Back in V. Maria!! - 17 August 2015

This week I literally got a little taste of heaven!!! 

I had the opportunity to spend Wednesday and Thursday in Vila Maria with Elder Reasch!! Such a great time having the opportunity to work in V. Maria for the first time after leaving the first time when this entire adventure started!! 

Working in some of the same streets that I knew so well was a wonderful feeling. 

But the best part was when I had the opportunity to see my first recent convert on my mission!!!! I was filled with so much joy to see her firm in the church! Her eyes were glowing. I was so proud of her for staying so firm in the gospel because her parents went less active but she has stayed all this time strong all by her self!! 

I was dying to give her a huge hug but I couldn´t. 

But I feel that with this experience I got a small taste of how heaven will feel like when I get to see all the people I love and all the people I got to help ALL AT THE SAME TIME!! 

I love this gospel and I love being here in Brazil!!!! And this last week is going to be the best week yet!! 

Love you all so much!!! 

The picture is of Elida, my first baptism.  She has grown a little taller and sadly I've grown a little fatter!!  hahah so much has come from a small see that was planted two years ago!!  Such a wonderful feeling!!!!!

 

Elder B. Jacobson



Slow Week??! - 10 August 2015

This week was a little slow. haha I feel like we stayed in the house of Maria Do Carmin the entire week. This women is really good she just has a lot of questions and so when we enter her house it is hard to leave. WE have explained everything from the restoration to baptisms for the dead and she has watched the story of the prophet Joseph Smith. At the end we bore our testimonies and told her that we had shared everything we had to share with her and that their was nothing more we could do. 

We invited her to pray about it all and the make a decision for herself! So we are going to see how her prayer was and if everything goes well she and her family are all going to be baptized on Sunday. 

Please pray for this family because they are going to need it.. hahah!! 

Today we went to Salomon´s temple. When I got to Sao Paolo Everybody was talking about this temple that had just been built. So I got some pictures in front of this temple!.  I have to say that I like the salt lake temple. 

I love you all soo much!! See you soooooooooon!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AWESOME - 3 August 2015

Hello Everybody!!

 

This week was Awesome!! 

 

Me and Elder are working great together!!!  My camera isn't working in this computer so i'll send them later today if I ca, but we had a week full of miracles. 

KAROL was so excited this entire week to be baptized and on Sunday she was just beaming when she got out of the water. The ward is so excited to have her in the ward. She is 19 and is already thinking about serving a mission. haha

GABRIEL, ISABELA,LUIZA ARE siblings that were baptized together yesterday as well. They are a family ELEITA! Their mom loves the church but can't be baptized yet because she needs to get married first. But she is already helping the missionaries a lot.

 

We are making a t shirt for the zone and she is going to make the shirts for us!! She is so excited about the church and every time we go and teach her and her family they get more and more excited!!!!! 

 

I am so happy to be here with Elder Flores again!! We are CONSEGRADOS!!!

 

I am so tired but I am loving every minute of this transfer!! I just keep seeing how far I can push myself. Sometimes it is frustrating because I feel so weak but I know that the lord is allowing me to see my weaknesses so that I can be strengthened. 

Can I just say I love ETHER 12 27 

 

LOVE YOU ALL SOOO MUCH!!!!!!!! 

 

                     Elder B. Jacobson

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not Feeling Well - 27 July 2015

Hey!!!! 

I'm sorry but this is going to be short. I'm just not feeling very well today so I'm going to go sleep it off. 

But this week was just full of miracles and I am so excited for the coming week!! 

This week as well I got the book of Mormon on audio and have been studying by listening to it and noting all the things I learn as I go. The Book of Mormon has come to life for me this week!! It has always been so hard for me to understand but this week I was able to bring them to life!! it has been so cool and way different then just reading them!! I don't know why I haven't done this before. 

I'm sorry this is so lame!! 

I love you so much!! and no I'm don't think I'm as trunky as Andrew is! hahah just kidding!! 

               until next week!! 

Elder B. Jacobson

First Week with Elder Flores AGAIN - 20 July 2015

This week has been awesome!!! I am loving working with Elder Flores again !!!! 

Its nice cuz I already know him so well that we don't have to adjust to anything we just got to hit the ground running like we did in Jd. California!!!! 

The first day of the transfer we made a goal to fast every other day!!! I knew that it would be a hard one for me but I was willing to give it a try. It was hard but I know that we were blessed by the lord. We WERE able to find two more people that wanted to be baptized. 

1.  A little old man that is always walking around the street. He is a little strange and he has stopped me many times and asked me to bless him. I have but I have never invited him to come to church.  I don't know why but this time I finally did. We took him to the chapel that very hour and le him see the chapel and the baptismal font. He loved it and wanted to be baptized that moment. 

