Hey everyone,
I am doing well and I am in Santa Maria for one more leadership meeting with Presidente Ribeiro. I am really excited about what I am going to learn and what new things we are going to try to apply.
I am very well. I have not been as happy as I am now than I have been in a long while. My companion and I are getting alone better now than we were. We had a bit of a talk and we took care of some problems that we were having between us. It is true what they say about missions. They prepare you for dealing with marriage.
I had a cool thing happen to me today. So it is a tradition for all the zone leaders to get together and play soccor ever time we have a leadership meeting in Santa Maria, so today we played. I want to make it perfectly clear that I have only played soccor 2 other times before this game, but this game I was on fire and I made two goals. It was really great. I have never been so proud of my athletic abilities.
Well, that is it for me, I will talk to you all letter,
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
Zone Changes
Hello Family and Friends,
Everything here is good. We just started a new transfer and because of that plus the advent of the Mission Tour which was on Monday my P-day was moved to today. I want to apologize if that caused some inconvenience to some of you.
Our zone was completely change for the most part. My companion Elder Vianna and I are still together, but that is about it. Our new president loves to open and close areas and reopen them again. He did that with our zone. I think that it is for the better. My new roomates are great however. They really have a desire to work and work we shall.
I really have not got much to say that is new or exciting. I am just glad that all is good for you guys.
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
Short and Sweet
I have to make this really quick; my time on the computer is running up. I am fine, and I am loving life and the fact that it is P-day. I am looking forward to resting for a good time.
This week we had one more baptism. Her name is Leía, she is 30 years old and a single mother. She has shown great faith. I am a little taken a back because of it. She, in the last couple of week has been dealing with a lot of problems, for example people talking bad about about the Church. Also, her own mother does not want anything to do with the church and refuses to talk with her. Leía went to her own baptism alone, and none of the people that she invited came with her. It was just the 4 missionaries in the ward and three members. The missionaries and I sang a song, and she started the cry. It was a very Spiritual moment.
Like I said, I really do not have time now to talk, but I love you and I am happy to hear that all is well in the world.
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
If you lived in the time of Christ...
Dear family and friends,
I am sorry but my time is running out so I will be very brief. I am doing really well. I am a bit under the weather, but other than that I am great. Sorry about last week. I had a counsel meeting with Presidente Ribeiro. He is so cool. I love listening to the man speak, and the best part is because I am a zone leader I get to travel once a month and have a meeting with him. He is great. He is a really inspired man, and truly a man of God. The meeting was also good. I learned a lot. We also got new ideas for us to implement into our teachings. Now it was commanded by the first presidency of the church that we now have to mark the baptismal date on the first visit. That is exciting. A reall test of courage to go up to some one that you do not know at all, and asked them " if you lived in the time of Christ would be part of His Church? Well, His church is here on the earth, so will you be baptized like Christ was baptized?" It is something great to see, most people are really say yes, I would like that. I was surprized.
Well, I have to get going.
I love you all ,and I will talk to you later,
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere LZ
Healing and Learning
Dear family and friends,
Say hello to Zone Leader Elder Carriere. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Alright enough of the self glorification. I am really humbled by my new calling and I am finding myself thinking, "what the heck am I doing?" I am fortunate that my companion is a machine and is well prepared. I love the kid. He is teaching me so much, and at times it seems like too much, but then I remember that I have been a Zone Leader for 5 days now, and I really am new at this sort of thing. I am really happy to be doing the work.
This week has been a rush; I am really supprized at just how quickly the week went by. It was over in a blink of an eye. My new companions are Elder Vianna, who is my actually companion, and Elder Anthon. Elder Vianna is from São Paulo and is great. He is a good leader, and I am learning a lot from him. I will try to keep up with him though, he is so smart that it is really difficult to keep up with his ability to multitask. My other companion, who is also my District Leader, is Elder Anthon. He and I actually have known each other since the very first day of our missions. He was one of the first people that I meet in the Dallas airport waiting for the our plain. He is from Mesa AZ. He is also really good. It is really something interesting watching these guys work. They are doing things that I had never even thought of doing. It is really great.
