Happy Easter!

4/25/2011

Happy Easter! and Welcome home Amber! I´m super glad that she´s home now, but I´m not going to lie, it did make me a little home sick to see the pictures :( It will be me one day :P here in a year and 2 months! Don´t worry, time goes by super fast, and I´m more than happy to stay here in Brazil. The work is going fantastically, and we´re having a lot of progress with our area.

So far this transfer we haven´t baptized yet, but this week we have 4 people possible that we can baptize, so chances are that at least one of them will stick! We have my snake (Ingred), her friend (Gabi), another moça(Elen), and a new boy we met this week, Wallace. He´s super cool. He went to church this Sunday, and then asked us how he could become a Mormon :) I think that´s a great question. We´ll have to let him know how it works this week.

These last couple transfers have been some of the happiest times of my life. I´ve really begun to realize how obedience=happiness.

My first companion told me, " The only rule we have is that there are no rules."

My second companion told me, "There are too many rules to obey all of them, so we´ll do what we can to be mostly obedient, then whatever happens happens."

My third companion said" The reason we have rules is to not get into trouble, so if we can break the rules without getting into trouble, all is well..."

Here is what I think... Blessings follow obedience, and not just selective obedience. We must obey ALL of the commandments of God. This is where we get our power. This is where we get our confidence. These is were GOD gets his power. He gets his power and priesthood and glory, through our faith, obedience, and salvation. It´s actually a deep concept if you think about it. I´ll keep studying it more.

I love you guys. Keep writing me every week, and tell me how you are so that we can help each other to stay strong. Not a whole lot more happened this week, and if I forgot something I´ll fill you in next week!

Love, Elder Forsyth