Big Plans for Easter

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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 doubts out of the way and focus on how to “know” and gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon and doing some reading with him.
We worked on visiting some of the few and scattered members that haven’t come to church in some time. Lots of the members of the branch, live in small city that are 1 hour away and so we are thinking of taking a bus next week and try to help more members. 

A visiting member from Rio, that we became friends with, will be heading back to Rio this week so we got a picture with him, Irmão Elho.

The president is pushing us more and more to work our hardest and invite everyone to be baptized and practice the words of the prophet during conference.

We’ve also been doing some house hunting for a new mission house and it’s been a little crazy. But we feel really professional making negotiations in suits and ties haha.

Sorry, it’s a shorter letter this week, but I’m glad the work is great and the church is true!!!!

-Elder Sheffield


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