Happy New Year!

Everybody happy new year! 2020!

This year is going to go so well and I’m so excited to see what new experiences I’m going to have on the mission. Time has been flying by for me! I only have 11 months left on the mission. Time flies! But anyways this week was kind of crazy!

Sorry about Monday, I wasn’t able to send an email to the people I wanted to because I had to go to Florianopolis at 4 o’clock! But anyways I’ll just give a rundown of my week! So on Monday we just kind of ran around trying to get everything we wanted done I didn’t have much time to do it all. We got to the house around 1:45 and only had two hours to do everything before we had to get right back on the bus headed to the bus station. We got to the bus station headed out at seven hours later got to Florianopolis! We got there and went straight to sleep at the others house who work in the office. It was nice because the room was air-conditioned!!

The next day we woke up went to the office and got all of Elder Austin’s visa and legal stuff done and hang out with the guys at the office. Two of them are from my group at the CTM! After all that we got on the bus at 3:50 and headed home. Got home around 10:30 again and stayed up until midnight to say yay 2020 then go right to sleep ha ha.

On New Year’s day we ate lunch with our branch president at his house and we ate churrasco (barbecue) played darts and messed around for awhile. It was actually a super chill day. It was funny because he explained to us about how his trip to the USA went and how everything was super awesome to him. Ha ha. He’s a super cool and funny guy.

On Thursday we had a pretty normal day we tried to teach some of the contacts I made before, we weren’t able to reach all of them sadly.

On Friday we taught an investigator named Cassio the 10 Commandments and parts of the law of chastity, the lesson went super well. The plan is to baptism him this Saturday!

Saturday we had lunch with the family from Venezuela and taught a friend of theirs named Javier about the restoration & invited him to be baptized! He accepted, and since he’s already been to church once, he only needs to go one more time to be baptized! After that we taught another two families that want to be baptized as well! That was a crazy day for sure ha ha.

On Sunday since it was the first day of the month we had a small meeting and it was so spiritual. All the Venezuelan family bore their testimonies about the Book of Mormon and I was able to bear my testimony as well. For lunch we ate some lasagna that his sister made for us. We eat at home and left quickly to walk superfast to a reference house name Custodio but he wasn’t there so we taught his daughter instead. After that we made several various contacts in the street and ended the day.

This week flew by for me! And I’m so thankful for all the blessings in my Heavenly Father gives me. Happy new year to everyone and I hope you all have an amazing week this week! I can just say that our weeks, months, and years will be so much better when we choose to follow God‘s path and keep his commandments and love all those around us. I’m thankful for the gospel. I love my family and I love whoever is reading this. Because was one of the most important goals we should have in this life is to love one another.

Love, Elder Whelan