Feb 16, 2015

this week we were able to work really hard and the work paid off. we had 20 more people in the church with us and we also had 27 hours with members. thats the highest two numbers i have ever had in my mission. and this week we have planned to do alot of divisions and we have 40 hours planned. i have notices the more hours we have the more in the church we get.

also this week we have been planning a ward activity and it is a trip to paradise. but the plan crashes and then we go throught hte kingdoms of gloria. and it focuses in on the families. this will be a very good boost to the wards energy to work and acheive success. 

i have been seeing with my comp the harder we work the harder satin works on him. it is something odd to see. the more obbidient we are he says the more trials he has to go through... just a reminder to everyone that satin hates you and doesnt want you to work hard at all. because when we work hard God wins and he loses. its a battle and we need to fight it with all our strength.

i have been reading alot in mosiah and with king benjamina nd how awesome he was. he was the king and he was out there fighting against the lamenites. and then he can preach to the people with such power because of the trust that they have in him and the love that they have for him. 

when the people trust us they will listen to us and the will much easierly repeant and come unto  christ.

this week we also have a conference with a 70 in tacuadombu. so we will go to that on saturday and then come back for church on sunday. i hope that doesnt mess up with people coming to church because saturday is ¨GAME DAY¨ it is when we go around initing everyone to church. but it will have to be friday now

well i love you all

ELDER PULSIPHER

Feb 9, 2015

this week we had an awesome baptism of a kid in our ward. his name is lorenzo. his last name could be one of three. castrol. beis or gonsalves. the tuth they dont even know. its because his dad is brazillian. and they do something weird with the last lçnames. i think the kid takes the moms name. bbut la verdad i have no idea.

but we were asked to teach the lorenzo all the lessons before he got baptized. so we got really close with the family and with him. it was awesome to see him get baptize.

to let you know what kind of family he is from. one grandpa is the patriarck for the stake in brazil right next to ours. and the other is a ex stake president. so lets just say they are two rocken families. at the baptism everyone showed up. we had 105 people at the baptism. and normal church attendence is 75-80. so its alot more. when the church buiding is full like that you feel the spirit so much stronger. i could only imagine how it is in the conference center with 22000 and every seat is full.

but the interesting part was half the talks were in portugues and one prayer in portugues. the cool thing is that i can understand everything that they are saying. speaking. well im still working on that one

but both grandpas spoke and it was awesome. 

other then that we had alot of work with less actives and bringing them back.

this next week my kid will do divisions and stay in the area for the first time. so this will be very interesting how it will go.

also there has been to many missonaries having the vision of lehi in there morning prayers. and they. or they are praying like enos all morning long. so there has been a nother change in our daliy schedual. we now dont just roll out of bed and pray now we dont pray until after we exersice and shower. so this way we can be awake and pray and seek revolation insted of seek to have our dream back. it has helped alot.

anso this ones for you. at prodigy do you remember the C word. (i C**´t) yeah well me and my comp have instituted that rule and it has helped him so much. i do 25 push ups everytime he says it and he does 7. when he first started the change he was unable to do one. saturday well he had alot of repenting to do. he did 140. and that means i did 500. it was kinda funny. he did 5 and then said i beep do more. or i beep lift my arm. and we just kept doing them and doing them. he has changed so much. everything has to do with the mind. he is working hard to have a can do will do attitude. he reminds me alittle but of me before the mission. i wouldnt do things out of my comfort zone. and neither will he., but he wants to and he has asked for help. the mind has so much control over us. as he controls his mind he will becaçome such a more confident person and grow so much

I love you all. keep working hard.

Elder Pulsipher

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Con Amor,

Elder Pulsipher

¡HOY ES EL DÌA!

Feb 2, 2015

well this week we have worked a ton with our ward this week and we were able to bring back 12 less active and that was something really awesome this week. we have been working really hard to get them all in the church. and they came through.

this week as well there was going to be a baptism this sunday for a 8 year old in the ward. but as we went to fill the font up. the water did not work. :( so we called up the bishop and he talked with the family and the baptism will be next week but it is a great family that the parents served missions and both grandparents were stake presidents. they are an awesome family

our ward is really starting to expload. i love this ward that we are in and i am loving  seeing it grow as well as me growing with in.

this i really like jacob 7 of how we should deal with people that are trying to argue with us. if we just trust in the lord give our testimony and love the person and leave they will feal the spirit. but if we bash or try to prove our message then it will not work. we have to rely on the spirit.

as for my kid he is getting better. i am continuing to use alot of craig manning with him and it is working alot. he is out of the woods i feal about going home. now it is just showing him how funt he mission really is.

as well our ward mission learder is hastening our work as well. we have alot of things planned out by him. like when visits and with members we are going lession to lession and getting about 6 a day except for monday and sunday. this ward is really exploading and i am seeing zion with in it.

i love you all

Elder pulsipher

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Con Amor,

Elder Pulsipher

¡HOY ES EL DÌA!

