Elder Joshua Sheffield

Oiiii Boa Tarde!!! I got to hear an apostle talk specifically to us!!!! Elder Stevenson came to just our mission for just one day and it was such excitement . He is such an amazing person and he help us a lot. He focused on teaching about” preach my gospel” In the end he bared his testimony and started tearing up the spirit was so strong and it was such a testimony about the blessing of living prophets and apostles. I didn’t even get to say how awesome it is that Hunter is going to Australia!!!!!! What a surprise!!!!! Man he is going to have an amazing time when he gets his mission email! Tell him to email me. I was thinking about funny missionary films that I always watched  while  growing and thinking “it really is like that” I was thinking about the movie  “Other Side of Heaven” and yeah, a lot of things are similar 1. there are some Pastors here that really don’t like us that much. But  this week w e got invited to anoth...

April 22, 2019 Feliz Pascoa means Happy Easter  FELIZ PASCOA PARA TODOS VOCÊS! (Happy Easter to you all) They have some different traditions here , plastic Easter eggs don’t exist (trust me we looked, and all the people  looked at us like we were crazy). They don’t decorate white eggs!!!! Can you believe it!! We made some chocolate eggs with some members to give them to the kids and to the branch. At first, they turned out really ugly looking, but by the end Elder Diaz and I were practically professional chocolatiers .  haha We did lots of services this week also. Christopher is the one in the blue shirt far left And Camila is a recent convert on the far right Funny story There was this lady carrying a bottle of water home and we offered to help her and she said “no no” and turned the cold shoulder on us . B ut her very energetic son of probably 12 years of age started talking to us like “Hey you guys are from a church or something?” “Yeah, actually we...

Irmao (brother) Elho Easter week it is going to be a good one. It was so good to see your pictures and read your email. We are planning lots of family nights and a big Easter party at the church with an egg hunt, games, creme pies the whole sha-bang. They have some other traditions here and so it will be different but we  are using the time to talk of Christ, teach of Christ and testify of His  death sacrifice atonement and His resurrection!!!!! What an awesome chance .  THE MISSION IS SO DANG COOL. Mission House Hunting I also have some secret plans for the elders here so we will see how it goes  Sunday, along with Easter we will also receive transfers. Some pesquisadores   (investigators) we were teaching in Uba were baptized and I was writing them today, and it was amazing. Christopher is getting caught up on a lot of little things .  He searched some things on google and then we spent a couple days just  trying to get the ...

<joshua.sheffield@missionary.org> wrote: What a week! Elder Souza, Elder Correa, Elder Diaz and me Monday Volleyball Tuesday Branch Family night Wednesday Service project Thursday Housed 10 missionaries Friday Zone conference Saturday General Conference Sunday General Conference And in the middle of all this, we were talking about the gospel with just about  all the people we see ,  but what an awesome week .  Presidente Lacerda is trying to help us become better missionaries. We will be having the apostle Stevenson here on the 24th and we talked a lot about our calling and the calling of an apostole   (apostle).  Preparing ourselves and being humble to change and ready to hear the  words of the lideres (leaders) of the church. We met an energetic elderly man who is a fan of rock music, motor cross  and a fantastic artist of acrylic paintings . He showed us a painting of angels offering a key, and he said that we were his angel...

With Elder Rodrigez before he left Master C What a great week Tuesday night we got a call from the assistants that we would be having a emergencia (emergency) transfer!!!! My companion Elder Rodrigues got moved and I would be a new companion Elder Diaz. Elder Diaz is from central California and I’ve met him a few times at zone meetings and conferences and he is a great missionary.  It was one of the best weeks .  We were running all over the place, but it was great. The show “Master Cheff” is pretty big here and so we had a master cheff-off of deserts in the church with members and “pesquisadors” . We were all laughing and trying different things. I tried to make an apple pie to represent the U.S. and it worked out pretty well . T he filling was good, but the cake part wasn’t perfect.  Funny story: We were c leaning the church I was cutting the grass and I start to feel an  itching on my leg. I thought it was just the grass, so kept on cuttin...