Entering my only full year of Missionary Service

2018... wow ... just super crazy that 2018 came after the year 2017, just super weird how that works..... hahahaha in all reality it was just a super normal experience this new years celebration, the only difference that I really saw was the amount of drunk people that wanted to receive lessons from the missionaries. Hahaha

Anyways this week has been super crazy! I got my new companion ELder Da Costa who is waiting to go to Angola, and we also moved to the new house... which just happens to be the best house on the mission right now, complete with two bathrooms and three bedrooms, a huge kitchen with a dinning area... what?! super big transition from Dondo... haha 

The work here is going super well! we had two baptisms, Castelo and Luis *( castelo is the one shorter). They are super awesome and the cool story with them is that when we started teaching them they invited a ton of their friends to receive the lessons and they should be baptised this week if everything runs smoothly.

Right now I am a little bit overwhelmed with a new area, training, and learning this whole district leadering thing but The mission is still just the greatest hahaha the only problem is that ELder Da costa loves to cook and i have a feeling that I might be gaining some weight... not only that he wont even let me touch the dishes.... so i don't know what the heck i am supposed to do.... hahaa

but just wanted to talk a little bit about callings, at times we receive a calling or an assignment that we really don't feel prepared or capable of fulfilling to the fullest extent and I am here to tell you guys... that you are probably completely right! in all reality the work of the lord is something almost completely impossible to complete using only our own power, for that reason exactly we have Jesus Christ and we can use his atonement to reach the things that we cant even dream of reaching without his help. I know this work is divine and that as we seek to use the atonement we will start to realize the burdens of life and the stresses of underperforming will slowly begin to disappear. And when this happens we cant forget that these feelings didn't just magically disappear but that The Christ is bearing the load for us. Happy new year and I hope that people can remember their new years goals for more than a week this time.... Love you all!

Jonny and Elder DeCosta who loves to cook

Jonny, Elder DeCosta, Irmao Luis and Irmao Castelo with a member