We Found Ronaldo

Olá a gente!


Some awesome things happened this last week. We had a mission conference, which is like a zone conference but with the entire mission, which was fun. There were a ton of missionaries there and we barely fit into the sacrament room. The main theme of this conference was the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which was awesome. It was cool to be able to dive more in depth about that. 


Thursday was an interesting day. We had a lesson with our Nepali friend, but we also have an Irmã from Taiwan in our branch who loves to have us over at her house for lessons. So we went there for this lesson. During this particular lesson, we were teaching about all the commandments with our friend, which includes the word of wisdom. So as we were teaching our friend about how we should avoid things like tea, smoking, and alcoholic drinks like beer or wine, the Irmã randomly brings out tea and alcohol free beer for us to have. Both of them technically were fine to have since they followed the word of wisdom, but it caused a bit of confusion with our friend cause she thought we couldn't have that stuff. So that was fun to try and explain. It was a pretty funny experience.


Friday was my comp, Elder Madrids birthday. So we went out to eat at a huge food court called Time Out Market. It has a bunch of fancy food which is super good. It was insanely crowded in there, so we had to eat standing up without a table. There is also a donut shop there that makes some crazy good donuts. So we each got one and that was kind of the cake we had for his birthday. One of the best things I have eaten here. 


For pday today, we went over to the mission home for a zone pday. We played lots of ping pong, a ton of soccer, and ate a ton of great food. It was awesome. There isn't a ton to write about today without making you all bored though. But it was super fun.


Following the mission conference we had about the Atonement of Christ, i just thought I would share a scripture about it. It is in 2 Nephi 2:6-8. It says, "Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.  Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered. Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise." 
I like this scripture since it talks about how literally everyone is covered by the sacrifice of Christ, and we can all use it to improve our lives and to eventually live with Heavenly Father again.


Boa semana para vocês!


Elder Howard


Pictures
- Zone p-day 
- One of the primary girls in the branch mentioned that my tie matched her dress, so she demanded a picture together 
- Birthday donuts
- Ice-cream with the branch president 
- So we were walking around town and our branch president mentioned that Ronaldo lived in the big white building. Maybe we'll have to knock it sometime...
- Lesson with our amiga where we got beer and tea, haha.





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