Feb 24, 2015

this last week we had an awesome week we kept growing with out assistence in chuch we are now at 114 which is awesome we had 65 about 3 months ago. we also were able to work with members for 31 hours this last week. those two numbers were the most i have ever had in my whole time in the mission. we are able to continue to work had and have success.

we also had a conference with 5 other zones with elder viñez.he is a awesome teacher. he teaches very humble and very direct. he is from the 70. but when he was teaching i didnt feel like his was saying things to prove his status or anything. he was teaching to help us and to help us help others.

and then on the same day there was a training for the ward council and he we were able to go to that as well. and he spoke at it. it was in buanas aries. and we watched the brodcast.  he spoke and elder celballos and elder gonzalves spoke it was a great day of learning and it helped me understand how to teach less actives. you have to bring the spirit to thing. and bring it with the light of christ. Alma 5 7-13

something i have been studying alot is the gathering of isreal. the first question i had was what is it. and then the next is how do we do it.

something i came across was in d and c 110:11 the keys of the gathering of isreal are restored. and then a few minutes later the keys to do the work in the temple are restore...... so is there also a gathering of isreal in the spirit world..... ok what is it and how do we do it. Family history work and going to the temple. its something so simple but can help so many people make convenants with God and in turn enter into the house of isreal and inturn be able to help more join the house. are we not stronger then satin with more people in the house of isreal in this world and more angels around us to protect us.

somthing else that i have liked alot is that we have such a great importance of this as members. it is our responsibility to keep growing and helping others grow

this week i had an experience with a less active. they are coming back to the church but they dont want any visits from the missiononaries at all. but they only go once a month. it made me think. hmmmm if i was not baptized. and 2 missiononaries walked up to me and started talking would i listen. would i keep there comittments. would i grow or would i shrug them off and not listen. 

now think of the same thing. are we not still all investigating the church. are we not all still looking for the truth. is the prophot not still looking to find the truth. it is something that made me think alittle bit about it. and i like how it has helped me to think what does someone that is starting to talk to the missionaries feel like. what do they need to feel in order to be converted. and why is it that some dont want to listen

well i love you all and hope you all have a great week

ELder Pulsipher

Flight to Paradise Activity

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!