General Conference

Hi Everyone!

I don't have time to write an email today, but I'll send some pictures from this past week! We had some hard times trying to take some pictures and they all didn't turn out very well, hahaha. We definitely hope you all like them!

I loved general conference.

Happy Birthdays, Grandma Delores and Grandma Barbara!!

-Elder Whelan

5 things....

Hey everyone so I dont have much time here so I'd like to just write about 5 things that happened this week

1. I had my birthday on the 15th! it was on suanday so we couldn't really buy any cake but i was lucky and three members had cake for me haha!!

2. we were able to mark a baptismal date for a boy named Christian! we plan on baptising him next month!

3. transfers happened and me and Saavedra are still here together haha im fine with it because we get along really well!

4. We have been working a lot in the favela (slums) because the more poor people live there and they are really humble and we have a lot more success!!

5. This week we were able to eat a ton of food! haha we always eat a ton of food  but this week I got to eat some really good food.

We had 3 investigators at church, and had the most people in sacrament that they've had in a long time, it was pretty awesome. 

I got a package from mom and pops! But in Brazil, they will tax anything they can so before I could get it shipped to me from Sao Paulo, I had to pay a $50 tax! We have a firepit in our house so I had ice cream the other day and roasted marshmallows. 

That about it for things that happened this week but I hope you all had a better week than I did with lots of awesome experiences I miss you, and I love you all!!!

Love Elder Whelan

Email for the week!

Hey everyone sorry I've been behind on the emails!! first off I want to say happy birthday to Pops back home!! hope you had an amazing birthday and I wish I could have been there to see everything!!! Hope also that everyone whose reading this email is having an amazing week and feeling Gods love for you all!!! this past week went by super quickly for me! we are super close to baptizing a teenager name Christian! And we are having some great success in the area!! Transfers are coming up next week and we´ll see what happens then haha also my birthday is happening in the 15th so I'll probably do nothing because its just another day on the mission and its a Sunday so I've got to respect the day of the Lord haha sounds kinda sad right? but I'm happy! 

My family sent a package for me and it arrived1! thank you family haha love you all so much and whoever is helping with money or emails!! love you all!! 

Soooo what happened this week? I've kinda been getting worse and worse at writing everything down lately which is bad haha but I'm going to get better! But anyways we watched a transmission of President Russel M. Nelson! which was so awesome, and so spiritual! Other than that nothing else has happened in the life of Elder Whelan. But I'm happy though so alls good! 

Hope you all have an amazing week and share your testimony with someone!! Love you all!!!

Love,
Elder Whelan

Just Photos this week

Another week down

Hello!

This week was pretty normal. We had a couple of investigators at church on Sunday, that's always great. Since neither of us were transferred we'll be together for at least another 6 weeks. But that's good, we get along well and are getting a lot of work done finding people to teacher. I really like this area.

Sorry this is so short, I'll write more next week.

I love you all!

-Elder Whelan

Not much time

I don't have much time to share about our week. Another transfer but I'm still with Saveedra. But that's good, we're working hard. We had a lot of investigators at church, that was great!

I shared two picts and two videos of a snake (belonging to a member) attacking and killing a mouse. It was sooooo cool. :)

[editor's note: if you want to see the video of the snake in action, let me know and I'll email it to you]

I love you all!

-Elder Whelan

Buildin' a wall

Hey everyone!!

This past week absolutely flew by, but it was good! Nothing much happened but we did have the oppurtunity to do a lot of service for this one family that is kind of inactive. We started off the week by digging holes to put in a fence. We ended up cutting a bunch of wood poles in half and mouting them on some other wood poles and boom!! a fence! haha we also were able to help paint inside their house which went really well. The house definitly looks better now. we still have a few things that we can help with but the majority is finished. We built the fence so that he could let loose his chickens and they wouldn't be able to escape. He also has one cute dog that waddles around everywhere haha but other than that nothing else exciting happened.

Oh, transfers are today but me and Saavedra are still together.

Anyways, love you all and hope you all have an amazing week!!!
Um Abraço!!
Elder Whelan