Zone Conference

Hey everyone! How's it going? This week was pretty chill. We had Zone Conference this week and interviews with president, so I got to spend lots of time with other missionaries and learn a lot. It was good to be able to catch up with a few guys and catch a little breather after being sick. 

Carnival started this week. This is basically just a giant party that happens over the course of a weekend in Brazil. Not a lot happened in Goiânia because it's not a big party city like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. We did see some people dancing around drunk while we were walking to lunch around 11:30am, but other than that I would have had no idea it was a holiday here. 

We met this super nice lady while knocking doors this week. She had a hard time understanding our Portuguese because she was older. She was so grateful to hear about Jesus Christ and have the opportunity to talk to us. She said that I looked a lot like her grandson, and it was nice to be reminded of him. We almost passed by her door because we didn't have a lot of time, but I asked my comp if we could stop and talk to her because she was obviously home, and he agreed. That was our little miracle of this week. 

For my spiritual thought I want to share a little about what I learned at Zone Conference. President Hancock talked a lot about the plan that God has for us to return to him. This is called the "Plan of Salvation". It is the only way that we return to live with God again. He talked about how the Plan of Salvation is centered on Jesus Christ because it is only through the sacrifice that He made that we can be saved. My favorite thing that he said was that God will not forget about anyone. I have noticed this a lot recently and it is really comforting to have a loving Heavenly Father that knows and cares about us individually. I know that I would not be on my mission right now if it wasn't for Him. 

I hope you all have time this week to reflect on how much God loves you. I love you all and hope you have a great week. If you have any questions or just want to talk you can email me at benson.plaster@missionary.org.

Tchau,
Elder Plaster 

Eu amo Goiânia 

Family night w/ members

Heavy rain

Me and Elder Likes (my MTC companion)

Zone Conference 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Transfers!!!

Image
This week was a little rough. I was sick for most of the week and that made me feel even more homesick. The hot weather is still messing with my body a bit. While I was sick my brain kept on telling me I should be getting chills but it was just too hot for that to happen.  Last night we found out what would happen this transfer. I will be moving to a different area that is about 20 or 30 minutes north of Garavelo. I will be in a completely different zone of the mission though. Luckily I will have another American companion, Elder Price, so I won't be completely lost but I will have to try to force myself to learn Portuguese. We are going to be over the Goia area and it is pretty big like the Garavelo area.  This week we had district council and one of the sisters in our district is going home tomorrow so it was fun to see that if you work hard you will eventually get to go home. I got on the most full bus I have ever seen this week. The bus driver shut the door and it pushed m...
Read more

Goiá

Image
This week felt like forever. Packing up all my stuff just to unpack was a lot more annoying than I thought it would be. I already love the new area I am in. Elder Price is awesome. He has already helped me so much with Portuguese and being more confident in my skills.  We had a ward Christmas party and church on Sunday so I have already met a lot of the people in our ward. We share our chapel with another set of missionaries, so we got to sing with them and the little kids in our wards during the other wards primary program on Sunday.  I got to try some more interesting food this week. Someone gave us corn flavored Popsicles after we ate lunch with them one day. My brain was so confused by it because I never thought I would eat something like that. It was Elder Price's birthday this week and some members invited us over to celebrate with some cake. We have many friends that are close to baptism but sadly none of them were at church this Sunday. Please pray for them so we can g...
Read more

The Banana 🍌

Image
T his was another long week. It was awesome though. For New Years we got to have a Churrasco with one of our favorite families of our ward. We also had lunch with them the next day and they decided one Churrasco wasn't enough so we had another one the very next day. We also played Monopoly with them because nobody wanted to meet with us.  Our ward continues to be awesome, but sadly we only got one guy to church but they did a great job helping us teach him.  At one of our lunches this week the members gave us bananas to eat. The little girl gave me a banana that had two bananas in one peel. They told me I would have good luck if I ate it, so I did. Afterwards they told me my good luck was that I would have twins.  My spiritual thought for this week is a good scripture I read this week. It is 2nd Nephi 2:24. "But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things." I like this verse because when bad things happen it is easy to get discouraged and...
Read more