Getting a new companion

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Sept 28 2019
Monday I found out that my companion would leave!
He’s been dreaming, for 4 months, to go to the area of Teresopolis in Rio de Dinheiro. 
And guess where he got called to go?! Teresopoli! It was an emergency transfer and he is going to be the new Zone leader there.
How cool for him! So this week I jumped around a lot with other companions until transfers officially happen on Tuesday.
We get to know the transfers a little early so we can organize all the travelling, details and everything.
So my new companion is drum roooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllll ELDER COELHO!!!!
He’s from the northeast area of Brasil, famously known for literally their big heads hahah and their sense of humor!
It wasn’t exactly a surprise but I’m excited we´ll probably have a lot of time together
He’s always telling jokes and e works great too.

Working in the mission office, these are the craziest days - the transfer days. The old missionaries leaving, an the new ones getting here.

This next week on Sunday we have to help get the missionaries, being transfered or leaving, to the mission home. Monday is training with the leaving missionaries and dinner and "despedido" a fire side with them. And also we help the trainers arrive. Tuesday are transfers and new arrivals and craziness. Wednesday, we will have a meeting with all the mission leaderships. Then the weekend will be GENERAL CONFERENCE woooo whooooo. So yeah it’s going to be a fast week- as fast as Jacob’s running. 

We taught some lessons in the middle of all this craziness, but we didn’t see a whole lot of results. But it was a good week. We taught some short lessons on the Book of Mormon that were really awesome.

I’m listening to some old conference talks from 1971 and I found so many scriptures and so many talks that I love. I loved a talk called: The Lord’s People Receive Revelation by Bruce  R McConkie. He  talks about the importance of personal revelation and how it just requires our part to tune in and listen. Another talk had a quote that I thought about a lot. Karl G. Maeser was taking to  a group of missionaries across the Alps. As they reached a summit, he stopped and gestured back down the trail to some poles set in the snow to mark the way across the glacier. He said, “Brethren, there stands the Priesthood. They are just common sticks like the rest of us … but the position they hold makes them what they are to us. If we step aside from the path they mark, we are lost.”

I’m so excited for conference. To hear from the people that know and teach and mark the path of God. They are the prophets of Christ and the leaders  of the Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos santos dos ultimos dias. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I love you all so much. 
I love receiving revelation in the little things and I love learning about the lords path and helping people get on the same path.

-Elder Sheffield


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