Famailia!!!


Transfer week!!!! So we'll get called tomorrow and find out where we are going. But im pretty sure that ill stay and my comp will go. He has more time here but we'll see what will happen. Ok, sweet so i dont have to wear these invisalign trays anymore, finally!  Ya, I'm going to get my shoes fixed here but I've been waiting until after transfers because I dont know what will happen. But this week was good. We've been teaching a family thats from Vietnam.. They are super far from our house.  We received a reference for them. What started out with one person turned out to be a bunch of people that we met. But its hard cause they live super far away from the church and they all want to come to church. So Sunday everything went wrong.. so the sister in our ward that gave us this reference told us she would drive there to pick them up. But the night before she got in an accedent and broke her teeth. Then our ward mission leader had to study that day, so he couldn't help.  We arranged a ride with another sister and the morning of church she had to travel somewhere else.  So we only got Julie to come to church yesterday. But we will do better next week. 


You guys think its hot there in AZ. I'm sitting here dying of heat writing to you guys haha! The energy went down in our city but I think it will come back up here in a lil. We are using a couple old laptops at a sisters house for right now. But nothing really happened this week worth writing down.


But dad your bike looks sweet, i dont even want to ask how much it was hahahah. But ya Natal (Christmas) is comng up so you guys better prepare! That sounded like a good trip for the YM/YW (youth) you guys took before church on Sunday. I remember going down to Randolph and helping all those special people too. But love you guys. 

Elder Mauter 

Familia!
I didn't have that much time to write last week because it was a holiday, dia das crianças. Brazilians really like holidays haha.. but did you say you will send more Invisalign trays? How many more? I will start my last tray next week but ya my teeth are like on top of each other.

Dad send me a pic of your new bike!!! London looked sweet in your pictures. We will defiantly have to come back to Brazil after my mission. But what's up with those pants Gavin is wearing? hahah. Next week is transfers so we will see what happens.  I think I'll stay another transfer because my comp has more time here. But my health is good and work is going well.  We should have baptized 2 girls last week but their parents don't want to sign the permission paper and plus they also don't want to talk to us so we are just going to give it time. The girls will turn 18 here in a couple of months so they wont need this signature then haha.

But last week was a lil slow. We are also teaching a girl my age who has 2 daughters and is married. She is really cool, her sister is a member of the church but it seems everytime we teach her she wants to Bible bash us asking us questions about the smallest things. So we might have to cut her because it doesn't work to teach someone like that because we sit there answering her questions and she doesn't believe sometimes even when we are showing her where it is in the Bible... We are going to keep working.  

We got Lielda confirmed a member this week.  It was actually pretty crazy last week because a member went to pick her and her family up but accidentally locked her keys in her car. So she went back to her house and had to kick down the door to get the spare keys hahaha.  So this just shows you how important the work is! 

I have a really funny story to tell, But I don't know if you want to put this so everyone can read it though. But you can choose haha.  But last week before lunch one day me and my comp got a call from a sister in our ward. She wanted us to give her and her mom a blessing because they were both sick.  So after we got done eating we went over there. She explained that her mom who is 70 or something has been having diarrhea alot and that she has had a headache . So I gave a blessing to her mom who was on her bed, cause shes a pretty big woman. Then we went to the TV room and my comp gave the sister a blessing. Then everything was silent and she was even crying from the blessings.  Then all of a sudden the mom from the other room ripped one.  I think she farted for a good 5 sec just straight up diarrhea hahaha. I laughed a lil but stopped so know one would know and my comp also stopped the blessing but then ended it. Right after we told the sister we had to go because we have work to do and hurried out of the house and down the street then just died laughing hahah. That was the funniest thing ever but this is all for this week.  I love you guys. 
Elder Mauter

Baptismo!!!

Last week was sweet! We finally got to baptize the family we have been teaching for awhile. It was a really cool experience what happened too. But first, last week we had our zone meeting on Wednesday and I ended up staying over with our zone leader in his area while the other Elder came to my area until Friday. It was really cool to help him out and get to know Elder Meilerries. He is from Brasilia and will end up going home in January.

