9/26/11

Oi Família! Hey everyone! The work here is going well. I´m doing well too. Just work as usual...haha.. I feel like I´ve been writing "just work as usual" for the last 2 months... I´ve really gotten used to my work now, and I´m just in the groove of things I guess. This week I did a split with my zone leader. I was a little nervous, because I thought that he would just tell me all the things I was doing wrong, but it actually turned out better than I thought. My zone leader is a lot more energetic than I am, and I really learned a lot from his enthusiasm. In my patriarcal blessing, it says I have a quiet wisdom about me, and so I never worried to much about being a talker, because it´s really not who I am, but now I´m realizing that I also need to have confidence to be a good teacher, and leader. Sometimes I get so reserved that it looks like I´m embarrased, and shy, but that's really not true, and I need to show more authority, when I´m talking with investigators, and also other missionaries. I can´t think of a whole lot else that happened this week. I´ve been getting a lot better at Portuguese lately though, and it's become really tough to speak in English. 3 or 4 times this week, people complimented me on my Portuguese, and a man even told me that he didn´t know I was from the US. He thought I was from another part of Brazil. That made me really happy. I love you guys, and I hope you all have a great week. I know that the Church is true, and blesses lives. I´m looking forward to General Conference! Love, Elder Forsyth