1 Year!!! 🥳🎉🙌

This week marks one year on the mission. It's passed by super fast but at the same time so many things have happened. I'm so grateful for the time I have had and will have in Brazil. 

This week was a little difficult. We didn't have a lot of success to start the week but we had a lot of friends at church. We have many friends progressing towards baptism and it would be amazing if you guys could pray for them. 

We also had exchanges this week so I got to work with Elder Freire and we got to find a lot of new people to teach. We also found a little alien friend on the way home. 

This week I got to give a talk at church and while I was preparing for it I found a quote from Joseph Smith that I really liked. “The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it." This really helps us understand the most important thing that we need to believe in. If we know that Jesus died and was resurrected after 3 days we know that whatever difficulty we pass through won't last, whatever trial we have we can overcome, and that we can be saved no matter how badly we mess up. I hope you all have a wonderful week. If you have any questions or just want to talk you can email me at benson.plaster@missionary.org.

Tchau,
Elder Plaster 

Elder Freire 

Alien sighting 👽

Pizza 🍕 

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