Elder Austin Reid: May 2018

May 14th 2018

Hey all!

This week was obviously way good cause of Mothers day! Love you Mom!

The two baptisms we had fell through at the super last minute which was way sad. We were filling up the font in the chapel and when we went to go get the family an hour before the baptism they had a little family problem and were not able to go to the baptism which was way sad but we will remark with them today!

We have some other awesome investigators that are progressing. We are teaching one family that was baptized in another church recently but felt as if the person that baptized them was not authorized to baptize aka didn't have the priesthood and they are going to be baptized! We are helping them build their new house which has been fun!

People are starting to go crazy round here because of the world cup. Go Brazil!

We played basketball this morning with some members and it was lots of fun.

Sorry these days I don't have a whole lot to say but life here is good. Its getting colder so like 60s 70s which is actually a huge drop for here.

Like a thousand years ago it snowed here in the city I'm in so who knows maybe I'll get lucky to see snow in Brazil!

love you all!!

May 5th, 2018

So this week was another good week on the mish!

We are teaching some awesome families here and have been seeing a lot of progress in all of them which has been way cool. People here in Guarapuava are so different from Curitibanos.

We went on splits to another small city called Pitanga which is just tons of farmland and craziness but it was way fun. We found 37 new investigators yesterday and taught tons of lessons! It was a way fun day!

Our p-day got last minute switched to today so thats why I am on right now!

Love you all!

pics!

Just gettin lit with some of my favs!

April 30th, 2018

Whats up!?

So this week was nuts!

Lots of travelling! We got to Guarapuava last Monday night and we were able to work here a couple of days. Two other elders got here too so we had to divide our area in 2 because we now have 4 elders in the branch. Our area is a mix of extremely wealthy and extremely poor which is nuts. I have seen some of the nicest houses ever with Lamborghini´s in the garage and houses made of cardboard which has been quite the mix and quite a shock but it has been amazing so far. We started getting work done but on Friday we had the ZL meeting so Thursday morning we got the bus to Curitiba to get to there at night, slept in the office house and had our meeting in the morning. It was pretty fun as always but also weird cause the next time we have this meeting will be like two weeks before I get home!!! Craziness!!

Our meeting went a little late and sister Cuvelier ended up driving s to the bus station and we just BARELY made the bus and bought the last two seats which was a miracle but also kinda sucked cause we sat in the back which is always super hot and the only bus to Guarapuava at that time was the one that makes a way big circle so we ended up making a 5 hour trip into an 8 hour trip and got home at like 10 pm wooohooo

so Saturday was definitely one of the most incredible days on my mission! We started off the day finding 10 new investigators which were 2 really cool families and a guy whose wife had passed away recently. We had so many spiritual lessons and invited all them to be baptized. One of the families is marked for later may and we are way excited for them. At night we were walking home on cloud 9 when we heard a really loud cry coming from a dark street so we looked and saw this lady crying in the middle of the street and she told us her husband had been killed and we sat and talked to her and helped calm her down and it was really crazy how everything happened and was a miracle of how the Lord puts people in our paths!

Sunday was different going from the biggest ward in the mission to a branch haha but I'm loving the new area!

Love you all!

REAL MILK!!!!!!

April 23rd, 2018

Well gang as always I bet you're just super anxious to get the update on my super exciting missionary life lol

Shout out to those that still read this email because I think the hardest thing I do every week is just try and figure out what I should put on here.

Well the big news of this week is I will be ending my mission in a little city way far away from Curitiba called Guarapuava.

My area is huge and im working in a branch

So big changes going from the biggest ward in the mission with 8 missionaries to a tiny little branch and district!

But president has goals to make it a stake so thats my new personal goal before i head home!!

Life here is way good and it was way hard to say goodbye to my ward. Love araucária with my whole heart and soul and it forever changed my life #blessings

i dont have a whole ton of time nor much to say because i spent the whole day on the bus today but li do have pictures!

i love you all!

Pictures!

the man the myth and the legend Lacerda!