Elder Chris Dellrie

Tudo bem?? This week was great-Élder Padilha was making me memorize lessons and I hated it, so I had a talk with him about teaching people, not lessons- he figured it'd be a good idea, so he let me try it out and that's when we started getting baptisms. He's the district leader, so he asked me to teach the way I teach to our district in district meeting last Tuesday. I agreed, and taught everyone the way I teach, focused on the Atonement and not just preaching our church and telling our investigators that they need to do things, instead simply asking questions and making them commit themselves- this was all in português, haha. But, it went really well and they all liked it and said they'd try it and lo! everyone has baptisms or multiple this week, one companionship has four! It's legit, this method works so much better than what they were doing before, it's going to change the mission. We're teaching this family right now. They love God and Jesus and are reading the BOM every night. They almost literally have nothing though; their house is smaller than my old room, they have no furniture, their TV is on top of a cardboard box, and they have a blanket on the floor that they sleep on. They are so humble. It really made me realize even more that we have so much, that we're all so spoiled. Don't ever take what you have for granted! Simply living in the US is such a privilege, you have no idea. Também, having the gospel, that's even more important! Most of the people here don't even think that Heavenly Father cares about them. How sad! Be ever so grateful that you have these things in your life- EVERY MOMENT. None of you have seen what I see every day (except maybe dad Dellrie and Kenney), poverty on top of grief on top of despondence on top of difficulty after difficulty. It is so sad, but I'm here to do my job and help them out, coisa boa! I love you all, love the gospel, love the Lord, I'm sweating my butt off and preaching the Word. Peace.