"BUT I WON´T DO THAT!"
Dear Family!!
Holy Mamma! I sure love you all so much! I got your letter from Halloween! Thanks so much! I loved it!
This past Sunday we had a baptism. Davi! It was great! We worked really hard with him and it was not an easy ride, but it was awesome! Like Gary Allen said "Life ain´t always beautiful, but it´s a beautiful ride." It was a beautiful ride. I bought him the Book of Mormon with pictures. I gave it to him last Thursday. He´s already read it twice. He gave me a picture he drew of Jesus. He really really likes to draw. He´s pretty good too.
It also was the primary program on Sunday. I was a little emotional. You know me. It was really sweet and a great program. It was neat to hear the kids sing, "I know that my Savior loves me" in Portuguese. And I cried like a baby when they sang "How could the Father tell the world" I forget the name. and I loved the "I love to look for rainbows" I have always loved that song.
I want to talk about another baptism we have coming up. It has been really neat. We passed by his house the first week and he tried to dodge us. He finally let us in and "accompanied" us with his bible during the message of the Restauration. I thought we were going to have a bible bash, but it didn´t happen. We passed by again and asked if he had read the parts of the Book of Mormon we marked for him. He said he did but didn´t understand ANYTHING. So we read them again with him and explained as we went. He really enjoyed it. We planned to pass by again and teach him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the 3rd lesson. But when we got there and started to talk he said "That sounds great and all, but I just want you to read the Book of Mormon with me." So we read 3rd Nephi 27... which talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That is a great great great chapter. We passed by again and his wife was finally home. They aren´t married but they intend to. We taught her. She was fimiliar with missionaries already. We watched the movie, The Restoration, and at the end I tried to invite her to be baptized (We had already marked a date with him.) She blocked everything I tried to use. Like she was a Sith from Starwars and she knew all the Jedi stuff. It was super crazy. But now she really likes us. We passed by again yesterday. We watched the film "Juntos Para Sempre" or together forever, I like it, it has a lot of those Michael McLean music we listen to as a family. After we watched it, we let the spirit testify for a minute. Then we testified about how we can be a family forever and ever. He sat there for a minute and said "Can you come by on Friday and teach me the rest of what I need to know to be baptized." It was an amazing amazing experience.
So I have been thinking a lot about Christmas a lot lately. I am gonna try to send a little something for the whole family to use. If you send a package, could you please include a discman, I bought the Book of Mormon on audio in portuguese to help me lose my American accent, but now the elder who had a discman and let me use it, doesn't live with us anymore. So I need one and a discman here is anywhere from R$100 to R$140. That´s a little expensive considering the fact that a missionary´s salary is R$0. hahaha I love you all so much.
Also I challenged you all to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year. I realize that all of you probably don´t have as much time to read every day as I do. SO! I am redoing the challenge. The challenge is to read the Book of Mormon by my one year mark of the mission (That is March 31 if you forgot). I love you all so much!!! I hope you have a wonderful week. And Aaron!!!! Congrats on getting into Med school! I´ve been praying hard for you! I´m so super happy for you! Way to go! As we say down here in Brasil. "Parabéns! Parabéns mesmo!" I love you and I´m proud of you!
Well, that´s all the bullets I have today. Sorry I can´t send photos today. The computer I am using doesn´t have an outlet that works. I love you all so much!
DON´T STOP BELIEIVING!!!!
Com Amor do Brasil!
-Elder Askins
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