Jan 26, 2015

this week we were getting into the grove of working with my new comp. 

he is doing alot better though he is starting to like the mission. i have been able to talk to him alot about his testamony and how he can become more comfortable in the mission. for example what things he could work on. alot of it i learned up at college with Craig Manning. i am glad we had to take the sports sycology class it is helping a ton with me on the mission and with helping my comp

this week in our ward we had a baptism and the lady afterwards gave her testomny and it was really powerful. she knew her sins were forgiven and she knew that this is th path back to christ and she knew that she could go to the temple and do the work for her family. she only has one regret. that she could of done this 79 years ago.

as well we did splits of sunday night and we were able to get in 6 visits between the both of us within the one hour that we did it. it was a great chance to invite the less actives to church. somethiing really quick but really effective.

also we took a hike real early this morning on the line on uruguay and brazil to see the sun rise. it was super pretty up on top of this montain. one side you could see urugauy and you turn around and you look and see all of rivera(uruguay) i will attach som pictures.

as well this week we have been working with a mom and a sin silvia and facundo and they have been progressing very well we found them last week and the have a baptism date in february so this will be fun to help them out. they alreay have a ton of friends that are members. tonight we are going to have a family home evening with them and a nother family in the ward.

as well this week our bishop ¨motivated¨ the ward to do there part with the missionary work of keeping all the members active. he did it with d and c 101. he helped them understand the importance of home teachers and visiting teachers and doing the visits

we are working hard with the ward and they are working hard to help us. so together the work will progress so much faster and we wont be waisting our time on things the ward should be doing.

i love you all

Elder Pulsipher

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Con Amor,

Elder Pulsipher

¡HOY ES EL DÌA!

Jan 19, 2015

this week i got my new comp. elder salgado from hondurus. he is a great guy and ready to learn the ways of the mission. i am working hard to help himm understand all of the things he needs to as a missionary. and the major one that will be a tidious one is to have to desire to work hard. that is something that not everyone quite has down. i didnt either when i got to the mission. i got the work hard part down. i could do that. just not to have the constant desire to work hard.

as we are working it is hard for him to keep up witht the walking and i understand that at first it was hard for me as well. but as i am training him i feel like i am retraining myself everything that i need to know and do as a missionary.

this week i was reading in 2 nephi 28 and i read 24. wo unto those that are at ease in zion. for me that hit me and lit a fire under my butt. i can just go throught the motions of teaching. just being content with what i have and not worry about more. this last change was like that a little bit. we just got stuck in it with all the holidays and the lack of time we had to work. but we really cannot be hesitent in zion. we can just go through the motions. we can just be happy with what we got. behave to fight formore. wehaveto desire to acheive more and know howto get it.

that istrue in all things not just in missionary work but in life.

 

so this week on tuseday night i went down to montevideo to pick up my kid and we go there and to pick them up we form a line infront of the temple and we walk behind them and then start singing called to serve and i have it on video except my camera died halfway through which stunk. 

but it is a great way i think to meet your new comp.

this week we also had a ward temple trip and that was great we had a family get sealed in the temple and the whole ward helped them and supported them all the way. it was a great experience to see.

we were also able to find 4 new people that are already progressing. so we willbe working with them and helping them along the way.

this week in church i was able to give a talk. and i have started to love speaking in church. unlike back before when i had to give youth talks and i wrote it at the last second. well now i dont even write it. i just know what theme i am going to speak on and then i go up there and use the scriptures  and just speak. no outline no nothing. just go for it

well i love you all keep working hard

Love Elder Pulsipher

Jan 13, 2015

this last week we had a conference and the entire way of missionary work has changed to start of we read d and c 101 43-57 and the brethern in sakt lake and in south america said we were to study this and join it with the new plan we were about to get as well as with now is the time for the member and missionaries to work together.

we are now working a whole lot witht the members and a bigger part of the ward. 

it will be a lot better way of working and more efficient way of working but will take more effort from the ward members

as well as that i will be training these next to changes so i will be heading down to montevideo tonight to pick up my kid this will be a fun trip. 

as in the ward with this new plan the whole work has been kick up and ramped up. im excited for everything that is going to happen. here in the work.

we have started to play volleyball in the mornings of p day we wake up 30 minutes early we are playing for 2 hours syuding and then playing after. its the only sports we can do. but we are getting better at it.

