Ohhh the Chuva

HAHAHAHA I love the rain so much......(what i had to tell myself all this week).... Lets just say that I am 95 percent convinced that rain is of the devil. this week we walked and talked to a lot of people but because of the enormous amount of rain that we received this week we didnt get to sit down for many lessons. Turns out that when it rains everyone in mozambique stays home.... great right? wrong, they stay home and pretend that the outside world doesn't exist. THis includes avoiding the missionaries and any form of visit.

 But walking around in the flooded streets with boots was fun. This week went by super fast and although we didn't have any baptisms this week we did do some really great family nights, one with the stake president and his SUPER INCREDIBLE family and with another family who happens to be the oldest member family here in Beira. Both of them were absolutely awesome.

Also I found myself with this kid wearing a shirt from the hogle zoo... wow that traveled a long ways.... so of course I stopped him... took a picture and then we did an awesome contact with him.

Just to give a picture of what the work is like here in Palmeiras (side note for ya'll out there, palmeiras means palm trees..... hahaha the city of palm trees..... i love it) we have no problem finding people to teach.... the contacting, reference thing hasn't been a huge part of the work for a while..... right now the work is going so quickly that we haven't had time to sit down with all the people we have..... it's actually starting to get really hard for us. We have to run from lesson to lesson to try and fit everyone in. And then we have to decide if the person is really interested or just wants a bunch of free stuff from the missionaries....(sadly a while back we had a missionary that was going home so he gave all his stuff to investigators and stuff and now everyone thinks that we have all the stuff just to give away to people).

I don't have much time left but I just wanted to testify that the Church is true. Something that I had brought to my attention is that every day we receive small confirmations that the church is true, that Joseph Smith was a prophet, that some small principle in the church is true, but because we don't take the time to stop and realize these small manifestations we start to convince ourselves that we never knew. Its like change, its super easy to look at 5 cents and think, what in the world will I do with this? and then we "loose it"(or throw it somewhere in the road you know you have all done it once;) but if we take the time to realize the value of what we have and keep it close, soon the small and simple will become grand and unshakeable.

Love you all. Keep going strong out there

Elder Thornton

Young man they found with a Hogle Zoo shirt

wading in the rain

Elder Moreira and Jonny