Familia,
My new address is
Rua Carajas Quadro 12 Lote 16,
75340-000
Centro Hidrolandia- GO
Brasil
I am hanging in there. :)
This week in truth was a little difficult, we are searching to have investigators firm and strong and find the elect. We are teaching like crazy, but not having a whole ton of result, but the lord will bless us.
It is interesting that no one likes having tough times, but I sure have learned a lot here throughout this dry time, or time with out baptisms. We learn that truly to trust in the arm of flesh is not what we are to do, we are nothing without the Lord. It is such a pleasure to study the scriptures. I am coming more and more to treasure them. I already had a great love, but my love has grown, and will continue to grow. What a fabulous time in our lives! I am happy to be living, loving and breathing. I know that things will get better, and i just need to look for the solutions and look less at the problems. BUt, indeed we must look at the problem a little to understand how we can make up a solution.
One truth that has stuck in my head this week is something that i learned in the MTC. My companion told me I am pretty sure it was Bruce R. M. that said something like this, that the only way we will be able to have reach the celestial kingdom is when this is what occupies our mind, motivates our actions, and is the greatest desire of our hearts. Anything less than this my dear family just isn´t enough. I am doing some real soul searching out here, and I know that what i am learning here is a treasure I will have for all my life. I am thankful for this opportunity. Pray that the Lord willbless you all!
Sister Judd
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
May 19, 2009
Marci, I finally found out the address, but I forgot to bring it with me to the lan house, sorry.
I love you all so very much.
This week was good, but a little sad, our baptism fell through he needs to take care of a few things, but he said he will remain faithful and continue coming to church and everything so that is good.
This area is way different from where I was. A lot of times we make contacts with members, or when we are knocking doors we find a lot of inactive members. I have found some new challenges. We are working, or need to work a lot more with the members here, and need to help those lost sheep, members return to church and feel of the love of the Savior. Some council that I received though from Presidente Tobias he said don´t get discouraged, and baptize! So that is what I will do. Sometime it is a little difficult to not be a little discourages visiting a lot of people who had testimonies, and already have experienced the joy of the gospel, but have gone astray. It is a new challenge, but I have two goals in this area, the first is to leave this area with the chapel full, and the other is to leave this people with smiles on their faces and more excited.
We have a new Presidente of the branch and we are hoping for his help in changing a few things. This chapel used to be full, and now it is only about half full, we are hoping to bring many souls back, and add to them by baptizing. My favorite thing to do by the way:)
My companion is great and we get along. She helps me a lot with the language which is great and at the same time really humbling. I wonder if I would do a few things different with Maelee and Kristina in helping them learn English, but somethings are just necessary. It is never real fun to corrected a hundred times a day, but I have worked a lot on being humble, and this has helped a lot. A lot of people help me and give me comfort telling me that i am speaking really well, but I still have a ton to learn.
I am loving this time to study the gospel, and make more goals for my future life and family! What a great opportunity! Pray for me and for Bruno, he is our baptism this week that we are praying and fasting for. He is awesome but making some difficult and life altering decisions. I know the Lord will bless him.
Sister Judd
I love you all so very much.
This week was good, but a little sad, our baptism fell through he needs to take care of a few things, but he said he will remain faithful and continue coming to church and everything so that is good.
This area is way different from where I was. A lot of times we make contacts with members, or when we are knocking doors we find a lot of inactive members. I have found some new challenges. We are working, or need to work a lot more with the members here, and need to help those lost sheep, members return to church and feel of the love of the Savior. Some council that I received though from Presidente Tobias he said don´t get discouraged, and baptize! So that is what I will do. Sometime it is a little difficult to not be a little discourages visiting a lot of people who had testimonies, and already have experienced the joy of the gospel, but have gone astray. It is a new challenge, but I have two goals in this area, the first is to leave this area with the chapel full, and the other is to leave this people with smiles on their faces and more excited.
We have a new Presidente of the branch and we are hoping for his help in changing a few things. This chapel used to be full, and now it is only about half full, we are hoping to bring many souls back, and add to them by baptizing. My favorite thing to do by the way:)
My companion is great and we get along. She helps me a lot with the language which is great and at the same time really humbling. I wonder if I would do a few things different with Maelee and Kristina in helping them learn English, but somethings are just necessary. It is never real fun to corrected a hundred times a day, but I have worked a lot on being humble, and this has helped a lot. A lot of people help me and give me comfort telling me that i am speaking really well, but I still have a ton to learn.