this week we worked alot with helping the members progress and in the sence of everything. the ones that arent endowed to get them endowed. the ones that dont hold family home evening have them do them with our help. everyone can progress everyone has room for improvement.

also we did a service and cleaned out a members storage shed. and in it was about 1000 crockroaches that we had to kill. so we got a bottle of raid and went to town. we got a bunch of them then stepped on a bunch as well. im just glad we dont have that problem at home.

im excited for this next change. it should be a good learning experience and alot of growth. 

good thing as well. do you guys remeber debby from artigas. the american body builder. well she gave elbakri a bunch of weights like 140 kilos and bars and stuff. and she then said that i can have them after wards, so i should be getting a huge gym in my own house. so this will be alot better way to work out for the rest of my mission

ive been doing cross fit and i havent worked out legs in forever and my butt is really sore form it. and we live on top of a hill. so walking home every night is a blast with sore legs. but im just getting used to it now.

as for the work we had a family home evening with the bishoip and his family invited a nonmember friend and it was a great chance to have a lesson with a nonmember and its super easy and worked really well. HÁGALO. 

this week was a little bit differnet witht he conference and then lots of meetings with the ward to set up this plan in the ward and then a deep clean of the house. so now our bathroom smells like a pool for all the clorine(bleach) that we used in it.

well i hope all is well and i love you all

Elder Pulsipher

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Con Amor,

Elder Pulsipher

¡HOY ES EL DÌA!

Jan 5, 2015

this last week was a great week of work with out distractions. we were able to get a great planning session in at the biginning of the week and then we were able to work hard all week and have a good week of work.

i was able to go on divisions and we had a great day in our area. as well as we got some home teaching done. that is something that i we as missionaries are doing in this ward as well.

but this is the only ward i have ever seen with hoime teachers.

we had a ward executive priesthood meeting and our bishoip lit a fire under everyones butts in a good way. he said that every investagator that we have right now will be baptized if and only if they get visits from the ward members and leaders. so he then went through each of ours and the hermans weekly reprt paper and said ok this person tell me about him. ok now i want some one from the bishopric. i will go to this one. yeoung me. elders quorm. ward mission learder. ward missionaries. ok now we have 5 visits with members for him. ok next person and assigned 5 more people. and continued for the ones we had and the hermanas as well then said. ok now what mpore do we need to do for the less actives. 

he is awesome. i feel he is the best bishop here. 

this week we found or re found  investagater that we haddnt taught in about 2 changes here. and we are teaching him again and then he went to church. that was sweet. we had just about everyone that we had taught the week before go to church. even a 18 year old that hadnt gone in 2 years. and then right after church we were able to exercice our priesthood and give two blessings and then go give the sacrament and have a testimony meeting in this ladies bed room. that was a really spiritual experience. and we invited a thirteen yearl old deacon to go with us to pass the sacrament to him so he could have a chance to use his priesthiood athourity out of the church building

we also had new years and with that the new years fireworks were a ton better then the christmas ones. 

we are working hard with the ward and we will get results with the gameplan that our bishop and the mission has. as long as we work together and with diligence. the members and missionaries.

a story that i loved this week was 

God did not leave us to suffer the full effects of “that

awful monster, death and hell.” Read 2 Nephi 9:10,

and mark what God has prepared for us.

Read the following analogy from President Joseph

Fielding Smith that illustrates our need for a Savior:

“A man walking along the road happens to fall into a

pit so deep and dark that he cannot climb to the surface

and regain his freedom. How can he save himself from

his predicament? Not by any exertions on his part,

for there is no means of escape in the pit. He calls for

help and some kindly disposed soul, hearing his cries

for relief, hastens to his assistance and by lowering a

ladder, gives to him the means by which he may climb

again to the surface of the earth.

“This was precisely the condition that Adam placed

himself and his posterity in, when he partook of the

forbidden fruit. All being together in the pit, none

could gain the surface and relieve the others. The pit

was banishment from the presence of the Lord and

temporal death, the dissolution of the body. And all

being subject to death, none could provide the means

of escape.

“Therefore, in his infinite mercy, the Father heard the

cries of his children and sent his Only Begotten Son,

who was not subject to death nor to sin, to provide

the means of escape. This he did through his infinite

atonement and the everlasting gospel” (Doctrines of

Salvation, ed. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56],

1:126–27).

Most of Jacob’s message in chapter 9 focuses on the

way the Lord prepared for us to escape the grasp of

physical and spiritual death, and it assures us that we

can be delivered

i love you all

Elder Pulsipher

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Con Amor,

Elder Pulsipher