Update for the Week

We finished up the last 2 zone conferences last week and they went fine.

Last Thursday night we did a division with the Elders in Cerquiera César which is in the center of São Paulo. They had called us and asked us to come with them to a lesson that night. The lesson they marked was with a Baptist bible study group haha and they wanted us to go with them for "backup".

We got to the lesson with Mathew 18 fresh in our mind because that was the subject that the group was going to study (for no specific reason, they just happened to be debating that chapter and we wanted to be able to participate as well). After our debate about that chapter they allowed us to give our message.

We gave them the message of the Restoration and it went really well. They are actually very intelligent people and had good, honest questions which was a great break from the usual dull questions we get every day. They asked stuff like "If the Book of Mormon didn't exist, would there still be a way for us to be saved?" and stuff like that. Good questions I thought. We were able to answer them and we also learned stuff about their religion.

They invited us back for the next Thursday's study group which is going to be tomorrow night but unfortunately my comp and I will be doing a division in another area and won't be able to attend the session, but the other Elders are going to go.

Yesterday we went to the São Paulo Norte zone and did a division with the ZLs there. The next three days are going to be spent on divisions...yay! We are going to start doing the transfers next week so maybe my P-day will be changed to another day but we will see.

Until next week!

-Elder Brent Parsons