I am forgetting more and more English (3-14-16)

EHHHHHHHHHH, this week was super super great! Só bençãos do Senhor. And I also have found that I am forgetting more and more English, and that some words in English are really really hard to say. I taught adjectives in my class last saturday, It´s crazy, it took me a few minutes just to say the word "Adjectives" right! But, my language improves everyday, yesterday i rattled off a cake recepie to a sister in the ward, and she was just like wow. your language has really improved! I´m so happy!!! I also met a ton of new people this week, so we´re hoping with the start of the new transfer, we can really find some great people who will prepare for baptism! I´m really super excited, and I have some good feelings about this transfer. Milagres(miracles)- they have a saying here in brazil, Só Alegria or just joy, and that´s all the mission is! The other night we were making contacts with people, and it was almost time to go home, we´d made a million contacts that day so me and Elder Jeronymo started off in the direction of home. (quick overview, our house is one block from the church on the other side of a main street here.) So we´re walking to go home and then turn to enter the street of our house, I felt that we still had something more to do, but i wasn´t yet sure of what it could be. So I just started walking in the opposite direction. And I ended up deciding to just try a few houses.After sevral houses with no sucess I decided that maybe it was nothing. At the point where i decided that the feeling was nothing and that it was time to go home we decided to knock so one more house. At this last house we met a man called Nelson, who heard our mesage and wants us to return Teusday. I don´t know what fruit will come from this but I just know that we were lead to that house that night. Also, I learned that it´s really really easy to miss the whispers of the spirit. It would have been easy to say, lets just go back home, we were within 50 feet of our house. But I just felt it, not sure how else to describe it. I still don´t even know if it will end up with anything, but it was the spririt whispering to me. We´ll see what happens with Nelson next week I guess. But so many blessings are being given to us right now! Anyway, I´m doing great here! I also love you all, and I´ll send you something for carder next week! i can´t wait to get it all! Tchau! Elder Wyatt

Pictures from 3-7-16

Pictures from top to bottom: Missionary Night, Charrasco (BBQ), Beauty of Brazil, Trying his hand at the Harp, His Favorite fruit called Pina

I'm loving it here like crazy! (3-7-16)

Hey mom, I had a lot of fun experiences this last week, and I took a lot of pictures. I´m not going to say much but just send you a bunch of pictures. But yes, I got the package last week!!! Thank you so much!:) Ya, I know, almost 7 months, it goes by way to fast, it´s ridiculous!. But I´m loving it here like crazy, I´m really getting comfortable in this area. The problem, I´ve been here a long time now, and I have the smallest area in the zone. Transfers were last Saturday and we both are stay, but no surprise there! anyway, so I´m for sure staying for 6 more weeks. I´ve already knocked a good portion of the dorrs here in Boa Vista, so I´m picking up a few lists of members and perspective elders and searching a little bit this way. It works good for a few things, we can find new investigators of course (and it´s a much more casual way to make contact), it will help clean up old church records because people have moved, and we can try and help a few less actives return maybe. Anyway, that´s the plan for this transfer. We also had a ward activity were we did a play about missionary life, and it ended up going really well. if I can get the video sent I´ll get it to you, we´ll see. Anyway, love you all so much, the Cabo trip looked great! I guess you will have to send me there some day;) tchau Elder Wyatt

Thankful for blessings (2-29-16)

Well, we´re starting up the last week of the transfer now, it´s time to give it some gas so that we can finish out strong. This week was kind of hard. But definitely had some really strong points! Things are moving along slowly but surely here in Boa Vista. We had interviews with President Brum on Friday, and I won´t have many more interviews with him, he goes home in July. But it was really great, he had his general questions that he always asks to see how we´re doing, and he asked a lot about how is Elder Jeronymo, and the training going. Just gave me advice, helped show me what i can do better, these type of things. I asked him a few questions also. One being about how difficult it is to get Investigators to church on Sunday. He just gave me advice to try and bring more members to lessons, that this would help people to have a greater desire to go to church. I´m going to start putting even more effort into bringing members to lessons, actually, he gave us a challenge to double our lessons with members. The hardest thing here is getting our investigators to go to church, but I´m hoping that this will help in this area. As far as investigators go, we have 3 youth who have 15 years, and they´re really studs! I like them a lot. 2 are 7th day adventists, really smart(like to debate a little), but I think they have a lot of interest in the church. Another was invited by a girl to go to church, and has been going to another ward for about a month now, but he lives in our area, so we´re helping him to go to our ward, but he´s also super smart! He went to a church that had their own "prophet" but he came to find out that this Prophet was very false. He´s super prepared, we just need to help him to receive an answer through prayer. Actually, we have one more kid with 13 years, who´s really cool. We taught him for the first time last Saturday. The only bad thing was there was a drunk guy in the house while we were teaching him, but it was actually really funny... He just stared at us, he did try to make us leave, but the kid told him he wanted to hear us and to go lay on his bed. So what did the Bebido (drunk) do? Went and grabbed his bed and brought it into the living room.... Then layed down and in an instant was asleep. So, we taught the restoration with drunk man asleep on the floor. And by way of bebidos, were teaching 2, but I think they have a desire to stop and we´re trying to help them with that. Anyway, this week was really hard, I was a little down on myself and just felt really weighted. The god thing is that there´s things called blessings. I asked Felippe our Ward Mission Leader to give me a blessing Sunday, and it was a really neat experience to say the least. Needless to say, I´m feeling much much better now, and things are better in my life. The mission continues, and I´m prepping to do what needs to be done everyday! Elder Wyatt

