an Uber for them to go to the other sisters house but, and I mean freaking but, there was not, I repeat, NOT enough mattresses in their house so Elder Prado and I had to get a taxi which is more expensive than fine and fancy cheeses and meats, with 2 of our mattresses, to their house. We get to their house give them the mattresses and then the taxi just peeled out of there and so we got stranded and had to ask two people drinking in the bar to call and Uber for us. At least we got their contact information.

Our apartment is uglier than a monkey's uncle, and smaller than his monkey step sister, so we went and walked through a house close by that we might move into. The house is so rad I'm not even messing around, I would live in it. There is this a super poppin back yard with FREAKING GRASS and oh my brother how that made me exited when i first saw it. The more grass there is the more stuntable the area becomes. Also there is a little grill thingy to do a nice barbeque so, in a week or two, if we get this new house, I think I might just stay here once my 2 years runs out. Mom, tell Sami I love her, and tell Ryker to take good care of her. (his Jeep)

I was supposed to give this super crispy talk about the Plan of Salvation on Sunday but the lady who talked before me talked for 25 dense minutes about who knows what, so the dude in the Branch Presidency told me that I'll be talking next Sunday.... but, I gathered some nice intelligence while preparing this talk that I would like to email to you. As I studied the Plan of Salvation I realized it boils down to 2 things. 1 is the Atonement, and the other is repentance. Christ came to earth to suffer for us. Without His act of profound and perfect love we would be flippin messed up here on earth. There would be no way to return to the mother ship after this life ends. One uncalled for action and we'd be toast. BUT there's good news. He didn't come here to just suffer for us, he came here to know how to counsel us and how to love us and motivate us in the perfect way, and also take our sins for us. He knows you and knows that it's hard. I have a testimony burning inside of me that He is real. That He loves me and that He is here every day to take away the pains and disappointment I feel from making mistakes. Repentance isn't, and shouldn't be treated as something we only use every time we make a super gnarly mistake. It's for the times we stub our tiny little toes on the corner of the table and let a fat word rip. It's for the simple things. Repentance is the KEY to returning home to our Heavenly Father, and I know that. I promise you guys that you will feel the greatest and most lasting happiness you've ever felt through just getting in the habit of repenting. Treating it with respect, but making it more normal. It doesn't need to be a stranger. I am truly coming to know my Savior more through repentance on a daily basis. One day we're gonna play chess together I swear.

We've got some insanely freaking money cash bills families cookin down Blessings Avenue on their way to baptism. Ivo and Marly are chuggin right along and Wellington and Vanessa who Elder Moraes and Lara passed to us have now been to church with us twice. They bought us mugs and gave them to us after we went to church Sunday and told us they are super grateful for us. We're gonna plant a calm baptismal date on them this week. Pray for them pretty please with a cherry on top. They're really getting railed by the satan man.

It was a good one folks. Bring home the bacon this week and don't forget to brush your teeth alright.

New roommates in the house (back: Elder Prado & Elder Decker)