Email 3/1/10

Email Received March 1, 2010
7th Area: Mossoró- Belo Horizonte
13th Companion: Elder Küster

well, not much to report on this week, our work is rolling forward and we have been blessed with many opportunities to teach and meet new people. as a missionary you have to be creative, and look for new ways to find people and do things that no one in your area has done before. so for a couple examples:
---we are contacting ALL the pass along card references from like the past year, delivering pamphlets and DVDs, and teaching the people on the spot when we contact them.
---we went and taught a class at a big English school they have here in Mossoró, and naturally, everyone had questions about who we are and what we do, so we explained a lot about the church and our beliefs and were able to gain many new investigators. it was a lot of fun, too. but now the owner of the school is trying to convince me to come back after my mission and work there. funny coincidence: he is american and his name is Brad haha.
---we printed out a cool survey for members to hand out to friends and neighbors that has questions like "if there was a living prophet on the earth today, would you like to know who he is and what church he is leading?" so that will spark interest and get names and addresses for us.
---other things include introducing people to family history charts, church business classes, and family home evening with non-members that we will do tonight and i shall give everyone a taste of the best milkshakes they have ever tasted.

so i am excited and the work is piling up (thats a good thing) and time is going so fast. next week my email might delay a day or 2 since i will be headed to João Pessoa for my last council, then a couple days later to Natal for my last mission conference. and i will now announce that i made my ABSOLUTE final decision on a restaurant: texas roadhouse. no one can change my mind. see you all there!

until next week
love Elder Sherwood