This place has more lightning touchdowns than any other place in the world! (2-29-16)

hey dad, don´t have much time, so I´ll have to be short. The videos were to big, so they wouldn´t send sorry btw. The Thnderstorms are crazy here, someone told me that this area has more lightning touchdowns than any other place in the World, so the Lightning is really cool here. And it depends on where we are and how bad the rain is. if we´re at home and it´s bad, we´ll wait for a bit, and on the street we find the next closest place that´s dry. Also. we live right across the street from the church, really close which is amazing! This week was better for me for sure, we´re going to give it a lotof effort this coming transfer also. Haha, some days my legs get pretty tired from walking, but he bad thing is, walking doest burn that many calories, not like running or riding a bike. The work is still going, I know there is a reason I´m still here, so I´m going to try and do some new different things to find what i´m missing. Right now I´m studying a lot about santification by the spirit, and we have 1 hour of personal study, and then 1 hour of companion study. I´m pretty excited to see those changes in the kids! btw, I got your letter in the mail, I´ll get a response ritten and sent out in the mail this week or the next. But thanks so much dad, love you! Elder Wyatt

Letter to his Dad I thought was worth sharing (2-22-16)

I recieved a really cool talk the other day about the atonement and it ties it into the doctrine of intelligences. If you´d like I can send you some of the scriptures it quotes, it´s really cool, and helped me to understand better a little bit of the atonement, especially why it´s so infinite. But, I was thinking about studying a bit more myself the Atonement. But, training is going great, we´ve made some really good progress. I found some things that Elder Jeronymo was needing and I molded our practices to that, and it really helped a lot. He´s a great missionary, with a lot of desire and heart. i´m pretty grateful to have him as a companion. Weights not to bad, I made a few chnages specifically to my diet, and I´m holding pretty steady now, so not to big a problem, but I need to get back to exercising. I´ve been writing in my journal in the mornings because It´s hard to find time at night. But, here´s the problem, I have some things that I want to do, but there´s not much time out into a missionaries schedule for us, it´s for others. So, I make due with what I can. Next transfer is 2 weeks from now, but I´ll probably stay and finish the training of Elder Jeronymo. Cabo is going to be really fun, sounds like it´ll be a great time! I´ll be sure and get a letter sent out to you after i get yours, there´s so much I´d like to tell you but just don´t have time. But I´ve learned a lot, things I want to apply after the mission, and things that I´m trying to grow in the habit of doing. I´ll be sure and get some of those downs, but thank you so much dad. Love you, and ter mais. Elder Wyatt

Missionary Life...It's not always one with our stomachs full (2-22-16)

Well, nothing to crazy happened this week. It was pretty normal overall, i think what i´ll do is just take some time to answer questions. The changes that come from a mission though are enormous. Just things like, you learn what you were doing wrong in your life before the mission, and I have a really strong desire to fix those things. Like, being more study minded, really, actually keeping the sabbath day holy, wasting less time on video games, things like that. As missionaries, a lot of times we hear all the problems that people have. We also have the gift of the spirit to tell people how they can fix these problems. But, this gift also can tell us what we need to fix. These are the things that you wouldn´t believe, just the changes that come. Also the knowledge that I´ve gained, I´ve started to find out how little i knew before the mission, but i´m gaining a little more each day. Oh, I just remembered something funny that happened this week. So, normally our money falls on the 1st and 15th of every month, and normally by the end we don´t have any money. so, this last week, the 15th fell on Monday, which is P-Day, so we´re on our own for lunch. This last week our money didn´t fall and no one in the zone had any money. Haha, I ended using my personal card, and there´s an Elder in our house who doesn´t have one, so I bought lunch for him, but the whole Zone was in revolt for a few days until our money fell. anyway, missionary life, it´s not always one with our stomachs full. We also have interveiws with President Brum this Saturday, so he should bring all of the boxes and things with him I hope. Anyway, so we´re really searching for new investigators right now, having some sucess but nothing crazy. We´re going to keep working hard, fasting and praying a little, and see what we can find. Anyway, thanks and love you guys. Have fun in Cabo! Elder Wyatt​