Coming home

Querida família,

I have been keeping a secret for a little while because I didn't want to get trunky, but I won't stay another month and I will be arriving in Utah on the 18th of May. I'm not sure of when I will get there because I still don't have my itinerary, but on the 17th I'm going to the temple in Recife and from there we will go to the airport. It is really strange to think that my mission is already ending. It feels like it will just be a normal transfer and I will have a new area and a new companion, but two years have already past and it is coming to an end. I'm happy and sad at the same time.

This week we baptized a young man named Lucas, he is a friend of Ruchemberg that we baptized last week. We are also teachings Lucas' parents and I believe that they will be baptized shortly. Things are going really well here in our area and May will be full of baptisms, too bad that I won't be here at the end of the month, but I am happy because I will be with you guys.

The big news this week is that Elder Holland came and talked to us. It was amazing. When he arrived in the chapel he shook hands with all of us and looked us in the eye. Then, when he was talking he told why he shakes our hands. He said that our eyes are the window of ou soul, that he could see the eternity in our eyes and that he had interviewed every single one of us. He talked about the power and authority of our calling and asked us to promisse that we would never walk away from the Church. You know how Elder Holland is, he got really emotional, hit the pulpit a little and said, almost yelling, "Promisse me! Promisse me tonight that you will never walk away from this Church!" Talk about a firm commitment. I think every missionary promissed in their heart that they would never leave the Church. We also heard from his wife and from Elder Mazzagardi and his wife. Sister Holland bore her testimony that her husband is an Apostle saying, "I hear the way he prays, I have seen bless and cure the sick, I have seen him recieve revelation" among other things. 

Gotta go

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Brasil

Querida família,

Yesterday we had a really special baptismal service. In the beginning of the month we baptized a man named Danillo and yesterday he baptized his wife, Cinthia. She was afraid of how her family would react, but her parents came and watched the baptism and they liked it a lot. Cinthia was crying when she entered the font and after as well. We also baptized a 16-year-old named Ruchemberg. He is great, he already started seminary and wants to serve a mission and next week we are going to baptize a friend of his that he introduced to us. We had the meeting in the chapel and we had a an area seventy Elder Camargo that played the piano and gave a little talk. Elder Camargo is the CEO of the university where Danillo works, there are a lot of members that work there. Maybe it will become BYU Brazil soon.

Also, Elder Holland will be here tomorrow in the chapel in my area. Sister Hall put me and my companion in charge of a choir that will sing for him. I'm kind of nervous to sing in front of Elder Holland, but it will be awesome!

This week I did two divisions, the first I went to an area called Ponta Negra that is even richer than my area. We say the beach while were in the bus, there are miles and miles of perfect beaches here. The second division was in Parnamirim, I stayed with an american that is in his second transfer. We had to catch a bus to go to an appointment, but he got the wrong bus and we ended up getting a little lost. We found our way back, but we were really late to everything afterwards.

Not much else happened this week, so I will talk with you later.

Elder Tom Jay

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Brazil

Querida Família

Sorry that I haven't written much these last two weeks, I have been pretty busy. I will just tell the most the highlights.

First off, Elder Holland is going to visit our mission on the 24th and it just so happens that he is coming to the chapel in my area. Talk about good luck! I am going to take all of my recent-converts and investigators to fireside. I also thought about marking a baptism on the 24th, but I don't think that they would let us. I was in the MTC during the new mission president training-thingy and we had a fireside with 8 apostles, when I got here in october of 2010 we had a meeting with Elder Bednar and now we will have one with Elder Holland. We are going to be the first ones in the chapel and sit right up front.

We also had a little scar a couple weeks ago. The mission rented a van to take us to the zone leader coucil in João Pessoa. All of the zone leaders from Rio Grande do Norte were in the van. We were about two hours from João Pessoa, I was laying down on the back bench and everyone else was asleep or trying to sleep when suddenly the driver hit the brakes and we ran in to something. After the impact a looked up and saw that we had run into the back a semi-truck. Happily all of the missionaries had their seatbelts on except for me because I had taken it off to lay down. The front of the van was totalled, but no one was hurt besides some bruises, and some nametags that had flown around, not even the missionary in the passenger seat was injured. My shoulder gave a pretty good whack on the bench in front of me and it actually tore out on of the bolts and knocked the bench out of place. We got out of the man and hithhiked until the next city where there was another van that took us the rest of the way. The Lord protected us and we arrived in saftey. Thanks for praying for our safety.

In João Pessoa, next to the presidents house, there is a guy that walks in the road selling little yogurts. He yells louder than any man I have ever seen so after the counsel I ran him down and bought three yogurts so that we would yell "Só batiza!" which means "Just baptize!" It was awesome.

gotta go,

Elder jay

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brasil

querida família,

Teve transferências. Fiquei aqui em Cidade Verde então vai ser minha última área. Fiquei na 

oops, We had transfers. I stayed in cidade verde so it will be my last area. I had to stay in the bus station all day to make sure that everyone got on their way and arrived in safety so I don't have very much time to write. I'm doing great and we are going to baptize lots of people in these last weeks. On Monday we marked baptisms of three people, yesterday we marked another and we are going to mark three more today. Everyone needs to baptized and I want to end helping lots of people enter in the waters of baptism.

see ya

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Oí

Hey guys, I'm just fine, but I have no time.

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