Family,
Alright mom, I'm just joking about the High five letter. I just wanted to see if I could get a shorter letter than Mark. It's competition. Bring it on.
Welp. "One more (P-)day" (Les miserables)
Thanksgiving was great for us. We had a mission conference with Elder Godoy. It was amazing and I loved it. I'll share a little bit more about it later. But on that day we went to an 'all you can eat buffet' as a mission. We Americas were just pounding that food down. President finally called (cause he wasn't there) and told us to get out of there, leave. I was still eating. I had to leave my plate of food and split. But it was an amazing Thanksgiving Lunch.
This week we had another music practice and I am learning more and more about how to lead a choir and the preperation that goes into it. I am loving it. Especially when it all comes together. It was a really good practice. We are going to sing (in Portugues of course) 'Joy to the World', 'What child is this?', 'This is the Christ' and 'Oh come oh come Emmanuel'. It's going to be fun and I hope that some of these missionaries find time during the week to practice. It a big thing to ask because they need to do missionary work too. But this is for our Christmas Party on the 22nd of December. It's going to be good.
Study time is something that I love to have. It is so much fun and I learn so much. It's cool how you learn how to study and what things to look for. But that is something I will also talk about later.
Sidenote, I was in a trade with a new missionary and it is amazing how well prepared these new missionaries are coming in. He told me not to speak in English cause he knows Portugues. So we talked in Portugues all day.
Tonight Elder Johnson and I have a Family Night in the house of a part member family. We are trying to get hold of the Branch President to get him there too with his family. This part member family is also going to get the process for marriage started tomorrow or Wednesday. We are excited for that.
So When Elder Godoy came, he talked about a lot of things but one thing he talked about is something that only missionaries will understand (or maybe ex-missionaries too). He said that there are two types of missionaries, well maybe two types of teaching styles. One is the Christ-Like Attributes missionary and the other is the Chapter 10 teaching technics missionary. These are the two sides. The Christ-Like Attribute missionary just thinks about the spirit. He is always asking if you have felt the spirit. He is timid to talk with others but has very good personal studies and personal prayers. The Chapter 10 missionary is very good at talking with people. He teaches and uses everything in the right way. He does contacts easily but his personal study is not the best. he can't concentrate on his study and during his prayers. He's a go and do it missionary.
It is amazing how true this is about every single missionary. But now we think of this as a scale we should always strive for 50% Christ-like attribute missionary and 50% chapter 10 missionary. We will have the spirit and we will open our mouths. It was something that I thought was cool.
Another thing he taught was about the size of our calling as missionaries. When we arrived on the mission, we weren't really close to the size of our calling. But as we strive, we grow. By the end of the 2 years we should be the size of our calling. We should have grown completely through-out the 2 years. He then warned us to not be at 1 year on our mission and have only grown the size of a 5 month missionary and not to be at 1 and a half years and not have grow at all.
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Who isn't progressing, is falling behind
I love you
Endure to the End
Signing Out
Elder Barry
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