I am loving this time to study the gospel, and make more goals for my future life and family! What a great opportunity! Pray for me and for Bruno, he is our baptism this week that we are praying and fasting for. He is awesome but making some difficult and life altering decisions. I know the Lord will bless him.
Sister Judd
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
May 12, 2009
Familia,
Yay! At least most of the time I can count on this via of communication to work. I hope so at least. It was horrible to try and call and have all sorts of havoc, but I heard my mommy´s voice, and that was good enough for me, I said to my companion after, you know maybe it was better to just talk for about five minutes I only had to cry for 5 minutes and not 45.
It is interesting to hear familiar voices and especially in English. It is weird, but it was a little bit difficult to find my thoughts in english. BUt, next time mom it will be a lot better, I found out that i can buy a card to use for 9 reais and can talk for 40 minutes, so next time i promise i will be more prepared okay!
I would have loved to hear from everybody some of the things that I wanted to ask maybe you will all answer.
Dad, how is the car business coming along
How in the heck is my brand spanking new baby neice Lucie?
What is Becca up to?
IS brent back in school?
What new things is Tyler saying?
Is my little Sean David as cute as ever and chubby?
Gracee and Emme haven´t forgotten me....?
I know that my little buddy Austin hasn´t by the way he kept asking when i was coming home. Kami when are you coming home. Well, to answer that I will just say that my 6 months mark has passed by and that I only have a year left.
I would loved to have talked about some of my friends and the differences that are taking place.
i would have loved to ask about my best grandma.
I would have loved to hear some counsil from my father.
I would have loved to ask the names of Verle´s baptisms.
i would not like to hear brent´s voice, i´ll explain why, because just the other day when i was reading his letter i could hear his voice, and i started to cry.;)
is ruff still planning on moving to St. George?
What is Sean up to?
What is Jenny up to? still working at Kiss and Make up?
BEcca???????????? Long time no letter? What is with that?
How is your Spanish coming along Matt
Melissa, I can tell you are exactly the same with your strong personality.
Maelee, what´s up girl? and hear... I´ll show you what´s up girl!
Kristina, volleyball??????? Keep it up please you have such talent.
Daniel oh how i wish i could talk to you now and excite you for a mission.
I love you all and hope that all is well, like i said it was great to hear your voice mom and dad and austin. I will call again in December:)
Don´t be too trunky okay. YOu will have to repent! I love lovelove youa ll and tell everyone to pray for me and that i love them!
Sister Judd
i AM IN A NEW AREA THAT IT WAYYYY DIFFERENT BUT WAY PRETTY AND SMALL AND WE WILL BAPTISE SO I AM HAPPY
Yay! At least most of the time I can count on this via of communication to work. I hope so at least. It was horrible to try and call and have all sorts of havoc, but I heard my mommy´s voice, and that was good enough for me, I said to my companion after, you know maybe it was better to just talk for about five minutes I only had to cry for 5 minutes and not 45.
It is interesting to hear familiar voices and especially in English. It is weird, but it was a little bit difficult to find my thoughts in english. BUt, next time mom it will be a lot better, I found out that i can buy a card to use for 9 reais and can talk for 40 minutes, so next time i promise i will be more prepared okay!
I would have loved to hear from everybody some of the things that I wanted to ask maybe you will all answer.
Dad, how is the car business coming along
How in the heck is my brand spanking new baby neice Lucie?
What is Becca up to?
IS brent back in school?
What new things is Tyler saying?
Is my little Sean David as cute as ever and chubby?
Gracee and Emme haven´t forgotten me....?
I know that my little buddy Austin hasn´t by the way he kept asking when i was coming home. Kami when are you coming home. Well, to answer that I will just say that my 6 months mark has passed by and that I only have a year left.
I would loved to have talked about some of my friends and the differences that are taking place.
i would have loved to ask about my best grandma.
I would have loved to hear some counsil from my father.
I would have loved to ask the names of Verle´s baptisms.
i would not like to hear brent´s voice, i´ll explain why, because just the other day when i was reading his letter i could hear his voice, and i started to cry.;)
is ruff still planning on moving to St. George?
What is Sean up to?
What is Jenny up to? still working at Kiss and Make up?
BEcca???????????? Long time no letter? What is with that?
How is your Spanish coming along Matt
Melissa, I can tell you are exactly the same with your strong personality.
Maelee, what´s up girl? and hear... I´ll show you what´s up girl!
Kristina, volleyball??????? Keep it up please you have such talent.
Daniel oh how i wish i could talk to you now and excite you for a mission.