Saturday we planned to baptize this family but ended up only baptizing Max and Robison, the two kids of Lielda. Lielda didn't have enough courage to be baptized because she has a really big fear of water. She couldn't even sit in the front row to see her kids be baptized, if that lets you understand how scared she is. But the baptisms when well.  Max is special and really doesn't need to be baptized but he really wanted to, so we talked to our President and he said we could.  He said it would be a symbolism and plus the Holy Ghost can help him when he receives it.

But then Sunday we talked with everyone to try and mark everything for Sunday when they would receive the Holy Ghost. Lielda said she wouldn't beable to come, so we were pretty bummed about that. So that night we fasted for her and the next day a member who lives near her passed by her house and she was ready to go to church with her kids. During church we were really talking to her alot about baptism.  She still wasn't wanting to at all, so we left her for a lil bit. Then the member who always helps us (shes also a recent convert) was talking to Lielda and she finally committed to be baptized.

It was so cool, she went up to the the pulpit during sacrament meeting and bore her testimony.  She shared what a big a miracle it was to meet me and my comp and to have this opportunity. So right before she was about to enter the waters she started crying so much because she  was afraid. Me and my comp tried to help her and practice with her outside so she felt more comfortable but I've never seen someone so scared. We got this member dressed in baptism cloths too so she could enter with her. Lielda entered the waters super slow and almost turned back 3 times. I can really say that the Lord was there helping her all the way. I prayed about a thousand times for her and we also gave her a blessing of comfort. She ended up getting baptized. 

This was another really cool experience in my mission that I will never forget. It really helped my testimony about fasting.  Everything is going good here, until you sent me those pics of you guys in London.....and then I got a pic of Chase in Hawaii. So I'm super mad now. We are definitely going on a trip like that after my mission. 
But I love you guys. Thanks for everything. 

Elder Mauter

Ola!!!

Sister Soares and Elder Mauter

This day has been crazy. I literally have the best Mission President couple. This morning Sister Soares grabbed us at like 7 o'clock and also the rest of our district. She took us on a tour of Natal, and it was so sweet! We just got back now. Sister Soares took us to all the dunes and beaches here. We got to get our feet wet in the ocean water hahah. I'll send a bunch of pics that I took today with my Ohio State Championship T-shirt Kimber got me! 


Thanks for the package mom. Everything was perfect.  My comp was telling me that you are a missionary too mom!  Because you sent me all those pamphlets and missionary stuff.  But you don't have to send those because we already receive those from the mission. The next package you send me, everything that I said I needed I don't need anymore so don't worry about sending that stuff. I already have too many shirts and my shoes are fine and I don't need those books.

So last week was crazy. We had our mission conference Tuesday which was really good. President focused alot on contacts and gave us some good examples. It was cool and a lot more stuff too, but I'm not remembering everything right now.  So much happened this week haha. Then we had General Conference this weekend too. We watched it in our church building. The Americans got to watch it in English which I like a lot more.  It seems more real because you get to hear their actual voices. 

Mission Conference

General Conference was really spiritual. I liked it alot seeing the new apostles getting called and hearing their testimony's. I especially liked the talk from Elder Holland, because he talked about moms and their important role in our lives. It really got me thinking and I am so grateful to have you mom in my life. For your help raising me and putting up with me. Also getting me out and supporting me on my mission. You are really one of a kind and I love you! And of course the person after talked about fathers, so I cant forget dad! Thank you guys for everything. I know I wouldn't be where I am today and know the things I know without such good parents to give me a kick in the butt when I needed it haha love ya!

So much has happened today and I'm pretty tired so I'll keep this one short. We have some baptisms coming for this week which will be good and especially with everything last week we'll have a bigger spiritual boost than before to do the work.

Tchau fam,
Elder Mauter