This week was great to. We had two baptisms and we also marked the dates for two more for this Saturday. They are great people as well; the people that we baptized this Saturday were a mother and son. Andréa and Andreas. They are so excited about the gospel that they want us to teach Andréa´s mother, and maybe her sister. I am more than willing to do so.
Well family I love you all and just to let you know that my finger that was bitten is healing up just fine, and yes, I did go to the doctor.
I love you all,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
It's Just a Flesh Wound!!!
Dear family and friends,
I have some exciting news for you all. The first off, last week I was bitten by a dog. It hurt like nothing else. I am fine, and I did not need to get stitches or a vacination or anthing of the sort, but how did it bleed, Oh buddy. It did not stop for serveral hours. I changed the bandaid serveral times. All is good however. I am find and my finger ( the place where the dog got me) is working normally like it should. It just has some holes in it. That is all. It will most likely leave a mark, but that is just a part of the job, and also a part of life. Who knows, maybe in a couple of months, perphape 12 and a half, people will look at that scar of mine and ask, how did you get it, and I will explain, and they will have simpathy and want to talk to me more.
The second thing that I have to tell you all is that I will be leaving Santa Rosa. It is the death of the Santa Rosa Kid, but all is well. I think that it is my time to leave. I had a good time here. I made lots of friends and baptized a few people along the way, but as they all say, "All good things must come to an end."
The third and last thing I have to say is that I am now a Zone Leader. I will be going to a city called Cruz Alta and I will be Zone Leader B of the Cruz Alta Zone. I have a new companion, well two actually because I will be a threesome for a while. Their names are Elders Viana and Anthon. I know Elder Anthon he arrived on the mission with me. He is a cool guy, and Elder Viana I hear is a cool guy too. I am really excited.
All is good for me here. I am will, I am alive, and I am working hard. I am every excited for what the future holds and I hope that all will go will with us.
Wish me luck and keep me in your prayers,
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
I have some exciting news for you all. The first off, last week I was bitten by a dog. It hurt like nothing else. I am fine, and I did not need to get stitches or a vacination or anthing of the sort, but how did it bleed, Oh buddy. It did not stop for serveral hours. I changed the bandaid serveral times. All is good however. I am find and my finger ( the place where the dog got me) is working normally like it should. It just has some holes in it. That is all. It will most likely leave a mark, but that is just a part of the job, and also a part of life. Who knows, maybe in a couple of months, perphape 12 and a half, people will look at that scar of mine and ask, how did you get it, and I will explain, and they will have simpathy and want to talk to me more.
The second thing that I have to tell you all is that I will be leaving Santa Rosa. It is the death of the Santa Rosa Kid, but all is well. I think that it is my time to leave. I had a good time here. I made lots of friends and baptized a few people along the way, but as they all say, "All good things must come to an end."
The third and last thing I have to say is that I am now a Zone Leader. I will be going to a city called Cruz Alta and I will be Zone Leader B of the Cruz Alta Zone. I have a new companion, well two actually because I will be a threesome for a while. Their names are Elders Viana and Anthon. I know Elder Anthon he arrived on the mission with me. He is a cool guy, and Elder Viana I hear is a cool guy too. I am really excited.
All is good for me here. I am will, I am alive, and I am working hard. I am every excited for what the future holds and I hope that all will go will with us.
Wish me luck and keep me in your prayers,
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
The Power of the Priesthood can bring mighty miracles!
Dear Family and Friends,
How is everyone doing? I hope that you are keeping warm, because it is downright cold her. Well not so much cold as it is cold with lots of wind and rain. It is really miserable weather here in the Big Rive of the South, or Rio Grande do Sul. I am otherwise fine. I am in good spirits and relatively good health.