He went to church on Sunday and we interviewed him to be baptized next week but sadly he has had  a rough  past life and  killed his wife!!!! So its going to be a while before he's baptized but he liked the church and will keep coming. aiaiai

2. Henrique: Henrique is Carol´s brother!!! He is cool but we were having a lot of trouble getting him to church to be baptized because he is to lazy get up in the morning, but this week I was determined to not leave until he was up and dressed!!! It went well. He was baptized yesterday but will be moving next week out of this ward so that was the sad part. 

I am determined to end my mission on fire!!!! DOING MORE AND BECOMING MORE THEN EVER BEFORE!!!  I love you all soo much!! Ill see you soon!! 

p.s I got my plain ticket today!!! 

26 de augusto 12:45 ill be with you all!!! 

AND NO IM NOT TRUNCKY!!!!!! 

      LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!! 

love Elder Bjacobson

Crazy Casamento - 13 July 2015

ROGERIO E GISELIE

We have been working with this family ever since I got to this area and they have just been through a ton these last few months. 

They have been trying to get married for a very long time but have had some problems because Roderio has a very strong addiction to drugs. Gisele and her kids are all members of the church and have been trying to help Roderio for a long time.  This family has been through so much trying to help Roderio. 

Every two weeks or so Roderio would disappear and use drugs for a week and then come home when he was better. One week after I got here he left again but this time he didn't come back for 3 weeks straight!!!  He and Gisele were marked to get married but he disappeared again 2 days before the wedding!! 
 

Gisele said that she wouldn't marry him anymore, but when he got back she changed her mind and said that she would give him one more chance. I personally thought she was crazy but after talking to her more about why she wanted to go through with the wedding I was very impressed with her faith and understanding of the plan of salvation.

Gisele told us that everyone has a special trial that they have to get through in this life and she said that for Roderio its drugs but that doesn't mean that he is of any less worth to her or to father in heaven. She said that she knew that god had put Roderio in her life because of the potential that they would both have together. She said that she knew that she needed to marry him and that God would help Roderio with his trial. but they are doing everything to prepare to go to the temple in one year!!! 

Something that I learned this week is wow we need to look at all the people that we are serving here. They have the same potential that the prophet of the church has or of any other member.  We are all trying to become more like of father in heaven and if our father in heaven has so much patience with us why can we not have patience and love for the people that live around us. I see in Gisele this pure love of Christ that the savior showed us!! This is what the savior was talking about! loving our brothers here on earth like Jesus Christ loved the sinner. 

I love you all so much!!! this week has been awesome!! one of the best!!

ow TRANSFERS:

IM STAYING HERE IN JD.MODELO WITH ELDER FLORES AGAIN!! I WAS ALREADY HIS COMPANION!!! IM SO EXCITTED!!!! 

LOVE E.B JACOBSON

Locura - 6 July 2015

This week I spent everyday again with a different Elder from the Zone!! Once again my companion wasn't here for Sunday. Our ward is going crazy because its the third week that he hasn't been here!! haha! They have almost forgotten who my companion is because I always get to church with a different companion!! haha 

The week was good and I was able to get everything done that I needed to get everyone to church and prepare for our baptisms, but Sunday was a huge test for me!!! 

After the entire week we had two people prepared to be baptized yesterday FRANÇE E HENIQUE.

FRANÇA: This woman has been through so much trying to receive the blessings of the gospel. I have been working with her for a month now and something always just gets in the way of her progress. Saturday night when we went to her house to follow up with her for the last time before CHRUCH (the big test) we had a great lesson with that spirit so strong you can barely breath right. She just started crying and crying and then bore her testimony of determination saying that she WOULD ENTER THAT WATER AND BE MADE FREE OF EVERYTHING! 

These are the best moments on the mission, when you have the opportunity to feel the spirit that strong! 

When we got to her house she had left early for the hospital. We called her and she said that she went and would go to church after because the hospital is close to the church. But she never showed up. At 5 we found her at her house and talked to her about her baptism but she was going to the hospital again because she was really sick!! So we remarked everything and helped her get to the hospital. Just praying that she comes out all right. Here the Brazilians say that you enter the hospital alive and leave dead! hahaha I thought that phrase was funny. Its way better in Portuguese but ok. 

HENRIQUE  fell through because we couldn't get him to wake up. He had stayed up until 5; 30 in the morning playing video games!!!!! And you wonder why he was sleeping like a rock when we got to his house!!!! But we got Anna Carolina to church to be confirmed so that was good!!! We got her to church right when bishop called her to the front!! It was something that happens in the movies!!!! hahah 

Today our president is taking my zone to go play paintball with his son that just got back from his mission in AFRICA!! I'm pumped!!! hahah I'm gonna get my but kicked but its going to be a lot of fun. Elder Aguirres (my companion) owned a paintball company before his mission so I'm going to stay on his team so I can tare it up with him!! haha (aka not die) hahaha. 

I love you all so much have a great week!!! 

love elder B. jACOBSON