I love you all and hope that all is well, like i said it was great to hear your voice mom and dad and austin. I will call again in December:)
Don´t be too trunky okay. YOu will have to repent! I love lovelove youa ll and tell everyone to pray for me and that i love them!
Sister Judd
i AM IN A NEW AREA THAT IT WAYYYY DIFFERENT BUT WAY PRETTY AND SMALL AND WE WILL BAPTISE SO I AM HAPPY
wE HAVE A BAPTISM THIS WEEK HIS NAME IS LEANDRO AND IS SO AWESOEM AND WILL SERVE A MISSION I HOPE HE IS19 YEARS OLD
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
May 6, 2009
Famila,
> I had a whole week full of miracles! It was so awesome! I wrote a whole long letter to Dad about what happened, but suffice it to say that we had a glorious baptism Sunday of a man named Lindomar, or what i like to call him Lindomaravilhoso! I wrote all about it in the letter and I have a few that I wrote the week before that you will receive in a couple of weeks because i haven´t sent them yet.
> I will not write too too much because I don´t have a ton of time, but I was transferred yesterday and I am now 5 hours away from my other area in Hidrolandia, so I left Uberlandia, for Hidrolandia, kinda funny. My new companion is Sister Galvão. I hope to have a lot of success with her. I was really learning to have success with Sister Da Silva. We together worked a lot on having 100% obedience. There are so many ways not to have complete righteousness that are so far away from real sinning, or what we call sin in the natural world, but in the world of missionaries when you have a purpose very different, what is sin is a little different.
> Lindomar is the most elect person I have ever worked with! He is so great! I am a little sad that I will not be able to see him stay strong in the church, but he will certainly! He was so prepared to become a member of the church. I will tell a little of the story, but I hope to make a copy of my journal to tell the whole story. We met him on Sunday the 26th. He came to church with a member in the ward Davi. We got his address and asked if we could visit him the very next day in the house of the members, he said yes, and we visited the next day!
> We taught and invited him to be baptized the next Sunday the third of may, just 6 days. He accepted, and we taught him everything in the next week and he was baptized Sunday! Amazing!
> 2 months before he drank and smoked, but one day Sister Ana Paula said you should stop smoking and drinking, and he did that very day! Miracle! He was so prepared to hear about the gospel and the be baptized, he just needed an invitation. He is 43 years old, and now has a huge family of ward members that will help take care of him.
> I am a little stressed about this new area, it is so different, we have a branch here, not a ward, but it will all be alright I just know it, and we will have success! Please continue to pray for me!
> I love you all!
> Mom I will be calling on Sunday and will try to call Saturday to tell you when I will be calling okay!
> Sister Judd
> I had a whole week full of miracles! It was so awesome! I wrote a whole long letter to Dad about what happened, but suffice it to say that we had a glorious baptism Sunday of a man named Lindomar, or what i like to call him Lindomaravilhoso! I wrote all about it in the letter and I have a few that I wrote the week before that you will receive in a couple of weeks because i haven´t sent them yet.
> I will not write too too much because I don´t have a ton of time, but I was transferred yesterday and I am now 5 hours away from my other area in Hidrolandia, so I left Uberlandia, for Hidrolandia, kinda funny. My new companion is Sister Galvão. I hope to have a lot of success with her. I was really learning to have success with Sister Da Silva. We together worked a lot on having 100% obedience. There are so many ways not to have complete righteousness that are so far away from real sinning, or what we call sin in the natural world, but in the world of missionaries when you have a purpose very different, what is sin is a little different.
> Lindomar is the most elect person I have ever worked with! He is so great! I am a little sad that I will not be able to see him stay strong in the church, but he will certainly! He was so prepared to become a member of the church. I will tell a little of the story, but I hope to make a copy of my journal to tell the whole story. We met him on Sunday the 26th. He came to church with a member in the ward Davi. We got his address and asked if we could visit him the very next day in the house of the members, he said yes, and we visited the next day!
> We taught and invited him to be baptized the next Sunday the third of may, just 6 days. He accepted, and we taught him everything in the next week and he was baptized Sunday! Amazing!
> 2 months before he drank and smoked, but one day Sister Ana Paula said you should stop smoking and drinking, and he did that very day! Miracle! He was so prepared to hear about the gospel and the be baptized, he just needed an invitation. He is 43 years old, and now has a huge family of ward members that will help take care of him.
> I am a little stressed about this new area, it is so different, we have a branch here, not a ward, but it will all be alright I just know it, and we will have success! Please continue to pray for me!
> I love you all!
> Mom I will be calling on Sunday and will try to call Saturday to tell you when I will be calling okay!
> Sister Judd
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