This week was different. We had lots of lessons; we taught 32, but we did not find many new investigators. The new form that our new president, Presidente Ribeiro, has us doing really narrows down the playing field, or simply we had a bad week and the hearts of the people are hard and not willing to crack. I am hoping for the first.
We did however mark 3 more baptisms for the 28th of August. They are a family really special. The only reason that we are waiting one month for the baptism is because they need to get hitched first. That is the problem here in Brazil. To get married it is wicked expensive and also you have to wait at least 30 days to receive the marriage license. So we have found many people who are going to marry. Up until now we have 4 families who want to get baptized, but need to get married first.
So it is kind of a uphill battle, but a battle that we are winning it seems for the time being.
We had an excellent experience yesterday. Well it started out bad, but ended out good. What happened because of the rain and the cold hardly anyone from our branch actually went to church, so it is a bit of a stretch to think that our investigators would. So we had no one at Church yesterday. My companion and I were a bit upset or rather concerned with this. We quickly changed our plan of attack for that day to revisit our investigators who said that they would go to Church. We did and we discovered that the better part of them were sick in some fashion. The first was a family that the mother has an inner ear infection and asthma and had an attack. They did not go because of that. We said alright we left a quick message and bang, we were off like a rocket to visit the next family. This family I have the most highest expectations for. They really wanted to go to church and get baptized, but simply the father suffered an accident many years ago and because of that his back is all out of shape, to such point that he has such pain that he cannot drive. So we discovered this, and my companion began to teach a lesson about the priesthood and how it can bless our lives. He wanted a blessing, so we gave him one. He began to cry and simply says his testimony about how he knows that we are servants of God, and we are different and more "faithful" than the others. It was something special.
Well family I am getting hunger and I need to get going, while the going is still good.
I will talk to you all next week,
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
How is everyone doing? I hope that you are keeping warm, because it is downright cold her. Well not so much cold as it is cold with lots of wind and rain. It is really miserable weather here in the Big Rive of the South, or Rio Grande do Sul. I am otherwise fine. I am in good spirits and relatively good health.
This week was different. We had lots of lessons; we taught 32, but we did not find many new investigators. The new form that our new president, Presidente Ribeiro, has us doing really narrows down the playing field, or simply we had a bad week and the hearts of the people are hard and not willing to crack. I am hoping for the first.
We did however mark 3 more baptisms for the 28th of August. They are a family really special. The only reason that we are waiting one month for the baptism is because they need to get hitched first. That is the problem here in Brazil. To get married it is wicked expensive and also you have to wait at least 30 days to receive the marriage license. So we have found many people who are going to marry. Up until now we have 4 families who want to get baptized, but need to get married first.
So it is kind of a uphill battle, but a battle that we are winning it seems for the time being.
We had an excellent experience yesterday. Well it started out bad, but ended out good. What happened because of the rain and the cold hardly anyone from our branch actually went to church, so it is a bit of a stretch to think that our investigators would. So we had no one at Church yesterday. My companion and I were a bit upset or rather concerned with this. We quickly changed our plan of attack for that day to revisit our investigators who said that they would go to Church. We did and we discovered that the better part of them were sick in some fashion. The first was a family that the mother has an inner ear infection and asthma and had an attack. They did not go because of that. We said alright we left a quick message and bang, we were off like a rocket to visit the next family. This family I have the most highest expectations for. They really wanted to go to church and get baptized, but simply the father suffered an accident many years ago and because of that his back is all out of shape, to such point that he has such pain that he cannot drive. So we discovered this, and my companion began to teach a lesson about the priesthood and how it can bless our lives. He wanted a blessing, so we gave him one. He began to cry and simply says his testimony about how he knows that we are servants of God, and we are different and more "faithful" than the others. It was something special.
Well family I am getting hunger and I need to get going, while the going is still good.
I will talk to you all next week,
Love,
Elder Caleb S. Carriere
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